Hacker News: Strom

New comment by Strom in "Codex Micro"

Strom — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:49:36 +0000

Special purpose keyboards can make sense (see e.g. music editing keyboards with sliders and volume knobs), but I'm with you that in this case the website totally fails at making a case for it.

New comment by Strom in "Resetting Xbox"

Strom — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:36:20 +0000

Both of those games are live services games. They're not just getting some occasional bug fixes, they get big content updates.

New comment by Strom in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Strom — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:42:48 +0000

My argument isn't that one side is right and the other one is wrong. I'm not asking for sensitivity towards any side either. I'm talking about there being change at all. I'm hoping for more honesty in these discussions.

So when people, who don't like this change, point out their dislike of it, the reasonable reaction would be to argue that the change is good. Not that there hasn't been any change.

New comment by Strom in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Strom — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:57:48 +0000

Sure, but that's just arguing over the morality of terms. On the one side you have people worried that their culture is being destroyed, on the other side you have people worried that their culture isn't represented. Both sides seem to think the other side is the devil.

Having gamed for three decades now I'd say the shift has been very real. There's a much larger fraction of games that have representation of women, mental illness, disabilities, races, etc.

Is that progress or destruction? Depends on which side you fall on.

You're saying there are no examples, does that mean you think no shift has happened? That games are still made the same way? If so, are you claiming that games always had this sort of diversity of representation? Or that games nowadays still don't have it?

New comment by Strom in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Strom — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:09:17 +0000

What's the difference between calling it "woke agenda" or "market changes"? Seems to me you agree with the other poster, that AAA game devs now make games targeted towards different people.

New comment by Strom in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Strom — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:57:53 +0000

If Steam were that shallow you would see competing efforts like Origin, Uplay, Epic Games Store etc take off. In reality Steam is anything but shallow, it's the cumulation of two decades of adding customer focused features. Competing efforts not only can't be bothered to invest as much into features, but they always add features with the goal of benefiting the store owning company, not the customer. That's a key difference that makes them fail.

New comment by Strom in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

Strom — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:28:44 +0000

They can always unban it later when we arrive at that reality.

New comment by Strom in "Steam Machine launches today"

Strom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:27:36 +0000

If Apple locks supplier prices for years in advance, then why is it raising the prices of all its products? Just greed?

New comment by Strom in "Steam Machine launches today"

Strom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:24:28 +0000

That depends on where you live. In my country the government keeps an up-to-date db. Everything else in the country depends on and queries that db too, so it's not isolated.

New comment by Strom in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

Strom — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:31:19 +0000

Not just any index, it's the most important index.

New comment by Strom in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

Strom — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:46:15 +0000

The designing is the hard part. Writing code from a comprehensive design spec is a small part of the task.

So, people do know how to design a feature, but they also know it takes a lot of time and effort. They want AI to do that work for them.

New comment by Strom in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

Strom — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:59:30 +0000

Yes and Svelte automatically namespaces them, so there's no collisions.

New comment by Strom in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"

Strom — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:31:27 +0000

I found the At a glance section especially funny. Just a ton of buzzwords compressed together. One of the most dense tables I've ever seen on GitHub.

New comment by Strom in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

Strom — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:03:47 +0000

This is answered in the first paragraph of the article. Painting requires re-calculating the weight, strength and aerodynamics. Paint does not weigh zero, it changes the flexibility of the plastic, and the texture which changes flow.

New comment by Strom in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

Strom — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:58:13 +0000

Well as someone who does buy PC fans, let me tell you that Noctua is clearly superior. It may be just a plastic fan with some bearings, but it doesn't seem to be easily replicable because nobody has managed to do it.

New comment by Strom in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

Strom — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:55:11 +0000

> does not impact performance at all

Noctua fans are still the top #1 performers in the world. You can argue that it's diminishing returns and you can get a fan with 90% of the performance for 50% of the money, but that doesn't change Noctua's position at the top.

New comment by Strom in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

Strom — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:52:23 +0000

Overtook Lego? In what way, quality of the bricks? Because Lego is still the largest toy company in the world by revenue.

New comment by Strom in "Issue links now open in a popup"

Strom — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:17:12 +0000

AI. GitHub usage has exploded recently due to the ease at which code can be generated.

New comment by Strom in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

Strom — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:58:43 +0000

As I read it I couldn't help but envision this being a simple case of LLM-automated support going wrong. The mistakenly transferred domain was in the e-mail that asked for a transfer.

New comment by Strom in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

Strom — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:14:39 +0000

Kind of hilarious though that it talks about scope creep and then transitions into a whole different long topic.