Hacker News: 7bit

New comment by 7bit in "Typst makes big strides"

7bit — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:09:24 +0000

I wrote my first paper (nothing to publich, just for university) ever and went from typst to latest last minute because I got scared and went with the template of a studi-colleague. I heard latex was bad, but it's much worse than I could have ever anticipated.

I took the time off uni to migrate back to typst because I refuse to submit to the psychological warfare that is latex ever again.

New comment by 7bit in "Goodbye Google"

7bit — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:45:20 +0000

Only if you are cognitively challenged.

New comment by 7bit in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

7bit — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:28:48 +0000

Bullshit. Iranians are not white in the eyes of general white US Americans, regardless of whether your argument is correct or not.

New comment by 7bit in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

7bit — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:27:15 +0000

It's weird how killing 124 is not murder in the eyes of US law, and the people responsible are not tried for murder.

New comment by 7bit in "German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram"

7bit — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:50:10 +0000

Because that's not how any of this works.

New comment by 7bit in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

7bit — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:45:15 +0000

Why are you using an authorization protocol for authentication? Try OIDC.

New comment by 7bit in "UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8"

7bit — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:06:08 +0000

Utf-16 is famously used by Windows for everything important as well.

New comment by 7bit in "Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time"

7bit — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:39:58 +0000

Great read. Great resolve.

New comment by 7bit in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

7bit — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:13:31 +0000

One look at the memory consumption the the calculator app should answer your question.

New comment by 7bit in "Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now"

7bit — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:46:33 +0000

The comment you're replying to isn't talking about predictions now, isnt it?

New comment by 7bit in "Performance Improvements in .NET 11"

7bit — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:55:11 +0000

Really? I got bored throughout the 7 paragraph (or whatever number) in unrelated introduction.

New comment by 7bit in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

7bit — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:39:24 +0000

Because the commenter you're replying to has no idea what brutalism is, and is confusing a ugly concrete block with holes in it with brutalism.

New comment by 7bit in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

7bit — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:00:29 +0000

What approach would you suggest for priorisation of tickets?

New comment by 7bit in "Object storage is all you need"

7bit — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:51:28 +0000

> The blog presents a thought provoking question: what if we don't actually need a full-blown database, and instead we only care about things like unique constraints, transactions, indices, and history tables.

This sound like: what if we dont actually need a table and instead we only care about four legs and a wooden plate.

New comment by 7bit in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

7bit — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:37:10 +0000

I do not have high hopes. It's been 10 years of constant NMS updates but the game still has nothing that keeps me hooked. Everything feels insignificant to me, every interaction is like the one before and the one that comes next. They added stuff to the game, but it just feels like more of the same. Light No Fire will surely be just more of the same.

New comment by 7bit in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

7bit — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:40:41 +0000

What kind of nonsense argument is this

New comment by 7bit in "“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain"

7bit — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:31:18 +0000

I don't think he'd be able to come up with this.

New comment by 7bit in "Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire"

7bit — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:12:22 +0000

Bad example.

AC and radio don't turn themselves on every time yu start the car. The typically need to be turned on.

Distractions in Windows are turned ON BY DEFAULT, like MS store suggestions or MS edge forcing you through the first run wizard, etc etc

New comment by 7bit in "Git hosting that never leaves Europe"

7bit — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:31:09 +0000

Europe isn't a country, you know?

New comment by 7bit in "Google will limit how much memory Android apps can use from February 2027"

7bit — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:57:31 +0000

Obviously, phone owners should be able to set these limits and not have them dictated by a corporation.

But I still want to hope that this could be a first step to remind developers to build efficient and optimised apps.

Giving users a way to limit memory consumption per app won't solve this, it can only be solved by limiting it on the grand scale and that will never happen, if you give people only the means but no defsults. I think, the most sensible way would be to set default limits but ultimately the phone owner decide which limits to set.