Hacker News: koolala

New comment by koolala in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

koolala — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:49:41 +0000

The comment your replying to used Quest 3. No need for Apple. Steam Frame will probably have a color camera module too and be even more flexible as a real computer.

New comment by koolala in "AI in Linux"

koolala — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:28:46 +0000

The thing I'd worry about is it slowly handing over control of Linux's direction to the tech companies who control and regulate the AI being used to help develop it. The complexity is only growing. These companies are themselves extremely political and decide what AI is and isn't legal when Linux demands using the most capable models for security reasons. So it would be good at least if the project actually cared and had it's own principles besides ignoring the politics.

New comment by koolala in "Em dashes are amazing"

koolala — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:34:17 +0000

why?

New comment by koolala in "Em dashes are amazing"

koolala — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:33:42 +0000

hmmm... three or fewer?

New comment by koolala in "Em dashes are amazing"

koolala — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:32:19 +0000

That might lead to a lisp singularity.

New comment by koolala in "Em dashes are amazing"

koolala — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:25:29 +0000

Test: 'There is no greater joy in life than typing a sentence, realising it needs a clarification, a caveat, an addendum, but in the same sentence, not a new one, and, guess what, the comma is right there for you. You want to package things neatly together, and the comma lets you do exactly this. Commas make writing feel like you are assembling lego bricks.'

I like using commas for spacing though em dashes do the same thing and avoid the run-on police?

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:20:19 +0000

This isn't enough for every website to load normally.

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:13:39 +0000

No one said any site should. Letting a site you control do it is a perfectly valid user choice. Otherwise people are stuck going through third-party proxies which is far worse.

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:43:02 +0000

I think it was $25,000...

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:40:46 +0000

Chromium CEF could also embed the Puter proxy inside it too as a standalone application. No luck on Mobile though.

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:37:41 +0000

Worked in my Firefox on Steam Deck. I was amazed it could run YouTube.

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:42:24 +0000

What makes it require that WASM extension you need the flag for in Firefox? Was there really no way to work around it or polyfill it for it to work? It is performance critical?

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:40:14 +0000

Seems easy to fix it and say 'no CORS proxy' and 'no need to host your own server'. It was very confusing to me too.

New comment by koolala in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

koolala — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:38:45 +0000

>Why not route traffic through my actual browser?

Because you can't. Not even an Extension is able to. Browsers don't want you to bypass their content enforcement. I wish we had at least one hacker friendly browser.

New comment by koolala in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

koolala — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:25:27 +0000

that way is 100% non-renewable, the important questions are the total long term costs

New comment by koolala in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

koolala — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:20:46 +0000

What is the standard non-renewable resource used for the recovery process? What materials are used up as catalysts to convert it back?

New comment by koolala in "A pure scheme web programming tool"

koolala — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:34:57 +0000

Pretty slick it has Three.js built in. I've not sure I've seen that in a language before in the standard library.

New comment by koolala in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

koolala — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:04:55 +0000

A clever trick is way better than a stupid trick yeah. I don't get complaining about a concise elegant solution either unless a specific problem with the actual proof was brought up.

New comment by koolala in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

koolala — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:04:27 +0000

Only? Their solution in the article seemed effective.

New comment by koolala in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

koolala — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:24:16 +0000

You have no idea what they are selling though. You can ask to get bad things removed from Open Street Maps. It isn't just the money making aspect it's the secrecy too.