Hacker News: LukaD

New comment by LukaD in "AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10"

LukaD — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:55:55 +0000

I don't think they have any access or scraped data. The plugin let's me configure a JLCPCB DB path and it seems like it doesn't ship with one. I have no clue how to obtain that db.

New comment by LukaD in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

LukaD — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:49:33 +0000

But won't you still need a decent private indexer with usenet or are paid indexers with open registration good enough these days? I've been using an invite-only indexer and haven't tried any other indexers in a while.

New comment by LukaD in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

LukaD — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:55:39 +0000

Cool! And sorry if my original comment came across as overly harsh. It’s a fun side project!

New comment by LukaD in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

LukaD — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:04:14 +0000

I have a few suggestions:

- as I mentioned above, the shadow map is drawn twice, probably it's being auto updated by three.js at some point

- the entire cabin has a lot of triangles while the player only sees a small portion of it

- cabin lighting could be baked

- a lot of triangles seem to be rendered without backface culling, that's probably not intentional

- don't run GTAO at full resolution, try half

And also, use the spector.js [1] browser extension to profile the app and have your AI agent analyze the capture.

[1]: https://spector.babylonjs.com/

New comment by LukaD in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

LukaD — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:24:18 +0000

Wow, this is so unbelievably unoptimized. The sound of my computer fans makes it so immersive. The shadow map is being rendered twice with 300+ draw calls and 1M+ triangles. Full resolution GTAO is probably even more expensive with a lot of fetches per texel. I'm sure there are a ton of low hanging optimization fruits and I'm confident claude et. al can fix all those issues, but if you don't know where to look and never profile the app then you get a vibe coded unoptimized mess.

New comment by LukaD in "Zed DeltaDB"

LukaD — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:08:23 +0000

It has degraded? In what way? It sounds like your issues could be caused by LSP servers going rogue. Zed itself has been perfectly stable for me since I started using it as my default editor ~1 year ago. The only thing I didn’t like were some default layout changes that were trivial to revert.

New comment by LukaD in "Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game"

LukaD — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:19:57 +0000

That's honestly pretty rough. Starting a race in a region where it's night time is pointless when you see almost nothing at night. Holding X to summon a vehicle does not seem to work. Can we have less completely broken vibe coded stuff please?

New comment by LukaD in "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"

LukaD — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:16:41 +0000

Same with iOS quick search...

New comment by LukaD in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

LukaD — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:53:43 +0000

> Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of the details become public. By now the current banknotes are too well known and I guess the counterfeits are getting too close.

But if I wanted to create counterfeit euro bank notes I could just go with the old ones, no?

Anyway, I think creating new designs just for fun is a good enough reason for me to create new notes.

New comment by LukaD in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

LukaD — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:32:29 +0000

> We should revive the micro payments feature that where built into very early browsers.

I don't think this was ever a thing. I know there's HTTP 402 and before 2000 there were some standards around payment being pursued but AFAIK nothing ever made it into browsers. Or am I missing something?

New comment by LukaD in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

LukaD — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:27:15 +0000

Oh yes, seems like that's it. I can now view the repo. A bit annoying when creating a repo redirects you to a URL that will give you a 404 initially (and at least for minute or so, that's how long I tried).

New comment by LukaD in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

LukaD — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:02:25 +0000

I just tried out tangled for the first time and unfortunately it seems buggy beyond being actually usable. I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it. The login was quite painful as well as I needed several attempts to enter my atproto handle (copy-pasted every time, so no typo). But I'm glad more people are working on git hosting options.

New comment by LukaD in "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM"

LukaD — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:17:48 +0000

Sorry but I'm genuinly confused.

It says:

> Opening chat in Feishu > Make sure you've installed the latest version of Feishu if the content doesn't open. > Already installed Feishu?

From what I can tell it's a "productivity" app? Looks like some microsoft teams kinda thing. I don't think that's z.ai's parent company, or am I missing something?

New comment by LukaD in "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM"

LukaD — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:12:53 +0000

If that's reasonable or not really depends on what people they want to offer services to, no? No one* outside of china speaks Ehinese, while plenty of people, like me, outside of USA, UK, NZ, AU, etc. speak English.

*yes, there are for sure some people who speak mandarin, it's just not as widespread as English (or maybe Spanish)

New comment by LukaD in "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM"

LukaD — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:25:26 +0000

It gets even wilder when you click on "Join the Linux Beta Group". That leads you to https://www.feishu.cn/download eventually. I have no clue what feishu.cn is and I don't see a language toggle. Sometimes it just seems like chinese companies simply don't want international business.

New comment by LukaD in "Steam Machine launches today"

LukaD — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:41:25 +0000

Yes, so many people were claiming that it will be around that price point. That seemed straight up delusional to me. Memory price has roughly quadrupled and 32GB DDR5 basically cost the same as the original cheapest steam deck.

New comment by LukaD in "Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions"

LukaD — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:34:03 +0000

This is delightfully insane! I don't think I would say it doesn't play _entirely_ terrible though ;) It's playing really bad, but it could be worse and it's already super impressive that it can even generate legal moves.

New comment by LukaD in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

LukaD — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:34:20 +0000

> 2. Use a language that has a large training set so the LLM can be most efficient.

I seriously doubt this is really the case. From my experience coding agents just love writing bad python code. It always needs explicit instructions for example to use uv instead of raw dogging pip. There is a lot of python code out there because it is being taught as a beginner language and because of that there is necessarily a lot python code written by beginners. That's my explanation at least for bad LLM generated python code.

New comment by LukaD in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

LukaD — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:28:50 +0000

The touch pads work great for emulating a mouse in certain games. I've played many hours of Civ V and VI on the deck thanks to the touch pads. You can even configure them to act as a radial menu or touch menu where different areas of the touch pad emulate different keys.

New comment by LukaD in "Zed 1.0"

LukaD — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:01:47 +0000

From what I can gather from a cursory glance at the docs, zed uses intelephense and its diagnostics can be disabled. The whole lsp can be disabled. At the risk of sounding like I'm saying "you're holding it wrong", I have to say that this is an OP problem and not a Zed problem. These are sensible defaults that work for almost everyone, in my opinion.