Hacker News: hacker_homie

New comment by hacker_homie in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

hacker_homie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:14:22 +0000

To add the UWP APIs were always less than the win32 ones in the name of security.

The issue was they didn't give you an alternative they just said don't do that.

so inevitably at some point you decide to just write it in win32, don't ship in the store, etc so you can get things done.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

hacker_homie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:12:11 +0000

I feel this so hard.

It's all win32 underneath except for UWP, which is now deprecated.

so the answer is win32, raw winproc.

The issue is they haven't made a new GUI API (only frameworks) since win32.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

hacker_homie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:31:24 +0000

Honestly I missed the neovim 12.0 being marked stable, and just updated when this happened.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

hacker_homie — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:35:48 +0000

Could you please work on tool calling gemma still seems very bad at it.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

hacker_homie — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:33:37 +0000

Honestly for that [Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF)

still seems to be the best in class.

I am testing the Gemma4 now I will update this comment with what I find.

New comment by hacker_homie in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

hacker_homie — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:06:19 +0000

replace Satya Nadella?

New comment by hacker_homie in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

hacker_homie — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:02:00 +0000

Yeah but it really looks like you need to, are they still showing the login modal dialog that you have to close before it installs?

New comment by hacker_homie in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

hacker_homie — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:00:13 +0000

Satya Nadella's obsession with Azure and online services has basically removed all say for local development, if it doesn't use azure he doesn't care.

I think he needs to be replaced before his obsession kills the golden goose that is windows.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

hacker_homie — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:41:03 +0000

Comments like this make me feel like we are living in different worlds, I have KDE/Wayland on multi head machines with different DPIs and laptops. KDE has been the smoothest most reasonable desktops for a long time, I play games they just work, I can make zoom calls, they implemented device recovery. How are you experiencing this, are you rendering in software?

New comment by hacker_homie in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

hacker_homie — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:28:25 +0000

Daniel Stone from linux.conf.au 2013, The Real Story Behind Wayland and X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

It was unmaintainable, I know your workflow is broken, you can keep using X11 the rest of the world isn't obligated to maintain it for you.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

hacker_homie — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:14:16 +0000

Yeah look at the price of netfilx, do you think starting at $200 it's going to stay anywhere close to that.

New comment by hacker_homie in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

hacker_homie — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:17:43 +0000

People really want to bring back Visual Basic.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

hacker_homie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:31:47 +0000

Well they wanted it to be cross plat because more users.

clearly the code isn’t free and writing for raw win32 is painful.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

hacker_homie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:28:32 +0000

There are rules when using the lgpl version of qt, the kde foundation has an exception I think.

https://www.qt.io/development/open-source-lgpl-obligations

New comment by hacker_homie in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

hacker_homie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:12:03 +0000

Because it's the most popular & flexible cross platform user space compositor:

- unlike QT it's free for commercial use.

- I don't know any other user land GUI toolkit/compositor that isn't a game engine(unity/unreal/etc).

New comment by hacker_homie in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

hacker_homie — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:48:48 +0000

I had that experience on my phone (Nokia n900) all of them went through the messages app.

I miss it.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?"

hacker_homie — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:44:58 +0000

They do use the metric system at NASA maybe that’s why they haven’t been back to the moon.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Git with WD-40 Applied"

hacker_homie — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:45:12 +0000

A vanity repo with all the rust code removed from git.

New comment by hacker_homie in "We rendered and embedded one million CAD files"

hacker_homie — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:04:11 +0000

Yeah I think the embedding are describing what can be seen from a picture of the model not what it is or what it is used for. search some things work like "Fan" but others don't so you can search for "plate with 5 holes" but not for specific engine part cover.

New comment by hacker_homie in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

hacker_homie — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:59:55 +0000

I think politicians should be the least privileged people in a society except those in prison. Any protections or exceptions for them alone are unconstitutional.