Hacker News: eXpl0it3r

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:57:59 +0000

Despite the "Gold-suite" comparison, when looking at the KaTeX and RaTeX output [1], the KaTeX output is consistently better. RaTeX has either a lot of aliasing going on or appears blurry.

But the native and library nature of RaTeX is very interesting, especially with the provided C ABI.

[1] https://ratex.lites.dev/demo/support-table

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:23:07 +0000

If it's an open source project that has been used by others, please consider giving out maintainer access to others (now or later).

It's sad, when projects are abandoned and a whole bunch of users would be willing to (partially) maintain it, but the key holder implicitly or explicitly decided that nobody else should have access.

Forks are not he same: It's very hard to get enough traction with existing users and the discoverability is terrible.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SFML 3.1 Is Released"

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:47 +0000

As maintainer I won't be able to give you an unbiased response. The biggest difference is, that SFML is a C++ library.

What motivates me to work on SFML is, that we're building something separate from SDL. I don't think, we - as in the general developer world - do anyone a favor in consolidating everything into one library (why use X, when Y does the same?). Additionally, I think it's a very interesting "field" of trying to provide a common API across different OS; and sadly it seems to be an area where few resources exist and fewer developer actually understand it, as "everyone" just uses SDL. Finally, I really like the open and welcoming community we've built over the years and at the same time, I'm happy we're not getting as much attention/pressure as SDL.

SFML 3.1 Is Released

eXpl0it3r — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:20:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SFML/SFML/releases/tag/3.1.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798971

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:59:42 +0000

The Nature paper from last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-91115-8

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:59:26 +0000

Yeah, then again most people haven't experienced this and are happy to just enable "track changes" in Word and send the document back and forth, maybe if you're lucky, it's hosted on SharePoint or OneDrive.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:38:40 +0000

OnlyOffice, Nextcloud OPffice, Collabora might all have free offerings to a degree, but you'll end up at the mercy of the companies behind those tools and OnlyOffice comes with Enterprise offering that does also cost money.

Costing money isn't necessarily bad, but it's also hard to beat free & libre.

Open Collective Europe Is Becoming Open Source Europe

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/were-becoming-open-source-europe-and-we-want-to-build-this-with-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038722

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Show HN: ManasPDF – GPU-accelerated PDF renderer built from scratch in C++"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:11:30 +0000

Since this uses Direct2D, is this Windows-only?

How much of the code was vibe-coded?

Ubisoft Veteran Says He Was Suspended for Criticizing Return-to-Office Policy

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:45:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-veteran-says-he-was-suspended-for-criticizing-its-return-to-office-policy/1100-6537747/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823815

Points: 21

# Comments: 2

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SVG Path Editor"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:02:15 +0000

I'm in the opposite camp. Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing.

Well and I can eat the cake as well, make it some native app that has proper performance.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:06:10 +0000

I still have two active accounts and neither of those were in the breach of the 20% of accounts.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

eXpl0it3r — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:16:27 +0000

The discussion requirement is often to prevent disappointment, waste of time, and anger, when maintainers simple close PRs, because it's not the direction they want the project to go. A lot of people will take this very personally, so it's much better to have a conversation about it beforehand.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

eXpl0it3r — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:29:33 +0000

Except for investors who couldn't figure out the right "Zoom" to buy shares from [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/98635c63-b4ab-49a3-9c18-1de6819d6...

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Can you slim macOS down?"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:10:26 +0000

A lot of users still like the mix of a good UI for most tasks, while being able to do a lot of power user stuff without an added layer. Plus many will choose macOS also for the hardware, which support for new chipsets is still rather WIP under Linux.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "cURL removes bug bounties"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:57:12 +0000

I hate this as well, especially since I have greylisting enabled on some email addresses, so by the time the email login is delivered, the login session has already timed out and of course the sender uses different mail servers everytime. So in some cases, it's nearly impossible to login and takes minutes...

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:34:31 +0000

Inventing and replicating face different challenges though.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:20:30 +0000

What's DEP?

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

eXpl0it3r — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:20:24 +0000

In my opinion this is mostly self-inflicted by Microsoft.

Sure some push for web-based solution has moved a lot of people away from desktop applications, but even before that Microsoft muddied the waters of native UI development.

Moving from User32.dll and GDI to GPU based rendering with WPF, might not have been the worst idea - and WPF is still going strong - but it's a clear cut, leaving old apps un-upgradable. So if companies need to eventually rewrite it, will they stick with desktop apps or move to "web apps"?

Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't stop there, but we've since seen a bunch of different attempts at new Windows UI libs to the point, where nobody trusts Microsoft anymore (remember Silverlight?) and everyone else is left confused by the chaos of an ecosystem.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SQL Studio"

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:50:43 +0000

Or "Management Studio". Never heard "SQL Studio" either.