Hacker News: kryptiskt

New comment by kryptiskt in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

kryptiskt — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:20:47 +0000

Knowing the properties of neutrinos is essential for building the neutrino bomb, the most ethical weapon possible.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi"

kryptiskt — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:26:15 +0000

For an example of just how much of a rabbit hole this is, Lucas Pope's forum post[0] about the dithering in Obra Dinn shows how much time can be spent on getting it right.

[0]: https://dukope.com/devlogs/obra-dinn/tig-32/

New comment by kryptiskt in "Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS"

kryptiskt — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:33:20 +0000

It's a broken idea, throughput über alles isn't true of an interactive system, latency matters. There's a calculator app I use every now and then. Linux always thinks it's a good idea to swap it out since I'm not using it all the time, which means that every time I want to calculate something there's lag as it's swapped in again.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B"

kryptiskt — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:25:54 +0000

That American AI companies waste money like that is a good argument for them being vulnerable to leaner companies.

New comment by kryptiskt in "9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game""

kryptiskt — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:57:28 +0000

Sweden cleared $2.5M in profit from their participation, about the same as the previous edition, all the increase was eaten up by the US taxing the teams and higher costs. That's not nearly enough money to sell out for.

New comment by kryptiskt in "One Year of Sponsored Servo Development"

kryptiskt — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:24:23 +0000

And you can't do what Google doesn't want you to do. That's a nice ad blocker you have there, shame if we removed support for it.

New comment by kryptiskt in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

kryptiskt — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:34:18 +0000

The problem is that those developers are also going to forget to update the ignore-by-default .gitignore to allow files, so there will be missing files. And they won't see any problems, because it works on their machine.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)"

kryptiskt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:54:30 +0000

The world is too mutable for it to exist as a decentralized system, you can set up all these permascrolls and enfilades and tumblers and stuff. But someone is going to see profit in making two-way links one-way or altering the permanent record, so they will. Not to mention what happens just by entropy, servers will get turned off because companies go under or people lose interest. You could make it everybody's problem with something like IPFS, you still would have to solve spammers exploiting the commons.

And it only makes sense for a place where documents are approximately equally popular. If the canonical Harry Potter contained links to all places referring or citing it, it would be one overloaded document.

And then the whole micropayments thing would make it a non-starter, since that have failed badly just about every time it has been tried.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

kryptiskt — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:06:32 +0000

Some people are actually interested in programming, coming and bleating about LLMs making all the finer points of it unimportant is as clueless as a manager coming here and telling us that syntax is unimportant because he has programmers for that crap.

If you don't care, don't go around in programming threads telling you how it doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter to you, because you prefer to be ignorant about the details of programming, and you have found tools that let you live in ignorance, good for you. But some of us do care, and are going to continue to do so.

New comment by kryptiskt in "The case against a C alternative (2022)"

kryptiskt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:19:04 +0000

A couple of examples what's missing from C from a low level perspective: Multiple return values (why can't I have a function using more registers than rax or the stack to push back more values?), sane varargs, stack manipulation (an enabler for coroutines and a lot more)

Generally, in an ideal low-level language I wouldn't expect to be hampered because the language is designed for a notional abstract machine that doesn't have things like an actual stack and contiguous RAM.

New comment by kryptiskt in "The case against a C alternative (2022)"

kryptiskt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:56:18 +0000

C isn't an iota more fundamental than say Modula-2. It's just more popular. And C is very bad at being a low level language. There are plenty of things that you can express in assembly that you just can't do in C. And then the platform ABI won't support it, since C can't support it, and it hampers other languages that don't have C's limitations.

New comment by kryptiskt in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

kryptiskt — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:29:20 +0000

That wasn't what it seemed like at the time. Amazon didn't post profits, sure, but they sure as hell weren't a giant money suck either, they didn't need billions in financing to run their business. There were a lot of Amazon bears, but they were concerned about the high valuation, not about them going broke (since even the most pessimistic bear can read a cashflow statement).

New comment by kryptiskt in "SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library"

kryptiskt — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:58:20 +0000

This isn't SDL_gpu, that is part of SDL3. This is SDL_gp, an external lib which builds on the former.

New comment by kryptiskt in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

kryptiskt — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:32:22 +0000

Because it was the CEOs idea?

New comment by kryptiskt in "Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral"

kryptiskt — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:04:43 +0000

Deciding on an ISA like RV32I only sets constraints on your architecture, it doesn't give you any of it for free. So I think it's entirely valid to say that it's a custom architecture if they didn't use any pre-existing CPU design.

Basically, they had the API interface and implemented everything behind it. I think saying that "it's an RV32I core" vastly underrates the design work that goes into actually implementing an RV32I core from scratch.

New comment by kryptiskt in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

kryptiskt — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:23:21 +0000

I think this largely is about brand protection. They worry that discounting the clothes means they will just cannibalize sales of that brand's full-price clothes.

New comment by kryptiskt in "The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley"

kryptiskt — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:47:44 +0000

I really wish I could buy the SpaceX part of SpaceX decoupled from all the AI hopium.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

kryptiskt — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:48:57 +0000

That's not for you to choose, and I'm glad someone is taking on the thankless task of correcting all your misinformation.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Red Programming Language: Static linking support"

kryptiskt — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:54:40 +0000

I'm a bit surprised that Red still seems stuck at 32 bits, like it was last time I saw something about it years ago. What is the roadblock that prevents them from building 64-bit binaries? I guess it must be very hard since otherwise it would have already been fixed.

New comment by kryptiskt in "Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?"

kryptiskt — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:53:48 +0000

There are no beefy RISC-V servers. There are no beefy 32-bit ARM servers.