Hacker News: MintPaw

New comment by MintPaw in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

MintPaw — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:53:07 +0000

I'm surprised no one really has answered the implied question. Wireless protocols are hard for VR not because of bandwidth, but because of latency. Head tilt motions have to be processed extremely quickly to not be nauseating. Even with wired systems, the headset often ends up doing all kinds of motion prediction to process motion and shift the image before the game has time to process it, because engines aren't going to round trip input to video output at 120fps/8ms (double buffering doubles your latency!).

Of course, that multiplies with bandwidth requirements, which are also quite extreme at 4k 120fps.

New comment by MintPaw in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

MintPaw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:02:13 +0000

It doesn't seem to me like you've described concepts that are all that different, loading from global memory is slow on the CPU too because often it requires some kind of barrier or lock. All techniques require you to pre-arrange memory, just in different sized blocks. And sharing data between "lanes" is always to be minimized. Different amount on different platforms ofc, but the ideas seem similar.

New comment by MintPaw in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

MintPaw — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:24:39 +0000

Doesn't this break if the child uses a VPN, or some other software to spoof? For this to really work Windows would have to lock down all HTTP, and really all networking, only allow approved software/browsers, etc. Is there a reason this wouldn't be the case?

New comment by MintPaw in "Stop Making TUIs"

MintPaw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:11:45 +0000

Why would this be true? The way "single instance mode" usually works is by taking a global mutex or making a lock file. What makes this not possible for TUI apps? Isn't it just culture?

New comment by MintPaw in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

MintPaw — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:17:45 +0000

Probably because it makes distilling and external analysis/tracking harder.

On Comments

MintPaw — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.helsing.ai/posts/on-comments/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263234

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by MintPaw in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

MintPaw — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:18:30 +0000

It's an interesting thought, but hard to imagine how this would be implemented system wide. The clipboard would need to remember the source application, and have some kind of unique identifier to issue a delete to the source application.

New comment by MintPaw in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

MintPaw — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:00:52 +0000

I see your point, but this isn't exactly true, it only takes a single person to bias a model by deleting specific training data or over training on certain facts.

New comment by MintPaw in "Qwen 3.8"

MintPaw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:55:44 +0000

I'm not sure what the situation is here, but on many sites making alt account to avoid bans can result in a lifetime ban. A high profile figure who's been banned from a service advertising that they still have access to it might be a risk.

Also, these companies (or data brokers) likely share ban and alt account lists, ban evading could hurt the reputation of all your accounts.

These are some pragmatic reasons not to evade bans.

New comment by MintPaw in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

MintPaw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:24:16 +0000

This is a general problem with destructors, you can't "batch delete" objects. To free a lot of stuff you're required to go pointer by pointer through the tree to clean up each object. To get real performance gains from pools you can't have per-object/subobject custom cleanup code.

New comment by MintPaw in "Just Pay the Subscription"

MintPaw — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:44:31 +0000

This is way too absolute a point. There's services like water and internet service you're effectively subscribed too that don't get worse. There's obvious efficiencies that can be gained from regularizing demand with subscriptions. Amazon Prime is another example of a something I've been subscribed to for over a decade and I don't feel has gotten worse.

New comment by MintPaw in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

MintPaw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:54:16 +0000

Not you particularly, I meant the original: "it feels like every share of income is at its lowest except for the ultra wealthy."

It's ambiguous in several way, no time scale, "ultra wealthy" isn't defined, and "income" somewhat ambiguous.

New comment by MintPaw in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

MintPaw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:30:15 +0000

Data is the answer, it's just that so few people are willing to look at unbiased data. Although the start is asking a more measurable question.

New comment by MintPaw in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

MintPaw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:45:06 +0000

There's a whole category of video content called "First Amendment Audits" where people film with big cameras in public and farm people random, and often quite hostile, reactions.

New comment by MintPaw in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

MintPaw — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:15:34 +0000

This is at odds with the idea that devs should take full accountability for LLM generated code.

He also didn't even say the code was generated by Claude, just the description, although a decent amount of the code probably was.

New comment by MintPaw in "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks"

MintPaw — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:54:44 +0000

A side note, isn't package maintenance something that can actually be solved to some extent by LLMs? The prompt would be something like "Clone this repo and build this package while building/bundling as few other packages as possible with minimal code changes."

Then set it in a loop on all the packages for a particular system, I don't have experience in package maintenance and would be curious what kind of issues would come up.

Nagent, a uniuqe LLM loop reference implementation

MintPaw — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:21:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/macton/nagent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468610

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by MintPaw in "Apparently Google hates us now"

MintPaw — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:01:18 +0000

I'm not sure about that, they could do far worse than delist you if they really hated you.

New comment by MintPaw in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

MintPaw — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:58:03 +0000

Interesting point, but I'd always thought the opposite, you're much better protected by the law if you use services from your own country.

If you use a service outside your country, I believe you could have all your code stolen and get hacked/exploited in a way that would be totally legal.

New comment by MintPaw in "Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts"

MintPaw — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:05:20 +0000

What is a voicemail in this context? What app is reading it?