Hacker News: Jaxan

New comment by Jaxan in "Stolen Buttons"

Jaxan — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:59:17 +0000

Oh this reminds me that we used to create buttons for navigation in flash!

New comment by Jaxan in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

Jaxan — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:01:32 +0000

Market size is different: everyone needs a mail client, but not everyone needs 3d modelling.

New comment by Jaxan in "Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback"

Jaxan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:16:01 +0000

Hmm strange, I have never had a thunderbird folder in my home dir. I use thunderbird on Mac, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu).

New comment by Jaxan in "Counting ArXiv Delays"

Jaxan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:12:37 +0000

You can also just put a paper on your website (or google drive). If arXiv isn’t working for you, why submit there?

Personally, i see no problem with delays, research takes longer than a few days. Reviews take a few weeks or months even.

New comment by Jaxan in "Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

Jaxan — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:57:23 +0000

Which also shows there isn’t “one father”, multiple things (and people) had to come together.

New comment by Jaxan in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

Jaxan — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:49:27 +0000

No. In the Netherlands is not common to cycle on side walks. We have cycling lanes for that! Pedestrians and cyclists only meet at crossings. (The behaviour of cyclists in the big cities might be different though.)

New comment by Jaxan in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

Jaxan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:28:47 +0000

You can have your own version. You don’t have to push all improvements upstream.

New comment by Jaxan in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

Jaxan — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:40:01 +0000

It (the http rfc) refers to other standards such as for URLs, and those did actually change (to include ipv6 and more internationalisation).

New comment by Jaxan in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

Jaxan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:45:50 +0000

Producing phones emits a lot of CO2 (or equivalents). It takes more energy to produce, than the amount of energy a phone uses in its typical life.

But yeah, these are great questions which are not obvious at all and should be answered when proposing such a system.

New comment by Jaxan in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

Jaxan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:42:39 +0000

You really don’t have to change your css. My personal website has been using roughly the same css for a decade. Why not?

Sure if you are a designer and want to follow trends, you’ll have to keep your css skills up to date. But for most websites, you can use css from a decade ago.

New comment by Jaxan in "Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models"

Jaxan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:14:35 +0000

You could at least fix the latex commands when copy pasting the abstract. ;-)

New comment by Jaxan in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

Jaxan — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:26:44 +0000

I used audacity 20 years ago and the interface is still the same. That is also worth something.

New comment by Jaxan in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

Jaxan — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:24:45 +0000

On the other hand, the language is already 35 years old and people still use it! Many other languages have died in the meantime.

New comment by Jaxan in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"

Jaxan — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:31:31 +0000

No. These are polynomials (in x).

New comment by Jaxan in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Jaxan — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:39:31 +0000

I think the current situation shows that outsourcing is also expensive. The costs are just different or not always clear up front.

New comment by Jaxan in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

Jaxan — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:20:12 +0000

If you don’t like the taste, you shouldn’t drink it, imo. So yes, one enjoys coffee exactly for the flavour.

New comment by Jaxan in "Do_not_track"

Jaxan — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:41:53 +0000

Why?

New comment by Jaxan in "Do_not_track"

Jaxan — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:06:59 +0000

They are told to believe that.

New comment by Jaxan in "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus"

Jaxan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:10:02 +0000

“Almost everywhere” is a mathematical term and can mean two things (I think):

- except finitely many, or

- except a set of measure zero.

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

Jaxan — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:34:53 +0000

I played that too!