Hacker News: StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=StilesCrisisHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:50:52 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry"]]>"Runs Wolf3D at 60fps" isn't an impressive claim nowadays either way. It feels like a very bizarre statement, which is probably because an LLM wrote everything here.

I wonder if his interview loop was actually as good as he thinks it was?

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:38:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541972StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541972https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541972<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"]]>What's the point of having the GPU if you never use it, right?

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:11:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460673StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460673https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460673<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "CT scans of BYD car parts"]]>In BttF2, it is taken to the logical extreme and Marty's boss is Mister Fujitsu-san: https://youtu.be/UlEFqR4SaVA

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:19:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380202StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380202https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380202<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]>Not sure what you're talking about. Almost no one has Ethernet anymore. This would be national news-level failure.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:25:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364311StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364311https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364311<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]>I've owned many MacBooks and have never experienced this. I usually just dump the MagSafe in the attic and use USB-C for everything.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:10:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364214StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364214https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364214<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"]]>A gun puts holes into things. This has a pretty consistent effect on anything alive.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:15:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362755StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362755https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362755<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"]]>It's just multiplication. Floating multiply is extraordinarily fast.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:06:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361910StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361910<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"]]>It's worse than "forgetting." Having seen older folks just set up new accounts for a move, they make zero attempt to even try to keep them! Oh, the phone company needs a login/pass? Just type in anything, don't write it down. If something goes wrong, they're going to call in anyway, not use the website.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:07:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360494StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360494https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360494<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"]]>An extra $15 of labor is well worth the cost of not having to change my own oil. They will do it efficiently and won't break anything. The cost of messing up one time immediately cancels out a lifetime of DIY savings, and they are equipped to do it right.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:34:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359135StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359135https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359135<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"]]>You never need to crash the system if you remove overcommit. You just crash the one process. Practically speaking, you don't even need to crash here; you just return null (which malloc is always free to do) and let the consequences speak for themselves.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:51:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356861StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356861https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356861<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"]]>It flags "non-native speakers" text as AI generated? Really? This beggars belief.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:55:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355650StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355650https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355650<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"]]>How many thousands of pages did he write and discard?

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:32:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317438StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317438<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "The worst job interview I ever had"]]>Why? Unless it's an extraordinarily hot code path, it doesn't matter. A regex once compiled will be quite efficient.

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 13:56:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294453StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294453https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294453<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"]]>Wondering what sort of plugins you've got on the Firefox side. If they're stripping out headers, for instance, it's a good way to make yourself look like a bot.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:58:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265825StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265825https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265825<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years"]]>The section “The Origins and Descendants of the Break/Fix Game Mechanic” is where I clocked out. It’s pure 100% AI filler. No human being would think to include multiple paragraphs associating a 90s DOS game about PC sysadmins with the film Wreck-It Ralph. Downvoting the article.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 03:15:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263104StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263104<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code"]]>What harness? In my experience, Claude shoots out tons of very low-quality comments. It's always too hyper-focused on the exact specifics of the bug as presented to it, with no higher-level generalization of the concepts involved. In a big codebase, this means the comments are meaningless without a human rewrite, but it definitely writes them.

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 13:00:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256946StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256946https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256946<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"]]>I live in a different Orange County, and this does not bother me in the least. Context matters! Headlines aren't supposed to have every detail in them.

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 12:06:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256596StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256596https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256596<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"]]>Did you forget Pixar? Jobs transformed the company with his extremely bold bet on Toy Story. They were doomed to obscurity without this big bet and now all children's movies are made this way.

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236380StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236380https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236380<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"]]>In my case, I was not even graduating, I just heard that Woz was speaking and decided to attend. I don't regret attending, as I managed to get a picture with Woz after the ceremony and thank him for his amazing work, but the speech itself was extremely forgettable.

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:15:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236160StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236160https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236160<![CDATA[New comment by StilesCrisis in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"]]>I saw him give a graduation speech over twenty years ago, and to be honest, he was not a great public speaker then--he rambled and lost the plot. But twenty years is a long time, so he may be amazing now! I love the quote.

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 12:16:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234823StilesCrisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234823https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234823