Hacker News: f3408fh

New comment by f3408fh in "NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing"

f3408fh — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:31:08 +0000

How do you define functional?

New comment by f3408fh in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

f3408fh — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:46:55 +0000

This is saying you'd be ok with books being only permitted to be read at the library, behind a sealed kiosk screen, because otherwise people might post spoilers online.

New comment by f3408fh in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

f3408fh — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:44:57 +0000

Ah, well, I take it back then. Sorry dist-epoch!

New comment by f3408fh in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

f3408fh — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:55:48 +0000

Bullshit. He describes the actual reasons here: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#TOC_4.

And anyway, since when is not liking something a bad reason to try your hand at creating a better thing?

New comment by f3408fh in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

f3408fh — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:17:37 +0000

Yep, it's super useless. The label is so general. Was AI used for one image in the 10 minute video? Is the voiceover AI? Is the entirety of it generated with AI? No way to know.

New comment by f3408fh in "The Age of the Micro-Entreprenuer"

f3408fh — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:40:32 +0000

I don't know. From what I see every idea accessible to a solo developer either already has 10 VC-funded startups or relies on big platforms with closed-off APIs.

New comment by f3408fh in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

f3408fh — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:29:39 +0000

Now make a user script that blocks posts titled "I was tired of X, so I...".

New comment by f3408fh in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

f3408fh — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:11:41 +0000

Saying that VS Code is terrible for Go is simply false. The Go extension is regularly updated and works extremely well. Sure, it lacks some advanced refactoring features available in IntelliJ, like function parameters reordering, but gopls supports most refactoring you'd need to do day to day..

New comment by f3408fh in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

f3408fh — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:04:29 +0000

For the record Neovim has built-in LSP support and Vim supports LSP with plugins. Why use Ctags that you have to manually generate?

New comment by f3408fh in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

f3408fh — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:15:54 +0000

I always found the Severus Snape - ALWAYS (Live at Hogwarts) video to be really good for AI. The video was probably created by prompting for each scene, instead of letting the model generate the whole thing. It's a cool of example of what's possible nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlsEDkavoso

New comment by f3408fh in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

f3408fh — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:52:18 +0000

What will you be replacing it with, if anything?

New comment by f3408fh in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

f3408fh — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:49:03 +0000

This is so cool. Congratulations! Have you considered opening operating costs as well?

New comment by f3408fh in "Codex Micro"

f3408fh — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:47:51 +0000

With that lens your career before this device was a few colors and 104 keys?

New comment by f3408fh in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

f3408fh — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:02:16 +0000

Interesting. App store asked me for proof of permission from the first party to use a reverse engineered BLE protocol.

New comment by f3408fh in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

f3408fh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:47:01 +0000

How did you get this through App Store review? My understanding is Apple tends to be pretty strict about apps that rely on reverse-engineered private APIs.

New comment by f3408fh in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

f3408fh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:10:04 +0000

That's cool. I tried it out and the movement is very floaty, so much so that it's hard to navigate the first room without running headfirst into a wall every time I try to go somewhere. Is it true to the original? Performance is great though.

Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.

New comment by f3408fh in "Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch"

f3408fh — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:46:29 +0000

And entirely AI generated

New comment by f3408fh in "Networking and the Internet, from First Principles"

f3408fh — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:48:38 +0000

Case closed.

New comment by f3408fh in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

f3408fh — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:31:26 +0000

"Most is doing a lot of work".

So, 90% isn't most in your book?

New comment by f3408fh in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

f3408fh — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:11:56 +0000

I always wonder how a solo developer can source high quality assets like these, plus develop a full game with them. In this case did the dev create the assets or did they purchase them from a freelancer? How much would purchasing this many assets cost?