Hacker News: iczero

New comment by iczero in "Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game"

iczero — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:10:01 +0000

was it this? https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

New comment by iczero in "Releasing Fjall 3.0"

iczero — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:16:33 +0000

Fjall is an LSM-based key-value store written in Rust. It is pretty similar to RocksDB.

I do wish to note also that Marvin's blog posts are very informative and a great read. I would highly suggest reading them if you are at all interested in how Fjall or other LSM-based storage engines work.

New comment by iczero in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

iczero — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:54:08 +0000

I regularly enable YouTube subtitles. Almost always, they are a 100% verbatim transcription, excluding errors from auto-transcription. I am not annoyed in the slightest, and in fact I very much prefer that they are verbatim.

If you are too slow at reading subtitles, you can either slow down the video or train yourself to read faster. Or you can just disable the subtitles.

New comment by iczero in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

iczero — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:54:11 +0000

Software engineering is not just about building new things. I'd propose that by far the majority of the time of software engineers is spent on maintenance, bug fixing, minor incremental improvements, etc. Almost all software is either sold directly as a service or as a product with a servicing agreement.

> most software development is creating an asset that pays off over time

This is a fantasy.

New comment by iczero in "Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer"

iczero — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:02:34 +0000

Isn't this just simulated annealing in hardware attached to a grandiose restatement of the second law of thermodynamics?

New comment by iczero in "Libogc (Wii homebrew library) discovered to contain code stolen from RTEMS"

iczero — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:54:10 +0000

Your code is my code actually. I wrote all of it. Where's the harm?

New comment by iczero in "YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients"

iczero — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:32:48 +0000

Didn't the RIAA completely ruin their reputation (along with the other AAs) by doing that? Now it seems like most people just equate them with a huge pile of lawyers in suits who care not about art.

New comment by iczero in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

iczero — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:03:21 +0000

> We have nukes and a massive air force.

> YC is funding weapon manufacturers lol. Where are the ethics there?

Circular reasoning? The reason we have a massive and more importantly effective air force is because weapons development occurred. It would not take very long at all for China to surpass the US in terms of air effectiveness if the US stopped working on defense projects.

New comment by iczero in "YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info"

iczero — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:05:00 +0000

Have you considered that getting someone arrested after you ruin a major source of their income is potentially not the most polite thing to do?

New comment by iczero in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

iczero — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:59:43 +0000

How would I respond at my job if someone openly antagonized my project(s) and completely refused to work with me? Probably complain to management.

New comment by iczero in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

iczero — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:56:14 +0000

Where is an example of this "false advertising"?

New comment by iczero in "Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project""

iczero — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:12:14 +0000

I have a hard time believing that you wouldn't be annoyed if some almost completely unrelated maintainer hard NACKs your patch and every suggestion you offer just because they hold a grudge against the language you used.

New comment by iczero in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

iczero — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:53:56 +0000

The person who quit wrote the Linux graphics driver for Apple M-series GPUs in Rust.

edit: I may have gotten some things confused, please see below

New comment by iczero in "Servo's progress in 2024"

iczero — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:15:26 +0000

For (2), I believe they want to interact with the DOM directly (via whatever language the rest of the app is written in) without needing to go through JavaScript.

New comment by iczero in "What really happens inside a dating app"

iczero — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:48:18 +0000

have you considered that dating apps suck for literally everyone and everybody should leave them?

New comment by iczero in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

iczero — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:16:42 +0000

I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_... (Gödel's incompleteness theorems) applies here

New comment by iczero in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

iczero — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:07:37 +0000

let me just apply my super proprietary machine learning architecture... ah yes it's done, behold, I can generate 3.69 trillion frames per second, because I compressed each frame to a single bit and that's how fast the CPU's memory bus is

New comment by iczero in "Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)"

iczero — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:53:04 +0000

oh great so you centralize even harder and that will fix everything?

New comment by iczero in "Traceroute Isn't Real"

iczero — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 03:06:21 +0000

> And yeah it's not perfect. Stop making perfect the enemy of good.

New comment by iczero in "Nyxpsi – A Next-Gen Network Protocol for Extreme Packet Loss"

iczero — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:53:37 +0000

They list their email as:

> For more information or to contact us open a PR or email us at nyxpsi@skill-issue.dev

This sounds to me like a troll. In any case, I don't think blatantly advertising your lack of expertise in networking is a good way of improving one's portfolio.