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New comment by ehsankia in "CSS is DOOMed"

ehsankia — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:22:18 +0000

Even better, since everything is well organized, you can add `opacity: 0.7` to `.wall` specifically, and get something that looks almost exactly like how old school wallhacks looked like.

New comment by ehsankia in "ARC-AGI-3"

ehsankia — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:07:35 +0000

> Isn’t this what AGI is by design?

Well, the "G" in AGI is kinda important. These are specifically games/puzzles.

> they have to be retrained from scratch

Is that true? Didn't DeepMind already build plenty of agents that are generally good at most computer games without being retrained?

New comment by ehsankia in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

ehsankia — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:24:03 +0000

If it's just a tool for myself, and I use a webkit based browser, why would I use a hacky solution for a browser I don't use?

New comment by ehsankia in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

ehsankia — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:36:49 +0000

Sometimes I'm developing an internal tool or something only for myself / handful of people. I'm perfectly fine saving time and complexity using a one liner modern CSS solution instead of having to rely on some hacky unreadable code to support 10 years of legacy browsers.

New comment by ehsankia in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ehsankia — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:53:54 +0000

Yep, Tile I believe is the only third party service that exists. All other trackers either plug into "Apple Find My" or "Android Find My Device" network. There's finally starting to be a few devices that can do both, but they're rare, so make sure you get the right one when buying. But they take 10s to setup and it's very smooth.

New comment by ehsankia in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ehsankia — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:48:00 +0000

Atuvos one at 1.6mm and UGreen one at 1.7mm are great, though one time battery is annoying. There are some that have wireless charging, though thicker.

New comment by ehsankia in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ehsankia — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:45:19 +0000

> relatively affordable

You can buy 4 third-party trackers for the price of 1 official one.

They do lack UWB, though there are other great form factors such as cards, and cool features such as wireless charging or usb-c charging, which imo is nicer than swapping batteries every few months.

New comment by ehsankia in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ehsankia — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:36:36 +0000

That's awesome. I'm glad that trackers have reached a price point, reliability and form factors that I can easily put one in everything I care about. I even have card ones in my wallet, my steam deck / e-reader case, etc.

Also, most of these have usb-c / wireless charging, so I don't have to mess with random cell batteries every 6 months.

New comment by ehsankia in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

ehsankia — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:16:02 +0000

> So they're like, buying into a depreciating asset

Part of the issue is that the average age of the House is ~55 and for the senate it's above 60. So they have a lot less incentive to care about that, or about climate change.

New comment by ehsankia in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

ehsankia — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:55:45 +0000

Anything before L4 is "driver assist", which means at the end of the day, the buck stops at the driver. Anything beyond L4, the car itself drives without requiring supervision, which makes a big difference. It's your responsibility to use lane assist in a reasonable way, it's not your responsibility to control how an L4 drives anymore. That's the point of self-driving, the "self" is responsible.

New comment by ehsankia in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

ehsankia — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:09:31 +0000

You could try passing it 10-20 front pages across a much wider time range.

You can use: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-04 to get the frontpage on a given date.

New comment by ehsankia in "Gemini 3"

ehsankia — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:59:05 +0000

> The winners aren’t necessarily those with the best models

Is there evidence that's true? That the other models are significantly better than the ones you named?

New comment by ehsankia in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

ehsankia — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:03:55 +0000

functional programming has a lot of wonderful concepts, which are very interesting in theory, but in practice, the strictness of it edges on annoying and greatly hurts velocity.

Python has a lot of functional-like patterns and constructs, but it's not a pure functional language. Similarly, Python these days allow you to adds as much type information as you want which can provide you a ton of static checks, but it's not forced you like other typed languages. If some random private function is too messy to annotate and not worth it, you can just skip it.

I like the flexibility, since it leads to velocity and also just straight up more enjoyable.

New comment by ehsankia in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

ehsankia — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:09:22 +0000

is that per Capita? Also, At least they are going in the right direction with most metrics (switching to electric, installing renewable, planting trees, etc), whereas the US (under Trump) is hellbent on getting rid of renewables, focusing on coal/fossil fuel, slowing down electric cars, destroying national parks, etc.

New comment by ehsankia in "A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]"

ehsankia — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:07:35 +0000

One piece I'd like to see more clarification on is, is he doing multiple samples per pixel (like with ray tracing?). For his 1280x720 resolution video, that's around 900k pixels, so at 30Khz, it would take around 30s to record one of these videos if he were to doing one sample per pixel. But in theory he could run this for much longer and get a less noisy image.

I find it interesting that a project like this would easily be a PhD paper, but nowadays Youtubers do it just for the fun of it.

New comment by ehsankia in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

ehsankia — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:17:14 +0000

So you're basically saying that you can spend as much money to get a knife that will cut as well but requires regular work put into it, whereas this doesn't? I think that's the whole pitch here...

New comment by ehsankia in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

ehsankia — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:03:48 +0000

Just link to a few? There's a finite set of stores a game is usually on

On PC, it'll be Steam, GOG, maybe Humble. Then on consoles you have Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo. If you wanna put affiliate link, go for it. It's better than no link at all.

These articles already bait my click for ads by never putting the name of the game in the title anyways. At least let me get to the game and buy it.

New comment by ehsankia in "Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips"

ehsankia — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 05:59:30 +0000

Kinda annoying that the article doesn't really answer the core question, which is how much time was saved in the start up time. It does give a 0.05ms per tooltip figure, so I guess multiplied by 38000 gives ~2s saved, which is not too bad.

New comment by ehsankia in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

ehsankia — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:37:45 +0000

1. It might not be the best across all metrics today, but it definitely was a few years ago.

2. While it's true that other browsers like Firefox have been catching up to Chrome in speed, it's still true that Chrome help lead the way and if not for it, the web would've likely been far slower today.

3. There has been an explosion in other browsers in the past few years, but admittedly they're all chromium-based, so even that wouldn't have been possible without Chrome

New comment by ehsankia in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

ehsankia — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:32:26 +0000

It has gotten absolutely out of control. I will be reading an article about a new game, and the article won't even have a link to the store page to buy the game...