Hacker News: Washuu

New comment by Washuu in "Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI"

Washuu — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:54:41 +0000

I have been remaking a Blender style UI in Kotlin for my Umamo project because I love Blender's UI that much.

I think I will keep going with my own efforts, but this looks nice!

New comment by Washuu in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

Washuu — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:16:14 +0000

I remember the "Best view in Chrome" notices that I get today browsing Japanese web sites. It is already a problem and I have to spoof the browser agent for some web sites to get around Javascript blocks that only allow Chrome through.

New comment by Washuu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

Washuu — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:11:58 +0000

I'm working on Umamo(https://www.umamo.org/)! It's FOSS cross-platform rigging editor for 2D puppet animation built as a drop-in replacement for the Live2D Cubism Editor. It's fully compatible with Live2D's CMO3 and MOC3 file formats so it works within the existing Cubism market share.

Live2D is the company that makes the editor and runtime for many game and vtuber(virtual YouTuber) applications. They have a monopoly on the market and I want to change that. Their application is slow, buggy, and a monthly paid subscription to keep using it along with perpetual licensing costs to use the runtime.

Umamo is in the early alpha stage right now, but I'm planning for a Christmas release of an end user workable experience.

I'm preparing the v0.3.0 release today. It's a big release that adds the full pipeline for ingesting layered artwork, texture atlas packing and editing, and more.

https://github.com/umamoorg/umamo

New comment by Washuu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"

Washuu — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:34:59 +0000

Working for Wikimedia would make me actually consider moving back to the USA for the opportunity.(I'm in Japan for reference.) I previous contributed to Mediawiki and the extensions ecosystem for about a decade.

New comment by Washuu in "Anime User Interfaces"

Washuu — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:40:01 +0000

Blatant about what? I actually own this tablet and I bought it for reading sheet music and doodling.(Also for Android development for a project that I'm working on.)

The Eva interface is pretty cool, but it is not worth what I paid for it. I would recommend people look for other options or maybe wait for something better to come out.

New comment by Washuu in "Anime User Interfaces"

Washuu — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:39:34 +0000

I own this tablet: For the Japanese price, it is worth it to buy it for the bundled accessories.

The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.

New comment by Washuu in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

Washuu — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:57:25 +0000

> Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages.

And because of pinning versions to LTS releases on certain Linux distributions many times those packages stay out of date for years. Which is quite annoying.

New comment by Washuu in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

Washuu — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:04:56 +0000

My use cases:

* Replacement controller for my UFO Catcher - It has WiFi, easy to update, and I can operate the machine remotely with it. It's bolted to the back of small touchscreen that lets me change the machine settings as well.

* Remote printer access - I can monitor from the USB cameras and gather statistics about the prints.(I suspect a lot of 3D printing enthusiasts use them for this purpose.)

Having a small low power computer has been useful for me in those instances.

New comment by Washuu in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

Washuu — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:31:18 +0000

Change the audio language to "English descriptive".

New comment by Washuu in "Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus"

Washuu — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:56:39 +0000

The font size on this site is massive and zooming out causes the font to resize back to the same massive font size.

Why?! ;_;

New comment by Washuu in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

Washuu — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:01:20 +0000

I have four Prusa printers for my business with thousands of hours of print time. The worst issue that I have had is a finicky filament sensor that I temporarily disabled until I could fix it.

I see it as buying printers design for industrial usage versus printers for hobby. Prusa is selling me a tool that just works every time.

New comment by Washuu in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

Washuu — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:19:02 +0000

> I don't see any "Issues" on your GH...

Issues and PRs are available to open.(I just have not gotten any yet.)

> Any idea why your script does not seem to flag as a valid greasemonkey script when I try to use it in the Falkon (KDE) browser?

Honestly, no idea. I have only tested it with Tampermonkey on Firefox. Manually installing it should still work.

New comment by Washuu in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

Washuu — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:40:12 +0000

> Not necessarily? There was a post just a year ago on how somebody jailbroke the kindle books from the web UI.

I used that research to build something similar. It only works for manga and comics right now, but I have been tinkering with implementing glyph support as well to be able to handle full books.

https://github.com/Alexia/kandle-downloader

The original research is here, but the web site is down right now. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

New comment by Washuu in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

Washuu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:28:01 +0000

Add Mailchimp in there as well. I have never gotten an email from someone using Mailchimp that was not spam.

New comment by Washuu in "PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects"

Washuu — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:12:52 +0000

I have compensated hundreds to thousands of dollars to content creators to promote my products and have had content creators ask for thousands up front. It really depends on channel size and market. It also depends on what deliverables are being asked for. Logo on screen, 30 second advertisement reading, link in description, pinned comments, accompanying social media post, etc. Some content creators will haggle on all the pieces while others will accept a flat rate for a typical package deal of deliverables.

New comment by Washuu in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Washuu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:07:55 +0000

GPU hardware accelerated encoding/decoding is only in the paid version as well.

New comment by Washuu in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

Washuu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:38:33 +0000

Using Gemini 3 Pro Preview, it told me in mostly polite terms, that I'm a fucking idiot. Like I would expect a close friend to do when I'm going about something wrong.

ChatGPT with the same prompt tried to do whatever it would take to please me to make my incorrect process work.

New comment by Washuu in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

Washuu — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:26:57 +0000

Then for some web sites it won't matter and display the dominant language of the country that you're accessing from. My Firefox sends US English as the only preferred language, but a ton of US tech companies default to showing web sites in Japanese without a way to change it because I access them from Japan. It's pretty typical of American companies that don't understand localization and accessibility.

New comment by Washuu in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

Washuu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:26:37 +0000

Can you fix the fact that this new email spam category was added and that I was automatically opted into receiving it without my consent? That's fucked. I'm a paying customer and I keep getting advertisements in the Proton desktop applications for various things.(Black Friday deals, other stuff.) I should never see these advertisements if I'm paying you.

New comment by Washuu in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

Washuu — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:23:00 +0000

> This is particularly true for the visually impaired and some elderly and neuro-atypical people.

The Slack and (Google) Photos icons on Android look so visually similar in the sea of green, blue, red, and yellow icons on Android that I frequently open the wrong application. Using my phone sucks.