Hacker News: Unai

New comment by Unai in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

Unai — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:02:30 +0000

That was indeed surprisingly readable and very in-depth at the same time. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by Unai in "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)"

Unai — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:55:19 +0000

Well, seems like we're getting there in terms of refresh rate, if not there already, so still easier and cheaper than making new CRTs.

New comment by Unai in "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)"

Unai — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:11:12 +0000

*presets

New comment by Unai in "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)"

Unai — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:48:39 +0000

Seems obvious that it would be incredibly expensive to do for something very few would buy.

Let's say you manage to build a product you could sell as a niche expensive thing and not as a super duper expensive rich-people-only thing; you would still be competing against people buying an old CRT for 20 bucks or just using shaders for free (which gets you 99% there on an HDR 4k TV and takes 0% space in your house).

Another advantage of shaders is that you can make them look exactly how you want, down to particular CRT models, screen curvatures, analog signal aberrations, etc. And almost everything you could want comes already included on RetroArch by default, with lots of presents if you don't want to mess with that stuff yourself. Hard to compete with that. A CRT TV comes with only one look. But again, working with the TV you already own instead of occupying a cubic meter of your house is probably the biggest advantage.

I play retro games almost exclusively and I would never get a CRT myself, not even if it was free.

New comment by Unai in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

Unai — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:16:34 +0000

Thankfully, people with ridiculous opinions ridicule themselves. Like pretending the web is just documents, as if we were living three decades ago. Or pretending that "latest and greatest features" is the only reason to keep a browser updated. Or pretending that new features are somehow bad or not useful. Or defending poor Apple for wanting people to spend a grand on new hardware to update be able to update their browser.

New comment by Unai in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

Unai — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:22:18 +0000

A non-evergreen browser in 2026 should be publicly ridiculed any time its name is brought up.

New comment by Unai in "98% Isn't Much"

Unai — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:18:22 +0000

I blame it in big part on the WebDX community group, their absolutely useless "Baseline" guidelines, and on them allowing Apple to be part of that group and make decisions on what features are "ready" to use whilst being behind the only non-evergreen browser in 2026.

The "baseline" means nothing. The percentage in caniuse means nothing. The only number that matters is the number of Safari users stuck using a no longer supported Apple device that access your website. Of course Apple makes sure to hide usage stats of older devices.

Everyone complains about only having three browser engines out there, but I'll be happy to go down to two if that means freeing the world from Safari.

New comment by Unai in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

Unai — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:57:51 +0000

I think you can add add-ons for additional trackers, even private ones I think, but I've always just used the ones that qBittorrent comes with and I can find almost everything I look for.

New comment by Unai in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Unai — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:48:54 +0000

If you're gonna go off-topic, I wanna join.

How absolutely terrible is the box where you write the emails in web Gmail? I get you need more features than what a simple provides, but how can a trillion dollar company make such an absolutely broken piece of crap as the most important part of one of their key products? You delete something and the cursor goes to the end of the email. You ctrl-z and the cursor goes before the first character of the email, not before modifying a string of a completely random length. Like a year ago, and for like a month, there was an area on the right side that didn't accept any clicks at all. Native keyboard shortcuts constantly violated.<p>We figured out WYSIWYG decades ago, how can it be this bad? I've resorted to writing my emails on a notepad app and pasting them when they are done. I thought it had to be an issue with some browser extensions or something, because I've never heard anyone else complaining about it, but no, it really is that bad.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"</h1> <p>Unai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:53:23 +0000</p> <p>I commented somewhere else already, but you can search directly from qBittorrent. Search by title, then filter by "Remux" or sort by size. Keep in mind tho that a blu-ray release must exist in the first place, and that some 4k blu-rays are just not very good to begin with (upscaling and what not).</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"</h1> <p>Unai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:46:21 +0000</p> <p>I might be misremembering, but wasn't YIFY/YTS known for their awful quality ultra compressed releases? I thought they closed down many years ago tho, so no idea if they are the same people or if they still focus on low-quality releases.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"</h1> <p>Unai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:38:46 +0000</p> <p>You can turn it on in `View -> Search engine`. Then a new tab will appear next to the main transfers one. You can (have to?) add search plugins, which is done from the same search tab (look for a button in the bottom right). And I think to remember you need to have Python installed for the search tab to work, but qBittorrent should prompt you automatically for it.<p>I might be misremembering something, so ask again if something I said didn't work or wasn't where I said.<p>Free extra tip: did you know qBittorrent has support for themes? I got a pretty clean dark theme one, but no way I can remember the name or where I found it.<p>I love qBittorrent.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"</h1> <p>Unai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:04:29 +0000</p> <p>I haven't visited a torrent site since I found out I could search for them from within qBittorrent.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"</h1> <p>Unai — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:40:53 +0000</p> <p>Not sure how you want me to respond to that. Are you getting that from a feel of yours or some statistical analysis of familiarity with polymarket in Spain? I don't think it matters much anyway, I bet most human beings don't know what polymarket is. But still, you think it warrants a conspiracy? To what end? None of this makes much sense to me.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"</h1> <p>Unai — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:06:10 +0000</p> <p>There are bets everyday, so no matter when the ban is announced, you can always attach a conspiracy to it.</p> </article> <article> <h1>The 8-Bit Guy made an even faster "Random Maze " [video]</h1> <p>Unai — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:09:24 +0000</p> <p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPZdKogq63k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPZdKogq63k</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235382">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235382</a></p> <p>Points: 1</p> <p># Comments: 0</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "Vivaldi 8.0"</h1> <p>Unai — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:09:19 +0000</p> <p>I really doubt that's as general of an occurrence as you make it up to be. There's a particular government process I can only do on Edge (no other browser works, chromium or not). For a certain login process in a different branch of government I can use Vivaldi or Firefox, but not Edge. I don't think you can single out a browser for this kind of thing.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "Gemini Omni"</h1> <p>Unai — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:54:23 +0000</p> <p>Interestingly, the video on the announcement also starts with some papers and a toy car on a wooden table exploding like those jenga pieces.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "Google changes its search box"</h1> <p>Unai — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:21:50 +0000</p> <p>> Websites may go back to being simply labors of love.<p>If I'm gonna lose my job, at least give me that in return</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by Unai in "Halt and Catch Fire"</h1> <p>Unai — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:56:55 +0000</p> <p>Lee Pace is just bigger than life, and Mackenzie Davis is electric in every scene, but my favourite on the show was Scoot McNairy's character. A very specific type of nerd that's rarely written with such depth and nuance. Although I guess that could be said of all the main (and not so main) characters in the show.<p>If anyone else loved these actors watching HACF, I would recommend watching The Fall (Pace), Fargo S3 (McNairy) and Station Eleven (Davis).</p> </article> </main></body></html>