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dejongh··on I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Great hack!
dejongh··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
Fun and sad. Garbage collected languages like .NET, Java, and Go are slow compared DIY languages like C, Rust, and Swift. So, no wonder the Windows team dislike them. However, it seems the Windows team had to live with a React start menu for quite some time. How does that fit into the over all battle between the teams and UI frameworks?
dejongh··on RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
Cool article. I wonder why they decided to start sentences with lower case? Free association!?
dejongh··on Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
What an amazing storyteller. I will watch many more of her videos. I hope she will make many more videos ♥
dejongh··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
For me the show was a trip down memory lane in more than one way. The tech is one. Doing startups with friends is another. Being a workaholic and having relationships is yet another. The penultimate episode hit me hard - am I the only one?
dejongh··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
GPT auto gave me a long answer that included both walk and drive. Not good.

GPT thinking told me to drive and that walking would make no sense. Perfect answer.

dejongh··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
Let's all install this and form a fail-safe (if you are in a populated area) and unregulated mesh. I would love to see how far into the Amazonas or Greenland it works.
dejongh··on Affinity Studio now free
Freeium mostly sucks. Escape before they squeeze every drop of blood out of you. There is a cost to everything that is how the reality get's in.
dejongh··on Just let me select text
I don't know the bumble app, but it really annoys me that I cannot copy text in reddit and facebook (I am forced to use this app by my daughters hobby). If you dev a mobile app - make sure users can select and copy text!
dejongh··on 'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
This is a very interesting article. The concept "run an experiment in your head and predict the outcome" is a capability that AIs must have to attain some kind of general intelligence. Anyway, read the article, it's great.
dejongh··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
After reading the article I might dust off my DSLR, however the fact that I have my iPhone with me most of the time will never change - so more than 99% of my photos/videos will be captured by that thing.
dejongh··on Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
Cool. It would be great to extend with a confidence operator. Something like:

Without default confidence: 0~9

With confidence: 0%100~9%95

We are sure it is 0 or more and we are %95 certain it is 9 or less.

Would that work?

dejongh··on Nebula Sans
Thanks for posting and commenting. The choice of font is a great way to add aesthetics to text - designers so use this opportunity a lot more IMHO.
dejongh··on When will we fix the tools that run the world?
Old software is not replaced because nobody fully understands it, and therefore it is a gigantic effort and risk to reverse engineer it.
dejongh··on Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
Having skia power in nodejs is a cool idea. Thanks!
dejongh··on Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
Cool!
dejongh··on Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit
Wow
dejongh··on Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS
crashed chrome :)
dejongh··on Atlassian cripples’ Jira automation for all but enterprise customers
On September 18th Atlassian announced a new license model for Jira automation that severely limits automation for all but enterprise customers starting November 1st. Many customers will be forced to give up their automation or upgrade to expensive enterprise tiers. Since there is no enterprise tier for Jira Product Discovery customers using automation in this product don’t even have the option to pay more.
dejongh··on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
I swing by Hacker News almost daily. Thanks for all the links and comments.
dejongh··on Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise
We could train an AI to compile and run itself. Next step is then to train it to optimize its own code and training. Then we have almost evolution.
dejongh··on The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets
Wow. Wild story. Thanks for sharing. Cool twist that a bug ended up identifying the bad guys.
dejongh··on Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
Interesting idea to reverse engineer the network. Are there other sources that have done this?
dejongh··on Show HN: Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math
Nice!
dejongh··on I often have to cut into the brain (2012)
Thanks for sharing.
dejongh··on 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
Wow. Standing at the edge of the uncanny valley.
dejongh··on What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
Interesting and well written article supported by factual data. I wonder if this is a temp thing, or if it is another early warning that regression is coming. Is a major regression coming?
dejongh··on Go will use pdqsort in next release
Wow. I did not expect such a simple improvement to have such a big effect.
dejongh··on A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)
Agree. Early web development was a compability nightmare. Now that one platfrom rules the world it is less of a problem. It seems that making a standard failed, and we solved the problem by adopting the same platform.
dejongh··on The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen
Wonderful
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