Hacker News: MaXtreeM

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Vivaldi 8.0"

MaXtreeM — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:52:41 +0000

I always see these kind of comments, that many sites don't work in Firefox while they do in Chrome. When I encounter a broken site I always also check it in Chrome but the times where it is actually a browser's fault is like once a year. Usually it is some blocking of cookies or something that I have enabled in Firefox. Even sites from Google which everyone seems to describe that they are specifically made to work only in Chrome I never had issues with.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:52:00 +0000

I have never owned a touchscreen laptop and I agree with most of the criticism in comments here against it. But after just briefly using one from my father I have to say there is some thing in our brain that makes it kinda more satisfying, if that is the right word, to touch on things that appear on a screen. Even as a power user being used to just using keyboard most of the time, after 10 minutes with a touchscreen my mind prefers to touch on screen instead of touchpad.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

MaXtreeM — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:43:29 +0000

Previous discussion (626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313623

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:52:03 +0000

I agree with your point about Google being more stable company then the rest so the decision probably makes sense. But there was a study done by multiple news companies in Czechia by asking about news topics and Gemini was consistently the worst in citations and straight up being incorrect (76% of its answers had "issues", I don't have exact issues specification).

New comment by MaXtreeM in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

MaXtreeM — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:46:32 +0000

I have used MAUI at my previous job to build 3 different apps, used only on mobile (Android and iOS). I don't know why many people dislike XAML, to me it felt natural to use it for UI, I researched flutter and liked MAUI/XAML more. Although the development loop felt smoother with flutter. What I didn't like was the constant bugs, with each new version that I was eager to update to fix current issues, something new appeared. After spending countless hours searching through the projects GitHub, I am under the impression that there aren't much resources dedicated to MAUI development from Microsoft, the project is carried forward by few employees and volunteers. If I would start another project I would seriously look into Avalonia. But I always was a backend guy so now at my current job I do server backend development in C# and couldn't be happier.

Cloudflare mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack at 22.2 Tbps

MaXtreeM — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://securityaffairs.com/182521/security/cloudflare-mitigates-largest-ever-ddos-attack-at-22-2-tbps.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365179

Points: 7

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New comment by MaXtreeM in "Self-host is just waiting for its iPhone moment"

MaXtreeM — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:22:41 +0000

Did I really just waited couple of seconds on 2 different loading screens to see a small blog post that is more of an advertisement to some AI tool? Also the analogy of something that tries to stay as open as possible (self-hosting) needing its "iPhone" moment to be locked into single ecosystem doesn't really work for me.

Gamer Games for Non-Gamers

MaXtreeM — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:36:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/vidja-games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44124418

Points: 3

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New comment by MaXtreeM in "But good sir, what is electricity?"

MaXtreeM — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:49:09 +0000

Yes, this video and the one before called "An intuitive approach for understanding electricity" are absolutely great.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Furilabs Linux Phone"

MaXtreeM — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:12:21 +0000

Holy moly, you must have very different life than most people I guess. I am from the younger generation which supposedly avoids making old-style phone calls as much as possible and I don't think I know anyone who has made less than 100 calls in the last decade.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make"

MaXtreeM — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:28:38 +0000

Yes to both OpenJDK and large size.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make"

MaXtreeM — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:15:54 +0000

> curl -k "https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-li..." -o commandlinetools-linux.zip

unzip somewhere, set path variable

> yes | sdkmanager --licenses && sdkmanager "platform-tools" && sdkmanager "ndk-bundle" && sdkmanager "build-tools;33.0.0" "platforms;android-33"

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

MaXtreeM — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:39:25 +0000

I followed the same logic when deciding what kind of blinds control to choose building my house few weeks ago. Now I am in the planning of adding automation to it. Did you use Shelly Plus 2PM or are there any cheaper options to choose from (they seem to start at 30€ in my country shops)? Did they fit nicely in the wall switch socket?

New comment by MaXtreeM in "FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)"

MaXtreeM — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:01:19 +0000

Always though that's the stupidest way to play the Pokemon Go. Maybe it made a little bit of sense in the beginning when small villages had almost no content but even than you just missing most aspects which make this game interesting. I guess that's the time we live in.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Windows File Explorer will be more powerful with version control and 7z"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:57:42 +0000

We had some zip files that if content was unzipped with 7-zip the files were correct but not if unzipped with Windows explorer. I am struggling to remember what were the contents of the zip files I think it was some data that was loaded by our or third party application what would produce a crash if not unzipped correctly. I never got to the root cause because coworker told me to "fix" it by using 7-zip and was not bothered by it since then, only when I passed the knowledge to newer coworkers. It was happening still on Windows 10.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Windows File Explorer will be more powerful with version control and 7z"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 05:20:33 +0000

Windows has been for years corrupting files unzipped via explorer. I am not going to trust them with 7-zip now.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "A Pattern Language"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 14 May 2024 07:28:08 +0000

Me and my wife also wanted to eliminate corridors as much as possible when we designed and discussed our house with an architect few years ago. Because of the property constraints and our other requirements about all of rooms we abandoned the idea of eliminating corridors and ended up with one long corridor through the middle of the house. After living in the house now for a few weeks we have no regrets - our son can run and ride in the corridor in the way he would not be able to otherwise and we found a way to decorate it that is quite pleasing. I am not saying that someone may be able to architect the house in other way to better use "wasted space" as you put it but we are very happy with our decision.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:42:55 +0000

Sixty symbols (same author as Numberphile) video on this from 9 yeas ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uqf71muwWc

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels"

MaXtreeM — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:51:23 +0000

This is something I wish I could find more actual data than people opinions. On the surface it seems like a natural fit to use the black surface to also heat water and also increase longevity and efficiency of solar panels. But many people argue that this doesn't make sense from economic point of view and can decrease longevity of the overall system. Sadly right now I don't think there are enough sources to make confident decision.

I am in the process of building a house in central Europe. My source of heat will be a ground-source heat pump from boreholes, which means using it as cooling for solar panels in the summer would be quite cheap (I specifically ordered a model of the heat pump wich has cooling mode build in). Added benefit would be that heating the boreholes in summer should increase their longevity because there is a potential of "sucking out the holes" (don't know if this is the right term in english) after decades of using them as a heat source - again something I could not find data supporting this claim so I don't know if I should be worried about this.

My combination seemed like a great fit to install water cooled PV but probably will not do it just because there is not a single contractor who does it and nobody who has it installed to give me advices. I hope that in 25 years when I should suspect to do a PV change it will be decided if it is a good idea or not.

New comment by MaXtreeM in "Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web"

MaXtreeM — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:29:40 +0000

With all this Electron and PWA focused development a cannot shake a feeling that we add an extra layer of a "runtime" on top of an operating system, that could be avoided. An extra layer which occupies RAM space and processor time which feels unnecessary but it is where we are headed. I wonder if the reason is simple, that we (myself included) have not provided anything better or the reason is that big corporations who control most of the market have pushed this technology forward. I hope we can learn from this and bring back some of this lost performance while keeping the productivity and security gains.