Hacker News: azatom

New comment by azatom in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

azatom — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:14:50 +0000

just be aware of the exact prompt:

"memory usage is important": creates a 1TB binary

"take multiple steps": uses so much power, extreme global warming, it will just print "hot"

"think outside of the box": it will enslave you so you will not care about weather

New comment by azatom in "TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas"

azatom — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:29:28 +0000

when will be xson invented, with support of xpathson and xsdson but strictly leaving out other xml features.. for future improvement?

New comment by azatom in "I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

azatom — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:27:28 +0000

-1: build transistor from atoms

-2: ...

(ofc the UI could be more simpler but I've found the wiring)

New comment by azatom in "I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

azatom — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:20:14 +0000

you maybe not select accidental but others do:

user-select: none;

New comment by azatom in "OEIS: Number of stars on the US flag since 1775"

azatom — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:14:38 +0000

I would love a DB full of this kind of random data, but not in OEIS

New comment by azatom in "Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed"

azatom — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:35:51 +0000

No and sorry. I mixed that with lite-xl, tried they at same time and both had a red flag (lite-xl has official exe and can't open windows text file). I do not remember what was my problem with zed. Maybe just the autoformat (if i turn off format-on-save then I can not format at all only if I install a plugin.)

New comment by azatom in "Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed"

azatom — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:17:56 +0000

Is Zed the text editor that can't open a Windows (UTF-16 LE, UCS2 encoded) text file?

New comment by azatom in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

azatom — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:15:01 +0000

Why is it so loud? On same machine Cyberpunk2077 goes with highest settings with same fan noise.

New comment by azatom in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

azatom — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:27:29 +0000

sleep?

strace shows that the sleep program uses clock_nanosleep, which is theoretically "passive." However, if the host suspends and then wakes up after the sleep period should have ended, it continues as if it were "active."

New comment by azatom in "[dead]"

azatom — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:13:51 +0000

Genuine question: why reads it "1-100" as 1 .. -100? Google is (was) good at that even when I think it was taught by pure statistics. I never saw people would mean by that, only by bots. Does bots have too much influence?

New comment by azatom in "[dead]"

azatom — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:18:32 +0000

It just needs another service for making tests... But that probably will has the same base of the AI, so yuck. For making *good* test by yourself, I think you still need to know that code *very* well.

New comment by azatom in "What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?"

azatom — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:15:17 +0000

"- Do you guys know a program that stores keystrokes of the keyboard? - Yes, MSWord." /Anonymous, ca. 20th century/

New comment by azatom in "The curl-wget Venn diagram"

azatom — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:02:57 +0000

don't forget the weekly security fix on the right side ;)

New comment by azatom in "Midjourney Showcase"

azatom — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:45:38 +0000

I have no idea how to put it in words and I am far from bashing it, I like it, admire it.. but.. it seems vaguely divergent styles, stil what it bugs me after seeing lots of these images, it seems "boring" (again i don't know how to phrase it).. if i see an image in the wild i can guess it is generated by midjourney.

New comment by azatom in "The Apple Vision Pro, Is a Display, Not an AR Device"

azatom — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:16:47 +0000

It's price come from the missing content/services. As always, Apple let others build ideas, and a few years from now, it will be omly $350. Monthly.

New comment by azatom in "WSL2 on Zen4 Ryzen: similar performance to running bare metal Linux"

azatom — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:16:27 +0000

How do those DBs compare? I mean how am I can read these graphs? Like is mariadb slower on wsl or others have some kind bottleneck slowing them on all cases to near equal performance?

New comment by azatom in "The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid"

azatom — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:05:27 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09757

New comment by azatom in "I like technology that is less complex"

azatom — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:53:09 +0000

I think you like your reasoning kept oversimplified too.

I like the exact way the simple things as OP, eg: for media player I use android total commander:)

But the reasonong is just wrong. The problem with the phone is that it's extremely hard to find quality sw.

Exactly in a way as finding good, dedicated hw. The problem is the same: there is no review site niether of them.

PS: of course there are lots of details, like when hw flaws come to surface and users could write that to others, there is a new hw model. And lots and lots of them, no chance thet a testing company could test enough.

New comment by azatom in "World's largest banknote printer says printing money isn't profitable anymore"

azatom — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:21:29 +0000

Purely the existence of an alternative is a must, without it people would be not so happy with the e-money, eg. transatcion fees would became enermous..

New comment by azatom in "Ask HN: Human Independent Sources for Timestamp?"

azatom — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:38:50 +0000

No, I meant by a timestamp a thing, that assures other people, that another thing certainly does not happened after a specific time. There are authorities, whose in a simplified way: - I take crypto-hash of a massage, send to a timestamp authority - That authority digitally sign it with adding the current time.

So other people can check with the authority's public key, that is valid, so what I hashed, I cannot created after that time.

edit: so there is a problem with sunspots, it assures that it happened not before