Hacker News: Cort3z

New comment by Cort3z in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

Cort3z — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:05:18 +0000

I really like it. Here is my 2 cent:

- the gravity is weird in my opinion. There is basically a gravity going down the screen. I would have expected there to be some "pull" towards the planets. I get why though, you try to prevent mega-long straight shots upward. Perhaps experiment with some drag, where the ball slows down over time. Or perhaps have the walls be gravity points, pulling the ball towards them.

- i would add a long- press to restart immediately, so restarting is faster.

New comment by Cort3z in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

Cort3z — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:57:43 +0000

I would add long-press to restart

New comment by Cort3z in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Cort3z — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:47:44 +0000

I can see Apple doing something similar in the future. Just like how they are pivoting away from flat design in their ui, perhaps the time is ready for a more "organic" design. Wonder what marketing term they would use

New comment by Cort3z in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

Cort3z — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:14:32 +0000

I believe this stuff is straight up illegal in the EU. And also: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” - IBM Training Manual, 1979[1]

1: https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-decision-making-where-...

New comment by Cort3z in "GPT-5.4"

Cort3z — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:13:00 +0000

So, are we way into diminishing returns for these models at this point? If so, I think we can calculate when it will be available at home. Given this requires a GB200 NVL72 which has about 1,440 PFLOPS, the current 5090 chip has about 1,676 TFLOPS, so about a 1000x scale-up to the GB200. If we can assume Moores law, which might be broken, but still. We are looking at log2(1000) = 9.96, or about 10 years.

New comment by Cort3z in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

Cort3z — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:20:12 +0000

I agree, but if there were a common place where everyone did the registration once, it might be less of a problem. Something similar to the «verified» accounts on twitter etc.

I can imagine GitHub becoming this filter somehow

New comment by Cort3z in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

Cort3z — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:22:34 +0000

I wonder if there is a way to blanket prevent these types of problems.

Possible solutions I can think of:

- Require an account with a paid service. Fix = require money - Require an account verified with real ID/passport etc. Fix = link to real person - Automated reply system to "waste tokens" if it is an AI that is responding. Fix is increased cost of spammer. - Have some kind of "vetting system" where you get on an allowed list to report these types of things. Seems not good to me, but perhaps there is something in it.

I wonder how much open source code is lost because maintainers must deal with this type of thing versus the "good" that AI can bring in productivity.

New comment by Cort3z in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

Cort3z — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:16:42 +0000

Are there a total ad time percentage metric in this law too, or will they simply be watching many more smaller ads?

New comment by Cort3z in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Cort3z — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:56:13 +0000

I fairly recently tried to ask a question on SO because the LLMs did not work for that domain. I’m no beginner to SO, having some 13k points from many questions and answers. I made, in my opinion, a good question, referenced my previous attempts, clearly stating my problem and what I tried to do. Almost immediately after posting I got downvoted, no comments, a close- suggestions etc. A similar thing happened the last two times I tried this too. I’m not sure what is going on over there now, but whatever that site was many years ago, it isn’t any more. It’s s shame, because it was such a great thing, but now I am disincentivized to use it because I lose points each time I tip my toes back in.

New comment by Cort3z in "Linux is good now"

Cort3z — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:59:38 +0000

Most problems in most distros are solvable with enough knowhow and enough research time. That time investment is not always worth it in a commercial context. It is a fairly known amount of time to reinstall a distro and get back up and running, and an unknown amount of time to fix an exotic Linux problem.

Many seem to be interested in knowing my distro. I’m not interested in throwing shade on a distro in particular, but it is one of the bigger and well known ones.

New comment by Cort3z in "Linux is good now"

Cort3z — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:46:23 +0000

I’m not trying to cast shade on a distribution in particular. I’m using one of the big ones. If you have not had any of these problems, great!

New comment by Cort3z in "Linux is good now"

Cort3z — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:21:04 +0000

Shameless self promotion, but I 80% vibe- coded a pip package for interfacing with LLMs right from the terminal. ‘pip install lask’. It has helped me a lot since it works from the terminal regardless of what the graphics drivers are doing.

New comment by Cort3z in "Linux is good now"

Cort3z — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:16:57 +0000

I have been working professionally on Linux for many years. But about once a year I have to reinstall the os because it craps out for various reasons. The same story goes for most of my team, but for some reason they seem ok with this. My issue with Linux is this: I don’t feel like a consumer, but a janitor. I don’t want this. Yes you can do whatever you want, but I don’t want to do those things. I want to write code and play games, not maintain the intricacies of a running computer.

For a server there is no better choice than Linux, but for my desktop/laptop, I find other alternatives better. Perhaps I haven’t found «the right distro», if so let me know, but until Linux is as low maintenance as windows or macos, it will be for those with an interest in doing that maintenance.

I realize I have a love-hate relationship with Linux. It is perfect, but flawed.

New comment by Cort3z in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

Cort3z — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:15:44 +0000

I love semantic html. It feels so much more modern and efficient than all of these fashion-driven front end tools.

New comment by Cort3z in "Logging sucks"

Cort3z — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:15:35 +0000

Just implement exponential backoff for slow requests logging, or some other heuristic, to control it. I definitely agree it is a concern though.

New comment by Cort3z in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

Cort3z — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:57:25 +0000

Does anyone have a link to the source of the statement without a paywall in front? I could not see any reference to this 150M$ anywhere.

New comment by Cort3z in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

Cort3z — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:36:24 +0000

Makes some sense that the owner can't just eavesdrop on every conversation on the platform. That is very illegal many places in the world.

New comment by Cort3z in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

Cort3z — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:33:14 +0000

It is free, as I understand it, not 200k per year.

New comment by Cort3z in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

Cort3z — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:30:44 +0000

Wonder how the ROI on this is going to be for salesforce.

New comment by Cort3z in "iPhone Air"

Cort3z — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:13:15 +0000

They keep shrinking in the wrong dimentions.