Hacker News: SSLy

New comment by SSLy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

SSLy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:45:40 +0000

enjoy!

New comment by SSLy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

SSLy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:09:51 +0000

I am afraid MK World isn't even the best kart racer on NS2. It's Sonic Crossworlds

New comment by SSLy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

SSLy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:08:21 +0000

they indiscriminately shut down any sight of online smash tournaments

New comment by SSLy in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

SSLy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:19:26 +0000

of course the absolute idiots at MSFT don't know their own APIs https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040329-00/?p=40...

New comment by SSLy in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

SSLy — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:13:46 +0000

A portmanteau of anti, and fan. 'Hater' wouldn't be exactly the same.

New comment by SSLy in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

SSLy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:59:20 +0000

As a certified MSFT's antifan, I’ve noticed Apple’s Music.app uses roughly 580 MiB of RAM for comparison.

New comment by SSLy in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

SSLy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:27:42 +0000

70k, which I believe is a fine result for a second language.

New comment by SSLy in "I hate compilers"

SSLy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:26:55 +0000

bpf isn't a far stretch from that

New comment by SSLy in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

SSLy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:30:08 +0000

Also for gaming too: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

1920 x 1080 51.89%

2560 x 1440 21.20%

3840 x 2160 5.00%

New comment by SSLy in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

SSLy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:11:48 +0000

> putting the currency symbol at the end. I wonder what places do that...

plenty of Europeans at least

New comment by SSLy in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

SSLy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:13:43 +0000

For me Tahoe's performance was alright, but cmd-space spotlight search disappeared after second keystroke wayy too often. Reverted to Sequoia.

New comment by SSLy in "Rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt, an interactive introduction"

SSLy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:13:04 +0000

Had to swap stanzas around to fit in the charlimit

Rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt, an interactive introduction

SSLy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:13:03 +0000

Article URL: https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487690

Points: 19

# Comments: 3

New comment by SSLy in "Apple WWDC 2026"

SSLy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:30:18 +0000

what about keystone correction? A staple in any proper digital image editing tool

New comment by SSLy in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

SSLy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:53:24 +0000

And French is still language of educated class in some places in Levant, esp. Liban.

New comment by SSLy in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

SSLy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:11:18 +0000

> unless you log in as root, the apps can't do much.

https://xkcd.com/1200/

New comment by SSLy in "macOS needs its grid back"

SSLy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:20:49 +0000

so does linux since when infinality-lite was ported into fontconfig, harfbuzz, and friends.

New comment by SSLy in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

SSLy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:10:32 +0000

it wouldn't surprise me if insights was in fact a wrapper around npm install

New comment by SSLy in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

SSLy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:35:11 +0000

Backrooms does have comedy, or at least comedic moments in it.

New comment by SSLy in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

SSLy — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:18:08 +0000

especially their marketing dept which made this decision seems to be run by absolute buffoons