Hacker News: alxmdev

New comment by alxmdev in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

alxmdev — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:17:47 +0000

Probably, because everything would collapse if everyone was an "investor" and fewer people did actual work to keep the world going.

New comment by alxmdev in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

alxmdev — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:36:12 +0000

Many of those who can't be bothered to write what they publish probably can't be bothered to read it themselves, either. Not by humans and certainly not for humans.

New comment by alxmdev in "Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret"

alxmdev — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:17:49 +0000

Isn't agriculture objectively more important and more beneficial to humanity than Big data centers?

New comment by alxmdev in "Xubuntu website hacked and served malware"

alxmdev — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:40:54 +0000

Looks like another "/wp-content" gift, static HTML forever!

New comment by alxmdev in "rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC"

alxmdev — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:09:24 +0000

Someone always points out how Doom wasn't "real 3D" like it's some sort of gotcha. Games are smoke and mirrors, it's all a 2D grid of pixels at the end.

New comment by alxmdev in "CSS Zen Garden"

alxmdev — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:37:43 +0000

Glad to see the Garden is back! This and Spoono were some of my favorite websites back when CSS-driven web design was bleeding edge and people were just starting to use lots of nested divs instead of lots of nested tables. The book was nice too.

New comment by alxmdev in "Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS"

alxmdev — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:08:57 +0000

What's the state of the art for cross-compiling in $CURRENTYEAR?

New comment by alxmdev in "The cost of renewing my .com domain is coming in at $52 for one year"

alxmdev — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 19:54:48 +0000

Seems to be around that or even less at most places I looked. Gandi used to charge more, but not quite like this.

New comment by alxmdev in "The cost of renewing my .com domain is coming in at $52 for one year"

alxmdev — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 19:14:02 +0000

I wanted to renew some domains with Gandi yesterday, and noticed that their prices increased a lot this year. This Reddit post is the only article I could find about it.

.com/.net/.org/.dev are all around $40/year to renew now, up from about $25 six months ago.

https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/PricesList_USD_2024.p...

The cost of renewing my .com domain is coming in at $52 for one year

alxmdev — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 19:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Domains/comments/1f4r7nl/the_cost_of_renewing_my_com_domain_is_coming_in/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482425

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by alxmdev in "CSS @property and the new style"

alxmdev — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:09:09 +0000

Fancy CSS effects are slow to run, they use lots of CPU time just like Flash animations used to.

When I switch from this HN tab to the article page, Firefox's CPU usage goes from 2% to 26%.

X Macro

alxmdev — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_macro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430620

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alxmdev in "Grind – A first person shooter for Amiga 500"

alxmdev — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:26:41 +0000

Tooling and code generation improvements no doubt help a lot, but IMO those improvements must be coupled with creative manual optimizations in order to get something like this out of a platform that was tailored for rectangular 2D bitmaps.

New comment by alxmdev in "Pixel 8 Pro"

alxmdev — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:37:10 +0000

The 4A doesn't get security updates anymore though, right? The language on the website says "guaranteed until at least August 2023" so I guess it's up to Google's good will.

New comment by alxmdev in "I stopped buying new laptops (2020)"

alxmdev — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:44:25 +0000

> I say buy the latest MacBook, expense it, factor it in as a monthly cost. These are expendable and essential tools. They pay for themselves

Yay, another top comment that steamrolls the posted article. I say don't buy the latest Macbook: instead repair, refurbish, and get true lifetime use out of these expensive devices. They're expensive to manufacture, expensive to buy, and expensive for our planet and people to just throw them away every year.

They're not expendable at all, here is just one example of the human sacrifice involved in their manufacturing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_Samsung

New comment by alxmdev in "New York City may be sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers"

alxmdev — Thu, 18 May 2023 03:18:48 +0000

>> the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descending

Imagine proofreading at least the headline.

New comment by alxmdev in "We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics"

alxmdev — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:11:05 +0000

Thank you for your service defending the hot product of a profitable company against the criticism of everyday people, it's wonderful to have someone standing up for what is right.

New comment by alxmdev in "C Strings and my slow descent to madness"

alxmdev — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:38:05 +0000

Bingo, you should never pass arbitrary strings where they could be used as format specifiers, it's like running arbitrary code. Some compilers even issue warnings when you pass non-literal format strings to the printf family.

New comment by alxmdev in "Orange Pi 5 Is a Great and Fast Alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4"

alxmdev — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 04:26:46 +0000

You're not wrong, these things are just future e-waste with short-term support, like another commenter mentioned.

New comment by alxmdev in "Warren Calls Out Wells Fargo and Zelle for “Evasive” Responses about Fraud"

alxmdev — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:44:26 +0000

Why treat it like cash when it's not cash, but a digital service pushed by banks? There will always be scum that abuse a system, but the way it is now the odds are stacked against honest people.