Hacker News: endemic

New comment by endemic in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

endemic — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:20:16 +0000

Jobs really did make a lot of boneheaded decisions when running NeXT; this book just calls him out on it.

New comment by endemic in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

endemic — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:08:11 +0000

Funny, I'm the exact opposite!

New comment by endemic in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

endemic — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:44 +0000

> demand for a touchscreen on a laptop

My take is that consumers didn't want this; it was manufacturers trying to "add value" or sell something new. Same as the recent "AI PC" craze.

New comment by endemic in "Buying a retro game console"

endemic — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:53:22 +0000

Even with the latency/frame stuttering inherent in this sort of thing, it's been pretty amazing to re-play games with childhood friends who are now dispersed across the planet.

New comment by endemic in "A Eulogy for Vim"

endemic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:43:52 +0000

I'm debating using LLMs for my side projects. Does using one remove the "soul" of my project? On the other hand, a friend is actually making progress with his side app _because_ he's able to lean on the LLM after a full day's worth of working the day job. I might be able to actually do some of the things I've dreamed of and never had the capacity for. First world problems, I guess.

New comment by endemic in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

endemic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:28:34 +0000

I liked it because it was very fast (I would always demo the startup time vs. Windows) and had a clean, macOS-inspired UI.

New comment by endemic in "Your phone is an entire computer"

endemic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:47:59 +0000

I built a few native iPhone apps 15 years ago, but these days do my tinkering in web tech and "Save to Homescreen." Probably couldn't do this if I wanted functionality like photo/video editing or heavy 3D, but for my relatively simple use case, Webkit is fine. This has the benefit of completely bypassing the App Store, and lets me share apps by just linking to them.

New comment by endemic in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

endemic — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:07:35 +0000

macOS crashes more than Firefox for me.

New comment by endemic in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

endemic — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:59:23 +0000

> Congress needs to step up and take its power back from the executive.

Won't happen with this administration at least; the expectation being that unless you are a yes-man, you'll be denounced as "not loyal" and voted out.

New comment by endemic in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

endemic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:31:39 +0000

I wrote some tutorials for making "grid-based" games that might give you some inspiration (https://ganbaru.games/writing-grid-based-games/) It's actually kind of crazy how many different types of games work with this approach.

New comment by endemic in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

endemic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:05:27 +0000

If you're familiar with web development, you can make games with HTML/JS, which is almost its own "engine." Think DOM elements for sprites, CSS animations for movement, requestAnimationFrame for an update loop, etc. This has the extra benefit of zero friction for players -- no native app installation necessary!

New comment by endemic in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

endemic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:42:34 +0000

I don't think it's iPhone vs. Android, rather "mega-corp $$$" vs. hobbyists. At the point where Android could be considered "open" (e.g. removing Google Play Services, etc.) you've lost a lot of the functionality that people come to expect from a smartphone. Sure, there are workarounds, but let's be honest: they're hacky and not a great experience.

New comment by endemic in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

endemic — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:20:19 +0000

Eh, I used to think we had standards in the US, such as “no masked goons roaming the streets asking for papers.”

New comment by endemic in "JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals"

endemic — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:13:12 +0000

And the end users pay the price!

New comment by endemic in "Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts"

endemic — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:30:39 +0000

I feel like this is the inevitable end result. Ironic that we’ll finally get well-regulated militias.

New comment by endemic in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

endemic — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:06:47 +0000

I'd be curious to hear more specifics regarding the "15 years behind" and "inconsistent experience."

New comment by endemic in "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005)"

endemic — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:13:28 +0000

He did treat Woz terribly in many ways, but without SteveJ, Woz's inventions would never have found the audience they did. I think Woz is OK with how things turned out.

New comment by endemic in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

endemic — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:35:13 +0000

Also a pretty heavy Kubuntu user. After spending my formative years tweaking Linux installs, this distro "just works" for me.

New comment by endemic in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

endemic — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:32:43 +0000

Best friendship takes place!

https://www.folklore.org/I'll_Be_Your_Best_Friend.html

New comment by endemic in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

endemic — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:09:00 +0000

Yeah, my inspiration was being sick of the ad-riddled modern Microsoft solitaire games.