Hacker News: cevn

New comment by cevn in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

cevn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:52:58 +0000

It's sad because it removes choice from users over what OS to run. People that only use windows are going and throwing their old computers away.

New comment by cevn in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

cevn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:27:56 +0000

Once you find out that the notch can hide app items it makes you want to throw your computer out of a window.

New comment by cevn in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

cevn — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:02:08 +0000

You're absolutely right about being absolutely right!

New comment by cevn in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

cevn — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:10:33 +0000

It's like this. You eventually got Starcraft2 to work. That means Linux can run Starcraft2, it's in the "Runs" category. Games like League of Legends, which have kernel level anti cheat, are in the "Won't Run" category.

New comment by cevn in "Proof of Corn"

cevn — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:15:55 +0000

I think once we get off LLM's and find something that more closely maps to how humans think, which is still not known afaik. So either never or once the brain is figured out.

New comment by cevn in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

cevn — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:15:36 +0000

Dang, seems like a completely different world than the one I live in. Honestly I would prefer it if we were able to teach our kids personal responsibility to this level, I actually believe people can be that mature by age 7 and you know whether a kid is a rule breaker or not by that point.

New comment by cevn in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

cevn — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:04:36 +0000

You were loose with a gun at age 7?!

New comment by cevn in "Linux is good now"

cevn — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:42:49 +0000

Adobe works

New comment by cevn in "What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)"

cevn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:08:57 +0000

I win again, Lews Therin..

New comment by cevn in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

cevn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:39:04 +0000

I rly like construction site one. Spotting the lil red bird became a game for us.

New comment by cevn in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

cevn — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:03:47 +0000

You know what OS doesn’t handle the notch? OSX. It happily throws the system tray icons right back there, with an obscure work around to bring them back. Software quality at Apple these days…

New comment by cevn in "Reasons not to become famous (2020)"

cevn — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:47:40 +0000

Ha, well I figured if I was going to die a lot, may as well be having a fresh experience. I play primarily Wizard and my favorite part is, I don't have to carry 100 daggers, and quarterstaff seems actually useful.

Like you said, that feeling of seeing a totally unknown level is a real rush. Now I am downloading and trying UnNethack :)

New comment by cevn in "Reasons not to become famous (2020)"

cevn — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:51:46 +0000

I was a big fan of NH until 3.6, now it is too difficult so I switched to Evilhack which has been a breath of fresh air.

New comment by cevn in "TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse"

cevn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:05:21 +0000

None of those ideas you listed were legit. But it would take much longer to refute than it did to simply list them off

New comment by cevn in "Elevated errors across many models"

cevn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:48:29 +0000

The 529 is coming from inside the house?!

New comment by cevn in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

cevn — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:52:08 +0000

Can't black holes explain Dark Energy? Supposedly there was an experiment showing Black Holes are growing faster than expected. If this is because they are tied to the expansion of the universe (univ. expands -> mass grows), and that tie goes both ways (mass grows -> universe expands), boom, dark energy. I also think that inside the black holes they have their own universes which are expanding (and that we're probably inside one too). If this expansion exerts a pressure on the event horizon which transfers out, it still lines up.

New comment by cevn in "Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation"

cevn — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:58:45 +0000

I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.

New comment by cevn in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

cevn — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:22:29 +0000

Apex being 20 explains so much about that game. Half the time I would be firing right on target and watch my shots go thru

New comment by cevn in "Claude Code 2.0"

cevn — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:49:06 +0000

I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.

New comment by cevn in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

cevn — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:17:33 +0000

Wow, I spent 90% of my free time as a kid in the school library. Reading this hurts. At least they are protecting them from using their brain