Hacker News: Gigachad

New comment by Gigachad in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

Gigachad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:09:08 +0000

Maybe it's possible now. It wasn't back when I last used X. Now that Wayland is the default on most distros and works on nvidia now I don't see any reason to go back.

New comment by Gigachad in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:18:57 +0000

Windows is the result of having almost the entire market. There has been no reason for Microsoft to improve windows because it won't sell more licenses. They have already sold Windows to every person who will possibly buy it. So the only avenue for growth is selling additional services on top like cloud subscriptions, AI products, etc.

Contrast that to the last 10 years in Linux where things have become immensely better.

New comment by Gigachad in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:12:42 +0000

Google still has search results but they mostly point to AI generated blog posts filled with adverts.

New comment by Gigachad in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:11:14 +0000

Also because programming is self contained in a computer where the results can be tested and iterated easily. For programming the agent can just run the compiler and tests and keep retrying until it works. If I wanted to for example sew a T shirt, AI is useless.

New comment by Gigachad in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:01:05 +0000

This + mixed refresh rate are the key selling points of Wayland.

New comment by Gigachad in "Codex for open source"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:47:10 +0000

Though it doesn't cost them anything of note to provide this other than maybe some lost sales to devs who would have bought it.

New comment by Gigachad in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:37:27 +0000

It's more likely we will move to a world where desktop OSs have a security model like ios/android so malicious software can't steal your data.

New comment by Gigachad in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:32:34 +0000

The AUR being hosted by the Arch project on the same domain gives an air of authority and reputation to it which is misleading.

New comment by Gigachad in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:31:06 +0000

In this case even if you skimmed it you likely would have missed it since the malicious change was adding a new dependency called "atomic-lockfile".

New comment by Gigachad in "Every Frame Perfect"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:24:10 +0000

Everything in reality is animated. Nothing instantaneously snaps between two states. Which is why UX designers want to animate everything, it looks more natural for something to move from one place to the next rather than snap instantaneously. Everything used to be even more animated, ebook readers would play a 3D page turning animation, these days we settle for subtle abstract animations.

New comment by Gigachad in "Every Frame Perfect"

Gigachad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:20:54 +0000

The difference with games is that they generally don't have motion blur, every frame is sharp like a photo, so at low framerates like 30 you can see a distracting judder from the series of low fps sharp frames which you don't see in movies. At high framerates your eyes will naturally see blur in the same way your eyes see your hand waving as blurry even though there is theoretically infinite frames.

Some of this is also just learned and cultural. 24fps looks like movies because movies are 24fps and you have learned to make that association. In the same way certain color grades and aspect ratios look cinematic, just because that's a reinforced association rather than an inherent fact.

New comment by Gigachad in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

Gigachad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:24:05 +0000

What you have a reasonable expectation of is decided by society, not some unmoving law of physics.

A country could very easily decide you do have the right to go outside without creeps recording you with spy glasses.

New comment by Gigachad in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

Gigachad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:06:20 +0000

Sure, some people have no self awareness. In that case you can change your approach, if you are a manager or otherwise invested in the company you can put pressure on them to increase the quality of their work and to own the things they submit. Bring up specific examples of poor quality work, errors in documents/messages, etc.

Or if you don't care you can just ignore this persons messages.

New comment by Gigachad in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

Gigachad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:16:05 +0000

Either that, or call them / walk up to their desk and pick a point from the wall of text and ask them to explain what they mean by it. Then watch them turn red as they have no idea what the message they sent to you means.

New comment by Gigachad in "Vacuum-Form Signage"

Gigachad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:12:16 +0000

I wouldn’t say 3D printing is a misuse, even in this case, vacuum forming a tray insert is much faster, but I don’t have space for a vacuum former in my apartment but I can easily fit a 3D printer which is much more versatile.

New comment by Gigachad in "Vacuum-Form Signage"

Gigachad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:34:33 +0000

That sounds a million times easier than modeling gridfinity trays.

New comment by Gigachad in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

Gigachad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:37:55 +0000

The corporations are paying for the product. The pi foundation could invest that in to making more and developing the product further.

New comment by Gigachad in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

Gigachad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:35:24 +0000

There is an unbelievable amount of e waste created because OEMs locked the software down and stopped updating it. I have an android tablet which is functionally working but effectively useless.

New comment by Gigachad in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

Gigachad — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:52:10 +0000

Notice the “get away with” part. Journalists can be held liable for making things up. And so should Google.

New comment by Gigachad in "macOS Container Machines"

Gigachad — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:06:40 +0000

Wine existed before Proton, Valve made it better but the project doesn't rely on Valve. Currently Linux is the best gaming experience. Zero bloat or nagware, everything just works. It's just ironic Wine/Proton ended up being the best platform for gaming on Linux. I don't think anyone expected it to run so well with virtually no performance impact.

Now with the Fex project, it might end up that running Windows games on linux on a modern ARM processor could be the best way to game going forward, especially for mobile platforms like the SteamDeck.