Hacker News: calmingsolitude

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:54:14 +0000

If I were to hazard a guess, Valve was apprehensive about releasing the steam machine/frame this year because the high memory prices would mean that they'd have to price the steam machine/frame pretty high as well. However, once they saw how the steam deck was selling like hot cakes even after a $300 bump, they're deciding to go for it anyway.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:44:02 +0000

You've advertised twice on this thread about your site, but I personally find the UX to be worse, not to mention the phantom scroll issues and (imo) the tasteless animations.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "A few words on DS4"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:58:55 +0000

Parent is simply pointing out the incorrect usage of "empirically", which should typically only be mentioned when you've tested it yourself.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:23:50 +0000

Because he's paid to deliver code that works. Letting an AI agent do everything would be fine if it didn't make any mistakes, but that's far from reality.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Slop is text you haven't read, not text you haven't written"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:28:15 +0000

> if you edit those [LLM tropes] out, or ignore them, you can’t really argue that the writing produced by these models is objectively ‘bad’ any more.

Well, it isn't good either and that's the problem. It's just average.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:59:52 +0000

Although not disclosed on this page, the author's name is mentioned on their other projects[0].

> Our founder, Todd Bruss, is currently battling Cancer. Through it all, he continues to pour his heart into InkPen. Your support and encouragement mean the world.

The author has posted about their project on LinkedIn as well[1].

[0] https://inkpen.io/ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/principal-software-engineer-swif...

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:06:44 +0000

This was true a few years back, but in recent times Creality has fallen victim to quality control issues, a huge number of printer variants and generally having a not so great out of the box experience. You'll find this sentiment echoed in comments on any of the 3d printing subreddits as well.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:19:28 +0000

Thanks for the update. The usage of an affiliate link feels quite dishonest here because the hyperlink says bunny.net but then opens up bunny.net/?ref=xxxx

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:33:55 +0000

What trust model? Is there anyway to verify that an app from the app store is the same as the one the developer uploaded?

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:22:58 +0000

IMO closing issues via stale bot is fine, the problem is locking issues so that no further conversation is allowed on the issue. Multiple times, I've encountered multi-year old issues (which is usually not fixed due to the fix not being simple or compatible with the current architecture). There's usually a good amount of conversation between users offering workarounds (and those workarounds updated for newer versions) - till stale bot locks the issue.

This site is only accessible via UDP

calmingsolitude — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://udpquiz.com/only-udp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350230

Points: 1

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New comment by calmingsolitude in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:25:57 +0000

Working on an alt-tab window switcher for wayland compositors! Currently only supports Hyprland but working on adding support for others as well.

Check it out at https://github.com/radiantly/alttabway

New comment by calmingsolitude in "A Broken Heart"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:51:12 +0000

When I read the first sentence, I expected the author to use `git bisect`.

However, what the author seems to have done is used a prompt with claude that probably looked something like this:

"Some piece of code is causing the page to load very slowly. To debug this, I'd like to use binary search, where we keep commenting/uncommenting 50% of the remaining code, and then I manually check if the page is still very slow. Let's start now; Comment out a component (or parts of a component) that you estimate is 50% of the page, and I will tell you if the page is still slow."

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:25:43 +0000

The challenge outlined by the article is the lack of communication regarding the change in availability of Debian volunteers themselves. TFA doesn't mention issues regarding recruitment of new developers.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF"

calmingsolitude — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:27:23 +0000

This is a pretty cool project and I think the comments here are being overly negative. Sure, removing the constraints that the eBPF verifier requires might encourage more complex and less performant code - but this is just another tool in the toolbox. For truly production systems, I can see the battle-tested eBPF being the top choice over a dubious kernel extension. But for quick prototyping? Rex can probably take the cake here once the project matures a bit more.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:14:50 +0000

Here's the problem: your reply is factually correct, but it doesn't address the GP's overarching complaint - the start menu is simply not performant. And since the code powering the start menu is closed source, it is not possible to perform a benchmark to see if the react native portion of the start menu is to blame or if it is something else.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:17:24 +0000

Visiting this site on mobile is not great. A good portion of the screen is covered by a sticky header and there is no underline or feedback when a link is clicked. Additionally, it is missing the story position and with infinite scroll there is no way to differentiate whether you are looking at the 10th story or the one in the 100th position.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:26:42 +0000

This is because many of the "native" windows components like the start menu are written in react native.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Affinity Studio now free"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:20:43 +0000

Downloaded v3 but it kept crashing for me on Windows 10. Possibly because I had designer v1 previously installed. If anyone's facing the same issue, deleting %APPDATA%\Affinity directory fixes this.

WebGPU Fundamentals

calmingsolitude — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:14:39 +0000

Article URL: https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-fundamentals.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480640

Points: 5

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