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New comment by Levitating in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

Levitating — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:40:17 +0000

Besides I think the sentiment would be very different if anyone actually got hurt.

"causing a fire to an exterior gate" doesn't lead me to believe there was any chance of real harm.

New comment by Levitating in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

Levitating — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:15:52 +0000

The LOS was also more than 6 minutes as predicted (I measured a bit over 7 minutes). What a tension.

New comment by Levitating in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

Levitating — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:53:41 +0000

You could consider playing Shadowdark with new players instead. It's much more friendly to new players.

New comment by Levitating in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

Levitating — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:52:44 +0000

This is one of the biggest issues with DnD in general. It's also one of the reasons behind the simplicity of the Shadowdark[1] RPG.

Shadowdark does not only have much simpler (and fewer) rules, there's also a lot less world building. This encourages the DM and the players to create their own fantasies, rather than adhering to the races described in the (MASSIVE) DnD manual.

[1]: https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark

New comment by Levitating in "AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry"

Levitating — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:49:27 +0000

This is going to put some weight on the trolley problem

AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry

Levitating — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:49:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/why-anthropic-sent-its-claude-ai-to-an-actual-psychiatrist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718144

Points: 3

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New comment by Levitating in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

Levitating — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:31:02 +0000

> Games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

The old stalker games run on the X-Ray engine (the mods on a modified OSS version of it). In my experience they've always worked pretty well, though the games are quirky in general.

Good hunting stalker.

New comment by Levitating in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

Levitating — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:28:01 +0000

> Linux still doesn't have anywhere near as nice and cohesive as Group Policy, Active Directory etc.

I am sure that's something the Gnome Foundation could figure out if they had a grant to do so.

New comment by Levitating in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Levitating — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:32:18 +0000

> Thunderbird seems to be somehow apart from Mozilla now

I don't think that's the case.

"Thunderbird is part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation."

Thunderbirds sourcecode is literally part of the same mercury codebase as Firefox.

Thunderbird does have a very small team, and I think everyone that uses it should considering donating.

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:06:22 +0000

If you want to learn more about Xilem's architecture I recommend Raph Levien's blogpost: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/05/07/ui-architect...

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:51:58 +0000

That's disheartening, though also understandable from Zeds point of view.

I hope the community fork could gain traction. I believe there's a lot of potential in GPUI.

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:31:06 +0000

The way Vello/Masonry/Xilem are split projects is partially what got me interested in it (and in turn caused me to post it to HN), as well as the reactive architecture of Xilem.

I do believe a garbage collected interpreted language would work best for UIs. Something like Vala (for gtk) but with a runtime/vm.

python-qt has shown to be a very strong combination. My issue with such solutions is that packaging a python application to the end-user can bloat binary size.

I also think GTK should get some credit in that space, because due to GObject introspection it's easy to interface with GTK with any language.

New comment by Levitating in "I've sold out"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:18:44 +0000

I've been using oh-my-pi, for the simple (and possibly naive/stubborn) reason that it doesn't try to get me to install it as global npm dependency in /usr.

I am not a web developer, I don't need npm and I don't want it clobbering my /usr (which is immutable on many modern distro's anyway). Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the project to me.

oh-my-pi's installer installs a bun bundled binary in my users .local folder. That's much more user-friendly.

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:55:36 +0000

> they reject PRs because they're not strictly related to Zed

What kind of PRs? Like new widget components or what?

Maybe https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component would be more keen on accepting PRs like that?

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:36:31 +0000

This set of components is a nice compliment to GPUI: https://github.com/kiruhq/wgpui-component

Xilem is more like Iced but with it's own patterns and underlying graphics library.

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:29:16 +0000

It's sometimes hard to package a scripting language project to the end-user. Rust compiles to a binary. That's one benefit for me.

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:28:03 +0000

How so? It renders to a window buffer using your GPU API and interfaces with your OS for event handling. Electron renders using an embedded browser and uses said browser for input/events. Isn't that quite different?

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:23:27 +0000

I recently added SDL3 to that page

New comment by Levitating in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:22:52 +0000

Native in the sense that it renders using the GPU directly (or rather via WebGPU) instead of relying on a webview.

On Linux you're right to say it's basically choosing between gtk and qt.

New comment by Levitating in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Levitating — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:47:01 +0000

An hour before the "deadline", by the way