Hacker News: jgtrosh

New comment by jgtrosh in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

jgtrosh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:04:58 +0000

Also in French, different similarity, av2il hav2e

Slightly worse in English, av2age mav2ick

New comment by jgtrosh in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jgtrosh — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:58:04 +0000

I believe this is the most common scenario, yes. If you're used to actively pushing and pulling from the same branche as your colleagues, you need to learn how to manipulate diverging changes and conflicting bookmarks, but other than that all the jj magic is limited to your local activity.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

jgtrosh — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:14:59 +0000

I intuitively feel like more realistic games could be more fun, and that I might just have fondness for Space Cadet from growing up with it; but the more I played other pinball games the more I appreciate that space cadet is a simply great game to play, it feels great and there's a great variety of things to keep you hooked.

I wish I could find another pinball game I enjoyed as much. The closest experiences I could find are Xenotitle and Demon's Tilt but I found them harder to get into and get good at.

The next best thing imo is Yoku's Island Express.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

jgtrosh — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:59:02 +0000

To those who do not know about this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Rom...

(My external barely informed understanding is that proponents of unification are largely right wing nationalist, pro-Russians call for a unification with Bessarabia while ceding Transsinistria to Russia; Moldovans are largely against union in polls.)

New comment by jgtrosh in "Make some art with your phone sensors"

jgtrosh — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:07:04 +0000

Even just the plain etch-a-sketch using motion sensing is cool enough.

I suppose this might have been done already?

New comment by jgtrosh in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

jgtrosh — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:20:01 +0000

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals).

The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere?

I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.

New comment by jgtrosh in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

jgtrosh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:45:09 +0000

After a quick search, there is an NFC web API, but with no general support https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API

New comment by jgtrosh in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

jgtrosh — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:00:42 +0000

Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer

New comment by jgtrosh in "The Clock"

jgtrosh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:32:19 +0000

Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)

New comment by jgtrosh in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jgtrosh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:42:45 +0000

I like the Trosh game

New comment by jgtrosh in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

jgtrosh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:33:55 +0000

Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.

New comment by jgtrosh in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

jgtrosh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:04:40 +0000

To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US.

[0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statistics/

New comment by jgtrosh in "Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs"

jgtrosh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:42:05 +0000

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

> Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of fully reflecting the grammar and lexicon used in languages, it is often only capable of encoding broad or imprecise information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

> vocal languages must have begun diversifying at least 100,000 years ago

New comment by jgtrosh in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

jgtrosh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:25:52 +0000

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

New comment by jgtrosh in "Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes"

jgtrosh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:42:34 +0000

These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop"

jgtrosh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:37:53 +0000

I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the difference other than “this fits expectations”, especially after the author extensively claims this does not fit their own expectations. Did I miss something?

New comment by jgtrosh in "HTML Slides with notes"

jgtrosh — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:05:58 +0000

A vimmer*

New comment by jgtrosh in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

jgtrosh — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:32:08 +0000

His crusade is in part about how pods are overdosed which can reduce their effectiveness (and be super wasteful)

New comment by jgtrosh in "The Farmer Was Replaced [video]"

jgtrosh — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:25:31 +0000

The game looks fun and pretty, but am I the only one to get triggered by the “replaced” naming?

All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial. (And in many instances hypocritical if coming from people who defensively claim “it's just a tool”…)

New comment by jgtrosh in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

jgtrosh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:49:25 +0000

Is this bait? The whole context is malicious software being installed en masse via NPM micro dependencies.