Hacker News: gioandthemachin

New comment by gioandthemachin in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

gioandthemachin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:16:57 +0000

annoying AF, but maybe we'll get a free reset out of it

New comment by gioandthemachin in "The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive"

gioandthemachin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:38:20 +0000

haven't done this for documents, but for canvas rendering transferControlToOffscreen() worked better than moving ArrayBuffers. It hands the canvas to a worker that draws directly, no pixles over postMessage at all.

New comment by gioandthemachin in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

gioandthemachin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:33:34 +0000

Recently moved into our new house, which was left abandoned for many years before we bought it. Much to my surprise, among all the rubbish, I found a working Commodore 64 in there. Mostly working anyway. With a Commando tape still in its case. I couldn't believe my luck!