Hacker News: jordand

New comment by jordand in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

jordand — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:31:27 +0000

The main frameworks with traction like Slint UI, egui, tauri, and Dioxus all have baseline accessibility support

New comment by jordand in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

jordand — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:26:23 +0000

Slint UI does have bindings in other languages, but tutorials and docs are still lacking. Qt Bridges is a new option on the way for leveraging Qt with Rust and other language bindings.

Link: https://www.qt.io/development/qt-framework/qt-bridges

New comment by jordand in "Justice Department Approves Paramount's Acquisition of Warner Bros"

jordand — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:32:28 +0000

Yup yet another completely unnecessary merger that burns billions, reduces choices and quality for consumers, and produces nothing of value.

New comment by jordand in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

jordand — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:39:22 +0000

For Natural Selection 2, it was mainly the gameplay logic that was Lua, all running on their bespoke C++ game engine called Spark. But yeah, modern Python and Lua can be pushed to high performance.

Link: https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/spark-engine-questions-and...

New comment by jordand in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

jordand — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:05:34 +0000

Eh they announced in April that Tim is staying on as Executive Chairman, and the expectation is he'll deal with the politics so the new CEO doesn't (quite likely he'll give Trump another shiny gift)

New comment by jordand in "Zig Zen Update"

jordand — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:56:29 +0000

Activism as in their move away from GitHub? Andrew K recently said in the JetBrains interview that because of moving away, their CI/CD now actually works.

New comment by jordand in "Dav2d"

jordand — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:03:46 +0000

Yeah I could imagine the AV1 codec sticking around for a very long while, even as a fallback for AV2. There's still hundreds of millions of people out there using old/cheap devices (especially in developing countries) where that battery drain from software decoding is a big problem, so AV2 would be nonviable.

New comment by jordand in "Dav2d"

jordand — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:45:41 +0000

'AV2 decoding is roughly five times more complex than AV1 decoding. In practice, that means software running on today’s hardware will struggle to decode AV2 in real time without careful, architecture-specific optimization'

AV1 software decoding is already very intensive so AV2 decoding benchmarks are the next thing that would be really interesting (or mortifying) to see.

New comment by jordand in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

jordand — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:59 +0000

Yeah simplest explanation might be my nails being abrasive and whatever grease is on my fingers. That's with 35h a week usage and no eating while typing. Not had this issue with other decent quality mice and keyboards though.

New comment by jordand in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

jordand — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:22:05 +0000

I'm stuck in the same relationship with them: MX Master 3s/4 is my perfect productivity mouse. Problem? The rubber coating gradually disintegrates and accumulates dirt. ERGO K860 is my perfect keyboard. Problem? The plastic ABS surface of the keys wears and smooths in just a few months. The first set of AAA batteries have a far longer life!

If only they didn't cheap out on the materials and plastic quality.

New comment by jordand in "No more JetBrains products for me"

jordand — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:28:45 +0000

Still a bit weird that this text editor has an immense amount of venture capital invested in it, but yeah, I'll probably end up giving Zed another go. Still, they've made some odd decisions in the past. It took a lot of community pushback just to get them to add that 'disable_ai' flag (mandatory feature for me).

Link: https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

New comment by jordand in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

jordand — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:45:41 +0000

The graduates were expressing their free speech rights, and they know what they're up against. Schmidt does not care about them at all.

New comment by jordand in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

jordand — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:28:25 +0000

There's now an Avalonia back-end for .NET MAUI in preview, so they are making an effort on that cross-platform front too. Link: https://avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-avalonia-preview-1

New comment by jordand in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jordand — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:02:41 +0000

Last I read, it really doesn't now. Less than 10% of Microsoft revenue is Windows with growth stagnant. It's all about subscriptions and recurring revenue now driving growth. They might as well bundle a Windows licence with all Game Pass subscriptions.

New comment by jordand in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

jordand — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:22:48 +0000

CUDA is nearly 20 years old, and is not going anywhere, for many years to come

New comment by jordand in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

jordand — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:59:57 +0000

Andreas is involved with FUTO's conferences, and given a keynote presentation at one. It's more than just financial.

New comment by jordand in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

jordand — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:45:05 +0000

Yeah with MSIX, the security is better for end users, but the trade off is there's a lot less flexibility for developers (limits on custom installs, accessing registry, Custom Actions, etc.) This works out fine for most desktop apps, and MSI is still used and supported.

New comment by jordand in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

jordand — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:46:34 +0000

Ladybird has a close relationship with FUTO which is a pretty oddly behaved private for-profit company ran by a bored multi-millionaire.

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

New comment by jordand in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

jordand — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:22:36 +0000

Yeah, and legislation would be needed here but that's just not going to happen. With the GrapheneOS Motorola partnership (only a Lenovo subsidiary but its something) and hopefully more with other manufacturers, this might turn the tide, but its a long shot.

New comment by jordand in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

jordand — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:33:00 +0000

I'm running GrapheneOS too and while I've experienced the same, I'm dreading the day any of my banking apps update and suddenly start demanding full Play Integrity API support (GrapheneOS only has Basic) causing them to fail to open. Hasn't happened yet but it could.