Hacker News: Strom

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.

New comment by Strom in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

Strom — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:50:14 +0000

It's tradition at this point. Based on the upvotes the comment receives, it looks like many readers find value in it.

New comment by Strom in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

Strom — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:36:05 +0000

They do not. I've never had to present any documentation whatsoever to Hetzner and have been a happy customer for many years.

As I understand it, they ask only from accounts that check several boxes for common cases of abuse. So basically, personal accounts (as opposed to business accounts) from poor countries (by per capita, so e.g. India qualifies as poor).

New comment by Strom in "Claude Design"

Strom — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:55:08 +0000

OnlyFans already has a lot of AI generated content. If you look at the usual scammer gathering places, you'll see a bunch of dudes discussing the latest trends in polishing their virtual OF models.

New comment by Strom in "Veracrypt project update"

Strom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:46:23 +0000

You can, but it's more than a warning. VeraCrypt has a signed kernel driver, which has higher requirements. You'll need to boot into a special Windows mode and disable Driver Signature Enforcement.

New comment by Strom in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

Strom — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:17:17 +0000

Well, no, Office is now also called Copilot. They renamed it!

New comment by Strom in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

Strom — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:15:21 +0000

Taken by a different camera, from a different location, at a different time.

New comment by Strom in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Strom — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:11:53 +0000

What about Valve itself? They have ~350 employees. They make Steam, SteamOS, Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, the Source engine, and run four actively successful live service games: CS2, Dota2, TF2, Deadlock.

New comment by Strom in "Never Bet Against x86"

Strom — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:49:18 +0000

Hardcore gamers were the reason behind a whole new chip type being introduced - the GPU. This was also when this market was a lot smaller. I don’t see this changing. The market will continue rewarding chips that cater to it. It is absolutely big enough to sustain several different completely bespoke chip types, regardless of what non-gamers are doing.

x86 will lose to ARM/RISC in gaming only if those chips provide a better gaming experience.

New comment by Strom in "Good software knows when to stop"

Strom — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:43:14 +0000

What are you talking about? The top 3 most played games on Steam are all “involuntary pvp” games - Counter-Strike, Dota 2, PUBG. These are all games with a lot of age on them as well.

None of them are easy for new players, with Dota 2 in particular requiring at least 2000 hours to have a chance of not being horrible at the game. Yet it isn’t causing any fall off. Instead it is binding people’s lives to these games, achieving retention rates that easier games can only dream of.