Hacker News: TACIXAT

New comment by TACIXAT in "Read Programming as Theory Building"

TACIXAT — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:39:53 +0000

This is helps describe my biggest pain point when engineering a program with LLMs. They do not have the full theory of the program, which makes things difficult. Additionally, the more hands-off approach to programming (even when I try to maintain involvement as much as I can) means that I lose the clear conceptualization of that piece code. I'm still trying it to see if it can work, but it is definitely a vibe shift from making 20 micro-architectural decisions in every function.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Should hack-back be legal?"

TACIXAT — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:07:30 +0000

The better question is will you get killed. Foreign intelligence does not take kindly to interference, nor do well funded criminal enterprises.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

TACIXAT — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:06:43 +0000

I have had success with an extremely aggressive red filter. My unchecked sleep schedule has me going to bed around 4 am, consistent over decades. I don't consume caffeine or any other stimulant. In the last 4 months I switched my lights to LED bulbs to turn red at 6pm and use QRedshift on Linux (Mint) with the temperature set to 1000k at 6pm. I have consistently been falling asleep around midnight. What is remarkable to me is that I am actually feeling tired at night.

New comment by TACIXAT in "I stopped following the news"

TACIXAT — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:42:38 +0000

Non participation is an exercise of one's freedom.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

TACIXAT — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:36:18 +0000

It says no bloat, is that a nod to it being built with something other than Electron?

New comment by TACIXAT in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

TACIXAT — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:32:30 +0000

I have the complete opposite impression w.r.t. architecture decisions. The LLMs can cargo cult an existing design, but they do not think through design consequences well at all. I use them as a rubber duck non-stop, but I think I respect less than one out of every six of their suggestions.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Predict your house price"

TACIXAT — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:58:30 +0000

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New comment by TACIXAT in "Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy"

TACIXAT — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:35:24 +0000

Did I completely miss the technical aspect of this blog? They list an improvement but no details on how they achieved it. It sounds like a trained embedding model and a vector search. All told though this just reads as boring product talk.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

TACIXAT — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:53:10 +0000

If the US minimum wage is what we have agreed is the minimum amount someone should be paid to have a reasonable quality of life (and it can be argued that it is still too low), then number 3 is the only ethical choice.

New comment by TACIXAT in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

TACIXAT — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:34:35 +0000

I strongly agree on this. I mained Windows for the last few years and got to the point where I was comfortable doing development similarly to how I would on Linux (text editor and command line build tools, cl, ml64, batch, etc.). I did that mostly so I could game and develop on the same machine. I learned a ton doing it but it has just gotten too awful to carry on.

It was faster to rg to search files, drop into WSL and run find for file name searches. The start menu was laggy, explorer was laggy (open up a folder with a couple dozen OGG files and it won't render for a solid minute). Mystery memory usage from privileged processes I had little control over. Once I realized that the one game I play (Overwatch) ran on Linux I decided to swap back.

I installed Linux Mint earlier this year and I've been extremely happy. The memory consumption is stable and low, and if something is broken I have the control to fix it. It just feels so much less hostile. This is largely possible thanks to the work Steam has done with Proton. The last real barrier is kernel level anti-cheat which prevented me from trying out this years Call of Duty. Oh well!

New comment by TACIXAT in "Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?"

TACIXAT — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:18:28 +0000

I don't really care if it is calm or not, I care if it teaches me a language. Duolingo doesn't really get you there in terms of language learning. Also, does it teach speaking, listening, reading, writing? Each of these goals is different.

New comment by TACIXAT in "[dead]"

TACIXAT — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:37:39 +0000

I would have probably considered whoever was up material as the winner, as long at there was sufficient time left.

I guess it had an active connection through the game end though, maybe web sockets. I was afraid it wasn't recorded because I played quite well!

New comment by TACIXAT in "[dead]"

TACIXAT — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:24:10 +0000

Chess dot com was affected, I got a Cloudflare internal server error at the end of one of my matches.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Electron vs. Tauri"

TACIXAT — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:57:51 +0000

My current project uses Wails and a previous one used Tauri. I like Tauri a bit more but not enough to justify porting Go code to Rust. The primary difference I run into is how the JS <-> native interface is exposed, but this is very minor.

Tauri is much slower to build, I think this is just the nature of Rust though. Stats here. [1]

1. https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

New comment by TACIXAT in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

TACIXAT — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:57:00 +0000

I have used Gemini's 2.5 Pro deep research probably about 10 times. I love it. Most recently was reviewing PhD programs in my area then deep diving into faculty research areas.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

TACIXAT — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:27:03 +0000

I have this exact same problem with OGG files. Either their parser has some insane bugs or they are starting an isolation VM per file to run the parse. Either way, unusable.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

TACIXAT — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:26:01 +0000

It is quite honestly faster to start WSL then use grep or find.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

TACIXAT — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:32:46 +0000

I run a 500hz monitor. Generally, you want your FPS to match your refresh rate.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

TACIXAT — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:00:56 +0000

I just made the switch. I had been developing on Windows for the last couple of years, mostly to get used to the ecosystem. I wanted to be able to write C and C++ like I do on Linux, without an IDE and with the native toolchain (i.e. no cygwin). On top of that, I play Overwatch every night.

Windows just seems to have zero focus on performance though. React based start menu with visible lag, file Explorer (buggily) parsing files to display metadata before listing them, mysterious memory leaks not reflected in task manager processes.

I installed Linux Mint. While it didn't just work (TM), and I had to go into recovery mode to install Nvidia drivers, it worked well enough. I can run Overwatch via Steam and pull comparable FPS to Windows (500 FPS on a 3090 with dips into the 400s). Memory usage is stable and at a very low baseline.

It is nice to come back to Linux, and with games I don't really have a need to run Windows anymore.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset (2022)"

TACIXAT — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:06:13 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I have glanced through the docs in past but haven't tried it. I am trying to do a bit more than what git can offer.

First the good. Git LFS solves the issue of checking out a massive repository in whole.

Git can work pretty well if your annotations are in a text based format and stored one annotation per file. That makes it easy to track and attribute annotation changes.

What I'm building can serve as a backend to labeling. There is a built in workflow for reviewing changes, objects have different statuses (in annotation, included in release, etc.), reproducible releases, things like that.

It is really designed for collaboration with untrusted third parties. Imagine someone making a pull request for a binary annotation format. To review it you would have to clone it, load it in an annotation tool, then go and tie what you saw to what is in the pull request. What do you do it like 90% of the annotations are correct? Reject everything? Very tough, also assumes your annotater can make a pull request.

Mine will still require you to bring your own annotation tool, but makes it much easier to integrate the review process.