Hacker News: Jaxan

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!

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

Jaxan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:42:07 +0000

I find it so annoying that certain apps update every single time I open them. Why can’t they build something more stable?

New comment by Jaxan in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

Jaxan — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:21:53 +0000

I just do @. It is sometimes confusing by when interacting with customer support ;-)

New comment by Jaxan in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

Jaxan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:52:13 +0000

Surface Pro 4, it is an older model, so it cannot run Win11. Indeed I needed a custom kernel.

I’m still quite happy with Win10 though.

I’ll have a look at Linux again.

New comment by Jaxan in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

Jaxan — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:07:13 +0000

I’ve tried Linux on an older surface pro. It sucks, pen/touch is not reliable, the device wouldn’t shut off properly which drained the battery. But I guess NASA would have the budget to resolve that.

New comment by Jaxan in "Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions"

Jaxan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:20:29 +0000

Many compilers do change a recursion into a loop, avoiding the stack altogether!

New comment by Jaxan in "Can I run AI locally?"

Jaxan — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:03:04 +0000

It doesn’t really. The website thinks I’m on a iPhone 19 pro, although I’m actually on a iPhone SE 1st gen. So it’s off by roughly a decade.

New comment by Jaxan in "NaN Is Weird"

Jaxan — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:31:30 +0000

The hash is the same. But a hash set has to use == in case of equal hashes (to avoid collisions).

New comment by Jaxan in "The MacBook Neo"

Jaxan — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:58 +0000

I used to have a 2011 MBP and a M1 air at the same time. I actually preferred the mechanical trackpad of the MBP. Unfortunately that laptop died.

New comment by Jaxan in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

Jaxan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:03:58 +0000

Doesn’t AdGuard work?

New comment by Jaxan in "Turing Completeness of GNU find"

Jaxan — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:44:34 +0000

If you upload to arxiv, there are explicit instructions which tell you what latex commands work and which don’t for the abstract. The authors didn’t read those instructions.

New comment by Jaxan in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

Jaxan — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:57:16 +0000

What do you mean by “these days”? To me, it seems like rust is a pretty constant factor on HN for at least two years now.