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New comment by butz in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

butz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:51:55 +0000

Neat viewer. I wonder, why boats and cars in groud view ended up in such high altitude?

New comment by butz in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

butz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:49:11 +0000

Time to migrate all those electron "native" apps to actual native code. I bet with some decent optimizations 4GB will be more than enough for casual user, and still with some free memory to spare.

New comment by butz in "GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released"

butz — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:00:23 +0000

Is there any way this could be used as default text to speech engine on Linux?

New comment by butz in "WikiMedia Foundation Community Tech team has been disbanded, engineers laid off"

butz — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:34:03 +0000

Petition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_...

New comment by butz in "Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)"

butz — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:15:43 +0000

In corporate environment you cannot just simply download and run scripts from the internet. npm/npx create/install is allowed though.

New comment by butz in "Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:41:15 +0000

Overengineering aside (which is pretty legitimate way of doing hobby tech), why not build SANE on WASM? And maybe interfacing with airplay scanners could be even easier?

New comment by butz in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:37:49 +0000

Sorry, but your app icon is 3.66 MB PNG. A quick optimization to save some network requests.

New comment by butz in "Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:35:12 +0000

Kind of difficult to install, especially in the enterprise business environment. At least they kept it free for everyone.

New comment by butz in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:31:30 +0000

Good news, now there is a HUGE space in "classic" web search market. Let google do google things, and if they ever will try to come back, there will be large competition of various sizes.

New comment by butz in "DOS Zone"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:30:15 +0000

Oh yes, Quake 3 Arena, classic DOS game.

New comment by butz in "Vivaldi 8.0"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:29:12 +0000

It is always good to have more than one browser.

New comment by butz in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

butz — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:28:13 +0000

Anyone made a LLM model that parses such text and removes ads? Ad blocking is getting more interesting.

New comment by butz in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

butz — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:37:41 +0000

Such thing would never happen on sourceforge.net

New comment by butz in "Google changes its search box"

butz — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:35:28 +0000

Google was still doing search?

New comment by butz in "No more JetBrains products for me"

butz — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:29:59 +0000

If program has time to display startup banner - it is too slow. I was amazed how quickly Zed starts and it already has last project open and ready. Compared to JetBrains IDE, in some recent version they even added a toast informing that IDE is not responding. That tells much about application. And when whole UI keeps loading separate blocks like a website - absolutely annoying. Sometimes I don't even know if UI is actually ready to work, or clicking git branch selector will not yield any results, because something somewhere is still loading. Several GB size on disk with mostly unused plugins is just taking up space and makes loading IDE slower. They lost me as a customer when they dropped community edition of PyCharm. I was paying for PhpStorm for several years, until then, and dabbling with Python on the side. Having mandatory log in for free version is absurd.

New comment by butz in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

butz — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:42:20 +0000

Isn't this just a way to confirm that your email is still active, and few miliseconds later you will be getting a lot of new spam from websites you never knew about?

New comment by butz in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

butz — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:40:48 +0000

Just hold your horses, I started vibe coding not only Photoshop, but whole Creative Suite with all the utilities. Sorry to say, but I ran out of tokens this month, so it might take a while until I will be able to take on Adobe. Just sit tight and send positive vibes my way.

New comment by butz in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

butz — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:13:26 +0000

How locked down macOS is these days? Is it still possible to use OS without account and freely "sideload" software applications? Is homebrew still a thing?

New comment by butz in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

butz — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:36 +0000

Those should be defaults in npm.

New comment by butz in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

butz — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:19:39 +0000

Really silly, when you buy "AI PC" with "AI CPU" and still run any "GenAI" related stuff in the cloud.