Hacker News: JoshTriplett

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

JoshTriplett — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:10:52 +0000

And thus they need a massive datacenter full of systems, rather than a pile of paid licenses.

And macOS remains a toy for use only by individuals that is a massive pain for developers to support.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

JoshTriplett — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:01:42 +0000

That would make more sense except they don't even have an option to pay for it.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

JoshTriplett — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:57:40 +0000

Agreed. Be careful what you wish for.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

JoshTriplett — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:04:36 +0000

That's fascinating. The stabilization is surprisingly good. And there's a kind of out-of-focus pulsing that happens to the video periodically. I'm wondering if that might be your pulse against the Glass, abruptly moving the Glass in a way that its stabilization couldn't compensate for.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

JoshTriplett — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:07:36 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1838/

New comment by JoshTriplett in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

JoshTriplett — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:18:57 +0000

Reading TDF's "side" of the story gives me firm confidence that Collabora was in fact in the right, here. Collabora seems to have the facts on their side, which is why TDF's account here is so vague and passive-aggressive and filled with FUD.

Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604892 (in particular, the mention that Collabora was not in fact intending to leave) lend further credence.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

JoshTriplett — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:23:49 +0000

It sounds like cuu508 didn't want the post-verification welcome, as opposed to the one-time verification message.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

JoshTriplett — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:44:26 +0000

Firefox, on Linux. Though I'd be genuinely surprised to hear the issue with scaling worked differently elsewhere.

Firefox is scaling its base size based on the screen, and then the page is scaled up further from there to have a readable font size. My base is 150% scaling, but the UI has comparably uneven strokes at many different scales and page sizes. (The strokes get less uneven the bigger they are, since at larger sizes there are more pixels to work with.)

Easy way to compare font scaling quality: At any scale, hitting one of the "change" links in the configuration menu brings up a browser UI element, using a font that looks great at any size.

Happy to file a report with the details.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

JoshTriplett — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:27:47 +0000

I'm sorry to hear that you don't want to exist in the future. I do. I have thought about it extensively, and there is literally no scenario in which I consider not-existing better than existing.

There is an essentially infinite amount of creativity and interesting complexity available in the richness of interactions with other people and the things people create. What, exactly, are you "horrified" about?

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

JoshTriplett — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:25:51 +0000

s/make peace with it/make war with it/. To the last breath.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:23:25 +0000

You said "can’t change". I observed that deciding you can't change something is self-fulfilling. Your argument from that point still relied on the assumption that you can't change it.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:13:12 +0000

"It's uncool to care about things" is, fortunately, not a compelling argument for people who care about things.

This tangent does not seem likely to go anywhere productive.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:04:59 +0000

Pixelated can sometimes look okay on screens it was designed for. But I think the pixelated look improves with hinting that helps snap it to stroke widths, rather than randomly jumping between 1 and 2 pixels depending on how it happened to line up with the pixel grid.

This is what it looks like on my screen: https://imgur.com/a/YeAdiXC

A good pixel font would be a vast improvement over this, though I'd still prefer something that scales well (and respects the DPI of my screen, and isn't too small compared to the menu font...).

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:55:53 +0000

Deciding that you can't change something is the first and last step towards failing to change it.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:50 +0000

> Do you want to live forever?

Yes, of course. Do you prefer to die? Those are the only two alternatives, and a decision that you don't want one is a decision that you prefer the other.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:21:29 +0000

I assumed it likely looked like the desktop version, and that was exactly what was motivating my question.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Multiple Sclerosis"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:20:55 +0000

> There are already clinics where they basically remove your immune system and give you a new one. If you don’t die in the process

Of side effects of the process, or of opportunistic diseases during the transition?

New comment by JoshTriplett in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

JoshTriplett — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:52:02 +0000

Impressive work!

Minor nit: why does the rendered in-window text use a really awful pixelated font? It looks like what happens when a font gets rendered onto a pixel grid without any hinting or snapping.

New comment by JoshTriplett in "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006)"

JoshTriplett — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:15:49 +0000

Has been on HN a couple of times in the past, but it's worth a repost.

The takeaway: something isn't a security bug just because you can get a program to misbehave based on user input. It has to lead to a privilege escalation, letting the user do something they couldn't otherwise do (e.g. if the input might come from an untrusted source that couldn't directly just do the thing itself).

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006)

JoshTriplett — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31283

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577739

Points: 5

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