Hacker News: ignaloidas

New comment by ignaloidas in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

ignaloidas — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:02:13 +0000

Why does it have to be a CEO? You can always send somebody lower down, who actually knows their stuff. Requiring it to be the CEO is just dumb status games.

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

ignaloidas — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://overpaid.lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004663

Points: 682

# Comments: 364

New comment by ignaloidas in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

ignaloidas — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:36:02 +0000

The problem is that nobody really does that? Like, as far as I'm aware, even simple stuff such as not considering tokens that would result in a syntax error when writing code isn't being done.

Real time decoding of 100baseT1 Ethernet with ngscopeclient and ThunderScope [video]

ignaloidas — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9cRnWOk2A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059825

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ignaloidas in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

ignaloidas — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:06:00 +0000

Incredible how Adafruit-sided this discussion is, having seen ptorrone serially creating alt accounts fediverse to harrass people who thought that his behavior was bad [1], going as far as to harrass people on their Etsy stores [2]. I do not expect anything he says to be truthful at all, after having seen how much abuse he spews out.

[1]: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115605021402124429 [2]: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115599931317645220

New comment by ignaloidas in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

ignaloidas — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:36:44 +0000

That's not strictly correct, it's rather that the current encoder does no inter-frame compression. Patches (and the frame system in general) does give tools to do some inter-frame compression (not as many as in video, but still quite expressive), just nobody stepped up to implement compression using them for animations yet.

PON in the Datacenter: Hyperscale for Management and Console [video]

ignaloidas — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzI5r6_7uQA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430142

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ignaloidas in "Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo"

ignaloidas — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:54:56 +0000

This is quite exactly the opposite of TCM in fact

Physics-Defying Marketing: Misleading Vendor Article, and VNA Calibration Primer

ignaloidas — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:24:54 +0000

Article URL: https://niconiconi.neocities.org/tech-notes/review-of-a-misleading-vendor-article-on-vna-calibration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247036

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ignaloidas in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

ignaloidas — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:49:24 +0000

Don't ever mention PD 1.0, it's a cursed standard that was never actually used and that nobody should ever use. USB PD started with PD 2.0, and we shall never speak of the stillborn child that is 1.0

New comment by ignaloidas in "Google's Liquid Cooling"

ignaloidas — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:46:23 +0000

Sun is continuously running a very nice distillation cycle the size of the world that makes fairly clean water just fall out of the sky. It's only a question of where does it fall, and how much. If you want it even cleaner, wait a couple centuries for it to filter down underground, and get it from there - besides maybe a bit high mineral contents, that can easily be removed, it's essentially free, clean water. The only question is how much it's replenished in the area you're taking it from.

There's plenty of areas where there's more rainfall, than there is outflow/evaporation, with water continuously replenishing deep groundwater. "Saving water" in such areas is of little concern besides the basic, economic one of well maintenance - each one can only pull so much, and more usage means more wells, and more upkeep.

New comment by ignaloidas in "What is HDR, anyway?"

ignaloidas — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:36:16 +0000

Youtube has been long normalizing videos standard feed, switching to a -14 LUFS target in 2019. But LUFS is a global target, and is meant to allow higher peaks and troughs over the whole video, and the normalization does happen on a global level - if you exceed it by 3dB, then the whole video gets it's volume lowered by 3dB, no matter if the part is quiet or not.

The stable volume thing is meant to essentially level out all of the peaks and troughs, and IIRC it's actually computed server-side, I think yt-dlp can download stable volume streams if asked to.

New comment by ignaloidas in "Redis is open source again"

ignaloidas — Fri, 02 May 2025 08:50:39 +0000

Companies that build themselves on selling open source software put themselves in the position where anyone else can copy them and compete with them on price, and price alone. This is clearly the disadvantage of open source. It brings plenty of advantages, which is why people do it - but you can't have only the advantages and no disadvantages of open source.

Open sourcing your product is a risky investment, and as with all risky investments, it might pay out, or it might not.

New comment by ignaloidas in "Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine"

ignaloidas — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:39:23 +0000

It's because S3 api is quite a fair bit worse than what they offer. They define their guarantees for storage products way more clearly than other clouds, and for blob storage, from my understanding, their model is better than S3.

New comment by ignaloidas in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

ignaloidas — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:15:08 +0000

So why not bring your better negotiation abilities to your peers? Collectively the bargaining power is way larger, and as such the upside as well.

New comment by ignaloidas in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

ignaloidas — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:32:00 +0000

Source code license doesn't matter, Mozilla did this with Debian, that's why Iceweasel was a thing.

New comment by ignaloidas in "HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver"

ignaloidas — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:47:53 +0000

It cannot route HDMI, partly because HDMI is built upon antiquated principles and doesn't really fit besides more modern protocol designs. USB4 would need to get entirely redesigned for tunneling native HDMI.

Having a DP to HDMI converter on one end though, that's easy.

New comment by ignaloidas in "RP2350 PicoDVI Preview"

ignaloidas — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:23:49 +0000

Host-to-host connections over USB4 (which is Thunderbolt without Intel's marketing) actually just have a packet interface over which you can pass IP, no need for Ethernet emulation.

Linux driver is here https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/th...

New comment by ignaloidas in "Lobsters"

ignaloidas — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:53:57 +0000

> Quite a disciplined policy by the stewards of the website. How does the enforcement work against say, overtagging?

Tags are used as negative signal, rather than positive (as in, you filter out tags you don't like, rather than taking the ones you do), so overtagging would kill the submission, and missing tags will be added by others via suggestions (which automatically add the tag after some threshold amount of suggestions).

New comment by ignaloidas in "Godot 4.0 Released"

ignaloidas — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:43:47 +0000

From my experience it's a lot easier to learn another language than to learn a new model of operation or new concepts entirely. And if you'll want to work with Godot, that will likely be the main barrier, and the main thing that will not be transferable to other contexts. The language however, can only make working with the concepts easier or harder. Godot team has decided that having their own language designed for dealing with the concepts of the engine makes it easier to use and results in less work than trying to adapt some existing language to the concepts of the engine. I've dealt with this a couple times, where a language was transformed so much by the context it was used in, it felt like an entirely different language.