Hacker News: cgijoe

New comment by cgijoe in "Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator"

cgijoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:16:24 +0000

Click the "Load Example" drop-down menu in the bottom-right corner.

New comment by cgijoe in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

cgijoe — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:26:28 +0000

> Next: skip Chromium startup > This is complex, as a running browser has open devices, timers, graphics state, network state, and fingerprint state.

Hmm, can't you just keep a set of browsers already running, like a warm pool, ready to assign to an incoming request? The latency would be close to zero for the user. You'd need some prediction logic to expand / contract the warm pool based on traffic patterns, but that seems like the easiest solution to me.

New comment by cgijoe in "When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it"

cgijoe — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:02:38 +0000

Fun Fact: This same sort of thing also happened on the Classic Macintosh Quadra 840AV, when running in 8-bit (256 color) mode. Playback of realtime video capture reserved color index #243 (a very dark green in the system palette), and ANYWHERE that color was used, it would be replaced with the live video. I created some cool effects using this back in the 90s.

New comment by cgijoe in "Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP"

cgijoe — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:08:57 +0000

Oh my lord, your timing is perfect. I need this so badly right now. Congrats on the launch, and wow, thank you for making your MCP containers available separately!

New comment by cgijoe in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

cgijoe — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:38:49 +0000

Sorry, I am unfamiliar with ripgrep. Is this simply scanning for the string `_0x112fa8`? Could we do the same thing with normal grep -r?

New comment by cgijoe in "Serverless Horrors"

cgijoe — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 01:27:29 +0000

Title should really be "Cloud Hosting Horrors", not serverless per se.

New comment by cgijoe in "Bear is now source-available"

cgijoe — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:17:35 +0000

The source is ajar.

New comment by cgijoe in "Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer"

cgijoe — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:58:53 +0000

You sure about that? I see some clear diagonal lines at 431 cols: https://imgur.com/a/rNKjTtr

New comment by cgijoe in "Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient"

cgijoe — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:28:06 +0000

Ooh, how about this as a live desktop wallpaper!

New comment by cgijoe in "HTML Kaleidoscope"

cgijoe — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:52:56 +0000

If you like cool stuff like this, be sure to check out shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/

New comment by cgijoe in "Starting Hospice"

cgijoe — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:14:05 +0000

Talk to your doctor, and ask to be screened for all common cancers. A colonoscopy is in your future (I just had one). Also ask for a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test. Also look into the HPV vaccine.

New comment by cgijoe in "How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)"

cgijoe — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:31:21 +0000

Err, ASDF? What did the "F" key do? I think it used WASD, and was probably one of the very first games that did. Screenshot: https://www.mobygames.com/game/110/dark-castle/screenshots/a...

New comment by cgijoe in "I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment"

cgijoe — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:13:39 +0000

Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.

New comment by cgijoe in "A simple procedural animation technique [video]"

cgijoe — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:54:04 +0000

I hope the author sees this. Dude, your video is so awesome, thank you! But your microphone is "popping" every time you say a 'P' or a 'T' sound. This is because you are speaking directly into it. Try talking "past" it instead. Your vocal sound goes out in all directions, but the "wind" from your mouth that creates the pops only goes in one direction -- straight forward -- so if you slide your microphone to the side, you will still have good sounding audio with no pops.

New comment by cgijoe in "Azure DevOps is down globally"

cgijoe — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:29:13 +0000

Guessing this is related: Minecraft is down, and possibly other games that use XBox Live Login: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

"You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems. Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won't be available."

New comment by cgijoe in "Java 22 Released"

cgijoe — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:15:38 +0000

So does this fix the crashing issue with macOS Sonoma 14.4? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/usb-hubs-printers-ja...

New comment by cgijoe in "GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]"

cgijoe — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:20:24 +0000

So... what would happen if you took a ride with it? Instant death? Painful death? Slow death over several days? I need details!

New comment by cgijoe in "Missile Game"

cgijoe — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:01:11 +0000

Why does it start on level 9 by default? Also, this really could use an "invert Y-axis" setting.

New comment by cgijoe in "The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry"

cgijoe — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:59:34 +0000

a.k.a. Black Mirror, series 2, episode 1: "Be Right Back"

New comment by cgijoe in "DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior"

cgijoe — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:30:00 +0000

Yup, I had the same thought. Click through the gallery to the last page, and you can start to see artifacts in the examples. The chicken & waffles one particularly. Although I must say, I am still extremely impressed by this tech.