Hacker News: cl3misch

New comment by cl3misch in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

cl3misch — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:09:48 +0000

Wasn't that the Bedrock edition? Or "Minecraft Education Edition"? An alternative C++ version, anyway.

I can't imagine Java Minecraft ever to have run well on a mid-range Raspi.

New comment by cl3misch in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

cl3misch — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:28:01 +0000

Inspired by my own comment I looked into it again and came up with this combination in the game's "launch options", which feels much better:

    DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.syncInterval = 0; dxgi.maxFrameLatency = 1; dxgi.maxFrameRate = 60" gamescope -f --immediate-flips -- %command%

I didn't know about `DXVK_CONFIG` before. It's the DirectX-Vulkan translation layer with its own framebuffer and latency.

I also manually disabled vsync in the game's `local.cfg` XML file.

I love where "gaming on Linux" is going. But I have the feeling the hype on Youtube etc. is in part created by content creators, and doesn't faithfully represent the actual situation (surprise!).

Refs: Mutable Arrays in jax

cl3misch — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.jax.dev/en/latest/array_refs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966012

Points: 3

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New comment by cl3misch in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

cl3misch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:47:34 +0000

So it's not a "hub", but a box around extension cables?

New comment by cl3misch in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

cl3misch — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:56:53 +0000

This hits a very soft spot for me. My beloved Spelunky 2 has huge input lag "on Linux", which makes it unplayable for me. It's pretty much the reason I keep my Windows 10 install around. I could not come up with a configuration on Linux that avoids the lag.

It's extra infuriating that online sources report the game running flawlessly but seem to ignore input lag.

New comment by cl3misch in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

cl3misch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:52:05 +0000

It seems to not support 24h? When I see e.g. 17:35 I want to type 17:35 instead of 5:35. Probably because I very seldomly see 5:35 in real life! Interesting observation by itself, but slightly annoying that I have to convert to 12h for this game.

Mathematical Coincidence

cl3misch — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:28:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795002

Points: 3

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New comment by cl3misch in "Programmers need to start meditating"

cl3misch — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:32:17 +0000

> Tools are supposed to be designed around humans

This is a common thing to say, but when during the development of human civilization has this actually been the case? Is agriculture designed around humans more than hunting/gathering? Is industrialized work more designed around humans than agrarian society?

I don't mean to sound pessimistic or technocratic; quite the contrary. But I think we shouldn't project our desire for equanimity onto romantized versions of civilization.

New comment by cl3misch in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

cl3misch — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:11:16 +0000

Is this allowed in Starlink's terms of service? Building a commercial service by selling a part of your antenna connection?

New comment by cl3misch in "Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2"

cl3misch — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:59:25 +0000

From the depths of hell in silence

Cast their spells, explosive violence

Russian night time flight perfected

Flawless vision, undetected

(Sabaton)

New comment by cl3misch in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

cl3misch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Moderation in recreational drugs, which definitely rules out fentanyl?

But yeah, what's moderation and what's excessive is subjective.

New comment by cl3misch in "Immich 3.0"

cl3misch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:09:28 +0000

I can only comment about battery life. It's proportinal to how much tailscale is really being used: If you use tailscale with an "exit node", i.e. all traffic is routed through it and it's working continously, it drains battery. If it's only used for services on your tailnet, e.g. Immich, the impact will be very small.

New comment by cl3misch in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

cl3misch — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:11:29 +0000

But that doesn't give you kernel updates, being userspace only?

New comment by cl3misch in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

cl3misch — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:17:08 +0000

PR #655 of which project? I thought you meant Wireplumber but that's not it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/merge_...

Edit: You meant Librepods. Apparently I managed to forget what we were commenting on in the first place.

New comment by cl3misch in "Mojo programming language will become open-source soon"

cl3misch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:13:36 +0000

What exactly? I already quoted what I could find (only very general statements).

Ah, seems to be here: https://mojolang.org/docs/faq/#will-mojo-be-open-sourced

> We have committed to open-sourcing Mojo in Fall 2026.

New comment by cl3misch in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

cl3misch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:12:12 +0000

Interesting! It reads to me like Apple advertises AAC-ELD only for Facetime though?

And the alternative, newer "Bluetooth high quality recording" I mentioned in sibling comment is not recommended for real-time communication due to increased latency.

So the situation seems to be more complex than I thought. But I stand by my original sentiment: I dislike the prevalence of bad-sounding Airpods in meetings.

New comment by cl3misch in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

cl3misch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:39:44 +0000

They use hardware tricks (beamshaping) and software tricks (audio processing) to get as much out of them as possible, and they do sound better than generic cheap Bluetooth earbuds, but the Bluetooth connection is still the bottleneck.

They did announce a special "high quality recording mode" for Airpods in iOS 26 (which I didn't know, so thanks) but I couldn't find much except their developer announcement. It's not documented and I don't have the feeling it's being used.

New comment by cl3misch in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

cl3misch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:58:50 +0000

> Note that this is the default for better quality (Bluetooth spec, not Linux).

Yeah, I have the impression most people assume Apple magically solved sound/mic quality in bidirectional mode. Or they just don't care. In any case, I'm unhappy about how much Airpods are used for meetings. They sounds so much worse than any wired mic! Or your laptop's mic, as long as you're not using the speakers.

New comment by cl3misch in "Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD"

cl3misch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:45:54 +0000

His long list of conditions is an interesting read. It comes off as arrogant in places, but I guess if you really travel a lot and have unusual requirements it's best for everyone to be upfront about it!

Hyperphantasia

cl3misch — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:45:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperphantasia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702061

Points: 9

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