Hacker News: daef

New comment by daef in "What happened to WebAssembly"

daef — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:44:44 +0000

I recommend you watch [0] if you haven't seen it yet, it describes the history of javascript, iirc until 2035.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

New comment by daef in "A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation"

daef — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:00:03 +0000

i <3 tridactyl [0] - are there upsides to vimium i'm missing?

[0] https://tridactyl.xyz/about/

edit: added url

New comment by daef in "Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester"

daef — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:46:40 +0000

hugged to death? "Error establishing a database connection"

New comment by daef in "Blender 4.5 LTS"

daef — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:26:31 +0000

imagine blender as electron app... ^^

New comment by daef in "Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy"

daef — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:50:47 +0000

in systems level programming (the introductory course before operating systems in our university) this was one of the first misconceptions to be eradicated. you cannot trust malloc to return null.

Improve Bluetooth Audio quality by hacking codec (2019)

daef — Wed, 28 May 2025 22:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-sbc-xq-bluetooth-audio-codec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121279

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by daef in "Overengineered Anchor Links"

daef — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:21:49 +0000

my first instinct would be to let the triggerline move with the scrollposition, i.e. at scrollTop = 0 the triggerline is at 0vh and at scrollTop=max at 100vh... am i missing something?

New comment by daef in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

daef — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:41:46 +0000

dont know whether that works on apple or not - but i just paste into an unformatted textbox (e.g. browser address bar) and copy again from there

New comment by daef in "Ask HN: Windows 11 development environment discontinued?"

daef — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:10:42 +0000

that's exactly the thing I'm trying to avoid. since I really don't need windows very often I prefer to change win-vms like underpants (allowing me to deactivate defender/winupdates fearless) and would not like to spend hours for setting up win from scratch. I had to set up win11 for a friend a few days ago and - let me tell you - that experience sucked hard

New comment by daef in "Ask HN: Windows 11 development environment discontinued?"

daef — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:07:30 +0000

all the kms activators and the MAS-scripts never worked for evaluation editions

edit: it seems like it at least doesn't work for expired evaluation editions. see https://massgrave.dev/evaluation_editions

New comment by daef in "Terence Tao – Machine-Assisted Proofs [video]"

daef — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:02:57 +0000

I know that \exists undecidable statements, I just don't know if this specific statement is decidable...

New comment by daef in "Terence Tao – Machine-Assisted Proofs [video]"

daef — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:51:03 +0000

Then I'm curious: is it possible to know when we know everything there is to know?

Ask HN: Windows 11 development environment discontinued?

daef — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:09:40 +0000

I'm happy to report that I don't have to work on Windows on a daily basis. But for the few times I have to work on "legacy" WPF code I relied on [1], which is "temporarily down" (since October '24).

Having used up my slmgr /rearm-s I am now confronted with the evaluation-has-expired hourly shutdowns.

Does anyone have a clue whether Microsoft is really having issues with providing a VM-image for their development environment or if they are just silently discontinuing this otherwise superb service?

tl;dr is [1] gone for good?

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182933

Points: 7

# Comments: 5

New comment by daef in "Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't find $100K"

daef — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:52:40 +0000

iamb [1] tickles my vim fetish :)

[1] https://iamb.chat/

edit: added link

New comment by daef in "Experiment: Can 3D improve AI video consistency?"

daef — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:42:31 +0000

i am very confused... what is 3D? to me 3D means three dimensions - but it looks like 3D refers to a product? this page doesn't help with explaining anything

New comment by daef in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

daef — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:54:57 +0000

thanks!

New comment by daef in "SiFive's P550 Microarchitecture"

daef — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:54:00 +0000

i thought risc-v is >10years "old". how long is an ISA "very new"?

New comment by daef in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

daef — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:28:21 +0000

what would you count as low latency terminal?

New comment by daef in "Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?"

daef — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:26:41 +0000

i couldnt come up with a proof for the initial problem (n^6+n^3+2n^2 is a multiple of 6 for every n)

because it's not true (simply insert 1, 2, 4 or 5)

New comment by daef in "Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly"

daef — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:55:19 +0000

upping this - I won't install chrome :)