Hacker News: makapuf

New comment by makapuf in "Every Frame Perfect"

makapuf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:27:56 +0000

Exactly, you should optimize for quality and have a high bar forbit but I'm not sure sacrificing framerate for pixel perfect rendering or perfect subpixel antialiasing and compositing a perfect glass chroma aberration when wheezing a superfast animation is more important than it being solid 144Hz or audio synced.

New comment by makapuf in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

makapuf — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:26:42 +0000

"a bunch of nice graphics being manipulated with code" does sum up quite a bit of the videogame industry, including GTA VI ...

New comment by makapuf in "Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team"

makapuf — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:42:46 +0000

docker images and ubuntu releases use an adjective, this could at least allow some alternatives like bold/supreme/decisive/depressed eagle (or just use battery staple)

New comment by makapuf in "Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU"

makapuf — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:41 +0000

I havent seen many desktop like workflows on it with several "big" apps open (and running cpu) at the same time, most ive seen was one software at a time or games. Cooperating with yourself is relatively easier, no ?

New comment by makapuf in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

makapuf — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:51 +0000

Funny because I rewrote a bad port of dragons lair for a custom console with a tiny engine and huge dataset relatively, each frame having one "if press X goto frame Y" instruction.

New comment by makapuf in "A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe"

makapuf — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:08:08 +0000

This time is a global average, including non working people or part time people.

New comment by makapuf in "A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe"

makapuf — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:06:31 +0000

The curious data point is that on this graph poverty seems to have strongly reduced during covid. Less poor.

New comment by makapuf in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

makapuf — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:48:00 +0000

How was this generated ? I'm quite sure "with ai/claude code" but what are the actual steps ?

New comment by makapuf in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

makapuf — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:43:14 +0000

You can buy this bad boy [attiny11] with no ram, only registers.

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/1006S.pdf

New comment by makapuf in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

makapuf — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:18:21 +0000

Curious about the workload, but as Im trying to make a tool about json, what are those files compressed with? What is the size of the average file ? What is their structure (ndjson ? Dict with some huge data structure a few level deep?)

New comment by makapuf in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

makapuf — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:11:55 +0000

Frankly I don't know why we still have laptops. Honestly I think my mobile with a usbc base for screen and usb would perfectly work in a hardware pov. I don't know if Android would work, and besides of that a small fixed pc for whatever needs power.

New comment by makapuf in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

makapuf — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:25:22 +0000

Currently working exactly on that https://gitlab.com/makapuf/treewalker (even if it could always use some love)

New comment by makapuf in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

makapuf — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:10:27 +0000

Compilers won't do multiplication by power of two to bit shift for you ? I remember reading in ~2000: the only thing writing a<<2 instead of a/4 will do is make your compiler yawn

New comment by makapuf in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

makapuf — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:01:14 +0000

2. BigCo owns ProjectOne now 3a. Bigco is now free to release version N+1 as closed source only. 3b. Community can still fork the older version and work on it, but BigCo can continue to develop and sell their original version.

New comment by makapuf in "Don't become an engineering manager"

makapuf — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:15:01 +0000

sure, as long as we're talking about 110 to 170k$ non-managing, technical roles in EU, I'd like to see a full eclipse soon (both exist but I think the latter could be easier to find)

New comment by makapuf in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

makapuf — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:11:18 +0000

And people looking at code may well be as numerous as people looking at assembly. (Which I even like to do)

New comment by makapuf in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

makapuf — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:09:12 +0000

My car is typically used twice a week and (like many others) I mostly ride my bike or walk. I'm not special at all and I certainly use the car, but it has not replaced walking.

New comment by makapuf in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

makapuf — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:53:53 +0000

AFAIK, you can't explicitly allocate cache like you allocate RAM however. A bit like if you could only work on files and ram was used for cache. Maybe I am mistaken ? (Edit: typo)

New comment by makapuf in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

makapuf — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:39:11 +0000

I understand it as "the branch we're purchasing/hiring from", not the inner part of the company.

New comment by makapuf in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

makapuf — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:37:56 +0000

Variable costs increase ? (Floor space rental, Energy, Salaries, licenses, other services ...)