Hacker News: 3form

New comment by 3form in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

3form — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:39:07 +0000

I do have a feeling that the example of bigger players is carefully followed by many of the other companies, kind of as a cult of success. And that example for a long time has been rather lacking.

New comment by 3form in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

3form — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:18:03 +0000

I like the final conclusion. And sadly I don't feel like anything changed for the better on this topic since 2023.

I am afraid that without a major crash or revolution of some sort, user won't matter next to a sufficiently big biz. But time will tell.

New comment by 3form in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

3form — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:42:59 +0000

And importantly, older games now tend to work better in Linux than they do in Windows.

New comment by 3form in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

3form — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:25:31 +0000

"Lawyer benefitting from cases about prostitution equals to a pimp" kind of argument.

New comment by 3form in "Open Source Security at Astral"

3form — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:19:23 +0000

Only if they provide the software or software as a service. Then I suspect it's good enough if the modifications or forks made are shared internally if software is used only internally, but on the other hand I'm not a lawyer.

New comment by 3form in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

3form — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:54 +0000

Maybe, but so what? Your remark lacks a conclusion.

Mine is that it could then well be required to do so by law. Companies are not individuals, so I don't think they are owed any freedoms beyond what is best for utility they can provide.

New comment by 3form in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

3form — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:29:23 +0000

Plus the corollary, which I think is something that many here, including myself, struggle with - we are not important.

New comment by 3form in "Running Out of Disk Space in Production"

3form — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:43:10 +0000

Neat! I optimized for my own case, and I'm storing my ramdisk on SSD to gain persistence.

New comment by 3form in "Blackholing My Email"

3form — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:36:54 +0000

To me, the fact that the author of the article is the author of de_dust2 is the real highlight! For those who don't know, it's the most popular map ever in Counter Strike, and I expect so it remains to this day.

This is funny, as I always imagined these things to be made by some nameless author of good old Internet, and never bothered to check and look it up. Further less I expected to stumble upon it by said author's random blogpost where it's not even the primary topic.

New comment by 3form in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

3form — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:52:33 +0000

I was sure once I saw the descriptions that what you're posting is Farbrausch prods! Do you know if anyone came close to this level since?

New comment by 3form in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

3form — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:09:21 +0000

This would be great indeed.

On that note, why does the PoE capability often add such a big proportion of the price of various items? Is the technology really costly for some reason, or is it just more there's fairly low demand and people are still willing to pay?

New comment by 3form in "Significant raise of reports"

3form — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:30:32 +0000

>people will finally understand that security bugs are bugs, and that the only sane way to stay safe is to periodically update, without focusing on "CVE-xxx"

The problem is that the very same tools, I expect, are behind the supply chain attacks that seem to be particularly notorious recently. No matter where you turn, there's an edge to cut you on that one.

New comment by 3form in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

3form — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:55:14 +0000

That's quite loaded already. They should consider calling it IBM ARM 64, IA-64 in short.

New comment by 3form in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

3form — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:50:54 +0000

I was thinking just yesterday that the research that Anthropic was sharing regarding how it's easy to poison training was unlikely to be conducted out of goodness of the heart.

New comment by 3form in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

3form — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:38:31 +0000

LLMs are one thing, but when you bring ES in AWS example, as outlined in the article, the problem is not the software being used; it's being _made proprietary_. It's about free and open software remaining free and open. Especially to the end user.

New comment by 3form in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

3form — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:48:58 +0000

It's hard to call something a "fundamental flaw of web" if it wasn't an issue for 30 years. Unless you mean something more general that I'm missing.

New comment by 3form in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

3form — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:43:18 +0000

Yeah, that's it. Also, it is a bit amusing to me - "We want to prevent automation", says the employee of Let's Automate Inc.

New comment by 3form in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

3form — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:59:08 +0000

I think freezer could be comparable, no? How many cycles of dishwasher are you running per day?

New comment by 3form in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

3form — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:54:53 +0000

There are two views, non-technical and technical.

For non-technical, the current meteoric rise of AI is due to the fact that AI is generally synonymous to "it can talk". It has never _really_ spoken to the wider audience that the image recognition, or various filters, or whatever classifiers they could have stumbled upon are AI as well. What we have, now, is AI in the truest sense. And executives are primarily non-technical.

As for the technical people, we know how it works, we know how it doesn't work, and we're not particularly amused.

New comment by 3form in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

3form — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:14:12 +0000

Ctrl-R reloads the page in every browser that I have used, so perhaps that's what you're looking for.