Hacker News: MoonWalk

New comment by MoonWalk in "Darktable"

MoonWalk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:23:52 +0000

You are in good company. I went into Darktable enthusiastically and with willingness to learn its workflow.

What I found was crippling bugs and a piss-poor UI. I've even gone back to it after a few years to see if I'd soften my stance, but nope: It blows.

Part of my beef with it is discussed below; people are acknowledging that it sucks at organizing (and, I submit, browsing). But it purports to do it, so you waste time wrestling with its ineptitude.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Darktable"

MoonWalk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:21:54 +0000

Is what?

New comment by MoonWalk in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

MoonWalk — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:38:45 +0000

Agree. I see it as informative to newcomers as to what they should do themselves.

This is how people learn.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Robotics development made dead simple (open source)"

MoonWalk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:31:15 +0000

Why is this garbage on the front page?

New comment by MoonWalk in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

MoonWalk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:49:22 +0000

This demonstrates why forcing people to use E-mail addresses as user IDs is a stupid, stupid policy.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Astro 7.0"

MoonWalk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:05:48 +0000

Thanks. I thought V8 was the runtime.

New comment by MoonWalk in "TypeScript 7"

MoonWalk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:48:18 +0000

I was wondering how this kind of change makes its way into environments like Deno. I'm building a project on Deno too.

As I understand it, Deno provides the "language server" for editors like VS Code. So how does Deno use this... whatever it is from Microsoft? What exactly did they deliver here?

New comment by MoonWalk in "Astro 7.0"

MoonWalk — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:40:30 +0000

I don't understand what this is, based on this statement:

"Astro supports every major UI framework. Bring your existing components and take advantage of Astro's optimized client build performance."

But isn't Astro a framework itself? And then apparently you need Node as well. The frameworks upon frameworks in Web development are baffling.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

MoonWalk — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:10:03 +0000

I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker?

Good name for this app, BTW.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Immich 3.0"

MoonWalk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:37:35 +0000

This is a good point. I'd rather have something with the S3 option, so I can serve the pages from my house but the images from a speedier source.

New comment by MoonWalk in "My favorite keyboards"

MoonWalk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:25:05 +0000

And a Delete key. I DETEST keyboards that lack Delete keys.

WTF, Apple?

New comment by MoonWalk in "My favorite keyboards"

MoonWalk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:07:31 +0000

Mmmm, not a membrane keyboard. This is a membrane keyboard: https://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retro-games/hardwar...

New comment by MoonWalk in "Flavor Graveyard"

MoonWalk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:13:05 +0000

I agree, if they needed YouTube to show a list of defunct ice cream flavors.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Fable 5 Is Back"

MoonWalk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:21:57 +0000

Whatever that means.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Flavor Graveyard"

MoonWalk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:50:43 +0000

"Content and/or functionality on this page requires you to accept cookies."

Fire the developer.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]"

MoonWalk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:14:57 +0000

Because someone saw fit to downvote it.

For some reason it's fashionable on HN to promote douchily obscure posts, and condemn those who call for better.

New comment by MoonWalk in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

MoonWalk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:09:57 +0000

If you hadn't brought that up, I would have.

Sony should not be let off the hook for its offensive (essentially criminal) behavior.

I won't even review Sony's decades-long efforts to undermine industry standards...

New comment by MoonWalk in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

MoonWalk — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:02:22 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I've been programming professionally since the '90s (no background in ML or neural networks and whatnot), and I realize that the weights are numbers. So I was asking whether different weight sets can be applied to a model at will.

I'm really just trying to get a handle on the different layers so I can set up an environment and put it to work for limited coding assistance. For my purposes, I think an all-local setup is the best way for me to learn and should be enough for the coding tasks I have in mind. Mainly I want to automate tedious tasks away, like "modify these Swift classes' members and JSON deserialization routines to match what's coming out of my server API."

Thanks for the link! Reading it right now... and yes, this looks great. Appreciate it.

New comment by MoonWalk in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

MoonWalk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:43:57 +0000

So you can apply different weights to those "non-open" models?

Also, I've read a bunch of descriptions of AI components, but none of them has said what the weights are applied to in the model. I guess that every model contains a dictionary of words and phrases, and the weights map relationships between them?

All the descriptions simply talk about weights being applied to "input," but neglect to say what that input is compared to. If a user submits a query, are the words in the query weighed against the words in the model?

Can you recommend a primer on this whole process?

New comment by MoonWalk in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

MoonWalk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:14:07 +0000

And "analysts" flip out on the stock, when these products are < 15% of Apple's revenue. Clowns.

Breakdown by segment (FY 2025):

Mac: $33.71 B — 8.10% of total revenue

iPad: $28.02 B — 6.73% of total revenue