Hacker News: akazantsev

New comment by akazantsev in "Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle"

akazantsev — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:06:55 +0000

Jailbreaks will be overridden on modern Kindle firmwares unless you install an additional extension to prevent updates.

I use the "renameotabin" extension and enable Wi-Fi from time to time to load books from FTP via Koreader. It has been 3 years since I jailbroke it, and there have been no resets for me.

See https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/post-jailbreak/disabl...

New comment by akazantsev in "Google changes its search box"

akazantsev — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:43:51 +0000

> every result is a Reddit thread that was originally in English but was machine translated to Portuguese and Google

Hell yes, set your Google language to English and get auto-translated results. It appears that none in Google's leadership speaks more than one language. It's frustrating how wrong they get this with YouTube as well.

New comment by akazantsev in "Google changes its search box"

akazantsev — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:37:24 +0000

The thing is, they were diversifying with Russia's Yandex... Which is worse for some.

New comment by akazantsev in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

akazantsev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:43:34 +0000

That's the wrong metric, however. Thousands of small pet repos are unlikely to have more code than a single Chromium repo (mostly LGPL), Linux, Qt, etc.

New comment by akazantsev in "Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements"

akazantsev — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:56:09 +0000

Slay the spire 2

New comment by akazantsev in "App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East"

akazantsev — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:03:36 +0000

If that were the case, you could see at least some activity in Ukraine.

New comment by akazantsev in "Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran"

akazantsev — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:53:11 +0000

> On the night before the pair traveled to Iran in December 2023, Samaneh allegedly took about 24 photos of Khosravi’s work computer screen containing Company 2′s trade secrets, including *its* Snapdragon SoCs.

Keep reading.

New comment by akazantsev in "Show HN: Free printable micro-habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits"

akazantsev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:23:40 +0000

Entering any non-Latin character in the routine input field also causes an instant error, "crashing" the app.

Tried to enter: ї

New comment by akazantsev in "The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough"

akazantsev — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:23:39 +0000

Future buyers, be aware that those are "small" margins. You can't make them smaller without modifying the ebook file itself.

https://media.wired.com/photos/6938a3ba3f357ab2a44d03b1/mast...

New comment by akazantsev in "Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders"

akazantsev — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:40:07 +0000

To all other comments in this thread.

So many "hackers" apparently did not hear about adaptive refresh. There is no need to update a static image every 240fps. You only need to increase the refresh rate for animations like scrolling, like in... everywhere??? Android, macOS, Chromium, Qt, and GTK(?) do this.

New comment by akazantsev in "$10k RTX Pro reportedly snaps under its own weight during transit"

akazantsev — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:59:16 +0000

There is a reason why some GPU vendors supply a support bracket with the GPU. However, it will not protect against damage during transportation.

https://www.techpowerup.com/img/mhK56ZlNWHCIgVEE.jpg

New comment by akazantsev in "AMD GPUs Go Brrr"

akazantsev — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:54:33 +0000

Had those due to insufficient cooling in the case. Tell him to run the games without the side panel. I installed additional fans later and have had no such issue ever since. xt 7900

New comment by akazantsev in "Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium"

akazantsev — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:43:00 +0000

Standard practice for Chromium forks. Chromium's repo is huge, slow, and impossible to diff for your changes with 10000s of other commits. Also, painful to host it anywhere.

New comment by akazantsev in "Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium"

akazantsev — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:40:07 +0000

Here is a homework for you to see why they do it:

  1. Checkout Chromium's codebase.  
  2. Make a commit and see how long it takes.  
  3. Try to push it to any git hosting service.

You will discover what's actually brittle and annoying.

And yes, being 10s vs 10000s devs in the same repo isn't fun.

New comment by akazantsev in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

akazantsev — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:04:33 +0000

> the dj setup is where I said "too far" and closed the tab

Also, it's AI-generated. Zoom in on the right-most guy in the image. Garbage in, garbage out. Embarrassing garbage quality for an official site.

New comment by akazantsev in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

akazantsev — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:04:34 +0000

ASUS PN42 is also passive, but they do not mention it. You can find this out from teardown pictures. They also have certified 32GB memory sticks from Crucial.

New comment by akazantsev in "Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)"

akazantsev — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:42:58 +0000

You can also send JSON over UDP. Wiz smart bulbs do this for communication.

https://github.com/sbidy/pywizlight?tab=readme-ov-file#examp...

New comment by akazantsev in "Leptos"

akazantsev — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:32:02 +0000

Open the Store to see the prices. - Blocked.

Ok.

New comment by akazantsev in "Passkeys and Modern Authentication"

akazantsev — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:51:51 +0000

The only thing I found is that I'm entirely disinterested in passkeys for the next 5 years.

New comment by akazantsev in "Passkeys and Modern Authentication"

akazantsev — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:00:58 +0000

> KeyPassX supports passkeys and allows you to export them as you wish.

The last time I tried to use passkeys, the desktop was easy. What about mobile? There wasn't a local third-party password manager that could work with passkeys on Android.