Hacker News: SaintSeiya

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator"

SaintSeiya — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:33:57 +0000

so many advances in computer graphics to end up rendering text.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business"

SaintSeiya — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 05:10:28 +0000

don't go that far, look at Cuba: 90 miles from the US's shores. Systemic corruption and narco dictatorship.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141"

SaintSeiya — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:41:52 +0000

As I see it, the current state of graphics API is worse now than the OpenGL era, despite its promises none of the modern API's are easier to use, truly portable and cross platform. Having to reinvent OpenGL by creating custom wrappers around Vulkan, Metal, DirectX12, etc is such a time waster as dropping strings and going back to raw char arrays in the name of performance on every modern language.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "MySQL at Uber"

SaintSeiya — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:12:29 +0000

Disgusting company: Uber takes 70% cut from rider's fare, drivers made only 30% on top of that Uber place those stolen earnings in the driver's tax report, not on them.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

SaintSeiya — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:57:34 +0000

That's why all of the bootlicking wording from employees now makes me puke: "teamwork" "passionate about my work" "making an impact" "standups" "going above and beyond"... all of that is bs. Go to work, collect a paychech and leave as early as possible. Reserve teamwork for your group of friends, passion for your hobbies, raising a family or having fun out of work. And never, ever give them 2 weeks notice. When you find a better job, just walk away and email them when you are at home. Fire the company that will not give you 2 weeks notice for layoffs.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)"

SaintSeiya — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:32:20 +0000

Git has entered the chat

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

SaintSeiya — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:23:35 +0000

Why this does not surprise me? every attempt to rewrite a working solution to make it more "modern, easy to maintain and future proof" rarely do so. It always end up slower, with more latency and lifted by faster hardware, not by faster software. Every 20 years a new generation comes weaker, pampered with the abtsractions of the previous generations who did the grunt work for them. After 3 generations of software developers all we have is library/framework callers and nobody really knows about performance and optimization.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking"

SaintSeiya — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:26:11 +0000

Only wishful thinkers GenZ, pro cubans Biden's functionaries will rule out Russia's or Chinese directed attack with the authorization of Castro's dictatorship. They are explicit enemies of the U.S, allways conspiring and spying against it. In Cuba if you fart, the CDR, UJC, PCC, MTT, FMC and several other communist organizations to control the people will know and assign spies to you. The USA embassy in Cuba is the main target of the Cuban intelligence and has spies all around the buildings and where the functionaries live, what they ate, who they talk to, what they poop, everything!. They are constantly been watched by the cuban government. Do you really think this will go on unnoticed?

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Warren Buffett is no longer donating his money at death to the Gates Foundation"

SaintSeiya — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:37:17 +0000

Yeah sure, this tax loopholes should be illegal. Is just a less immoral way of paying 0 taxes and ensuring the money will stay on the family forever.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "When will we fix the tools that run the world?"

SaintSeiya — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:26:20 +0000

No thanks, we dont need fancy "fluent UI", "Material Me", "scalable" web based UIs for serious, professional software. The examples given by the author are exactly peak GUI, what came after is the gammification of it.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models"

SaintSeiya — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 04:43:30 +0000

The ΛCDM model always felt "wrong" in my gut: dark matter? dark energy? is just the modern equivalent of the aether theory. The fact that is more complex to calculate is not an excuse to prefer the ΛCDM model. The God's theory is even simpler as it spares of any math and physics, yet we do not use it.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "How China turns members of its diaspora into spies"

SaintSeiya — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:00:46 +0000

Cuba's dictatorship does the same blackmailing its immigrants in U.S to spy for them, and using immigration waves to insert hundreds of its "agents" into the country.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission"

SaintSeiya — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:24:15 +0000

I think is to take advantages of tax loopholes and deductions are the main reason they keep the non-profit. They want to have their cake and eat it too. at this level of wealth the philantropism "incentives" must be bigger than the "money" given away.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Show HN: Brisk – Cross-Platform C++ GUI Framework: Declarative, Reactive, Fast"

SaintSeiya — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:52:16 +0000

I'll wait for the new gen of developers to re-discover WYSIWYG cross-platform GUI frameworks such as C++ Builder / Lazarus / Delphi like we had in the 90s

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Updates to H-1B"

SaintSeiya — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:49:19 +0000

Great, as if we needed more outsourcing, I cannot even get a single interview despite being an ex FAANG software developer, unemployed for more than a year. Not even for entry level jobs. The final nail in the coffin.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Sora is here"

SaintSeiya — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:28:16 +0000

Don't be, physics laws miss interpretation are very quick to correct with a reality check. I'm more worried for kids that have to learn how the world works trough a screen. Just let them play outside and interact with other kids and nature. Let them fall and cry, and scratch and itch, it will make them stronger and healthier adults.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages"

SaintSeiya — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:37:58 +0000

Not all heroes wear capes

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn"

SaintSeiya — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:05:56 +0000

How convenient this research for employers...

New comment by SaintSeiya in "Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser"

SaintSeiya — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:36:50 +0000

One nice side effect of having GUI builders in the IDE was standarized, optimized and "follow best practices" GUIs. No wonder we reached peak UI in the 90's-2000.

Then came the web and everyone and their mom had an opinion on how a button should look (for games that's fine) and we ended up here.

New comment by SaintSeiya in "UE5 Nanite in WebGPU"

SaintSeiya — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:09:14 +0000

thanks all, yes it start making sense now