Hacker News: archerx

New comment by archerx in "Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website"

archerx — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:51:42 +0000

Great, another thing I have to block server side. Reminds me of the image leech protections that had to be in place because bandwidth was expensive. History doesn’t repeat but rhymes as they say.

New comment by archerx in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

archerx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:22:11 +0000

It said the message was removed for violating some rule or something. The message was a link to a website meta does not approve of but it was removed like a day later.

New comment by archerx in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

archerx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:32:27 +0000

I never believed that the messages were truly E2E encrypted and I know for sure when WhatsApp retroactively censored a message I sent to a friend a while back, I found that super sus.

New comment by archerx in "Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting"

archerx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:38:34 +0000

Currently no, not at all.

New comment by archerx in "Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2"

archerx — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:04:08 +0000

“An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal their presence. Allegedly, German soldiers likened the sound to broomsticks and hence named the pilots "Night Witches".”

That’s an interesting story behind the name.

New comment by archerx in "The case for physical media ownership"

archerx — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:36:58 +0000

That “Thank you” comes off as a strong “Fuck you”.

New comment by archerx in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

archerx — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:47:45 +0000

Not everyone has the American “fuck you got mine” zero sum game attitude. Also they’re making some of the American and European AI companies look bad which they can leverage with their trades if they wanted to.

New comment by archerx in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

archerx — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:39:39 +0000

They are self financed, the company that makes DeepSeek is a finance company that trades on the markets.

New comment by archerx in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

archerx — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:41:55 +0000

Yea, no, not at all. A lot of websites that use “modern” front end frame works cause high CPU usage. Getting data as need using an event based system is magnitudes faster and more efficient.

New comment by archerx in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

archerx — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:42:05 +0000

What I can pin on react is that it is very inefficient with resources using much more cpu power than needed to render some text and images on a webpage. Imagine all the electricity that was wasted because of react and the negative impact on the environment it has had because of that.

New comment by archerx in "The Coming Enshittification of AI"

archerx — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:17:16 +0000

I have never been forced to watch an add on the Facebook app nor the Instagram app but the moment that happens to me I will uninstall both immediately. At this point Facebook is lamer/worse than MySpace ever was.

New comment by archerx in "Epic Games announces Lore version control system"

archerx — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:49:38 +0000

I use GitHub desktop app that pushes to my local Gitlab. It’s a nice and simple GUI, it might be what you’re looking for.

New comment by archerx in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

archerx — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:11:29 +0000

Well it got me to uninstall chrome so that’s something.

New comment by archerx in "Leaving Mozilla"

archerx — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:34:53 +0000

Imagine getting paid millions to kill a company, who needs enemies/competitors when you have “leaders” like that?

New comment by archerx in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

archerx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:24:11 +0000

Yea $350 is crazy, with that kind of money you can buy a new firebat style mini PC that will run circles around the raspberryPi performance wise.

New comment by archerx in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

archerx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:25:50 +0000

Really? I live in Lausanne and it’s getting a bit crowded. The buses and trains are completely packed to the point of over flowing, the city as well. Sure there’s a lot of land but that doesn’t mean we need to maximize its use at the expense of the environment and the nature it supports.

New comment by archerx in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

archerx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:31:36 +0000

>FCP

Yea, that’s a hard pass for me.

New comment by archerx in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

archerx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:27:47 +0000

Find the TV’s MAC address and block it on your router. My brother home network had this system where your MAC address had to be whitelisted on the router to communicate with the network, as the days go by I see how in hindsight how this might be for the best in the end.

New comment by archerx in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

archerx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:25:16 +0000

So what do you recommend for video editing?

New comment by archerx in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

archerx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:42:46 +0000

That’s a terrible analogy because you’re describing bugs and not usage patterns.

• UI freezes for a second or two when you switch to Fusion. - that’s weird

• If you adjust speed in a Fusion node, timeline clip remains the same length, so if you slow it down 2x you can only see the first half. To say Fusion in general is half-baked is to be very, very generous. - Again never had this issue

• Export location gets reset every launch. - It remembers my last export settings per project

• Can’t copy-paste a node or its settings, in case you want to test between two different configurations. - I have copy pasted many fusion and color nodes without issues

Have you reported these issues to Black Magic?

I have used a lot of editing software like old school Final Cut Pro, premiere, Sony Vegas (yuck!) and even movie maker. Resolve in my opinion has the least amount of friction to use. What do you use to edit?