Hacker News: lousken

New comment by lousken in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

lousken — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:16:42 +0000

Finally!

New comment by lousken in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

lousken — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:15:48 +0000

Haven't touched gemini api since they did not support having a $ limit per api key. Is it possible now?

New comment by lousken in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

lousken — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:41:48 +0000

Good enough for a side project, not good enough for transferring banking system from cobol

New comment by lousken in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

lousken — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:05:40 +0000

Denuvo should charge more for every month extra since the release

New comment by lousken in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

lousken — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:02:50 +0000

That was not enough because of DRM junk though

New comment by lousken in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

lousken — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:56:10 +0000

This. Why spend extra on x3d cpu when you can have a reasonable game size (not that it has large enough cache anyway)

New comment by lousken in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

lousken — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:38:30 +0000

I would hope publishers would take note and remove it, having hundreds of megabytes of junk in the executable is just wasteful to put it mildly

New comment by lousken in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

lousken — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:22:47 +0000

> This update moves Windows toward a single monthly restart by consolidating OS, .NET, and driver updates

I just can't, gotta ask - what about c++ updates? What about integral os components that were migrated to the store and if you disable it, you won't get updates? What about defender updates (not definitions but app update) that won't get applied if you have another anti malware?

The thing I hate about windows updates is that microsoft can't even update all their own stuff with a single button.

edit: almost forgot - why is office not in windows update, and what the hell is wrong with teams and why it is seperate from office updates

Just updating windows is a complete and utter mess and every single Linux distro is 100x better

New comment by lousken in "Patch Your Kernel NOW: 732byte Python rootkit, cracks all distros since 2017"

lousken — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:38:22 +0000

trixie security just out, perfect

New comment by lousken in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

lousken — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:09:03 +0000

AI was always slowing me down, only recently it has become somewhat useful.

New comment by lousken in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

lousken — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:30:33 +0000

Can't they use Mythos to figure out their uptime?

New comment by lousken in "An update on GitHub availability"

lousken — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:48:01 +0000

Availability is priority? Does not seem like it is https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

New comment by lousken in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

lousken — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:18:05 +0000

They are entshittifying their products at scale

New comment by lousken in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

lousken — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:22:57 +0000

Technically yes, but then you wait for the download + install + you have to select your ad preferences, also non-skipable

New comment by lousken in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

lousken — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:19:14 +0000

My favourite part is saying "Reject all" to the cookies and sh*t on my new tab before I even open any website.

New comment by lousken in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

lousken — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:08:13 +0000

One of the reasons I no longer work on windows

1. Log onto a server

2. Need a browser to run some stupid tool, everything besides edge is removed

3. Edge shows "setting up profile" with multiple steps (cant be skipped ofc) and after setup it goes to new tab showing shit ton of ads and stuff lagging the RDP session

explain that, macroslop

New comment by lousken in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

lousken — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:25:43 +0000

Fully agree, I can't wait for the day when developers finally stop using javascript for shit it was never designed for. .NET is decades ahead at this point.

New comment by lousken in "Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees"

lousken — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:27:56 +0000

Are they running their own models or just channeling money to anthropic or google? (answer is unfortunately the latter)

New comment by lousken in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

lousken — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:30:13 +0000

If only we had batteries that would last for 20 years...

New comment by lousken in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

lousken — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:30:32 +0000

It will take a generation, but once students at school will be using something else than Adobe, it is over for them. Same with Microsoft