Hacker News: ch_sm

New comment by ch_sm in "JavaScript Is Enough"

ch_sm — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:30:58 +0000

hey! Great job on this, dashersw. I‘ve believed for a while now that the compile time dependency analyzer approach is the only good way for frameworks like this. Really neat choices on the API surface as well – so simple! Launching with a headless UI lib is smart. will try both in a side project soon! thanks and cheers!

New comment by ch_sm in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

ch_sm — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:37:10 +0000

> Safari is still working on pulling theirs back up.

not sure about this take, given that chrome‘s rendering engine was famously based on Safari‘s - WebKit - before they forked it (Blink). V8 was indeed faster than Safari‘s JS engine at the time. However, today, Safari is objectively faster in both rendering (WK) and JS performance (JSCore).

Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being ‚woke'

ch_sm — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:11:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/873533/netflix-warner-bros-discovery-senate-antitrust-hearing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888463

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by ch_sm in "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence"

ch_sm — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:26:02 +0000

I see your point, but that is definitely not the only cause of American economic dominance. The U.S. has been the largest economy by GDP since ca 1900 – i.e. before the wars.

New comment by ch_sm in "Koralm Railway"

ch_sm — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:36:42 +0000

Really? I always thought it was London in 1801. Do you have a link to the data?

New comment by ch_sm in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

ch_sm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:35:02 +0000

> Huh? Every EV uses recuperative braking, how is this special to Tesla?

It‘s not. But there are some newer EVs (e.g. Mercedes and VW) that track brake usage and will periodically switch to using the disk brakes when there‘s danger of corrosion.

New comment by ch_sm in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

ch_sm — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:20:39 +0000

  Location: Austria
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, React and similar, Docker & friends, Postgres & MySQL, Integration- and End-to-End-testing, Node.js, Linux, Golang, Figma,
  Résumé/CV: arni.at/cv.pdf
  Email: arnold  graf [at] gmail (dot) com

Hi! I’m a Senior Software Engineer and project manager with over 16 years experience in the industry. Full Stack, with a strong focus on the front end side of things.

I’ve co-founded and led a music and messaging focused start up as the CTO for 5 years — from the first MVP until it got acquired in 2019.

I’m very much a product builder with a keen eye for detail and UX, a strong sense of responsibility and ownership. As a team leader I consider myself empathetic and pragmatic.

New comment by ch_sm in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

ch_sm — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:53:42 +0000

just as a little side note: while it really isn‘t regarded as a typical mac game nowadays, Halo was originally planned as a Mac-exclusive, before Microsoft bought Bungie. If memory servese me right, Jobs even presented it as an exclusive at some MacWorld or Expo.

New comment by ch_sm in "Porsche demonstrates inductive EV charging at IAA"

ch_sm — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:56:10 +0000

their site says it’s 90% efficient [0], which is impressive, but I agree, still sub-optimal for large scale installations.

The other thing is that it needs to be perfectly aligned. If you can’t be bothered to plug in a cable, can you be bothered to align your SUV in your garage perfectly with a charge pad?

[0] https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2025/products/porsche-wirele...

New comment by ch_sm in "Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?"

ch_sm — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:30:25 +0000

Yeah I had that same i9 16 inch from 2019. Easily the worst Mac I‘ve ever owned (in 20 years!). Now I‘m on an M2 16 inch an it is night and day.

New comment by ch_sm in "Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines"

ch_sm — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:22:04 +0000

apparently the sharpening algorithm is only applied on youtube shorts, not on regular youtube videos.

New comment by ch_sm in "About that A18 Pro MacBook rumor"

ch_sm — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:40:27 +0000

Also, it doesn‘t run on iPads because it would be very difficult to use all these mouse and keyboard centric UIs with only your finger.

New comment by ch_sm in "The time is right for a DOM templating API"

ch_sm — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:37:10 +0000

Agree that react isn’t the best implementation of the concept, both in terms of ergonomics and efficiency. But a react-like framework is still very much needed to create complex apps in the browser. So IMHO react is a solution to a very current problem, only not an ideal one.

New comment by ch_sm in "The No Space for Bezos movement: 'One man rents a city for three days? '"

ch_sm — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:11:46 +0000

Interesting data point! But don‘t you think Barcelona is capable of making money outside of tourism?

New comment by ch_sm in "The No Space for Bezos movement: 'One man rents a city for three days? '"

ch_sm — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:34:52 +0000

hm. I can see that being true for venice, but what about barcelona and paris?

New comment by ch_sm in "Apple's Liquid Glass in the Browser"

ch_sm — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:57:41 +0000

This is very clever! I’d been wondering about ways to replicate the effect on the web, and this is a neat way of doing it — great job!

Aside from that, this being the first time I’m seeing the effect live, I don’t care too much for it. I wonder whether it will get very popular.

New comment by ch_sm in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

ch_sm — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:23:55 +0000

Haha, nice screenshot. It even has Bryce 5 in the start menu!

New comment by ch_sm in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

ch_sm — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:00:58 +0000

Oh cool, I had forgotten about this project, thanks for posting it! This is the first time I’ve noticed that they had the perspective "glass table" style dock that Apple used a couple of years later in Mac OS X Leopard.

New comment by ch_sm in "FFmpeg Merges WebRTC Support"

ch_sm — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:39:33 +0000

if you‘re really interested in doing that, i‘m certain you can with a bit of effort. There are plenty of docs and examples online.

New comment by ch_sm in "The David Lynch Collection"

ch_sm — Fri, 30 May 2025 11:21:45 +0000

> But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much.

I feel like I can identify with that. I have a pair of AKG studio headphones for recording music and listening for "mistakes" in mixes, but otherwise mostly B&O Hi-Fi speakers. To me, the sound is more "immersive" and emotionally captivating than e.g. studio monitors, and they still have lots of detail. (Plus, there’s the issue of them looking as nice as they do and being very easy to set up — it makes them easy to live with). Just my 2 cents.