Hacker News: SomeoneOnTheWeb

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:37:53 +0000

I would actually argue that eating is a weakness, that every single human (and animals in general) just happen to share.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:45:42 +0000

Why would speakers be any different than earphones? Botu are subjective ; I personally hate flat eq. I've listened to numerous products, some worth thousands of dollars, and I'll always take some sort of slight bass and treble boost over flat eq. I'll even take a big bass boost over no bass boost at all.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "My server is a phone now"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:22:45 +0000

This is why I love Hacker News, so many neat info you don't get anywhere else! Thanks for your comment :)

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:43:31 +0000

I have the opposite experience, so many subtle bugs that bite you only on specific scenarios, so much that I can't count.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:21:03 +0000

Hi,

I'm very interested in this position but living in Europe, is there any chance I could still apply for this?

Thanks.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:55:53 +0000

You _can_ run other OSes on Macbooks. They're not locked in at all, it's simply that the drivers aren't open source and the hardware is undocumented, but with enough effort (e.g. Asahi) you can run technically anything on it.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:57:27 +0000

Doesn't it work perfectly with a 2880px-wide display with 2x scaling?

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:40:29 +0000

Side question : what font are you using in your screenshots? I find it really nice looking

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Arenas in Rust"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 10:49:34 +0000

I strongly disagree.

* The performance difference can be pretty massive depending on scenarios. Sure, most programs don't need it, but still * Rust has not only memory safety but full safety around it. For instance, in Java if you iterate over a list while mutating it you'll get a runtime error. In Rust, it won't compile, preventing you from a possible bug later on * The time you spend learning Rust is so much time saved afterwards because the language is specifically designed to reduce the risk of programming errors. Many things like the absence of a `null` value like we have in Java is an immense time saver when your program gets bigger

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:37:35 +0000

What? Where can you find an entire computer with builtin SSD, RAM and keyboard for $50?

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:28:20 +0000

What's crazy to me is why they didn't go for that kind of implementation. This works well, ensures privacy, can be audited easily, and doesn't need a f*cking app on my phone.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:30:27 +0000

Most people's TV show ads nowadays, be it Samsung or a competitor. The thing is, people don't care about ads. They just deal with it. Hence how Samsung gets away with this sh*t.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:54:00 +0000

This means your system doesn't have enough airflow if it throttles this quickly.

But I agree this should not be a problem in the first place.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:26:10 +0000

Right, if you specifically want to use an SD card and not USB, and don't want to add an adapter either, sure the A5 is the way to go.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:08:17 +0000

For the same price you have the Minisforum UM760 Slim which should be 100% compatible and provide VASTLY superior performances. Or you can check cheaper models that would have the same level of performance as the A5.

Geekom make nice products but they are usually both very expensive and very noisy compared to competitors. Their selling point is mainly their top-notch design, but I find these to be function-over-form most of the time.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:04:20 +0000

It's (1) but ICE is making their job to intimidate people so they don't face consequences.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "The Framework Desktop is a beast"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:02:14 +0000

Minisforum 790S7/795S7, mini-ITX desktop.

16 cores, 32 threads, only a bit less powerful than a desktop Ryzen 7950X or a 14900K, but with a comparatively low power usage.

About 500€ barebones, then you add your own SSD and SO-DIMM RAM.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Fastmail breaks UI in production"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:49:51 +0000

What the hell is that with OP being so rude?

And following FastMail's reply

> Hello Andrew! Can you please contact our support team so we can look into this for you? fastmail.com/support

They say:

> Don't have time. Consider my tweet the bug report.

Sorry but this asshole behavior. Bugs happen. No need to do public shaming and being rude to the company for that.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:35:11 +0000

The difference is between SDR and HDR. Going full blast with a full image at 500 nits or having an image averaging 200 nits with only peaks at 500 are two vastly différence things.

New comment by SomeoneOnTheWeb in "Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)"

SomeoneOnTheWeb — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:35:47 +0000

That's normal. For HDR to look good, you need a monitor that hits approximately 1000 nits in brightness. Your monitor only hits 250, which is completely insufficient to display HDR content.

This is one of the stupid things with many monitors, showing HDR at 250 nits is worse than showing no HDR at all. So no matter what you do, 99% of HDR content will look bad on your screen.