Hacker News: akazantsev

New comment by akazantsev in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"

akazantsev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:00:29 +0000

A week ago, the Windows AMD drivers auto-updated and stopped working. I had to reinstall them. I am not sure if that counts, because this is not the first time this has happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1udaj4w/new_amd_up...

New comment by akazantsev in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

akazantsev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:43:57 +0000

That's because sandboxing is quite hard. I use `cco`, but even then, the home folder is exposed. You are one prompt away from the agent sending the browser passwords with curl.

To prevent this, you need a fake home and a networking whitelist for the agent to access the provider (llama cpp, OpenAI, etc.)

There is no cross-platform solution that is easy to use for this. And no, a Linux box with Docker won't do. I develop a cross-platform native app and want the agent to compile and fix the platform-specific errors.

New comment by akazantsev in "How I use HTMX with Go"

akazantsev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:14:11 +0000

> Now why do I have to care about "cloning templates" every time I render some html template?

You do not have to. It's a self-sustained injury by the author. You can compile the templates once and just execute them.

The issue is that author wants to specify page titles in the main templates. If you pass titles as a context, you can split base.tmpl into BASE_BEGIN, BASE_END and use them in the final templates.

Yes, you will have to pass the title depending on the page template during the But his tactics will break anyway when you try to support different languages.

New comment by akazantsev in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

akazantsev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:24:18 +0000

Unlikely Linux will become mainstream until people stop saying "install Linux" and not a particular distro. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop: something doesn't work because I need a more recent kernel, so... I installed the second "user-friendly" distro - Fedora. Scrolling is 10x faster in Chromium-based browsers, making it unusable. The fix - install KDE... Then I had to make hardware video acceleration work so that playback wouldn't drain the battery. That was a pain in the ass.

So, Linux won't consume LESS unless you spend your time configuring different stuff.

I can't imagine users want to mess with this instead of buying macs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1qqyh2z/scro...

New comment by akazantsev in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

akazantsev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:05:36 +0000

> Lol I feel like no one has any attention span here. Tech shit is expensive in the beginning when it's new. It gets cheaper with time.

The funniest comment here. Have you seen the prices of the technical shit for the past two years? Dang, GPUs are not getting any cheaper, but more expensive with each year.

New comment by akazantsev in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

akazantsev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:01:52 +0000

Is it? Learning is one thing. But owning a large codebase, you see for the first time, is a completely different level.

New comment by akazantsev in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

akazantsev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:11:40 +0000

Or when you're asked to perform a task remotely or whatever, with a user who uses a language other than English. You WILL appreciate icons.

New comment by akazantsev in "A powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by Nvidia RTX Spark"

akazantsev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:36:53 +0000

> ComfyUI

Nitpick, but I remember running it specifically because there was a way to run LLMs on local hardware.

New comment by akazantsev in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

akazantsev — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:52:58 +0000

> Kotlin of C

That sounds good on paper. But as a guy who tried to learn Kotlin and only it. It comes with baggage to learn Java to use its libraries because... You know... they interact seamlessly and stuff. In the end, for a new learner, it might actually make things harder.

Nothing about Zig and C here, just a bit salty from my experience with Kotlin.

New comment by akazantsev in "Acer's launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games"

akazantsev — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:58:54 +0000

If you want to try something like this, install Moonlight on the Android phone, Sunshine on the PC, and buy a phone bracket for a gamepad like this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010147090374.html

Used this setup to play Doki Doki Literature Club before it was ported onto Android. The downside is that you need an HDMI dummy plug to turn off your desktop's monitor without putting the GPU into standby.

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

akazantsev — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:22:47 +0000

Designing a chip for one person is doomed to fail as a business.

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

akazantsev — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:07:56 +0000

> __These days__ a 175 GBP N95 from a no-name Chinese OEM on Amazon, with 16 GB of RAM and a 500GB SATA SSD is way better value and performance - and importantly - zero fuss - standard setup.

"These days" seems to be over for now. The prices went up there, and now the only affordable option is an old laptop's motherboards with DDR3 sticks. But passively cooled PCs are rare, so the Raspberry Pi still makes sense. As a bonus, it is easier to power and find a small UPS that will keep it running for hours.

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