Hacker News: capl

New comment by capl in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

capl — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:40:40 +0000

cause you might go to the eternal flames if you say a no-no word online

New comment by capl in "What color is your function? (2015)"

capl — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:17:33 +0000

will always upvote this post when I see it

virtual threads (stackful coroutines) in Java is most of the reason why I’m defaulting to it nowadays instead of C#, Rust, etc

New comment by capl in "Ghidra by NSA"

capl — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:37:22 +0000

Binary Ninja seems way ahead in terms of UX, as a hobby reverser. It's my default as well.

New comment by capl in "I miss thinking hard"

capl — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:21:53 +0000

That’s funny cause I feel the opposite: LLMs can automate, in a sloppy fashion, building the first trivial draft. But what remains is still thinking hard about the non trivial parts.

New comment by capl in "The Codex App"

capl — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:11:53 +0000

LLMs are trained on web slop, not engineering

New comment by capl in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

capl — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:50:30 +0000

Nothing wrong with the "creating products that prioritize user experience over features" - or more accurately what Jobs said: create products that start with the user experience and the user’s needs first and then work your way to the tech (as far as I remember)

The opposite approach is starting with some tech and then trying to find a use for it, e.g. folding phones, second 1/2 screen on laptop, etc, instead of trying to actually create a usable, quality trackpad for instance.

The critique is still valid: Apple, for their software, seem to not have the same focus on quality as Jobs once insisted on. Their physical products are very much still top notch, and the products on the whole are still developed with this mindset as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the software quality that has taken a hit for some reason.

New comment by capl in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

capl — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:32:12 +0000

Biggest issue is the lack of free speech. It’s a platform with an agenda, which is a huge red flag.

New comment by capl in "Magnus Carlsen quits chess championship after being told to change jeans"

capl — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:39:36 +0000

Morsom kar han der

New comment by capl in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

capl — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:36:30 +0000

Please delay it indefinitely. The OS with the worst security combined with a queryable LLM recording everything you do?

Yeah, no.

New comment by capl in "Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture"

capl — Fri, 24 May 2024 11:55:25 +0000

Hehe yeah, same when I think about it… I guess best thing to do is buy on launch and update every 2-5 years.

New comment by capl in "Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture"

capl — Fri, 24 May 2024 11:51:55 +0000

Hmm, I was thinking of buying an M3 Pro 16” this summer, but maybe I should wait then

New comment by capl in "Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs"

capl — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:29:57 +0000

Same here. Once worked with a guy who was a huge Microsoft fan, calling Macs and Linux-based workstations “nothing but toys”. Naturally I couldn’t help but laugh when he couldn’t work for 20 minutes due to a forced windows update and then a blue screen after booting up again.

The Candy crush and other crappy apps/games in combination to being a full fledged spyware OS with adware on top is already enough to make me run away screaming.

New comment by capl in "Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine"

capl — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 15:20:06 +0000

It has a 90's Pixar look to it, which is cool

New comment by capl in "The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop"

capl — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:39:57 +0000

> The battery life on my own X220 is fantastic. I have a brand-new 9-cell that lasts for roughly 5-6 hours of daily work. Obviously these numbers don't come close to the incredible battery life of Apple's M1/M2 chip devices, but it's still quite competitive against other "newer" laptops on the market.

Oh okay, so it’s the best sub-tier laptop on the market. MacBooks still on top, got it.

New comment by capl in "Developers Have a Laptop Problem [video]"

capl — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 04:09:28 +0000

I'm on a 2019 Intel MBP, so I have not experienced developing on ARM yet. I though docker had full support for ARM, and I assumed it did emulation of amd64, no?

New comment by capl in "Developers Have a Laptop Problem [video]"

capl — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 03:43:06 +0000

Yes, I've just seen lots of people in the comments not seeing the value in the machines Apple create, which slightly annoys me. Because they are very fine computers.

And as most people with laptops, we own them due to convenience ;) -- that's why I believe they are usually better consumer grade computers than desktops.

New comment by capl in "Developers Have a Laptop Problem [video]"

capl — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 03:26:52 +0000

I find the hate towards MacBooks interesting, and more so in the comments than the actual video. After having used a lot of computers, both laptops and desktops, I genuinely believe there are no better laptops than MacBooks that bring build quality and software quality, and last but not least the integration of those two to the table -- albeit for a hefty price tag.

A Windows laptop that you convert to a Linux laptop is simply a inferior machine in my eyes and my metrics: worse trackpad, way worse battery life, worse build quality in general (although Razor's laptops are quite good), worse hardware integration (biometric auth). It's a tinkerer's dream, but not the optimal productivity machine.

Linux belongs on the server, maybe desktops, but certainly not on a laptop IMHO.

I say this not to be a Apple fanboy, but rather to acknowledge that Apple's products are not the cancer that some people make it out to be.

Tech Survival Guide: How to Break Free from the Attention Economy's Grasp

capl — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 03:15:17 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@modeller_print.0p/tech-survival-guide-how-to-break-free-from-the-attention-economys-grasp-10aa88b0ce6e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812556

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by capl in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

capl — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:40:51 +0000

I have a couple of issues that keeps me using Safari. First off is the insane battery usage. It’s like 2x battery usage of Safari. Then it’s all the noise like Pocket, sign in this and register that.

And then a very specific problem that has annoyed the crap out of me: extension windows close if Firefox loses focus! That means that using Bitwarden to do this: 1) open Bitwarden and find some login details 2) alt tab to the program you’re trying to sign in to 3) paste the username 4) alt tab back to Firefox/Bitwarden and there you go, the Bitwarden window was closed due to Firefox losing focus and you now have to open it again, search and find the credentials again and then paste the password 5) open Bitwarden a third time and search yet again for the OTP code… A huge pain in the ass that makes me want to use another browser just because of that.

New comment by capl in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

capl — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:33:27 +0000

I’ve tried using Orion but I found it very slow and does not work fully as it should with a single chrome plugin I tried. Back to Safari!