Hacker News: amne

New comment by amne in "Apple WWDC 2026"

amne — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:21:23 +0000

or use the already existing figma mcp

New comment by amne in "Squares in Squares"

amne — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:03:09 +0000

if, like me, you're a non-native english and speaker don't immediately understand what this is about: the page shows for each `n` what's the minimum `s` such that `n` squares with side of length 1 fit in a square with side of length `s`.

what I'm curious about though is what a proof for something like this looks like. and why does it need a proof? not to mention the randomness of some of the `n`s. Math is most of the time beatiful and whenever I see something like `n=11` I think "it looks wrong so it must be wrong" yet it has a proof.

New comment by amne in "Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s"

amne — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:35:08 +0000

how can you claim in the readme "no per-language vendor SDK" and then link to a list of per-language client SDKs?

New comment by amne in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

amne — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:17:19 +0000

that's actually one thing I don't like but they're essentially forcing you to go 4k for the 10khz pwm.

otherwise, why would you want a resolution you're going to scale to 150% or even 200% anyway just to be able to read it anywhere outside?

... and eating into your battery

New comment by amne in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

amne — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:50:45 +0000

there is great hardware other than what Apple produces. It's actually the OS the reason people are buying their hardware for.

I see nothing stopping you from buying a 16" Razer Blade and putting whatever non-Orwellian OS you want on it

New comment by amne in "Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead"

amne — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:28:16 +0000

I hope nobody wanted "ecommerce-admin". sorry

New comment by amne in "Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox"

amne — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:55:27 +0000

you have to reference Royal food tasting somehow. just saying

New comment by amne in "Instagram's URL Blackhole"

amne — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:53:25 +0000

At this point it must be intentional that there's always something uncanny about these fake pages. That google logo is so old that if I see it I immediately know to get out of there.

So I find it fascinating how there's always the odd typo, the old logo, the impossible combination of iPhone needing an antivirus, etc and I refuse to believe is incompetence.

New comment by amne in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

amne — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:18:58 +0000

obligatory: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

spoiler though: I'm referencing the part where gimp is running in Wine running in asm.js in a Chrome browser running in another asm.js in Firefox

New comment by amne in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

amne — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:18:15 +0000

I used to run a cs1.6 server on an amd 800mhz with 256mb of ram in the 2000s. I'm looking these days to get a mac mini and while thinking that 16gb will not be enough I remembered about that server. It was a NAT gateway too, had a webserver also with hitstats for the cs server. And it was a popular 16v16 type of server too. What happened? How did we get to 16gb minimum and 32gb will make you not sad.

New comment by amne in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

amne — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:43:34 +0000

that same moment I switched to Niagara launcher. After 10 minutes of using it bought the Pro level and that was it. I kept around 5 apps in main screen, YT music widget automatically pops up on top when I connect headphones. The side scroll is very well thought out. For each letter the most used apps are on top. This one clicked with me.

New comment by amne in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

amne — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:31:03 +0000

I think it's just someone learning something new most of the time.

I have home made url shorteners in go, rust, java, python, php, elixir, typescript, etc. why? because I'm trying the language and this kind of project touches on many things: web, databases, custom logic, how and what design patterns can I apply using as much of the language as I can to build the thing.

New comment by amne in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

amne — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:55:26 +0000

why are you so deliberately not getting the point?

if I ask you to choose between xbox 360, xbox one and xbox series s which one is the latest?

and then if I ask you to choose between ps2, 3, 4 and 5 which one is the latest?

what do you think are your chances to get it right for xbox?

New comment by amne in "Dark Pattern Games"

amne — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:39:53 +0000

Chess:

- infinite treadmill: theoretically you can play all possible moves but not in a lifetime.

- variable rewards: sometimes you stumble upon (or try) a tactic that works.

- can't pause or save: except when you maybe play against a computer which is not the point of the game

- grinding: you need to play the same openings many many times to encounter all the responses that will let you know if your "build" is worthy

- competition: nothing to add

New comment by amne in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

amne — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:24:53 +0000

That's like Karcher opening a megamall to sell all their offering, vacuums, pressure washers, floor washers, you name it .. and then you, Bosch, complaining you can't sell your vacuum in Karcher's megamall where all the people go.

What are you even saying?

Whereas google was letting Bosch sell vacuums in their megamall, but only if it uses Google dust filters and people buy only Google made dust filters and Bosch isn't allowed to sell their own dust filters in the megamall.

New comment by amne in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

amne — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:34:55 +0000

Anyone familiar with how they're running x86 on a snapdragon? I'm more interested in that hitting your regular android phone .. think retroarch but you can play hades 2.

New comment by amne in "Roc Camera"

amne — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:33:57 +0000

1. buy stuff for $50

2. 3d print a couple of cases for $10

3. repurpose highschool summer break crypto project .. free? (excluding time spent)

4. ???

5. profit from selling it for $400 a pop

New comment by amne in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

amne — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:39:24 +0000

Is it me or is everything slowly moving to strong types but don't want to commit?

For PHP it slowly got introduced in php5.4 and now it's expected to type hint everything and mark the file strict with linters complaining left and right that "you're doing a bad job by having mixed-type variables"

In Ruby you get Sorbet or RBS.

What is JavaScript? Oh, you mean TypeScript.

and so on ..

My take is that if you need strong types switch to a language with strong types so you can enjoy some "private static final Map> getAttemptsBatches(...)"

New comment by amne in "Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU"

amne — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:48:52 +0000

called it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680538

New comment by amne in "Prime Number Grid"

amne — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:02:51 +0000

I find the patterns from cols % 30 == 0 very interesting (30,60,90,120, etc.) .. just straight vertical lines.

And if you go up or down by one (119 or 121) they appear to "rotate" left or right.

Very cool viz tool.