Hacker News: FrostKiwi

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Combustion engine web-based simulator"

FrostKiwi — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:20:43 +0000

Interesting, I had Fable generate me a summary using an identical style, with the same square design, bg and yellow highlights

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2"

FrostKiwi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:58:42 +0000

FYI, setting `NvOptimusEnablement` and `AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance` have been the canonical way on Windows, `__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD` + `__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME` on Linux. Though not an OpenGL feature per se, as you mentioned.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Dav2d"

FrostKiwi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:41:14 +0000

Same comment, same wording was had when going from H.264/AVC to H.265/HEVC and again to AV1. Across the board it's 30% better Size vs Quality and with an X amount increase in compute required to encode and decode.

Each time these standards were put into ink, they were years from being practical.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

FrostKiwi — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:26:36 +0000

Self hosted gitea for many years with ~25 devs. Yes, it's essentially a FOSS carbon copy of GitHub. CI/CD is also intercompatible, uses the same syntax and pulls the original GitHub Actions packages. Now with the Forgejo split, I would prefer Forgejo, as it has way more steam behind it with Codeberg and Blender as the big use-cases.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Gemini Omni"

FrostKiwi — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:34:33 +0000

The goblins evolved it seems

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data"

FrostKiwi — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:41:25 +0000

So So useful <3 Stabilization = you have to zoom-in, loss of FOV. Depending on Action Cam and undistortion parameters, this can be different, sometimes too little, sometimes too much. Gyroflow allows you to dial it in. Lot's Stabilization in a particularly shaky spot and widest FOV everywhere else, smoothed between to be unnoticeable.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Surfel-based global illumination on the web"

FrostKiwi — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:07:06 +0000

Demo throws `can't access property "isInterleavedBufferAttribute", e is null` on firefox but work on chromium based browsers.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

FrostKiwi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:05:20 +0000

> But a compiler is deterministic — same input, same output. An LLM isn't.

Temperature 0 determinism is subject to active research. NVIDIA tried but failed so far, DeepSeek V4 seems to have done it. I hope judges won't be swayed by this an AI generated code will classified as uncopyrightable, just like Images are.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

FrostKiwi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:09:21 +0000

Actually blown away by how good that works with my 1920x1200 8-bit HP Z24n G2 monitor [1] and my Laptop's 1920x1080 6-bit Panel [2]

[2x5-HP-Z24n-G2] https://i.imgur.com/yLyrpfg.jpeg

[1x5-HP-Z24n-G2] https://i.imgur.com/Z7kH005.jpeg

[2x5-Innolux-N156HCA-GA3] https://i.imgur.com/F4Ypxwj.jpeg

[1x5-Innolux-N156HCA-GA3] https://i.imgur.com/etkot5o.jpeg

[1] https://jp.ext.hp.com/monitors/business/z_z24n_g2/

[2] https://www.panelook.com/N156HCA-GA3__15.6__overview_33518.h...

New comment by FrostKiwi in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

FrostKiwi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:08:17 +0000

You are of course right. It's just that Modules inherently put a lot of responsibility on the build system. Among those, but not limited to: a "module registry" wasn't standardized and is in the hands of the build system.

Systems like ninja needs to know modules, which took time and then a stack further up systems like CMake needed to know modules, which took time. That's my answer to the parent "why are there so few modules projects". Because it took time for the ecosystem to catch up.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

FrostKiwi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:04:58 +0000

That's really interesting info, thanks!

New comment by FrostKiwi in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

FrostKiwi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:28:24 +0000

It's the fault of built systems. CMake still doesn't support `import std` officially and undocumented things are done in the ecosystem [1]

But once it works and you setup the new stuff, having started a new CPP26 Project with modules now, it's kinda awesome. I'm certainly never going back. The big compilers are also retroactively adding `import std` to CPP20, so support is widening.

[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/work_items/27706

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

FrostKiwi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:15:35 +0000

But that fresh UUID is in the prompt.

Also it's missing the point of the parent: it's about concepts and ideas merely being remixed. Similar to how many memes there are around this topic like "create a fresh new character design of a fast hedgehog" and the out is just a copy of sonic.[1]

That's what the parent is on about, if it requires new creativity not found by deriving from the learned corpus, then LLMs can't do it. Terrence Tao had similar thoughts in a recent Podcast.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/s/pT2Zub10KT

New comment by FrostKiwi in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

FrostKiwi — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:22:32 +0000

> is to spend at least as much as our salary

Reads as a very distopian "let's see how many people we can replace"

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Vite 8.0 Is Out"

FrostKiwi — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:13:24 +0000

Same here (10s to 1s). The main reason for this is rolldown [1]. Already had it installed months ago, before it got merged into vite proper. Really awesome stuff.

[1] https://rolldown.rs/

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Claude Opus 4.6"

FrostKiwi — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:19:20 +0000

I do not trust that, similar working was used when Sonnet 1M launched. Still not the case today.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs"

FrostKiwi — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:38:18 +0000

> and it won't work without Steam running. Such a disappointment

I assume it will be like Steam Controller 1: Given no Steam and no special driver, the Controller is a Mouse + Keyboard, also referred to as "lizard mode".

I am also anti-DRM, but I don't think this can be solved easily. Consider the Dual Shock 2: Either it's explicitly supported or requires a custom diver to emulate into XInput or DirectInput. Even using XInput directly is cross platform a driver nightmare. Valve has done good work I think with their libSDL based Steam Overlay, becoming a kind of universal Input equalizer, going so far as to patch their games with updated tutorial input prompts based on controller like Dual Shock 2 vs XBox Controllers.

A firmware level solution is not really realistic at this point. Controller Manufacturer 8BitDo went this approach, with many device restart firmware modes per target platform. It's just not a good user experience.

New comment by FrostKiwi in "Basis Universal v2"

FrostKiwi — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:37:09 +0000

XUASTC was just released, allowing for all ASTC Block sizes to be used on the web, once support lands in the big web 3D libraries like Three.js [1].

To me, this is huge. Relying on pre-calculated lighting when building stuff like [2], I constantly fight for VRAM, as older iPhones have very strict limits. XUASTC brings the all the remaining modern GPU compression schemes to the web in a standardized manner.

[1] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js [2] https://mymachine.dmgmori.com/

Basis Universal v2

FrostKiwi — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:37:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687241

Points: 2

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New comment by FrostKiwi in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

FrostKiwi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:09:40 +0000

No way, it's BPOS all over again [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Online_Services#Prod...