<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: datagram</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=datagram</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:59:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=datagram" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Nvidia won, we all lost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that we're calling $500 GPUs "midrange" is proof that Nvidia's strategy is working.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:28:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470770</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Nvidia won, we all lost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AMD cards are fine from a raw performance perspective, but Nvidia has built themselves a moat of software/hardware features like ray-tracing, video encoding, CUDA, DLSS, etc where AMD's equivalents have simply not been as good.<p>With their current generation of cards AMD has caught up on all of those things except CUDA, and Intel is in a similar spot now that they've had time to improve their drivers, so it's pretty easy now to buy a non-Nvidia card without feeling like you're giving anything up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:13:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470709</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "The Frontend Treadmill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not too difficult to use the TypeScript type checker on JS files, so it's possible to reap most of those benefits without having to introduce a compilation step.</p>
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<p>I used to use a similar extension in Chrome called wasavi, but I got burned once too many times by bugs in extension causing me to lose all of the text I had been writing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:40:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459928</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Tell HN: GitHub removed Classic projects and wiped my ideas without warnings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the same boat atm; reaching out to GitHub support and hoping that the lack of API access is just a permissions mixup.<p>Luckily I was able to screenshot/copy the text for one of my projects before refreshing the page.<p>Agreed that the 1-year limit makes no sense; it's just a few bits of text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:42:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41476907</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41476907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41476907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Flexbox was designed for these kinds of layouts, so that would also be an option here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:48:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134044</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is LosslessCut[1], though it's only designed to handle trimming and not general re-encoding.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut">https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut</a></p>
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<p>I was thinking about this the other day; it would be really interesting to have big corporations whose profits depend on public-domain data. We might actually see lobbying to decrease copyright terms, to counter companies like Disney trying to extend copyright until the end of time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:23:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719681</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone with a YouTube channel, from looking at my metrics it's pretty clear that YouTube is being held afloat by a) the fact that non-technical users can't easily block YouTube ads on mobile devices, and b) YouTube Premium.<p>A single user depriving YouTube of their revenue is inconsequential sure, but when hundreds of millions of people do it (like with blocking ads on desktop) it obviously runs the risk of making the entire company unviable. Hosting videos for free is a great way to lose a lot of money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231832</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "HTML Spirograph (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think if you're going to show off and do clever impractical things, a personal site is a pretty good place for it.<p>That being said, scrolling that page with a regular mouse is incredibly frustrating.</p>
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<p>> a bunch of traits that simply can’t be tested<p>I think there's a lot more that could be tested that what current implementation-centric interviews measure. At my company for example, I feel like we've gotten a lot of use out of our debugging interviews.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:17:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959197</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's funny, I made the same analogy the other day: <a href="https://twitter.com/gramofdata/status/1736838023940112523" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/gramofdata/status/1736838023940112523</a><p>I think something interesting to note is that once we stopped atmospheric nuclear testing steel radiation levels went back down and are almost at normal background levels. So maybe the same thing will happen if we stop using GenAI.</p>
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<p>In my experience, it genuinely lowers the activation (and total) energy for certain tasks, since LLMs are great at writing repetitive code that would otherwise be tedious to write by hand. For instance, writing a bunch of similar test cases.</p>
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<p>People absolutely flowchart fighting games at a high level. Combos are, unsurprisingly, completely non-interactive in most games, but there's also a term specifically for non-interactive offense: setplay <a href="https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Set%20Play" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Set%20Play</a><p>The goal of an optimal strategy in fighting games is generally to reduce the amount that you have to read your opponent as much as possible, ideally to zero. Obviously the developers don't want this to be fully possible, but players generally try to get as close as they can. Even at the highest levels, you can have rounds that go like: canned opening -> combo -> setplay -> combo -> setplay -> combo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:44:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38648424</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38648424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38648424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Teleport is now just 3 punches or 3 kicks (no motion), so TK teleports are actually very easy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:08:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647258</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't realize Slate was that old! I've only been using it for about... 8 years...<p>Jokes aside, I love Slate's programmability. I configured mine to behave like WinSplit Revolution, since that's what I was used to.</p>
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<p>Wasn't Google starting to delete old files? My guess would be that something screwed up in that process.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:17:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434131</link><dc:creator>datagram</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datagram in "The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What's even more rare is a UX designer that also thinks about these things, who are worth a million bucks.<p>Tell me about it. I've been struggling for years to get our designers to think of their designs as more than pixels on a screen. I'm really tired of having to be the accessibility police, or explain that small viewports and mobile devices aren't synonymous for the nth time.</p>
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<p>That may be your experience, but I assure you that there are plenty of companies where it's not like that. Where I work, our product team is pretty receptive to us taking time to fix tech debt, since:<p>- Engineering is very transparent about explaining when tech debt is slowing down development of new features<p>- We recognize that buggy/unreliable software hurts customer retention<p>- Engineering leadership has set the expectation that a significant portion of each team's time should be spent on maintenance and reliability.</p>
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<p>I assume it's to stop people from generating revenge porn.</p>
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