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>A software cursor is manually drawn by the graphics stack, which saves what was under it, draws the cursor, and then whenever it needs to be moved, writes the original data back, …

In 2011 the iPhone was ~4 years old and iPads were ascendant as the only tablet game in town. Google was still playing catch up with Android as a knock-off, having just debuted And…

My "oh shit" moment with AI was when an industry where licensing was the cornerstone of projects and employment contracts decided to just adopt pirated code without any source attr…

Woke lost, because it infected companies, universities and other organizations. It prompted entitled idiots like cited above to go into projects started by others, assume eminent d…

Asm.js was never needed as a legacy mechanism, as it was just a compilation target for native code. There was nothing that it needed to remain backwards compatible with, all asm.js…

Hm so not only is it possible to manipulate scores on HN with weird scripts, but mods only noticed this when users pointed it out in this instance, with no automation or logging th…

It's not that AI can't convince a novice that what comes out is passible. It's that experts in a field generally agree that what comes out is insidiously hollow garbage. This isn't…

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After making one of the least worst rich editors out there on the web, they needed to keep their developers and designers busy (while not having time to fix privacy bugs). Like eve…

This article's timeline is mostly accurate, but contains a few inaccuracies: - Unified toolbar and titlebar dates from much earlier... it was 10.4, not 10.7. - The brushed metal lo…

>Despite the quick spread of agentic coding, institutional inertia, affordability, and limitations in human neuroplasticity were barriers to universal adoption of the new technolog…

The news article isn't an obituary, it's gravedancing. Hope that enlightened your royal majesty.

>He died in his sleep last month Title is misleading. >Wizardchan, a smaller and misogynistic forum for male virgins I see the media has learned exactly nothing since the days any …

The degree to which people defend poor scholarship and writing on HN these days is frankly pathetic. There is nothing about that intro that is offensive. Reading comprehension ough…

Homework assignment: make a bode plot of the convolution filters [1 1 1] vs [1 2 1]. Which one turns +1, -1, +1, -1, .. into all zeroes? You ought to know this because the fourier …

Using a caesar cypher as an intro without explaining the pro tool and framing the educational context properly is just shit pedagogy bro. Go look up what a z-transform is, and bego…

A binomial is exactly equal to a repeated 2 sample box blur yes. That's exactly how you construct pascal's triangle. For filter sizes > 2, box blurs are ass.

>Before you get your pitchforks out and call me an AI luddite, I use LLMs pretty extensively for work. Chicken. Seriously, the degree to which supposed engineering professionals ha…

Sorry but this post is the blind leading the blind, pun intended. Allow me to explain, I have a DSP degree. The reason the filters used in the post are easily reversible is because…

It's bizarre how casually some people hate on Musk. Are people still not over him buying Twitter and firing all the dead weight? _Especially_ because emotional safety is what Twitt…

cough The Strange Case of "Engineers" Who Use AI I rely on AI coding tools. I don’t need to think about it to know they’re great. I have instincts which tell me convenience = dopam…

1) A system that needs _seconds per tile_ is not suitable for real-time anything imo. The irony is that you explicitly posited your thing as a successor to Perlin noise when in fac…

The solution to seeing more Bret Victor-ish tooling is for people to rediscover how to build the kind of apps that were commonplace on the desktop but which have become a very rare…

Recently I tried to hack in a feature into Transmission for Mac. All I wanted to do was add a single checkbox per torrent, which corresponded to a property in the libtransmission b…

Changes in mood result from changes in behavior. If you don't feel like doing something you know is good for you, do it anyway. You'll feel better afterwards.