Hacker News: KwanEsq

New comment by KwanEsq in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

KwanEsq — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:33:28 +0000

Do you actually even have more power with git?

New comment by KwanEsq in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

KwanEsq — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:43:08 +0000

I wonder if it's because of the font-weight being decreased. If I disable the `font-weight` rule in Firefox's Inspector the text gets noticeably darker, but the contrast score doesn't change. Could be a bad interaction with anti-aliasing thin text that the contrast checker isn't able to pick up.

New comment by KwanEsq in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

KwanEsq — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:30:03 +0000

My understanding was that that was more a function of how arc submitted stuff to Phabricator, rather than solely Phabricator itself. arc at submission time submitted a bunch of different commits as a single Phabricator DREV or whatever the terminology is/was (basically a DREV is the {domain}/D123 webpage you'd do a review on). But other tools that submitted commits to Phabricator instances (and maybe even arc itself with the right flag?) submitted each commit as its own separate DREV, so each commit got its own separate /D{N} page and its own review, but all linked together in a stack. And then still landed as separate commits in the actual repo. This is how code submission works with Mozilla's use of Phabricator.

New comment by KwanEsq in "What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)"

KwanEsq — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:30:32 +0000

No because they weren't optical, they were magnetic.

New comment by KwanEsq in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

KwanEsq — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:22:02 +0000

This is factually incorrect. GOG famously has no DRM.

New comment by KwanEsq in "Sins of the Children"

KwanEsq — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:54:55 +0000

Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series is modern and without humans as the bad guys. And highly recommended too. The books are also more standalone than calling it a series would suggest, but he also has lots of other one-shot books, and a few trilogies, if that would be a better way for you to try him out. I got into him via the standalone Pushing Ice.

New comment by KwanEsq in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

KwanEsq — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:06:19 +0000

https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/1.1/api/java.util.Date.html

New comment by KwanEsq in "Show HN: Solving the ~95% legislative coverage gap using LLM's"

KwanEsq — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:41:49 +0000

Obviously "lust" is a forbidden word for domains. Must be a porn site.

New comment by KwanEsq in "Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python"

KwanEsq — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:26:38 +0000

Sounds like you're just sailing the wrong seas. Some have plenty of AV1. Though those tend to be more obviously advertised as such, I believe, so perhaps this is about downloads from YouTube.

New comment by KwanEsq in "Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python"

KwanEsq — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:25:17 +0000

> A more direct way that also bails out early

If it bails out early it is of no use to them.

> This means that if the test fails, I can see all the affected videos at once. If the test failed on the first AV1 video, I’d only know about one video at a time, which would slow me down.

New comment by KwanEsq in "The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board"

KwanEsq — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:43:20 +0000

Huh, I wonder why we would put potential interspecies messages on the probes we're sending into interstellar space, but not on the ones we are only putting into orbit around our neighbouring planet. Real mystery.

New comment by KwanEsq in "Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification"

KwanEsq — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:11:23 +0000

Looking at the full diff[0] it certainly looks like it's using ~/.cache (and has been for some time), but I cannot see anything about ~/.local/share, no.

[0] https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8a6d6c0...

New comment by KwanEsq in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

KwanEsq — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:39:14 +0000

This is grossly unfair.

You've entirely omitted the `dism /cleanup-image /(scan|check|restore)-health` rain dance

New comment by KwanEsq in "KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web"

KwanEsq — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:11:12 +0000

>Browsers don't have native support for MathML any more for a good reason. Mozilla did support this for a while but dropped it because of limited adoption and high maintenance burden.

This seems to just be entirely untrue? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML shows wide support (For Chromium/Blink-based since version 109) and if I open the example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/P... in Firefox and Edge both seem to render it correctly.

New comment by KwanEsq in "The reason GCC is not a library (2000)"

KwanEsq — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:16:27 +0000

Sourcehut, maybe?

https://lists.sr.ht/

https://sourcehut.org/

New comment by KwanEsq in "Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor"

KwanEsq — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:08:07 +0000

So far as I can tell an extra blank grid appears as soon as the previous blank one has content/pre-existing default grid is edited.

New comment by KwanEsq in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

KwanEsq — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:54:46 +0000

Huh, last/only time I used yt-dlp on a livestream it downloaded exactly from when I ran it, didn't get anything in the past at all (which was a shame for me personally at the time, as I would have liked the earlier stuff too).

Maybe that was a difference in the stream itself though, since I've experienced both past-seekable and live-only live streams on YouTube.

New comment by KwanEsq in "FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons"

KwanEsq — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:33:46 +0000

Prior discussion 2025-02-22, 222 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614

New comment by KwanEsq in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

KwanEsq — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:24:23 +0000

Is this a successor to Mozilla's old Persona project, or similar in anyway?

New comment by KwanEsq in "Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?"

KwanEsq — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:12:17 +0000

Yeah audio CDs do (or at least can) carry those bare bones of metadata, which can be used by some CD players with built-in displays to display the currently playing track title etc.

It's defined by the CD-Text extension[0] to the Red Book standard.

I think classical releases probably make greater use of it to encode things like composer and arranger, since they are more important to that audience, but for the average popular music release you're only going to get the artist and title, and maybe the ISRC that few are going to care about/display anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text