<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Sweepi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Sweepi</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:11:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Sweepi" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Accessing a Linux machine from Linux/Windows via RDP is not fun.
Accessing a Windows machine from Linux/Windows via RDP works excellent - I use Remmina on Linux, but there are ofc lots of alternatives, as usual.<p>Points on accessing a Linux(Fedora/KDE Plasma) machine via RDP:<p><pre><code>  - as I understand it, you cannot open a new session, you can only access an existing one -> forget about a headless machine, it will have to render its DE into to void if you want access it via RDP. The work-flow is more like VNC than RDP.
  - X11 has problems, Wayland is definitely worse. Queue the people who will tell me/you that it works fine them. My last attempt on Fedora ended with a "working" setup. Working in quotes, since I had to accept/allow every incoming connection on the host machine (in a pop-up window which auto-hides after a few seconds and did work ~60% of the time), making it useless for the intended use case. You can workaround this by SSH'ing into the machine and accepting the connection somehow, but I gave up at this moment.
  - there is also some fun to be had regarding display resolution and "session passwords", but compared to the fun with Wayland "security" and portals, its manageable</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456733</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"1.Serialize the entire scene, compress the data, and pass it to the joining client. We already do full scene serialization for quicksave and quickload, so this is possible, but the files are large: 30-50 MB is common, often more, so transfer would take a while.<p>[...]<p>3. Record the deterministic command stream, pass it to the joining client, and have that client apply all changes to the loaded scene before joining the game. The amount of data is much smaller than in option 2 since we’re not sending any voxel data, but applying the changes can take a while since it involves a lot computation.<p>Once we started investigating option 3 we realized it was actually less data than we anticipated, but we still limit the buffer size and disable join-in-progress when it fills up. This allows late joins up to a certain amount of scene changes, beyond which applying the commands would simply take an unreasonably long time. "<p>So [1] is not an option for players who want to do it that way?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:07:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409830</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like you didnt sign a contract with an electricity provider and therefore are put in a fallback ("Grundversorgung") contract with the grid provider, which in 95% of cases is a bad deal for normal consumers.
You are free to make this choice, but if it bothers you enough to complain about it, it should bother you enough to invest 30 minutes and sign a contract: <a href="https://www.verivox.de/stromvergleich/" rel="nofollow">https://www.verivox.de/stromvergleich/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:28:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323771</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like the prices skyrocketed in all of the EU in late 2021/early 2022.<p>Price graph 2015 - 2025: <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics" rel="nofollow">https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...</a><p>Maybe something happened, like... a war.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:14:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323551</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if 18A is Intel's make-or-break, its a break. Their next node looks promising.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:31:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238529</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When you Google "NanoClaw," a fake website ranks #2 globally, right below the project's GitHub.<p>Unfortunately, the fake website [.net] is also #3 on Kagi, and #1 on Duckduckgo.
On Kagi, the Github is #1 and nanoclaw.dev is #4, but only if you count "Interesting Finds". 
On Duckduckgo, the Github is #2 and nanoclaw.dev is nowhere to be found.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:09:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233562</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Table to compare Blackwell U300 to U200 (-97% FP64 performance): <a href="https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=13803349&postcount=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1380...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:25:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073484</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trash Headline. He was not part of the Nuclear Exit, therefore he can not "admit" a mistake. He thinks it was and desperately wants it to be a mistake, no doubt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:15:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632003</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I’m referring to the demo in the original article.
The article from noheger.at? I am also referring to it. My guess is that the pointer speed is exaggerated due to zoom of the gif, and/or that we are using the mouse in different ways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:25:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587500</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Nobody would attempt to resize a window by launching their cursor at the corner with great speed as the demo shows.<p>... great speed? Interpolating from the zoom, I would say its not fast at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:38:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587084</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Windows 11 surges among PC gamers on Steam as Linux stalls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ah yes - "we were told" and "journalism's opinions"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464914</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"On X, anyone can pay to obtain the ‘verified' status without the company meaningfully verifying who is behind the account, making it difficult for users to judge the authenticity of accounts and content they engage with."<p>As stated in you source the EU is (among other things) not happy about Twitter calling users 'verified' while the meaning of 'verified' switched from "we did sth. to make sure the account owner is indeed the thing/person they say they are" to "the account owner is paying a monthly fee".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:26:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324609</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why cant they give a task which is reasonable for a real customer, e.g. show up with ID in an apple store and lets us reserve $100 on your credit card to unlock an account which is under investigation immediately?
This is not more surveillance - Apple already knows the real name of their customer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:19:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324561</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "Transition to Wayland" from a user experience pov is the slowest car crash of all time. We are like 1.5 DECADES in at this point.<p>I have a simple application written in QT6. It works on Windows, macOS, and X11/Linux. On Wayland/Linux, applications cannot move their own windows anymore, because "security". Good luck finding this in the QT documentation, it is there, but only at 3/dozens of places were it would be necessary, and 2/3 of those dont mention the word "Wayland". Great fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926640</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>A 2-bit 7-segment display decoder in action (the display itself was not generated by MinecraftHDL)</i><p>Lame!(/s)
I did this vanilla Minecraft(1.12?), <i>including</i> the display itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:57:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765882</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how big was Roblox in 2006?<p>> <i>In that era, I'd have to download Steam, buy individual games like Counterstrike, and the wackiest thing would be the "surf" gamemode.</i><p>You could also play any Source mod. Also WC3 maps were insane at the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:33:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751891</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Boring is what we wanted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Back in the PowerPC and Intel days, Macs would sometimes go years between meaningful spec bumps, as Apple waited on its partners to deliver appropriate hardware for various machines.</i><p>Yes and no. Sometimes Intel did not move as fast as Apple wanted, and sometimes Apple didnt feel like it.
Especially the MacPro (trash can and old cheese-grate) and the MacMini (2012-2018) were neglected.<p>Today, the MacPro ships with M2 Ultra, the MacStudio ships with M3 Ultra, and its not certain that the MacMini and the iMac will get the M5 or will continue shipping with the M4 for the foreseeable future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744804</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note for myself: each 3 GiB GDDR7 IC costs $10-$15, x32 sums up to $320-$480,  <a href="https://www.techpowerup.com/337853/samsung-3-gb-gddr7-chips-sold-in-chinese-retail-attracts-memory-modders" rel="nofollow">https://www.techpowerup.com/337853/samsung-3-gb-gddr7-chips-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732774</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>??
It says that "Turn card pairs the board" (correct!) which means that there already was a ten(T), and now there is a 2nd ten(T) on the board aka in the community cards.<p>Obviously, a card that pairs the board <i>does not</i> introduce a new value to the community cards and therefore <i>can not</i>  complete or even help with <i>any</i> straight.<p>What error are you talking about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731375</link><dc:creator>Sweepi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Sweepi in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imo, this shows that LLMs are nice for compression, OCR and other similar tasks, but there is 0% thinking / logic involved:<p>magistral: "Turn card pairs the board with a T, potentially completing some straights and giving opponents possible two-pair or better hands"<p>A card which pairs the board does not help with straights. The opposite is true. Far worse then hallucinating a function signature which does not exist, if you base anything on these types of fundamental errors, you build nothing.<p>Read 10 turns on the website and you will find 2-3 extreme errors like this.
There needs to be a real breakthrough regarding actual thinking(regardless of how slow/expensive it might be) before I believe there is a path to AGI.</p>
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