Hacker News: _kidlike

New comment by _kidlike in "FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill"

_kidlike — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:33:35 +0000

o_O

New comment by _kidlike in "FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill"

_kidlike — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:04:46 +0000

cholesterol is one of the most crucial molecules for survival. It's used to create and maintain cell membranes, and other critical functions. The vast majority is created by the liver, and there are a lot of regulating signals for how much, which is where usually things go off. Low cholesterol production is an extremely serious condition. The "only" problem with high cholesterol is that it builds up inside artery walls, which eventually may or may not dislodge and may or may not cause a heart attack or an embolic stroke. (I'm not a doctor. I just get medication for high cholesterol and have done some research)

New comment by _kidlike in "I Started a "Dirt Notebook""

_kidlike — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:14:25 +0000

this is not a new system... my father had it 20 years ago, sold for dirt cheap by the local stationary shop (not leather of course).

New comment by _kidlike in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

_kidlike — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:12:23 +0000

sunshine + moonlight is the streaming stack. Steam's one is pretty bad, and still only works in X11.

New comment by _kidlike in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

_kidlike — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:11:36 +0000

I've set up sunshine + moonlight on Fedora KDE Wayland, and I've played remotely from a different country with unnoticeable input lag (using a gamepad, playing Cyberpunk). The whole thing is even behind WireGuard.

I have very fast internet on both sides, both fiber to the home, with only the tablet running moonlight being on WiFi.

New comment by _kidlike in "Mistral OCR 4"

_kidlike — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:26:41 +0000

aaahhh...

New comment by _kidlike in "Mistral OCR 4"

_kidlike — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:37:42 +0000

interesting... I have never seen such a benchmark before, where it forces the model to use a json schema for parsing a document. Sounds a bit counter intuitive to me, but I'm not that deep in the field. I usually just "ask" the model for information that is inside an image pdf. I haven't run any sophisticated benchmarks though...

New comment by _kidlike in "Mistral OCR 4"

_kidlike — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:17:45 +0000

I assume you mean for coding, for which I would agree. But for OCR Mistral is SOTA :)

New comment by _kidlike in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

_kidlike — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:02 +0000

so your complaint is about the blogger, not the Java language?

also, null markers are coming too: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8303099

Its just that they have to deliver things incrementally. This PR that introduces value classes/objects is already 200k lines long.

New comment by _kidlike in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

_kidlike — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:52:44 +0000

optional is not how algebraic data types are implemented in Java. Basically it's the combination of sealed types and records.

New comment by _kidlike in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

_kidlike — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:34:20 +0000

very cool word, but I think the etymology stated in Wikipedia is wrong.

the second part of the word just means purchase (in a weird ancient Greek tense). there's no relation to fish whatsoever.

(I'm Greek)

New comment by _kidlike in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

_kidlike — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:39:40 +0000

hey, exact same story and sentiment here!

New comment by _kidlike in "Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people"

_kidlike — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:28:25 +0000

do we really AI to solve "lock screen"?

New comment by _kidlike in "Arena AI Model ELO History"

_kidlike — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:30:12 +0000

its very interesting to see that this only happens to American companies. What gives?

New comment by _kidlike in "Claude mixes up who said what"

_kidlike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:10:28 +0000

But it's not "Claude" at fault here, it's "Claude Code" the CLI tool.

Claude Code is actually far from the best harness for Claude, ironically...

JetBrains' AI Assistant with Claude Agent is a much better harness for Claude.

New comment by _kidlike in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

_kidlike — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:53:00 +0000

very interesting. how does the blocklist work? can one manage the lists? like StevenBlack or others.

New comment by _kidlike in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

_kidlike — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:05:10 +0000

interesting... for me JetBrains Mono won, which is the one I already use. But I discovered Atkinson Hyperlegible, which looks awesome for reading books. I guess I have a minor reading issue that I wasn't aware of!

New comment by _kidlike in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

_kidlike — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:03:50 +0000

Plasma has been a bit buggy since v6 :(

they tried to do something with remembering "how you left things" between sessions, and even when disabled things are still weird...

Also some power management related hooks are not working as well as before. Like if you put the computer to sleep at night, and wake it up in the morning, the automatic dark-to-light theme switch doesn't trigger. at least not always.

Still the best system to work with though!

New comment by _kidlike in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

_kidlike — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:13 +0000

my thoughts exactly... this "verdict" came with very suspicious timing.

New comment by _kidlike in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:01:08 +0000

Nevermind... somehow it doesn't work :(