[HN Gopher] MS Paint IDE
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MS Paint IDE
Author : smusamashah
Score : 146 points
Date : 2025-03-05 11:52 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ms-paint-i.de)
(TXT) w3m dump (ms-paint-i.de)
| nashashmi wrote:
| Whhhhyyyyy?
|
| > The IDE may seem like a joke, but the research and development
| gone into it is most definitely not.
|
| > MS Paint IDE uses a custom OCR that can be trained by nearly
| any font in any size, reading code from images in just
| miliseconds. The IDE's compiler and program output are in .png's,
| and automatically underlines any errors present and provides
| syntax highlighting with Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript
| currently being supported.
|
| > The IDE also allows for arbitrarily editing any text file
| through Paint via a context menu option, with native-looking
| button overlays onto MS Paint to perform IDE actions.
|
| why?
| INTPenis wrote:
| Just think of all the useful software they could have written.
| treve wrote:
| Just think of the shareholder value they could have created
| instead of having fun.
| jancsika wrote:
| But also just think of all the useful software that _hasn 't_
| been written by people sitting around thinking about all the
| useful software that could be written.
|
| I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a
| decent sized list of this.
|
| I'll start-- off the top of my head I remember a post from
| Mike Hearn about starting the web from scratch using a format
| that announces the size of the incoming message rather than
| making the recipient check for terminator(s).
|
| There must be a dozen dozen such thoughts-without-software of
| "the web, but good" on here.
|
| If we have a list then you could plug it in to a script and
| have a spit out a random set, and then you could focus
| specifically on those.
|
| Anyway, I'm thinking it should be stored and maintained as a
| quine...
| prophesi wrote:
| It made me laugh, and that's reason enough for me to code
| anything.
| haswell wrote:
| On HN, I think a better question is exactly the opposite: why
| not?!
|
| I've built bizarre things that no one will use purely to learn
| about things.
|
| Many projects are about the process itself and less about the
| outcome. Every one of those "useless" projects has informed my
| productive work throughout my career.
| saghm wrote:
| This reminds me of the classic StackOverflow question (maybe
| inspired by it?):
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-prog...
| omoikane wrote:
| I thought it was inspired by XKCD's photoshop as a patch tool:
|
| https://xkcd.com/1685/
|
| (XKCD might have been inspired by the same post since it came
| later)
| saghm wrote:
| I forgot about that one! Normally I'm the one chiming in with
| relevant xkcds
| omnibrain wrote:
| This is a true piece of art!
| anonzzzies wrote:
| It is lovely. I would, if I created this... art... Relaunch it
| every 1st of april.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| If anyone's confused, you can scroll down on the homepage.
|
| I didn't realize that until I accidentally bumped my track pad.
|
| Sometimes when things fit a little too neatly above the fold, it
| seems like there's nothing below it.
| SamBam wrote:
| Nice, although I was disappointed that you program by typing into
| MS Paint. I would have thought trying to draw the letters using
| your touchpad would be more intuitive.
|
| Every bank seems to accept the weird single line that gets drawn
| when I try and scrawl my signature using my trackpad, so there
| must be quite a bit of interesting magic going on there.
| glitchc wrote:
| The secret is that no one is checking that scrawl for
| authenticity. Not unless there's actual fraud, that's when the
| forensic experts are brought out to analyze and pontificate.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| If I ever become filthy rich, I would like to start companies
| around nonsensical products. Just to see how long you can make it
| last until potential customers and applicants are like "but this
| doesn't make any sense". This project is a perfect fit! Other
| ideas I had were things like wifi for servers.
| emchammer wrote:
| SkiFree as a Service
| xattt wrote:
| Monetization opportunities include: pay-per-jump and
| Abominable Snow Monster rescue fee.
| navbaker wrote:
| Enterprise tier adds the ability to disable users being
| devoured by the yeti?
| doubled112 wrote:
| Being devoured could be considered not safe for work.
| rzzzt wrote:
| Just the SSO login, sorry.
| passivegains wrote:
| > wifi for servers
|
| I urge you to reconsider. Potential customers and applicants
| will immediately go all in and the "but this doesn't make any
| sense" step will never happen. We'll be reading blog posts like
| "I'm hooked on PCP (the Post-Cabling Paradigm)" from Google
| SRE's with comments praising the downfall of "Big Ethernet"
| while the emissions from datacenters vaporize flocks of
| migrating birds.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Yes! The servers will look lit without those ugly cables.
| Zero-downtime cross-rack migrations will become possible.
| spydum wrote:
| Wireless fiber is the way of the future
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| It would take some downtime (or at least a really long
| extension cord and redundant power supplies for swapping
| one-by-one) because you'd still need to connect it to
| power.
|
| The solution is obvious: Qi inductive wireless charge coils
| on the outside of the server cases.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Or integrated miniature diesel generators.
| electroly wrote:
| You swap it over to a desktop UPS that can _come along
| with the server_ during the physical move. No downtime as
| long as you have redundant PSUs and you can walk fast
| enough to beat the battery draining.
| hateful wrote:
| But - hear me out - if all of your servers did have wifi -
| and it was usually disabled - but you could enable it, move
| the server, then disable it - that might be something?
|
| I know having a redundant server is better - but there's
| something to it.
|
| Also, this reminds me of a post I read a while ago about
| them moving a server from one building to another without
| unplugging it or something.
|
| [Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243]
| passivegains wrote:
| thank you for digging up the link, it was everything I
| hoped it would be. that one's going in my bookmarks.
|
| obviously a second server and a reverse proxy or
| something would be less jank, but your idea definitely
| has merit. it's kind of like using two points of contact
| while climbing something.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| We should apply to the next YC batch as cofounders.
| FuriouslyAdrift wrote:
| Cannot tell you how many uncomfortable conversations I have
| had trying to explain that you still need to run cables for
| power to wireless cameras (the outdoor cams work off of
| solar quite well, though).
| dmd wrote:
| None of the wireless cameras at my house have power
| cables. They run for months on a charge.
| FuriouslyAdrift wrote:
| Our bullet cams pull a steady 30W ad they record 24/7
| (factory floor). Our newer 4k and PTZ cams are coming in
| pulling nearly 60W.
| buryat wrote:
| mschf is pretty close to what you're describing
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Wow, what a gem, thanks for recommending this!
| https://mschfhotels.com/products/flipped-flop
| jayd16 wrote:
| I'm down but I'm going to need Power Over Wifi for all my
| security cameras too.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| I've been prototyping this but my neighbors are starting to
| complain about their canned foods coming out warm from the
| cupboard.
| FuriouslyAdrift wrote:
| power over fiber is also a thing (it has very narrow use
| cases)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber
| ashoeafoot wrote:
| It has a point though. Anything using clichees to communicate
| ,using something everyone knows, can spread like wildfire.
|
| This is why some of user facing programable stuff pre node
| gives the users a interface like excel.
| eddythompson80 wrote:
| You can apply to Urbit.
| notepad0x90 wrote:
| We need awards for absurdity, I love this. Lots of good ideas and
| innovation come from the pursuit of the absurd. Don't ask why,
| ask why not!
| thumb wrote:
| I can see utility in something like this where someone sent you a
| screenshot of code and you wish to compile/execute the code in
| the screenshot. Anything else is a bonus. I dig the project, keep
| it up!
| adhamsalama wrote:
| It doesn't have any AI features? Amazing. I might actually use
| it.
| odo1242 wrote:
| Technically OCR itself is an AI feature though lol
| artursapek wrote:
| incredible
| npodbielski wrote:
| But... Why?!
| code_runner wrote:
| AI will never replicate this
| naikrovek wrote:
| People who have web pages for graphical tools of any kind, where
| screenshots of the tool are not front & center on the website, I
| have a question for you: WHY?!
| Lramseyer wrote:
| As of recent, I have had this pet theory that there's a
| brilliance / stupidity spectrum, but if you go too far in one
| direction it loops back on itself. Some things are just so stupid
| that they're brilliant. I really like this!
|
| Also, I should clarify that "brilliance" and "stupidity" in this
| theory are not raw intelligence, but the application of said
| intelligence.
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