Hacker News: guardian5x

New comment by guardian5x in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

guardian5x — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:06:07 +0000

I wouldn't say that chess is a solved problem. Just a hard problem to make a better chess engine than current Stockfish.

New comment by guardian5x in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

guardian5x — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:53:49 +0000

Let me be the devils advocate here. Ok, let's say you optimize that TODO list app to only use 16 mb of RAM. What did you gain by that? Would you buy a smartphone that has less RAM now?

New comment by guardian5x in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

guardian5x — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:35:38 +0000

Back in the day, when you saw as many ads or popups as some websites show today, it usually meant you had at least 3 viruses on the computer.

New comment by guardian5x in "Why AGI Will Not Happen"

guardian5x — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:32:34 +0000

So is the “binary” nature of today’s switches the core objection? We routinely simulate non-binary, continuous, and probabilistic systems using binary hardware. Neuroscientific models, fluid solvers, analog circuit simulators, etc., all run on the same “binary switches,” and produce behavior that cannot meaningfully be described as binary, only the substrate is.

New comment by guardian5x in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

guardian5x — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:20:26 +0000

What is the advantage of using something like this instead of the IndexedDB Browser Feature

New comment by guardian5x in "Accepting US car standards would risk European lives"

guardian5x — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:32:45 +0000

Well not for long, if the US pressures Europe to go back on these

New comment by guardian5x in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

guardian5x — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:10:00 +0000

Well, now you can set it up better like that.

New comment by guardian5x in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

guardian5x — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:34:34 +0000

Back then, the focus was on optimising for the user. Now, however, companies prioritise their own interests over the user.

New comment by guardian5x in "Recall for Linux"

guardian5x — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:35:32 +0000

With all the emojis in the source code, one can instantly recognize it as AI slop. :)

New comment by guardian5x in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

guardian5x — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:18:12 +0000

Gees, Rust is fast!

New comment by guardian5x in "iPhone Air"

guardian5x — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:48:05 +0000

Maybe a supercomputer from a 1980s perspective.

New comment by guardian5x in "The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code""

guardian5x — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:13:36 +0000

It's easy to say 'write tests', but it's difficult to do so if you don't know what the actual requirements are.

People often think they are doing it 'properly' now by starting simple, but as they learn more and add functionality, they end up with the same complex mess they wanted to avoid.

New comment by guardian5x in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

guardian5x — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:25:57 +0000

I agree that it is a mostly well managed product, but I can think of a lot of things when it was in the news for something bad. Most controversial is probably the increase in the amount of Ads, unskippable ads, then there was multiple problems with Youtube kids, e.g. how bad people get really bad videos there. There was an outcry when the dislike button was removed, and so on..

New comment by guardian5x in "I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D"

guardian5x — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:26:50 +0000

Dell has been very loyal to Intel all these years, but i guess that is under pressure as well. As more and more customers look for AMD CPUs nowadays. I guess the CPU doesn't matter much in standard office company laptops and price is more important.

New comment by guardian5x in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

guardian5x — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:25:35 +0000

Just scaling them up might not leat to "AGI", but they can still lead to AGI as a bridge.

New comment by guardian5x in "A vibe-coding tool for serious developers"

guardian5x — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:04:55 +0000

I guess most ads are lying, but when that AI woman says, she now "gets stuff done". There isn't even a hint of believability anymore. A real developer, or maybe even a customer would be more believable if they would actually use the product.

New comment by guardian5x in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

guardian5x — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:37:26 +0000

I'm not a fan of restricting sideloading. But i do hope they get better at not offering malware in the official PlayStore

New comment by guardian5x in "Window Activation"

guardian5x — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:57:28 +0000

Well, sometimes the user expects the focus to shift, like the example mentioned when you click a link in one application and your browser in the background should come into focus when it opens a new tab. Some applications just decide to steal focus when the user does not expect it, and that is the problem.

New comment by guardian5x in "Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App"

guardian5x — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:55:17 +0000

you say "I'm against it creeping into an existing eco-system for no reason.", while you ignore that there is at least one good reason: A lot better performance.

New comment by guardian5x in "Canyon.mid"

guardian5x — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:35:16 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUzgM6TiI4 I had forgotten this one. It's awesome.