Hacker News: akkartik

New comment by akkartik in "Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone"

akkartik — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:22:20 +0000

No I hadn't! Thank you.

New comment by akkartik in "Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone"

akkartik — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:36:53 +0000

Oh I love that. I program on my phone as well using LÖVE, though games aren't really my interest. My devlog at https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog is about recreating the feeling of typing in programs from magazines in the microcomputer/PC era. Only, you know, with copy/paste instead of typing in by hand.

Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone

akkartik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:12:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-06-08-programming-a-gba-game-on-an-iphone.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468495

Points: 52

# Comments: 10

New comment by akkartik in "I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet"

akkartik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:44:01 +0000

You're looking for Moss.

https://mastodon.social/@xmunch/115822364073874855

What protocols does your blog bridge to?

New comment by akkartik in "HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago"

akkartik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:18:33 +0000

HN has always had sucky bits, just like human nature. Everyone who thinks it's going downhill is just one of today's 10,000 [1] to discover some sucky corner of human nature.

I'd say the world has gone downhill much faster and is making HN look good in comparison.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053

New comment by akkartik in "HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago"

akkartik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:47:30 +0000

Found an older one, from 2011 :D

https://web.archive.org/web/20110225020957/http://al3x.net/2...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152

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Oh, oh, oh, 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480831

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2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=259276

The birth of HN is lost in the mists of time, but our best guess is it happened about 3 months before it started going downhill.

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

akkartik — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:48:25 +0000

Article URL: https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/in-1999-this-was-a-federal-crime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436542

Points: 29

# Comments: 43

New comment by akkartik in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

akkartik — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:19:26 +0000

Edit: thanks for toning it down. I will as well.

From the comment up above:

> I would imagine the Mac Neo is a sealed unit that you use as-is until it's e-waste.

So the "bar" is irrelevant to this conversation.

New comment by akkartik in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

akkartik — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:43:14 +0000

You're preaching to the choir, brother. But reread the comment I replied to. "Use as-is until e-waste" the Neo is not.

New comment by akkartik in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

akkartik — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:00:33 +0000

It's actually not bad. The rhetoric has had an effect over the years.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...

New comment by akkartik in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

akkartik — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:02:30 +0000

Not to mention all the other people who find 0-days. Reputation matters a lot.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:04:58 +0000

Adtech isn't about showing ads. It's about targeting ads. And yes, if Gemini gets wildly popular maybe they'll think of something. Good problem to have! New mistakes instead of same old ones!

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:18:04 +0000

Umm, see what problem this thread is trying to solve using markdown.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:52:36 +0000

You'll need to be more specific since there are many variants of Markdown and the original explicitly permits arbitrary html.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:46:11 +0000

Why is it that every criticism of gemini/gopher throws the baby out with the bathwater?

When you browse to a pristine html page containing zero adtech it contains links. Those links you might click on without first thoroughly vetting them for behavioral exhaust.

Hyperlinks are a vector for contagion. A new protocol creates isolation. What's wrong with both existing? Defense in depth at all levels, I say. You think https can't enshittify, maybe you just haven't waited long enough.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:17:41 +0000

You're right from the perspective of a website author, but the original comment I responded to is from the perspective of the protocol designer. There is no known way to design a protocol that can be used to create polished experiences without also letting some ingenious website suck up behavioral data.

> One can still be part of the solution without leaving the modern-standards-based mainstream altogether for the digital equivalent of an off-grid cabin in the woods.

So many judging words there. A new protocol is an off-grid cabin in the woods, but building a non-janky universally accessible website isn't? You'll have to prove you can get a random new website more traffic over https without doing nefarious shit and letting the big adtech companies crawl it.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:37:04 +0000

If you want to support cat pictures that show up without clicking a link, but prevent any behavioral exhaust from tracking pixels, that seems to be an open problem. Every new feature is like this: a risk surface until proven otherwise. So to reduce risk you have to limit features, i.e. jank.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:26:16 +0000

Wrt finger I want to point out https://plan.cat as a nice service in this spirit.

New comment by akkartik in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

akkartik — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:24:41 +0000

You'd have to prove these things are possible in the face of the ingenuity of the entire adtech industry. The limitations you point out, on the other hand, have easy solutions:

* auth: Look at https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini#services Tons of services support some form of auth.

Edit: https://martinrue.com/station is another service I use that's missing in the above list.

* images: click to load

Janky but doable. Janky is the price you have to pay to avoid adtech.

New comment by akkartik in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

akkartik — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:19:33 +0000

That is an absolutely fascinating worldview. I don't know what country you're from and what pain and suffering you've been through that was caused by the US govt., but you've managed to get me to stop caring. Sparkling incompetence. While we're exchanging unenforceable opinions about what random people on the internet should do, you should go help your own country -- by leaving it.

Me, I'll continue doing what I want kthxbai.