Hacker News: chainwax

New comment by chainwax in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

chainwax — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:59:56 +0000

I think he's referring to the fact that Colossus is powered by fossil fuels.

New comment by chainwax in "Migrating to React Native's new architecture"

chainwax — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:23:37 +0000

Yes, but not for long.

Src: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr...

New comment by chainwax in "Blurry rendering of games on Mac"

chainwax — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:52:19 +0000

I played all the way through Space Age on a M1 Macbook Air no problem.

New comment by chainwax in "A Rust shaped hole"

chainwax — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:01:17 +0000

I does indeed bundle it's runtime into the executable, but this is not dissimilar from Go bundling it's gc into every executable.

Granted a compiled hello world Go program will be <2mb while a similar compiled Deno program will be more like 70. I imagine many usecases may not have a storage constraint though, and in that case why not?

New comment by chainwax in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

chainwax — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:25:40 +0000

I've been working on an app that will use ai to decorate my Anki cards with audio/example sentences/images. The more I get into it though, the more I think I may just end up writing my own flashcard app. I feel like most of the project has been spent wrestling with AnkiConnect, while the fun stuff has been fairly simple.

New comment by chainwax in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

chainwax — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:29:08 +0000

I personally love this. I have a pretty strong distaste for bright screens everywhere and rather like the look of e-ink screens. I'd love a future where we move away from putting up LCD panels on every surface we can advertise on.

New comment by chainwax in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

chainwax — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:26:53 +0000

https://usetrmnl.com/

This was recently shared here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42137513

New comment by chainwax in "Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails"

chainwax — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:15:22 +0000

I love where you're going with this, nearly all of my little side projects have something to do with maps and bikes. No comment on how the routes are as I'm not really familiar with any good routes in bigger Euro cities, but as someone who rides around NYC a lot this would be really useful in making routes for visitors who aren't as keen on riding in NYC traffic.

Mobile needs some work. Are you planning on open sourcing this? I'm a mobile dev that might be able to clean that up a little. Good candidate for React Native.

New comment by chainwax in "How good are American roads?"

chainwax — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:20:36 +0000

I'm from South Carolina, pretty close to the border with North Carolina. All my life i've heard that South Carolina's roads are terrible, especially compared to North Carolina's _amazing_ roads.

Looking at this data though, it seems while NC edges out SC by a small margin on interstate roads, SC actually beats NC on local roads.

Take that, North Carolina!

New comment by chainwax in "My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine"

chainwax — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:27:33 +0000

because code is like pasta

In more ways than one

New comment by chainwax in "Bluesky adds direct messages"

chainwax — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:40:58 +0000

I'd give it a spin

New comment by chainwax in "Exercises to Learn Rust"

chainwax — Fri, 17 May 2024 03:13:21 +0000

Being the first language to contest C++ in places like the kernal is a pretty big deal, no? It helps that the borrow checker is a new idea around being safe without gc.

New comment by chainwax in "Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git"

chainwax — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:49:17 +0000

Love this, and may be helpful for incoming interns who are fuzzy on Git. Up until now my strategy has been to let them figure it out and point them to https://ohshitgit.com/ if they screw up.

Ask HN: What development tools have you been using lately?

chainwax — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:45:20 +0000

I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.

Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:

https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.

https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors. The only other CI "platform" i've used (barely) is Github Actions, which I didn't like off the bat.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39242032

Points: 5

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New comment by chainwax in "Ask HN: Are height adjustable desks worth it?"

chainwax — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:11:03 +0000

I recently purchased a walking treadmill for my standing desk, though it hasn't come in yet. I do think that if you're interested in burning some calories on the clock, a standing desk is a prerequisite.

New comment by chainwax in "Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice"

chainwax — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:42:44 +0000

This has been called into question recently.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36216940/

https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/library/health-...

New comment by chainwax in "Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard"

chainwax — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:05:02 +0000

A Fallout 3 remaster is in the works.

https://www.ign.com/articles/oblivion-remaster-fallout-3-rem...

New comment by chainwax in "Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom"

chainwax — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:21:40 +0000

I have to imagine the Steam Deck playing in the same price bracket (the refurb base model was going for $320), Nintendo _may_ feel the pressure to support backwards compatibility. Why buy a new device and Breath of the Wild over again when you could just get a Deck and play a large % of ever PC game to have ever existed?

Nintendo is also in a different position this time around, as the WiiU, DS, 3DS, etc had such different hardware that remaking a game for the Switch was essentially a necessity, whereas I expect the Switch 2 to be a Switch with faster hardware.

New comment by chainwax in "Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on"

chainwax — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:14:55 +0000

Currently working on a site that allows you to use your data from run/bike apps to visualize your data on a map, make it look neat, and order a print.

I have an early version of it hosted on https://ridemapper.henrygrant.dev and add features as I think of them/when I have time.

https://github.com/henrygrant/ridemapper-svelte

New comment by chainwax in "Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco"

chainwax — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:44:59 +0000

Same on Chrome/osx