Hacker News: louhike

New comment by louhike in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

louhike — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:38:59 +0000

Avalonia is not made by Microsoft and is often considered as one of the best way to make desktop app with .NET.

New comment by louhike in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

louhike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:42:11 +0000

One thing PC does not have are the Xbox/Xbox 360 updated games. Microsoft did a great job of making the old games playable on Xbox One with better resolution, performance, etc. It would be nice to play the exclusive games of those consoles on PC through this.

New comment by louhike in "Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle"

louhike — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:52:43 +0000

Some parts are hard to follow for a non-cpp programmer but overall it's a great video!

New comment by louhike in "Unleashed Recompiled: PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed"

louhike — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:44:30 +0000

SA2 redux looks more like a remake than a recomp. I didn’t know the project though and it seems promising!

New comment by louhike in "Wizardry Co-Creator Andrew Greenberg Has Passed Away"

louhike — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:29:00 +0000

Dragon Quest (which came before Final Fantasy and inspired it) took inspiration from Wizardry. Most RPG from the 80s were inspired by Wizardry. It had huge influences.

New comment by louhike in "Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky"

louhike — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:05:38 +0000

That’s interesting. Why do you use event sourcing? Is having a full history important for a website/app like bluesky?

New comment by louhike in "Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?"

louhike — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:42:34 +0000

The Myth of Sisyphus By Albert Camus. A great philosophy book, not that hard to read, about the absurdity of life. Camus talks about suicide in this context, and why life still has meaning despite its absurdity. The Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson. As the title implies, it talks about caring less about what other think (while not being a narcissist). And how it can make you more happy and more likeable.

New comment by louhike in "Has Xbox lost the console wars?"

louhike — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:22:59 +0000

It will be 30 australians dollars

New comment by louhike in "Has Xbox lost the console wars?"

louhike — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:14:37 +0000

Inflation ajusted, the prices are similar to now. But the games do cost less now when you take inflation into account.

New comment by louhike in "Loneliness is stronger when not alone"

louhike — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:46:12 +0000

It requires effort but less than trying to understand how you could help them, so the point still stands. And even though they might genuinely help others, it’s important to educate people to stop doing it this way, as it can be more harmful than doing nothing.

New comment by louhike in "Tips for better coding with ChatGPT"

louhike — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:49:37 +0000

I don’t think it’s more insane than copying and pasting code from anywhere on the internet. You have to understand what you use and you must not trust it blindly, whatever the source.

New comment by louhike in "Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases"

louhike — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:04:03 +0000

There’s documentation usually with an API and you have changelogs. If you scrape the website, if there is a change in the UI, it will break your product. So it is feasible, but it will make all products worse and harder to maintain.

New comment by louhike in "Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator"

louhike — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:52:46 +0000

There are still bugs for several games, you cannot play in portable mode and you cannot play online unless you use a custom network used only by emulator users with a specific build.

New comment by louhike in "Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator"

louhike — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:49:15 +0000

The thing here is that Dolphin might be breaking the law by having the Wii decryption key in its source code, the link talks about it.

New comment by louhike in "Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time"

louhike — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:26:52 +0000

According to the app description, it’s free for a limited time though.

New comment by louhike in "I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari"

louhike — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:39:30 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by louhike in "I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari"

louhike — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:41:18 +0000

Is it region lock? I cannot access the page from France.

New comment by louhike in "Microsoft Loop Preview"

louhike — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:27:38 +0000

You could say that Call of Duty was a clone of Medal of Honor though. And comparing Chrome with Firefox at the time might be more fair too.

New comment by louhike in "Medieval monks were distracted too"

louhike — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:05:08 +0000

I wonder why humans have been concerned with being distracted for so long. And I think we can wonder about it without refuting social networks can be (though not always) bad for you.

New comment by louhike in "Why I stopped using an external monitor"

louhike — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:27:08 +0000

He specifically talked about an audio engineer. Yes as a composer/producer you can get by without audio monitoring hardware if you have an audio engineer taking care of the mixing/mastering after you. Those are different profiles.