Hacker News: 4rt

New comment by 4rt in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

4rt — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:18:03 +0000

I've also never seen an ad in windows 11.

I did uninstall all of the weird apps like "News" "Weather" etc.

New comment by 4rt in "Zorgdomein Integration: A Guide to Secure .NET and Azure Architecture"

4rt — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:08:12 +0000

who's upvoting this, it doesn't say anything at all

New comment by 4rt in "How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)"

4rt — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:01:45 +0000

i think i just misunderstood the writing, it does explicitly say 4bits for castling. the prose around is just describing what castling is - i thought it was implying that you could determine whether castling is possible from the position of the pieces.

New comment by 4rt in "How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)"

4rt — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:23:53 +0000

I don't understand the castling part of this - you can move a rook from its starting square and back and castling isn't available - it says that you can determine whether castling is available from the location of the pieces?

New comment by 4rt in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

4rt — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:18:39 +0000

yeah i just heard, i'm changing my prediction to Microsoft 365 Copilot Xbox Edition

New comment by 4rt in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

4rt — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:22:00 +0000

i think it's telling that Nullsoft created their own installer for WinAmp and its still 20 years later one of the most sane and popular ways of distributing apps.

New comment by 4rt in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

4rt — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:16:47 +0000

rumour has it the next version of windows will be called Microsoft 365 Azure for Desktop XBOX Edition so that each of the executives in the money making sections gets their piece.

New comment by 4rt in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

4rt — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:59:17 +0000

the installation story for devs writing windows apps has been dreadful for 3 decades.

vs used to help you build setup.exe, which was always a huge chore to use.

clickonce was launched to replace all this with hosted manifests and auto-updates and modern features like that, and immediately forgotten about because it was so broken. nobody ever used it.

then they brought out WinUI and the windows store, which was so overly sandboxed that it didn't fit most use cases and the permissions system of the store never seemed to line up with the APIs themselves.

then they tried their best to destroy myget by launching winget, which got forgotten about again. now even MS doesnt use their own store.

New comment by 4rt in ".NET 10"

4rt — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:07:45 +0000

If you're trying to pack hundreds of microservices into a cluster, having containers using 80MB of ram minimum instead of 500KB can become a big deal.

New comment by 4rt in ".NET 10"

4rt — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:08:18 +0000

They're self contained and native, but they're still massive.

There's been some work on CoreRT and a general thrust to remove all dependencies on any reflection (so that all metadata can be stripped) and to get tree-shaking working (e.g. in Blazor WASM).

It seems like in general they're going in this direction.

New comment by 4rt in "The cryptography behind electronic passports"

4rt — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 01:58:09 +0000

i went through border control twice at an airport after going to the wrong gate and when i returned to the uk the e-gates immediately declined to process it (the camera etc. didn't move and e.g. reject the facial recognition, it just immediately said go to the desks). i've always wondered what that was about, how do they know i didn't just go to a third country?

New comment by 4rt in "LINQ and Learning to Be Declarative"

4rt — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:58:32 +0000

i think his point was that the actual LINQ (language integrated query) is already superior to transposing it back to the functional fluent version. i largely agree, especially when you're doing joins and group by.

i've worked with people in the past who refused to allow any actual LINQ in the codebase (use resharper to convert it to fluent!) even though it essentially became obfuscated.

New comment by 4rt in "A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions"

4rt — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:18:06 +0000

tldr; the wifi's access restrictions still allowed DNS so they set up a vpn on the dns port

New comment by 4rt in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"

4rt — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:18:40 +0000

The reason starlink are so low in the first place is its cheaper to launch to that altitude, you need way less signal strength for devices to connect to them and the round-trip latency is vastly improved. They're intended to be essentially disposable, they're going for shorter lifetime and iterating on hardware improvements faster.

The further out you get, there's less atmospheric drag and each satellite is in view of the ground stations for longer but the cost of launch is higher and latency becomes a big issue. People expect 50ms latency for internet access not 500ms.

New comment by 4rt in "Intel Arc Celestial dGPU seems to be first casualty of Nvidia partnership"

4rt — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:50:35 +0000

i'm not paying a lot of attention to this AI global economics war bs tbh, but the intel arc gpus seemed to be a sensible way of me getting back into pc gaming. good drivers, ok performance, great value and great energy efficiency.

then all of a sudden nvidia decides to "invest" in intel... and all of a sudden it sounds like arc will be probably be getting cancelled.

New comment by 4rt in "The cost of interrupted work (2023)"

4rt — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 02:53:34 +0000

thank you for your service, it was a very long comment but i read it all and found it insightful!

New comment by 4rt in "AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery"

4rt — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:50:36 +0000

i used to make 'leaflet websites' in the 90s, then shopping carts. it was an era where everybody wanted an online presence to make themselves seem legitimiate. i expect this is the normal progression of anybody born in the 80s who could do software dev.

it got to a point where people would say they needed a website and i'd say to them that a facebook page would meet their needs better or eventually that a shopify site met their needs better. my business obviously folded.

New comment by 4rt in "A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)"

4rt — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:39:37 +0000

any idea what the caddy did?

some sort of feedback for rotation angle maybe?

New comment by 4rt in "Tesla seeks to block city of Austin from releasing records on robotaxi trial"

4rt — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:39:01 +0000

This is trying to ban a city from publishing historic crash data on public roads, nothing to do with advanced strategy or plans.

New comment by 4rt in "Microsoft continues efforts to convince Win10 users to upgrade to TPM 2.0 PCs"

4rt — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:40:29 +0000

* we'll drag you into basic modern security hygiene if it kills us