Hacker News: ccapitalK

New comment by ccapitalK in "Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0"

ccapitalK — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:43:12 +0000

Obligatory https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/

New comment by ccapitalK in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

ccapitalK — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:09:51 +0000

He also posted https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/lets-be-honest-generative-..., which got flagged as low effort spam about 30 minutes ago. https://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=46605587

New comment by ccapitalK in "I'm just having fun"

ccapitalK — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:26:58 +0000

I'm asking this question purely out of curiosity, and not as a snark, is there any particular reason why you don't capitalise the beginnings of your sentences? It seems strange to go to the effort of capitalising STEM and putting a hyphen in college-level without capitalising the letters. Is it something like the push towards sans-serif fonts because some groups of people find it easier to read?

New comment by ccapitalK in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

ccapitalK — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:48:40 +0000

I find 3blue1brown to be a great resource to build up good intuition about math topics, his videos about calculus and linear algebra are wonderful in particular. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53... is his essence of calculus series, I found the visualizations made it a lot easier to grok.

New comment by ccapitalK in "Why we need SIMD"

ccapitalK — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:35:27 +0000

Am I getting the math wrong here? Going from O(n) to O(log n) (with no change in constant factor) for a million items would be going from ~1000000c ops to ~20c ops, which would be a 50000x improvement?

New comment by ccapitalK in "Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools"

ccapitalK — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:51:55 +0000

Behold, I've brought you a compiler bug.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

New comment by ccapitalK in "Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for"

ccapitalK — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:10:18 +0000

Gaussian Blur isn't the most efficient way of doing a frosted glass blur effect though. IIRC the current state of the art is the Dual Kawase blur, which is what KDE uses for its blurred transparency effect, I've never observed performance issues having it running on my machine.

New comment by ccapitalK in "OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself"

ccapitalK — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:10:55 +0000

It's sites like this that make me extremely grateful for firefox's reader mode.