Hacker News: kiririn

New comment by kiririn in "Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'"

kiririn — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:22:42 +0000

It still blows my mind that no OLED TV has yet added simple temporal blending between frames, the kind of which MPV has had for decades. They could even take it a step further and emulate the colour-dependent blending of LCD screens. But no instead it's the same terrible motion interpolation algorithms of 15+ years ago, or nothing.

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

kiririn — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:49:50 +0000

What >100mbps content is there? 4K bluray just needs a bigger buffer to handle >100mbps spikes (Kodi for example offers this) and Moonlight/Apollo/etc is well into diminishing returns

New comment by kiririn in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

kiririn — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:49:15 +0000

I solved mine by chronically exposing myself to very low noise during sleep - wearing good earplugs in an already silent room. To the point where you can hear your eyeballs move etc. I guess this may be where the link to good sleep comes from, which implies a quiet sleeping environment

New comment by kiririn in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

kiririn — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:24:04 +0000

A bug(?) exists to disable liquid ass on the Home Screen that still works in 26.3 - enable Reduce Motion globally in accessibility settings, then add a per app accessibility override for “Home Screen & App Library” with Reduce Motion off, then reboot. Somehow this disables liquid ass throughout the Home Screen, back to iOS 18 gaussian blurs

New comment by kiririn in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

kiririn — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:33:06 +0000

Yeah it’s more of an annoyance for sure. I only discovered it was a thing when intentionally MITMing a domain on my router

New comment by kiririn in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

kiririn — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:55:06 +0000

Even with default https etc, HSTS still adds some defence against MITM - browsers won’t let you even forcibly accept a self signed certificate

New comment by kiririn in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

kiririn — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:17:35 +0000

I’m always surprised people pick Lua when Pawn exists. I think I’d even still choose it over MicroQuickJS

https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm

New comment by kiririn in "WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home"

kiririn — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:54:03 +0000

My solution to this is a pair of udp ports relayed to each other on a VPS via socat. Then you can point a home WireGuard server (behind cgnat etc) at one, and clients at the other, with no need to trust the vps

New comment by kiririn in "They don't make 'em like that any more: tone controls"

kiririn — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:35:43 +0000

While I do like tone controls, I'm skeptical of the argument of adjusting bass/treble based on volume, e.g. the likes of 'Dynamic EQ' in D&M receivers. It has always sounded like it is doubling up something that my brain is already doing

New comment by kiririn in "Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability"

kiririn — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:34:05 +0000

Not a Ruby/Rails person, but from a quick look there are still APIs named exactly the same between those versions. Very nice to see

On the other hand, Laravel decided to change from snake_case to CamelCase between versions 3 and 4, just because. Literally 0% compatibility

New comment by kiririn in "Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability"

kiririn — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:25:41 +0000

It's on PHP 7.4, so between RHEL and CloudLinux there's another few years left in it, before I weigh up rewrite vs another round of hacking modern PHP support into Laravel 3

New comment by kiririn in "Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability"

kiririn — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:19:28 +0000

Still maintaining a Laravel 3 project. Barely made it 2 years before maintainability became a nightmare and the only upgrade path was complete rewrite. Projects written without an opinionated framework easily sail past 10 years of comfy maintainability

New comment by kiririn in "Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings"

kiririn — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:27:34 +0000

You can see their panic - in my country they are running TV ads for Google search, showing it answering LLM-prompt-like queries. They are desperately trying to win back that mind share, and if they lose traditional keyword search too they’re cooked

New comment by kiririn in "Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C"

kiririn — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:19:22 +0000

Nice, gives me Pawn vibes

(https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm)

New comment by kiririn in "Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”"

kiririn — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:46:30 +0000

>Full-text search is entirely client side (not via IMAP)

Setting up server-side Xapian full-text search and disabling the crap client-side one in Thunderbird was one of the best improvements I made to my email usability. What makes your client-side search better? It's usually not speed I'm looking for, but rather precision, such as double quoted phrases (sorely missing from Thunderbird's client-side search), filtering by a mixture of things, etc.

I wish more clients had an option for server-side-only search (looking at you, iOS Mail.app) and/or had a nice UI for it (ctrl+shift+f dialog in Thunderbird is janky but gets results)

New comment by kiririn in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

kiririn — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:06:18 +0000

It's nice to see them add an option to disable this behaviour, now if only we could get an option to include Signal messages in iOS backups...

New comment by kiririn in "The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job"

kiririn — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:30:21 +0000

Not sure either of those capture the nuance of bad humour… ‘bad sense of humour’ can imply not finding anything funny or taking offence to jokes. ‘Bad humour’ in this context implies bad at being humorous, e.g telling dad jokes

New comment by kiririn in "Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update"

kiririn — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:24:43 +0000

Lightning ports very rarely fail or get loose - it’s more robust than usb-c in that regard, which is already a high bar - it’s probably dust in the port

New comment by kiririn in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

kiririn — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:02:35 +0000

Works fine on iOS safari, two finger drag to move

New comment by kiririn in "IPv6 Is Hard"

kiririn — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:29:54 +0000

Turning off the firewall could just as easily be a unnoticed configuration error that causes it to die on startup