Hacker News: akdor1154

New comment by akdor1154 in "The Road to MS-DOS 2.0"

akdor1154 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:15:50 +0000

> under MS-DOS command line parsing was left completely to a a loaded program

And in the many decades and OS rewrites since, they have long since corrected this mistake... right?

New comment by akdor1154 in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

akdor1154 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:19:00 +0000

Jains would be vegan though i assume?

New comment by akdor1154 in "macOS needs its grid back"

akdor1154 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:57:26 +0000

Questions for those who like the grid layout of virtual desktops - how does it (or should it?) interact with multi monitor setups? Feels like this would break or at least compromise the spatial metaphor.

- Each monitor has own grid?

- The VD 'spans' the pair of monitors?

- VDs only on one monitor?

- The monitors form a fixed 'window' into the grid?

- Something else?

New comment by akdor1154 in "On Rendering Diffs"

akdor1154 — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:11:39 +0000

Even the linked ghostty PR on your home shows this - this is Firefox Android on a Nokia XR21 / TA-1486.

It's not unuseable, but it definitely feels like 'js hacking my scrolling' and not a native surface flinging around.

The experience is actually worse with smaller movements, i guess because my brain is more conscious when breaking the 'finger physically moving the text' illusion.

I don't mean to be dismissive - you're working on a really hard problem, and you're clearly approaching it with a mindset of perfection. I'm posting because I know you're probably able to solve this too :)

Edit: as a point of (unfair) comparison, the codemirror Huge File demo works fine: https://codemirror.net/examples/million/ It does suffer from the occasional partial paint when quickly coasting, but I'm not bothered by this at all, it's far less intrusive than dropping frames / stuttering / etc.

New comment by akdor1154 in "On Rendering Diffs"

akdor1154 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:47:17 +0000

I disagree with the theory that scrolling frame rate doesn't need to be smooth for scrolling to feel smooth.

On mobile it kinda does. Scrolling diffs on mobile just kinda feels crap.

I have been spoiled by years of engineer hours spent getting scrolling to be 60- or even 120Hz smooth to match my finger, and diffs just.. isn't.

I know this is frustrating to hear, and that this is technically compounded by mobile probably having the lowest device performance to be playing with too, but.. There you go.

New comment by akdor1154 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

akdor1154 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:51:16 +0000

See what you get for saying things with subtlety instead of hype these days... sigh.

New comment by akdor1154 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

akdor1154 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:46:32 +0000

> I chalked it up to a power trip and the indignant behavior that comes along with it, as it is especially embedded in the culture of the country that I'm based out of.

That's a very globally-conscious way to refer to the USA!

New comment by akdor1154 in "Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy"

akdor1154 — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:10:22 +0000

I have a consumer motion-triggered camera that is armed 24/7 and records for 30 seconds after each trigger. It has WiFi and serves playback itself, as well as of course video encoding. It's probably running Linux though i haven't verified.

It runs off a 25cm square solar panel screwed to a wall that only receives direct illumination for 5 hours a day, and is not in any way optimised beyond 'that looks roughly like it's pointing at the sun'.

Works great!

New comment by akdor1154 in "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons"

akdor1154 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:11:28 +0000

I have often wondered if Chinese is a much 'better' language for LLMs - every character is a token, boom you're done. No weird subword nonsense, no strange semantics being applied to arbitrary chunks of words.. I feel like there must be benefits to being able to have the language tokenized in what must be very close to 1:1.

New comment by akdor1154 in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

akdor1154 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:24:47 +0000

That sounds really interesting, but my google-fu is not up to task here, I'm getting pages and pages of nonsense asking if Claude is conscious. Can you elaborate?

New comment by akdor1154 in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

akdor1154 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:25:10 +0000

I thought the term for those were 'sane languages', and I say that as a native English speaker :)

New comment by akdor1154 in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

akdor1154 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:25:27 +0000

Well yeah, if everything runs unsandboxed as root then there are no privilege escalations!

Less pithy, i seem to recall many issue with programs that relied on suid and permission dropping, which would be the 'oldschool' way of firming up the above.

You're not wrong that complexity has been introduced, and I'm not a a fan of snap either, but ultimately sandboxes (esp backwards compatible ones that don't need source level modifications) are complex.

If you want simple and secure, you're probably looking at OpenBSD and pledge.

New comment by akdor1154 in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

akdor1154 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:58:21 +0000

Yeah Goodin's stuff is often slop.. Probably human slop but slop nonetheless.

New comment by akdor1154 in "Index, Count, Offset, Size"

akdor1154 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:00:25 +0000

The 'same length for complementary names' thing is great.

New comment by akdor1154 in "Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies"

akdor1154 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:36:20 +0000

I want a keyboard switch with a weight on the end of a lever, typewriter or piano style. Or some other mechanism whereby the resistance would be constant or even reverse-linear-ish (from gravity and momentum), not linear (from a spring). But as far as I know no such thing exists. :(

New comment by akdor1154 in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

akdor1154 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:35:57 +0000

The rendering is very cool, but what i really want is this as a renderer i can plug into Vega.

Vega/VGlite have amazing charting expressivity in their spec language, most other charting libs don't come close. It would be very cool to be able to take advantage of that.

New comment by akdor1154 in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

akdor1154 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:52:31 +0000

In the era of solar power saturating the grid in daytime, the energy cost is far less of an issue - At least, I assume California has similar characteristics to Australia in this regard.

New comment by akdor1154 in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

akdor1154 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:34:28 +0000

Singapore could be due to being a common VPN exit node for within SE Asia? Close by and avoids the most common regional blacklists (and gov firewalls of course).

New comment by akdor1154 in "Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them"

akdor1154 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:05:57 +0000

I think that was the intent of Go's design, but in practise i think it normally devolves into an overly verbose '?' with a poorly typed Result<_, String>.

As a Go dev, I'm looking at this article with great interest. I would very much like to apply this approach to Go as well, I think the author has got a very strong design there.

New comment by akdor1154 in "Text rendering hates you (2019)"

akdor1154 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:38:00 +0000

The issue (i think) is that the animation is done post-rasterizing. So a translate of integer pixels is fine, but scale? Skew? Suddenly you have really visible colour fringing appearing out of nowhere.