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

Ninjinka — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:47:59 +0000

Check again: https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2010760810751017017?s=20

"These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year."

The Underappreciated UX of the ChatGPT Mobile Scroll Behavior

Ninjinka — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:19:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thomasburgess.dev/Blog/The+Underappreciated+UX+of+the+ChatGPT+Mobile+Scroll+Behavior

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357725

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Ninjinka in "GPT-5.2"

Ninjinka — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:46:33 +0000

Man this was rushed, typo in the first section:

> Unlike the previous GPT-5.1 model, GPT-5.2 has new features for managing what the model "knows" and "remembers to improve accuracy.

New comment by Ninjinka in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

Ninjinka — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:25:32 +0000

If the complaint was about access to music, then yes, that would valid. Which seemed to be the complaint implied regarding RAM as it related to PC gaming.

New comment by Ninjinka in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

Ninjinka — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:35:12 +0000

Increased demand for computer components for purposes other than gaming constitutes "AI bros murdering your lifelong hobby"?

PC gaming is not "murdered", it's doing better than ever.

In 2015 there were 3,000 games released to Steam, last year there were 18,000. In 2015 Steam's peak concurrent user count was 8.6 million. This year it's 41 million.

The inflation-adjusted price per gigabyte of RAM has dropped from $3/GB to $2/GB over the last 10 years, even including the recent price hikes.

So spare me the hysterics, your hobby is fine.

And you know what? The increased demand for compute always spurs innovation, so you'll probably get a better computer in the end as a result. You're welcome.

New comment by Ninjinka in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

Ninjinka — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:19:34 +0000

As someone who has been working on a pair of smart glasses running RTOS, and having to make companion apps for both iOS and Android, I am very interested in reading your approaches to a lot of the same problems I have faced. There's not a lot of information out there on these topics.

New comment by Ninjinka in "Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking"

Ninjinka — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:04:40 +0000

Calling this 3D is a stretch, it does not make things appear like they're coming out of the screen. That requires having a way to show something different to each eye, something not possible with a standard display.

I did see a demo of 3D without glasses on a full monitor that DID make it look like it was coming out of the screen at CES, it requires a $3000 monitor though: https://www.3dgamemarket.net/content/32-4k-glasses-free-3d-g...

Also the 3DS obviously.

New comment by Ninjinka in "Bevy TLDR – Game development with Bevy summarized"

Ninjinka — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 02:17:17 +0000

My only game dev experience is with Babylon.js, but I decided to give Bevy a shot a couple weeks ago. I gave up once I realized they don't have any sort of editor or scene inspector. Something as simple as seeing what assets are loaded into your scene is not possible with official tooling. Tried Unity, but was ultimately more complex than what I needed. Tried Godot next, and so far it's been great. Super straight forward, and iteration speed is so much faster than Bevy or Unity because the compilation times are so low.

Isometric Asset Builder

Ninjinka — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:58:42 +0000

Article URL: https://iab.thomasburgess.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365862

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Ninjinka in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

Ninjinka — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:33:47 +0000

Just experienced KDE for the first time myself, and sent this in Slack a couple weeks ago:

hadn't used linux in a desktop environment since college, but installed KDE Plasma on my old laptop today. It's so good

might be enough to finally make me take the time to at least dual boot my desktop

New comment by Ninjinka in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

Ninjinka — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:35:47 +0000

Anthropic also did specifically this, spent millions on it

New comment by Ninjinka in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"

Ninjinka — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:58:25 +0000

Jules?

New comment by Ninjinka in "What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding"

Ninjinka — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:54:43 +0000

For Google's Cloud Translation API you can choose between the standard Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model or the "Translation LLM (Google's newest highest quality LLM-style translation model)".

https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/advanced/translating...

DeepL also has a translation LLM, which they claim is 1.4-1.7x better than their classic model: https://www.deepl.com/en/blog/next-gen-language-model

New comment by Ninjinka in "Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills"

Ninjinka — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:50:50 +0000

Love how instantly recognizable the default NextJS app is

New comment by Ninjinka in "Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent"

Ninjinka — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:23:04 +0000

There doesn't appear to be a way to add files like .npmrc or .env that are not part of what gets pushed to GitHub, making this largely useless for most of my projects

New comment by Ninjinka in "Material 3 Expressive"

Ninjinka — Fri, 16 May 2025 19:00:01 +0000

It's incredible how terrible Material You on Android is.

For all the personalization hype, you can't pick your own colors (that aren't based on a wallpaper) without root.

You literally cannot make the Messages app have a white background with message bubbles in a color other than gray.

New comment by Ninjinka in "Material 3 Expressive"

Ninjinka — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:51:51 +0000

I've sent many an angry tweet about how ugly Material UI is, and this doesn't appear to be any better

New comment by Ninjinka in "Potatoes in the Mail"

Ninjinka — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:40:30 +0000

There was a book I had as a kid called "The Encyclopedia of Immaturity" that explained how to do this.

New comment by Ninjinka in "GPT-4.1 in the API"

Ninjinka — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:55:30 +0000

I've been using it in Cursor for the past few hours and prefer it to Sonnet 3.7. It's much faster and doesn't seem to make the sort of stupid mistakes Sonnet has been making recently.

New comment by Ninjinka in "The Llama 4 herd"

Ninjinka — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:28:01 +0000

no audio input?