Hacker News: carlos_rpn

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Windows Notepad to Receive New Age Verification Feature"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:03:37 +0000

Is this satire?

The way things have been going, I can't tell.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "RIP Orelhao"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:13:44 +0000

I thought they had been retired long ago.

I think it's been years since I last saw one at Rio de Janeiro.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:42:44 +0000

It feels like it won't be long before Microsoft starts helping with that (by making Windows less stable, not improving Wine).

Facing US oil blockade, Cuban man powers car with charcoal

carlos_rpn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/facing-us-oil-blockade-cuban-man-powers-car-with-charcoal-2026-03-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438834

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: How does one get involved in FPGA development?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:03:36 +0000

Take a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/FPGA/

Whatever people may say about reddit, it seems to be a good starting point to get started with pretty much any hobby (even if it's just to get a link to another community).

Edit: https://github.com/BrunoLevy/learn-fpga looks interesting.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "How do we make web accessibility doable for devs with zero a11y budget?"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:21:34 +0000

Good looking, acessible, "default" themes for popular CSS frameworks?

Like "here's Bootstrap5 default theme, here's another for high contrast, here's another for X problem, etc..."?

Not hidden away in some github repo you find on HN or Reddit, but either collected in some "resources for acessibility" website, or actively promoted by the frameworks themselves.

Maybe an AI tool to get a page source, a screen capture and generate alt texts and aria-roles?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "WebGPU is now supported in major browsers"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:28:20 +0000

On Windows and MacOS.

Linux support is still a work in progress on both Chromium base browsers and Firefox.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Is Lichess.org Hacked?"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:37:40 +0000

Could it be related to the Cloudflare issue?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:29:05 +0000

Is Cloudflare being down the work of conservative hackers and the rest of the internet is just collateral damage?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:41:12 +0000

Lots of Linux software these days are also distributed as flatpack or appimage, and appimage in particular is dead simple if what you want has it available: place the file wherever on the path, make it executable, and done.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Steam Machine"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:39:03 +0000

Damn, a smartphone made by Valve would make me splurge for more than middle-low end, for the respect they give us alone.

It just needs my banking apps, and and I'll be happy to pay for it.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study"

carlos_rpn — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:32:53 +0000

Anytime I see the complaint about the 30% fee, I wonder what people feel would be fair for the service, because it also includes storage, distribution for new instalations and patching for older ones, along with generating keys to be sold at other stores.

Would people feel better with a lower fee, but no distribution network, for example?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: Best way to create a searchable knowledge base?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:00:12 +0000

I never dealt with it or tried anything like you need, but isn't it a good use case for an AI with Retrieval Augmented Generation?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:33:23 +0000

There was an interview on Fortune where a Wall Street executive believes it probably won't happen for at least 9 months, but will likely happen within the next 24.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/ai-bubble-cisco-moment-dotcom...

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest"

carlos_rpn — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:25:01 +0000

https://archive.is/QylCx

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: Browser Mmorpg"

carlos_rpn — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:54:46 +0000

I came to check if anyone would make any suggestion but found none. Still a search led me to this: https://www.mmorpg.com/games-list/show/browser

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Show HN: Shimmy – 5MB privacy-first, local alternative to Ollama (680MB)"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:08:29 +0000

You may have noticed already, but the link to the binary is throwing a 404.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries"

carlos_rpn — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:07:17 +0000

I remember those reports.

I wonder if it has to be the same kind of sand, or could be some that we neither have another use for, nor would damage any ecosystem (too much).

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries"

carlos_rpn — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:19:17 +0000

I didn't have time to read the whole thing so I don't know if they mention it, but another article about about using sand as heat storage pointed out one of the advantages is that the material isn't toxic, unlike chemical batteries.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

carlos_rpn — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:52:49 +0000

Somehow I copied your prompt and got a knife with a single handle on the first try: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_689647439a848191b69aab3ebd9bc56c

Edit: chatGPT translated the prompt from english to portuguese when I copied the share link.