Hacker News: RunSet

New comment by RunSet in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

RunSet — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:07:43 +0000

> There is no "religious oligarchy" dictating anything.

You might inform Peter Thiel.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...

New comment by RunSet in "Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared"

RunSet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:42:07 +0000

Adobe is a notable holdout in refusing to go native.

New comment by RunSet in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

RunSet — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:58:06 +0000

> Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of late? Simple pages with just text on it that take gigabytes (AWS), or pages that look simple but it takes your browser everything it has to render it at what looks like 22 fps?

It is to do with websites essentially baking in their own browser written in javascript to track as much user behavior as possible.

New comment by RunSet in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

RunSet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:36:11 +0000

He *did* really do OSS. But he don't really do OSS.

> id Tech 4 is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and is to date the last id Tech engine to be open-sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_4

> At QuakeCon 2007, Carmack told LinuxGames that he would integrate as little proprietary software as possible into id Tech 5, as "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id, that the policy is that we’re not going to integrate stuff that’s going to make it impossible for us to do an eventual open source release." Carmack resigned from id in 2013, and no source code release followed the launch of id Tech 6 in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_5#Marketing_and_licens...

New comment by RunSet in "MacBook Neo"

RunSet — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:34:40 +0000

"Uneaten food" "is wasted food."

New comment by RunSet in "How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)"

RunSet — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:08:04 +0000

Correction: The illustration in the article labeled "Sony’s original Playstation" does not show the original playstation controller.

For comparison purposes that is shown in the following image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)#/media/F...

New comment by RunSet in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

RunSet — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:01:27 +0000

Cool Hand Luke, which I prefer, has its protagonist sentenced to a work camp for an absurd crime.

A more recent prison movie which made me feel similarly to Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank Redemption while watching it is "I Love You Phillip Morris" (starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor).

New comment by RunSet in "We mourn our craft"

RunSet — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:32:01 +0000

> I started programming over 40 years ago because it felt like computers were magic. They feel more magic today than ever before. We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality. I can't believe it's actually happening, and I've never had more fun computing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

I also can't believe it's actually happening. ;)

New comment by RunSet in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

RunSet — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:49:03 +0000

No, it packages open source game data (which can't be distributed because it is copyrighted) so that it can be installed and will work with the games that already have debian packages.

So in the case of quake (for example) it makes a .deb file, which when installed will create the directory structure in the correct place and put the .pak files, config files, etc. where debian's quake engine package(s)[0] will look for them. This .deb file for the quake game data won't do anything on its own. You need to also install a quake engine, which debian includes.

You can create the game data packages from the installation CD, from a working install directory, or from a Good Old Games installer.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/stable/games/quake

New comment by RunSet in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

RunSet — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:42:36 +0000

> If native software was routinely available, launchers might not feel necessary.

> But I sure as hell don't want to invest howevermany weekend days figuring out how to make games from other platforms as easy to play as Steam games on SteamOS.

For games that are licensed under terms that allow it, Debian's Game Data Packager has already automated that work. And- as your comment suggests- a native port is much better than running on a wine shim, which will always be second-rate.

https://wiki.debian.org/Games/GameDataPackager

List of games supported by Game Data Packager:

https://game-data-packager.debian.net/available.html

New comment by RunSet in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

RunSet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:35:25 +0000

On the other hand, those who find contemporary game development trends distasteful might find much to like about the fruits of the Debian Games Team's work on game-data-packager.

https://game-data-packager.debian.net/available.html

The games on that list have native ports that can be integrated into the Debian environment just by installing packages, and the game data packages can be automatically generated from each game's official install media.

New comment by RunSet in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

RunSet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:03:02 +0000

> Some cognitive dissonance going on here.

The cognitive dissonance I perceive goes like "No one is being paid to work on X11, therefore I should volunteer to work on Wayland."

New comment by RunSet in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

RunSet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:59:06 +0000

> That's just the way the wind is blowing.

I trust you understand that some readers may not find (to paraphrase) "I don't like it either but it is what it is." a compelling reason to fix something that is not broken.

New comment by RunSet in "Text Is King"

RunSet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:59:10 +0000

Isaac Asimov, "The Ancient and the The Ultimate", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1973

https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v044n01_...

New comment by RunSet in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

RunSet — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:18:49 +0000

> since it's so easy to scroll, you can always just do a little two finger scroll wiggle to have it appear

That changes the effort required to show useful information from zero to more than zero. Which, while it not be a great quantitative change, is an enormous qualitative change.

Like Chesterton's Fence, it was there for a reason.

"At last (and at least) we have reclaimed that narrow vertical strip of screen real estate on the screens eastern-most vestige! Now to find a good use for it!"

The true annoyance is that in many cases explicitly enabling them does not restore the original functionality.

New comment by RunSet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

RunSet — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:28:21 +0000

The area inside the circles described by cloverleaf interchanges. ;)

New comment by RunSet in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

RunSet — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:22:02 +0000

> with every extreme of inventiveness of visualization in its most exaggerated form, what did we have every fifteen seconds? An utter halt to the action, while words flashed on the screen.

"The Ancient and The Ultimate"

https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v044n01_...

New comment by RunSet in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

RunSet — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:46:19 +0000

Wayland being as needful as Liquid Glass itself.

New comment by RunSet in "Believe the Checkbook"

RunSet — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:27:54 +0000

Raising the question: Where is the beautiful machine-generated code?

New comment by RunSet in "1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5"

RunSet — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:20:05 +0000

AI bubble will do wonders for used RAM prices when it pops.