Hacker News: AHTERIX5000

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

AHTERIX5000 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:02:14 +0000

Is this written by a real person though?

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

AHTERIX5000 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:19:33 +0000

My Windows 11 installation broke down after one of the updates. Now I get "Please reinstall Windows" warning in Windows Update settings. And some error hex code which doesn't really help. I've installed like 5 different apps on this machine and never ran any "tweaking" scripts or apps.

I don't think I ever had to reinstall Windows 2000 but here we are.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer"

AHTERIX5000 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:46:06 +0000

Yep. And 'wget' is often alias for WebRequest in PowerShell. The amount of footguns I ran into while trying to get a simple Windows Container CI job running, oh man

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)"

AHTERIX5000 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:01:47 +0000

What about new features? There are many small features that can't be used via older APIs and bigger ones like accelerated ray tracing.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with"

AHTERIX5000 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:33:51 +0000

The kernel might be a polished gem but win32 API?

Practical is a term I'd use as win32 has managed to survive to this day but that came with a boatload of hacks and problems. It's ugly.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?"

AHTERIX5000 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:30:20 +0000

2025 was the year when my fear of being replaced by an AI changed to fear of a big economic disaster caused by AI bubble

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "In Defense of C++"

AHTERIX5000 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:13:28 +0000

I write C++ daily and I really can't take seriously arguments how C++ is safe if you know what you're doing like come on. Any sufficiently large and complex codebases tend to have bugs and footguns and using tools like memory safe languages limit blast radius considerably.

Smart pointers are neat but they are not a solution for memory safety. Just using standard containers and iterators can lead to lots of footguns, or utils like string_view.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "macOS Tahoe"

AHTERIX5000 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:37:07 +0000

It's not as bad as the first previews but ugly nonetheless and overall accessibility nightmare.

All I hope is that the design language stays contained in Apple ecosystem and does not spread.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

AHTERIX5000 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:43:27 +0000

I've had similar experiences when working on non-web tech.

There are parts in the codebase I'd love some help such as overly complex C++ templates and it almost never works out. Sometimes I get useful pointers (no pun intended) what the problem actually is but even that seems a bit random. I wonder if it's actually faster or slower than traditional reading & thinking myself.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

AHTERIX5000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:50:57 +0000

I have the same issue. I've disabled "Find My" feature and uninstalled everything that kept showing up as battery draining apps. My iPad loses about 20-25% of battery every night and there is nothing showing up in battery details anymore.

I'm pretty sure the problem would go away with a factory reset. Just like it with old Windows installations, except you had a better change debugging those...

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Anticheat Update Tracking"

AHTERIX5000 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:17:28 +0000

That's scary. I have an old Steam account with tons of games and already got banned once due to a bug in anti-cheat software and for a while my whole account was marked with a cheater tag.

The bug was so widespread that developers eventually removed bans but I'm sure something similar could happen where problem goes undetected and it would be really hard to try to convince developers to lift a ban.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "The Book of Shaders (2015)"

AHTERIX5000 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:16:29 +0000

Fragment shaders are perhaps over over-represented due to old WebGL style and easiness of integration, full screen quad + a shader is quite self contained setup.

Compute shaders are much more interesting and widely used in modern graphics though. No fixed rasterizing setup needed, just buffers for data in/out and a kernel with access to the usual GPU syncing primitives in between.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard"

AHTERIX5000 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:21:59 +0000

It seems to be a parody account

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)"

AHTERIX5000 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:41:53 +0000

The more I read MR discussions regarding this the less I want to use the forked version. Not that anyone is going to ship it anyway.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene"

AHTERIX5000 — Mon, 12 May 2025 18:41:38 +0000

The Linux audio stack is just baffling. After all these years it's still unreliable. I'm running Fedora 41 and often toggle between two audio devices, USB DAC and HDMI output. Sometimes when I change the output via Gnome settings my Flatpak apps don't care and keep playing with the previous output and other apps change as expected.

I've never edited any audio configs on this machine because I expected my 2 device setup and Gnome settings would be trivial enough for the latest Linux desktop audio solution.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

AHTERIX5000 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:19:52 +0000

Or the display sleep menu which offers choices like 1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 min timeout but no more than that unless you use external config editor.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "An Introduction to Modern CMake"

AHTERIX5000 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:13:40 +0000

Is there an open source project which uses CMake well and could be used as a reference for good CMake practices?

I've been using CMake for years and it's definitely not the worst solution for building multiplatform C++ projects. But I've never read a CMake script and thought what a clean solution, it's always a bit gnarly.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux"

AHTERIX5000 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:03:52 +0000

systemd is good. Also enjoyed SMF with Solaris.

Maybe the best way to manage operating system services might be something else than bunch of scripts envisioned in the 70s.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

AHTERIX5000 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:02:34 +0000

Spotlight straight up broke on both of my Macs after Sequoia. It can't even find exact matches in many directories marked for indexing and re-indexing did nothing. Just searching for apps under Applications doesn't seem to find all apps.

New comment by AHTERIX5000 in "Zentool – AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility"

AHTERIX5000 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:42:47 +0000

This work is related to recently found signing weakness and supposedly fake key with resign works with unpatched CPUs.