Hacker News: baxuz

New comment by baxuz in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

baxuz — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:05:27 +0000

Touchscreens on vertical screens are ridiculous.

Especially if they don't even have stylus support

New comment by baxuz in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

baxuz — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:43:34 +0000

So, what's the go-to client for Nvidia Shield Pro now? I've tried Jellyfin and it has a lot of trouble with fancy anime subtitles (forgot the extension)

New comment by baxuz in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

baxuz — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:15:55 +0000

Remind me, which starship?

New comment by baxuz in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

baxuz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:34:59 +0000

Been using this layout for the past 12 years:

https://github.com/ivancuric/mac-hr-sane-layout

New comment by baxuz in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

baxuz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:34:16 +0000

Dunno. I prefer the mod+arrow keys or terminal shortcuts to 4 new keys

New comment by baxuz in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

baxuz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:48:19 +0000

There's also no virtualized list, which has been the defacto standard for the past 20 years in every other platform.

This forces devs to use userland hacks which break accessibility and lower performance.

New comment by baxuz in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

baxuz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:46:09 +0000

Because "the platform" more often than not, sucks ass. Web components are ass. Writing vanilla HTML is ass. Writing vanilla JS is ass. Vanilla CSS is ass (albeit getting better). DOM primitives are ass, as are the DOM APIs.

Is the solution to throw more React + Tailwind slop at the problem? Absolutely not. The solution is to _KNOW_ the platform and pick the best tools suited for each problem instead of chasing some form of academic purity.

New comment by baxuz in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

baxuz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:34:11 +0000

So, I'm holding the AI wrong is what you're telling me

New comment by baxuz in "I'm Tired of the AI Tone"

baxuz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:44:23 +0000

I'm sad that the em dash has been appropriated by clankers. It was a part of my tone, which I used often in writing.

New comment by baxuz in "Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K"

baxuz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:41:44 +0000

The fuck does "agentically" mean

New comment by baxuz in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

baxuz — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:10:24 +0000

Nah. Reduce is less performant and less readable than a regular loop. In my anecdotal experience, only people who want to appear smart and minimize the number of characters prefer reduce.

New comment by baxuz in "Show HN: Bodily Oddities"

baxuz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:51:18 +0000

Sorry, AI slop

New comment by baxuz in "iPhone Duo"

baxuz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:41:19 +0000

I'd like to have one of these devices once the prices get a bit more normal. I remember paying 400€ for an iPhone 4 when it came out, a flagship phone at the time by all metrics. Adjusted for inflation, that's about 600€.

Flagship prices have now reached the 1000€ mark, with marginal upgrades, and in many cases actual downgrades.

There is no world in which I can justify paying 2x-4x the flagship price for a device fulfilling a fundamentally similar purpose.

For a different comparison, a 14" MacBook Pro costs that much.

New comment by baxuz in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

baxuz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:37:41 +0000

There's an RFC or two to spawn threads so I'm looking forward to that. The current way of workers + messages is tedious as hell.

New comment by baxuz in "Fastpotify"

baxuz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:38:06 +0000

Fastslopify

New comment by baxuz in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

baxuz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:17:57 +0000

It's incredible how this comment is downvoted for stating facts

New comment by baxuz in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

baxuz — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:55:37 +0000

The fuck is a founder

New comment by baxuz in "Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)"

baxuz — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:11 +0000

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN

New comment by baxuz in "2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization"

baxuz — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:01:21 +0000

This is great stuff. Gaussian splatting is really proving to be a great format, even an intermediate one.

New comment by baxuz in "Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol"

baxuz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:27:16 +0000

This might be very useful for bonding PTFE and aluminium on cookware if it ends up being food safe.