Hacker News: Nab443

New comment by Nab443 in "I miss thinking hard"

Nab443 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:31:52 +0000

Same with gpt, but I felt it was more like "hey, everyone uses that, so why not me" than finding the right tool for the job. Can't say for Claude.

New comment by Nab443 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

Nab443 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:50:05 +0000

YMMV, I think I only tried to sign up on 3 websites where it was not working. You can fallback to the original email address in those case.

The funniest part was that for one it work great for the signup part, but they used a third party tool for licences that broke because of my e-mail. For another, only the js code was verifying the e-mail, and I could push it by removing the validation. When the owner had to validate my account, they got a message that the e-mail was incorrect when they tried to submit the form. They called me and had a great discussion about web apps security. We had a good time.

I would point out that it kind of prevents you from checking if your email is in a leak database as you need to test each aliases you used.

New comment by Nab443 in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

Nab443 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:18:01 +0000

YMMV, I have 2 headsets I've never been able to make working reliably under windows 10 and 11. Cheap stuff, but they are are flawless under linux and with my phone on android. Not to say there are no issue on Linux, but these days it's way better than 15 years ago.

New comment by Nab443 in "How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)"

Nab443 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:44:38 +0000

For wgpu, someone else mentionned in another comment that there are bindings for other languages, maybe your favorite too!

New comment by Nab443 in "Baffling Microsoft ad shows Copilot incorrectly identifying Windows 11 setting"

Nab443 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:56:08 +0000

Also, give me back my right ctrl key !

New comment by Nab443 in "Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729"

Nab443 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:57:59 +0000

Oled pc screens have a terrible reputation for text. Some more than others, but it seems it's better to stick to lcd if you happen to read or write a lot.

New comment by Nab443 in "My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?"

Nab443 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:52:50 +0000

Celeste definitely is one, already cited but Outer Wild is another.

New comment by Nab443 in "Programmer in Wonderland"

Nab443 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:03:07 +0000

Interesting, my path is a bit like the opposite. I tend to avoid categories of tools that abstract too much the problem in a "magic" way for the same reason: you can't easily understand what's going on behind the scene, and you have to dive in each time you enter a corner case. If you can't control what it is doing on each step, then you can't be sure it will be doing what you expect and this can become a mental effort that outweight the tool benefits.

New comment by Nab443 in "EU funds are flowing into spyware companies and politicians demanding answers"

Nab443 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:08:55 +0000

Easier to store more information while preventing any non authorized to access them, like signing keys and biometrics ?

New comment by Nab443 in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

Nab443 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:15:47 +0000

When I type F5, my terminal writes "~" but nothing happens, what did I miss?

New comment by Nab443 in "Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy"

Nab443 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:45:57 +0000

The point is that the shaving might not be due to the firefox variable changes, but rather to other environmental differences.

New comment by Nab443 in "Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners"

Nab443 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:32:00 +0000

Stackless python, we were not ready for it.

New comment by Nab443 in "Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern"

Nab443 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:53:23 +0000

I would not call apps built statically "the correct way". It offers benefits but also drawbacks. One of them being that you can't update statically linked libraries in it with security fixes without replacing the binary completely, which can be an issue if the context does not allow it (unsupported proprietary software, lost dependency code, ...). It can also lead to resource consumption faster, which can be an issue in resource constrained systems.

New comment by Nab443 in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

Nab443 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:39:09 +0000

And probably the reason why I have to restart it at least twice a week.

New comment by Nab443 in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

Nab443 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:44:25 +0000

I tend to think that they mostly should be using their own user agent, and if not be desguised as the most common ones to avoid being detected too easily. Web scaping probably has been mostly running under Linux before the age of AI anyway. I'm not in the field, so if anyone more trustworthy info on that...

New comment by Nab443 in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

Nab443 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:35:28 +0000

If they sell tires in Ford shops, yes. Same for uber going through the App Store.

New comment by Nab443 in "Dependency injection frameworks add confusion"

Nab443 — Sun, 25 May 2025 09:38:19 +0000

This is the point, you need an IDE with advanced features while a text editor should be all you need to understand what the code is doing..

New comment by Nab443 in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

Nab443 — Thu, 08 May 2025 11:13:30 +0000

Any other link to share about that? The stackshare url does not even mention anything related.

New comment by Nab443 in "Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap""

Nab443 — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:39:54 +0000

Makes me think of this old trick that raise the room temperature when you press space long enough.

New comment by Nab443 in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

Nab443 — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:36:51 +0000

Don't say they were generous, that was a completely strategical move. By having more browser adopt their engine they can have a better control on ads and ensure they keep a way to profile users. Goal obviously shared with microsoft which knows the engine is in the best hands for their needs too.