Hacker News: cosmotic

New comment by cosmotic in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

cosmotic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:02:22 +0000

Would those same proxies work with the new method?

New comment by cosmotic in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

cosmotic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000

Why not just define the semantics of a GET request body?

New comment by cosmotic in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

cosmotic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:17:24 +0000

I think Liquid Glass is inherently bad. Universaly accepted truths about UIs that Liquid Glass violates:

* Consistent look across instances

* Consistent look as surrounding content changes

* Contrast is meaningful

* Interactsble elements are not stacked on the z axis

* Animation conveys meaning

You can see evidence that even Apple understands this by the presence of the options to disable many aspects of Liquid Glass living in the accessibility options.

New comment by cosmotic in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"

cosmotic — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:26:41 +0000

Looks a lot like CyberChef which is web based. https://cyberchef.org/

New comment by cosmotic in "Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC"

cosmotic — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:51:45 +0000

My understanding is that LibreDrive leverages a bug in the drives firmware such that decryption keys for Blu-ray was accessible. This OmniDrive seems to have little to do with decryption.

New comment by cosmotic in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

cosmotic — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:26:15 +0000

Oh, not the owners of the company, the owners of the cars the company made.

New comment by cosmotic in "Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal"

cosmotic — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:39:31 +0000

Terminal seems like an odd choice for a platform to read on, considering the fixed-width characters.

New comment by cosmotic in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

cosmotic — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:21:33 +0000

Using the system webview theoretically saves memory. Though it's still not great.

New comment by cosmotic in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

cosmotic — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:57:36 +0000

They couldn't be bothered to train their staff?

New comment by cosmotic in "Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz"

cosmotic — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:56:43 +0000

Write a good article explaining why and maybe someone will post it to hackernews so we can discuss it as on-topic.

New comment by cosmotic in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

cosmotic — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:42:28 +0000

How can ignorance of the law not be a valid defense while intentionally not recording known illegal activity be a effective defense?

New comment by cosmotic in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

cosmotic — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:59:08 +0000

Except in many cases the experience isn't benefiting the electorate.

New comment by cosmotic in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

cosmotic — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:51:46 +0000

Those third parties are running at capacity and are certainly the source of the increased prices since the supply is outsized by the demand.

New comment by cosmotic in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

cosmotic — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:36:38 +0000

Apple doesn't make their own CPUs, they just design them (using ARM IP). It's TSMC that makes them. The bottleneck with RAM is the manufacturing side.

New comment by cosmotic in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

cosmotic — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:48:53 +0000

What would be 'submit' then?

New comment by cosmotic in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

cosmotic — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:46:27 +0000

Wonder no more. They order doordashers to close the door.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/waymo-is-paying-doordash-gig...

New comment by cosmotic in "Dav2d"

cosmotic — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:34:55 +0000

Its a followup to their existing Dav1d decoder (av1, av2)

New comment by cosmotic in "What did you love about VB6?"

cosmotic — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:33:07 +0000

Linux came out the same year. How was it better?

New comment by cosmotic in "What did you love about VB6?"

cosmotic — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:25:59 +0000

I came here to say the same. Visiual Studio finally got this and it's called 'Edit and Continue'. IDEA can invoke a Java feature to reload classes and move the point of execution. Neither are as reliable as VB6 was.

New comment by cosmotic in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

cosmotic — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:54:44 +0000

.idea was designed to be added to source control. It doesnt have to be, but everyone on the team using the same project configuration has its advantages. Code style can be checked in too, reducing or preventing the churn you speak of.