Hacker News: boogerlad

New comment by boogerlad in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

boogerlad — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:35:19 +0000

Would you be able to circle these highlights? I viewed - https://jakearchibald.com/c/original-CXtAofvc.jpg - https://jakearchibald.com/c/avif-q39-e0-d8-yuv444-ssimu70.4-... at 100% magnification at peeped around for a few minutes but didn't notice anything. Maybe my eyes / monitor is bad...

New comment by boogerlad in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

boogerlad — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:02:03 +0000

> I’ve been running Kimi K3 alongside Claude on my normal coding work, and for all practical purposes I can’t tell them apart

When you say "Claude", do you mean Opus? Fable? What effort level?

New comment by boogerlad in "TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro and IOS"

boogerlad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:07:42 +0000

Does this use anything from the flash-moe project?

https://github.com/Alexintosh/flash-moe

New comment by boogerlad in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

boogerlad — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:54:00 +0000

How can this be used with jj?

New comment by boogerlad in "SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V"

boogerlad — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:30:47 +0000

This is your chance! As a clean slate design, you can abandon the concept of a hierarchal file system and replace it with rdbms.

New comment by boogerlad in "A new PNG spec"

boogerlad — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:58:04 +0000

You're right, but aren't you forgetting that for each image, the encode cost needs to be paid just once, but the decode time must be paid many many times? Therefore, I think it's important to optimize size and decode time.

New comment by boogerlad in "Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?"

boogerlad — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:46:50 +0000

I think subsidized svalboards are far better. Moonlanders are an evolution to the standard keyboard design, but a svalboard is a step function improvement - a true keyboard revolution.

New comment by boogerlad in "Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?"

boogerlad — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:26:21 +0000

If you're going to learn it, use at least a split columnar keyboard and a non qwerty layout. Learning to touch type on a regular keyboard will likely worsen your health compared to your four finger hunt and peck due to the bad uncomfortable qwerty touch typing enforces. Think about the awful pinky curls and reaches. Ouch!

New comment by boogerlad in "ZType – Typing Game"

boogerlad — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:27:30 +0000

Too bad this doesn't use the system keyboard on mobile

New comment by boogerlad in "Why Are Men More Vulnerable to Depression in Fatherhood?"

boogerlad — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:15:57 +0000

It has been 5 years and while it's getting better, I still regret every single day. I never wanted one since I believe I'm unsuitable to be a parent, yet everyone around me assured me it would be ok. It wasn't. I don't spend more than 10 consecutive minutes of quality time with my wife each day and I have lost all desire to do anything. That doesn't really matter though, because I can't do anything. I feel like my ability to execute has been reduced so much. My kid isn't even bad. I think they are quite good. I am the problem. This makes me feel even worse because my kid loves me and I can't return it.

New comment by boogerlad in "A kid made $50k dumping crypto he'd created – then came the backlash"

boogerlad — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:26:16 +0000

You're right about how "useful" needs to be defined. Monero at 30tps and blockchain growth rate is useless for global adoption. Lack of fungibility also makes every other cryptocurrency useless for global adoption.

You're also right that PoS is more sustainable than PoW, but I think this will change your mind: https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/lv5285/alt_take_on_... It did for me. Thankfully since the energy consumption does not scale with the transaction rate, it's not a long term problem I think. Currently, the high energy per transaction stats are only because the adoption is low.

New comment by boogerlad in "A kid made $50k dumping crypto he'd created – then came the backlash"

boogerlad — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:30:56 +0000

Not monero. It is the only useful cryptocurrency in my opinion, and it is easy to understand that it is private digital cash.

New comment by boogerlad in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

boogerlad — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:28:44 +0000

  Location: Japan
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node.js, postgresql, javascript, python, django, playwright
  Résumé/CV: boogerlad.github.io
  Email: boogerlad@gmail.com

I've been a software developer for 6 years but have been enamored by computers since I was a kid. I love analyzing problems and their current solutions and coming up with something better. I'm a strong believer in keeping things as simple as possible and eliminating abstraction layers. I think many web applications sadly treat the database as a dumb data store, leading to data inconsistencies and redundant code. I like to take my time to think things through and (hopefully) design it correctly from the get go.

New comment by boogerlad in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"

boogerlad — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:26:56 +0000

  Location: Japan
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node.js, postgresql, javascript, python, django, playwright
  Résumé/CV: boogerlad.github.io
  Email: boogerlad@gmail.com

New comment by boogerlad in "Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes"

boogerlad — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 03:58:40 +0000

How does this compare to lamdu?

New comment by boogerlad in "Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution"

boogerlad — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:18:00 +0000

Yeah I've been searching for this kind of display technology for the past couple years and concluded I'm using the wrong search terms or it just doesn't exist. Techically possible with oled / microled.

New comment by boogerlad in "Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution"

boogerlad — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:31:13 +0000

What's the display equivalent for an event camera?

Svalboard – Datahand Successor

boogerlad — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:06:13 +0000

Article URL: https://svalboard.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884127

Points: 2

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New comment by boogerlad in "Why Are There No Relational DBMSs? [pdf] (2015)"

boogerlad — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:59:15 +0000

There are: https://github.com/agentm/project-m36

New comment by boogerlad in "Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager"

boogerlad — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:30:48 +0000

Oh I think I understand what you're saying now. You have a laptop with a QWERTY hardware layout, and rely on the WM to remap the keys to a different layout? Sorry I can't help out. Just wanted to understand the issue.