Hacker News: Boxxed

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

Boxxed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:19:31 +0000

Of course, I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that these people are complaining about ads everywhere and value the aesthetics of the tab bar over that.

New comment by Boxxed in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

Boxxed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:17:54 +0000

Your point is that it's ok he's untrustworthy because lots of people in power are?

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

Boxxed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:50:09 +0000

> Or look at the dogged adherence to Windows even to this day after decades of Microsoft abuse

Or the people who absolutely refuse to give up Chrome, despite the whole adblock situation. "But I don't like the way Firefox tabs look!"

New comment by Boxxed in "Windows native app development is a mess"

Boxxed — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:17:29 +0000

I don't know, I think it's pretty embarrassing that Teams is an electron (or whatever) app. The plot on native has been lost so badly that even the fucking company that makes the OS doesn't want to deal with it.

New comment by Boxxed in "“Your frustration is the product”"

Boxxed — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:24:45 +0000

Every time someone complains about firefox it's something trivial like this... "I don't like the default download location." / "I don't like how the dev tools opens on the bottom." / "I don't like the way the tab bar looks." Absolutely wild to me that using a browser without an adblocker, forever, is better than spending a week or whatever getting used to the different dev tools.

New comment by Boxxed in "“Your frustration is the product”"

Boxxed — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:06:18 +0000

> Firefox is painful.

What exactly is painful about Firefox? It's so painful that you'd rather go without an adblocker?

New comment by Boxxed in "Graphics Programming Resources"

Boxxed — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:26:22 +0000

New comment by Boxxed in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

Boxxed — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:22:54 +0000

Pretty much matches my experience. Trying to sell something on Craig's list or whatever is pretty hit-or-miss, whether it's $5 or $500. But make it free, and people will bang down your door to try to get it. It could be a shoebox full of used soy sauce packets and you'll get people for days asking if it's still available.

New comment by Boxxed in "Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference"

Boxxed — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:54:25 +0000

My favorite part about the type annotations in python is that it steers you into a sane subset of the language. I feel like it's kind of telling that python is this super dynamic language but the type annotations aren't powerful enough to denote all that craziness.

New comment by Boxxed in "We Will Not Be Divided"

Boxxed — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:16:16 +0000

> But it looks like they would have spared Anthropic if they capitulated to the regime's demands and bent their back over.

Yeah dude, that's the point.

New comment by Boxxed in "Lyte2D: A comfy little game engine"

Boxxed — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:26:20 +0000

Lyte2D is a game engine for 2D games with a very small and tight API. It's scripted in lua and it's easy to make tiny self contained executables for Windows, Mac, Linux and the web.

It lives at https://lyte2d.com and the source is at https://github.com/lyte2d/lyte2d. Check it out at your leisure!

Lyte2D: A comfy little game engine

Boxxed — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://relaxing.run/lyte-intro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139043

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Boxxed in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

Boxxed — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:30:12 +0000

Well that's terrifying

New comment by Boxxed in "The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala"

Boxxed — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:34:49 +0000

Yeah I love it when people start defining their own operators all over the place and give them all inscrutable names. "Dude just use the eggplant parm operator: <<=-=>>"

New comment by Boxxed in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

Boxxed — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:16:20 +0000

Is your argument that it's now someone else's problem? That it must be paid, just by someone else? Thanks, I hate it.

New comment by Boxxed in "Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers"

Boxxed — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:04:11 +0000

They're sort of different things. I think of fabric as more of a remote shell, but pyinfra is exactly analogous to ansible.

New comment by Boxxed in "Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers"

Boxxed — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:17:43 +0000

I don't have anything insightful to add but I do want to say that after years of ansible et al, pyinfra is an absolute breath of fresh air.

New comment by Boxxed in "I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]"

Boxxed — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:53:03 +0000

I'm not super familiar with this area so I don't follow... Why is animation any more difficult? I would think you could attach the basic 3D shapes to a skeleton the same way you would with polygons.

Re-implementing and improving the landing sequence in Top Gun for the NES

Boxxed — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:20:43 +0000

Article URL: https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-sim/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Boxxed in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

Boxxed — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:06:43 +0000

Posting an AI summary is about as useful as posting Google search results. We can all do it, we don't need anyone to do it for us.