Hacker News: Venn1

New comment by Venn1 in "Bring back crappy forums"

Venn1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:26:35 +0000

A couple of years back I was trying to search a project's Discord for help after they noped their forums. It was a bad enough experience that I set up a forum on my website that evening. I use it as a public version of Google Docs for issues I run across.

I see a 1-2K requests from the Perplexity and ChatGPT-User user agents in the logs every day, so maybe it's helping out a couple of people.

What's been amusing is the number of times I've been contacted on social media, Discord, email, YouTube, and even Steam asking for help / clarification on a post I made in the forums.

New comment by Venn1 in "Steam Machine"

Venn1 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:46:05 +0000

I hope that's the case. Seeing Steam Controller reservations pushed into 2027 tempers my optimism.

New comment by Venn1 in "Steam Machine launches today"

Venn1 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:21:37 +0000

I was expecting $1200 for the base model, so $1,049 without a controller is nice to see.

Having to enter a lottery to buy one makes it feel like Valve doesn’t have new stock in the pipeline for the foreseeable future.

New comment by Venn1 in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

Venn1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:06:57 +0000

Tech leaders from this era will not be remembered well.

New comment by Venn1 in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

Venn1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:25:08 +0000

And XFree86 before that.

New comment by Venn1 in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

Venn1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:10:53 +0000

I compiled it on Debian 13 and it works with XFCE4. Granted, things are a bit squirrely until you disable the compositor. No luck getting it to play nicely with LightDM so I ended up launching it from a TTY. This was on an AMD mini PC I had lying around the studio.

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust

Venn1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/joske/yserver

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531394

Points: 112

# Comments: 121

New comment by Venn1 in "Some concerns about Ladybird's (Browser) bylaws"

Venn1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:12:36 +0000

“You hear nonprofit and think distributed governance.”

Not any more (or less) than I think a BDFL.

New comment by Venn1 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

Venn1 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:30:52 +0000

I've resorted to lowering the quality of my recordings because of this. People are fantastically bad at discerning AI from properly produced audio. So now I leave in a couple of breaths and a little environmental noise to tap the brakes on the "AI slop" comments. Thing is, it would be trivial to add those to an AI narration.

New comment by Venn1 in "New Rocket League is using Unreal Engine 6"

Venn1 — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:58:27 +0000

I'm still a bit perturbed that shortly after acquiring Psyonix, Epic killed off the native Linux client and pulled Rocket League from Steam. We had a great little community that got together on Saturday nights to play it.

New comment by Venn1 in "Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM"

Venn1 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:42:18 +0000

They are powerful little devices. I used a Pi Zero 2 with an ethernet adapter to host an x86 TrackMania² server using BOX64 and it never had a problem. Only swapped it out recently because I needed the Zero 2 for another project.

New comment by Venn1 in "Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation"

Venn1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:23:16 +0000

These projects are really neat. Last week, I was able to build (and play) the Xbox 360 release of Sonic Unleashed on a couple of ARM SBCs using Sonic Unleashed Recomp.

New comment by Venn1 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

Venn1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:30:06 +0000

Is there anything (technically) preventing SBC manufacturers adding SODIMM slots?

I was expecting the Milk V Titan to avoid this memory nonsense since it has two unpopulated DDR4 slots, but it has fallen off the radar like several other SBCs.

New comment by Venn1 in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

Venn1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:52:24 +0000

If I could smash a button and get a 1:1 copy of my existing site, I’d do it in a heartbeat. I don’t see that happening just yet due to the integrated forum software and its own plugins.

With Cloudflare behind it, hopefully plugin vendors will start paying attention.

DOOM Over DNS

Venn1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:17:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490705

Points: 344

# Comments: 87

New comment by Venn1 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

Venn1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:01:56 +0000

It's 3.60 MB with NoScript enabled.

New comment by Venn1 in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

Venn1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:45:18 +0000

I exhausted my teenage savings to buy the Voodoo 1 due to the Linux support. Granted, I was running Red Hat at the time so the installation consisted of installing what, two RPMs? Played a lot of Q3 and Unreal on that card.

SteamRT3: A 64-bit Steam client for Linux

Venn1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4397053/view/532125848715658035

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47468356

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Venn1 in "Kagi Small Web"

Venn1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:58:52 +0000

Ah, this might explain the traffic from Kagi a week or so ago. I've been scratching my head over that one. I just checked, and my wee little blog is listed in smallweb.txt. Neat!

Curious what goes on behind the Next Post and Show Similar buttons.

Clean Room as a Service

Venn1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:40:37 +0000

Article URL: https://malus.sh/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352395

Points: 3

# Comments: 0