Hacker News: a_t48

New comment by a_t48 in "Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)"

a_t48 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:50:45 +0000

The text boxes on top aren't bad, but the background is a total turnoff, it's a big red flag to me. I'd ditch it, remove the fade-in effect that runs at like 10fps, and rewrite your text.

New comment by a_t48 in "Podman v6.0.0"

a_t48 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:21:36 +0000

If any Podman engineers are here: does the new /libpod/local/artifacts/add endpoint let me ingest individual layers? I have an alternative pull client that's currently a little hamstrung on Podman compared to docker+containerd, due to having to convert the entire image to tarball to ingest rather than only new layers.

New comment by a_t48 in "Building Docker images 7x Faster with Clipper"

a_t48 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:38:14 +0000

Hey HN. Clipper is an alternative container registry/pull client/BuildKit driver that can do operations an order of magnitude faster by ditching OCI’s tarball format. I’ve spent the past few months heads down on getting the build side of things fast.

How Clipper Builds Docker Images 7x Faster

a_t48 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://clipper.dev/blog/buildkit-profile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749567

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by a_t48 in "Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression"

a_t48 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:02:22 +0000

Whoops! You're right, and it's too late to edit.

New comment by a_t48 in "Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression"

a_t48 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:43:42 +0000

zstd has higher level modes. Default is -3. I saw a good tradeoff between compression speed and ratio up to -9 or so. From -20 to -22 it will use much more memory and IIRC can have downstream effects on decompression speed. I'm using -9 for my container registry and plan to recompress at a higher level for commonly accessed base layers, as well as give customers a button that lets them pay a bit more to do it themselves.

New comment by a_t48 in "Ending respiratory infections"

a_t48 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:49:32 +0000

As someone currently with a nasty cold, having to work through it anyhow - please.

New comment by a_t48 in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

a_t48 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:52:38 +0000

It could be opt in.

New comment by a_t48 in "The minimum viable unit of saleable software"

a_t48 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:13:18 +0000

I get this a lot. Yeah, you can have an LLM copy what I've built, no it's not going to be as good unless you also spend the equivalent of the amount of hours I've spent on it.

New comment by a_t48 in "Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem"

a_t48 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:16:21 +0000

Oh hey, second chance queue, nice. I'd originally searched this up because I was curious about how Arabic worked on early computers.

New comment by a_t48 in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

a_t48 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:32:14 +0000

Definitely, it needs both sides.

New comment by a_t48 in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

a_t48 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:24:41 +0000

At least in Oakland, it's the landlord's responsibility to manage pest control. It needs to be done at a building level, or else the roaches will just get shuffled around.

New comment by a_t48 in "Google asking many to select a client certificate erroneously"

a_t48 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:23:42 +0000

Wife also ran into this, advised her to click "no". Very odd.

Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017)

a_t48 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalorientalist.com/2017/08/21/digital-printing-of-arabic-explaining-the-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563047

Points: 76

# Comments: 66

New comment by a_t48 in "The first game engine for robotics"

a_t48 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:41:23 +0000

Vulkan is a rendering technology, Unreal is an engine, that can render using Vulkan under the hood. You can absolutely do this in Unreal. I implemented this at Cruise using UE4 for integration testing, and it worked great for inference (we weren't doing training on sim at that point, but I was pushing for it! There was a paper out in 2018 or so that showed mixing in a bit of simulated data had an outside positive impact on the outputted model). There are companies out there right now doing this with even more modern renderers. I can't comment on how much the rendering realism gap matters here. I think there's some people out there using a variant of lower quality rendering + some kind of diffusion to get "better" images without having to do detailed modeling/lighting for their sims (fuzzy memory, I don't have a source on this).

New comment by a_t48 in "Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)"

a_t48 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:16:19 +0000

typing something like "3.141" results in 5 characters rather than 4. Boo!

New comment by a_t48 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

a_t48 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:29:16 +0000

https://clipper.dev

I made Docker not suck for large images. 2-10x faster depending on the operation. I’ve spent the past two weeks burning down the last bits needed to release a BuildKit integration.

New comment by a_t48 in "Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole"

a_t48 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:58:31 +0000

Just run it under uv :)

New comment by a_t48 in "On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles"

a_t48 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:37:51 +0000

I think it's just the images.

New comment by a_t48 in "On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles"

a_t48 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:36:13 +0000

I remember this person's blog from before she went on haitus. The drawings attached used to be cute and the header (hero?) image semi-relevant. I hope she brings them back, they had charm!