Hacker News: alex_suzuki

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

alex_suzuki — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:46:07 +0000

I think the ideas presented in the article are interesting, but at times the Notion references were a bit much. The author disclosed that they work there, fine, but at times it felt like it was more about showing off a Notion feature (e.g. embedded interactive HTML).

New comment by alex_suzuki in "RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:55:02 +0000

So that was what 13yr old me was doing modifying himem.sys to get some stupid game to launch. :-)

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:01:12 +0000

Side note: there’s plenty of Analytics tools that don’t require cookies. Plausible (https://plausible.io) is one of them, there are many others. Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime"

alex_suzuki — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:21:29 +0000

> it's not running anywhere near HTML, CSS or JavaScript

There’s plenty of usage in the browser environment as well, plenty of client-side SDKs for things like e.g. video editing, barcode scanning, etc. use it.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:40:49 +0000

> ben 10 hentai game where qwen gets drunk

erm... what?

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:32:31 +0000

raises hand

I too confess to writing code by hand. It… works for me?

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:59:33 +0000

It also works really well as a conversation starter for me. I forget people’s names and the context all the time, but the faces stay familiar, and of course you can tell from their facial expression that we’ve met.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

alex_suzuki — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:08:36 +0000

“the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”

New comment by alex_suzuki in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:58:20 +0000

I’ve heard (and used) the term “API surface” a lot…

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

alex_suzuki — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:37:46 +0000

> Zig creator's article seems to have changed? I don't remember the bottom bit being there when I read it a few days ago.

Yes, Andrew edited it. Diff here: https://github.com/andrewrk/andrewkelley.me/commit/8b86ac915...

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Don't you mean extinct?"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:11:01 +0000

My biggest gripe with AI is that I struggle to come up with even one real problem that it has solved in my daily life, and that of my family and friends.

Yes it might have made me a bit faster at some things I do for work. But it seems to me that we face so many challenges as a civilization, and AI doesn’t actively help with any of them? Unless you buy into the narrative that it will somehow usher in a golden age of abundance where everyone is taken care of and nobody needs to work anymore (utter BS in my opinion). The amount of capital flowing into it, that is then not available for other causes, is completely mind-boggling to me.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:25:20 +0000

> Anyway, Jared donated $60k a month to this project

$60k per year, which amounts to $5k per month. Still, nothing to be sneered at.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Meta Is Toying with the Idea of Smart Glasses That Record All the Time"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:42:53 +0000

Obligatory Black Mirror reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You

Meta Is Toying with the Idea of Smart Glasses That Record All the Time

alex_suzuki — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/meta-is-toying-with-the-idea-of-smart-glasses-that-record-everything-all-the-time-2000782893

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844280

Points: 2

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New comment by alex_suzuki in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

alex_suzuki — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:59:23 +0000

Self-hosted, or are you using something managed? I’ve held off switching from Gitlab for now as everything is setup and runs ok, but they’re pushing their AI hard into every corner. Not a lot of good managed options around (yet), especially in Europe. Codey (https://www.codey.ch/) is pretty expensive and doesn’t offer runners out of the box.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "CarPlay Is Additive"

alex_suzuki — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:32:10 +0000

Nothing prevents them from removing CarPlay in an update, though? Unless you make sure to never connect the car to the internet. Some garages will update FW for you unasked I hear.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:22:18 +0000

> thin wrapper on the built-in RichEdit control

> UWP abomination they call Notepad

Kind of weird for both of those things to be true. I thought the latter was mostly the former. But I’ve been away from Windows for a loooooong time it seems.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine"

alex_suzuki — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:12:12 +0000

Some years ago, I used Box2D from Python to get a couple of bodies moving naturally in a 2D plane, lightly disturbed by random impulses (like water lilies in a pond when it's raining). It was a fun project and working with Box2D was pleasant. Looking forward to using Box3D!

New comment by alex_suzuki in "1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller"

alex_suzuki — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:34:37 +0000

What a nice name for that particular box that keeps on growing and growing. Mine is called Why did I buy this, again?

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Libre Barcode Project"

alex_suzuki — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:12:12 +0000

This is super cool, thank you!

The SVG is actually generated by Zint itself, only lightly patched in the wrapper. Zint is a pretty old barcode generator (not meant disrespectfully, quite the opposite actually), it's quite possible that some of its decisions when rendering to SVG are out of date or very conservative. The use of id/global namespace does feel like a potential pain point though, which I will take up with the upstream project.