Hacker News: matsz

New comment by matsz in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

matsz — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:06:21 +0000

> Biggest loss is that Ant models look like they are genuinely better.

This changes on a weekly basis, I ended up with subscriptions to most of the providers (except for X.ai).

New comment by matsz in "Git Submodules as a Package Manager"

matsz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:56:07 +0000

> Share them between projects like every sane package manager.

I'd argue the other extreme is less sane. Pip installs everything system wide and you can't have different versions of the same package without venv.

Even early NPM was much much better than the pre-uv Python situation. (TBH even with uv it still feels hacky at times.)

New comment by matsz in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

matsz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:44:53 +0000

Redlib exists - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

It has a few public instances - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

Seems to work decently well, I've seen it being linked to on HN.

New comment by matsz in "Holocloth"

matsz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:55:13 +0000

Wish this had support for multitouch. Great work otherwise!

New comment by matsz in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

matsz — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:56:44 +0000

Funnily enough, there's a drum loop that's also frequently sampled in electronic music from a track titled "Think (About It)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(About_It)

New comment by matsz in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

matsz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:13:32 +0000

> I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations.

A layer on top of the database to account for auth/etc. would be necessary anyways. Could be achieved to some degree with views, but I'd prefer an approach where you choose the publicly available data explicitly.

GraphQL almost delivered on that dream. Something more opinionated would've been much better, though.

New comment by matsz in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

matsz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:27:09 +0000

Coincidentally, they started releasing much better models lately.

New comment by matsz in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

matsz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:47:43 +0000

Valve saw the writing on the wall when Windows 8 was released. Their investment made Linux more feasible for the average user.

This makes me wonder how much better the world would be if corporations didn't have to answer to shareholders. Valve isn't publicly traded, Microsoft is.

New comment by matsz in "Deliberate Internet Shutdowns"

matsz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:11:21 +0000

Arguably CTA isn't exactly an obscure acronym. It's multi-disciplinary - quite common in UI/UX design and marketing; and also decently common in any branched of software engineering that interact with these topics, like... web development.

New comment by matsz in "alpr.watch"

matsz — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:18:32 +0000

I couldn't imagine living in a country where my every move is being watched.

Privacy is a human right. Sacrificing your human rights just for a bit of "safety" is just short sighted.

New comment by matsz in "Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams"

matsz — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:34:16 +0000

You might not even need ffmpeg.js for that anymore. WebCodecs API is well supported nowadays.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VideoEncode...

New comment by matsz in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

matsz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:05:39 +0000

I've been running Arch (on my desktop and servers) for over a decade, and never had issues. Just read their homepage before upgrading.

New comment by matsz in "I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector"

matsz — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:22:10 +0000

It's probably one of the best introductory projects to x86 assembly on bare metal.

More advanced than my attempt: https://github.com/mat-sz/pongloader

BTW: You could provide a live online demo using v86 - https://github.com/copy/v86

New comment by matsz in "Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal"

matsz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:55:48 +0000

One can dream.

New comment by matsz in "Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal"

matsz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:19:44 +0000

Finally, been waiting for this moment since I've learned about Oracle. Would be well-deserved for them. Hope Larry Ellison loses his yacht.

New comment by matsz in "Google Antigravity"

matsz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:12:28 +0000

> VSCode already renders terminal on GPU

When did they add that? Last time I used it, it was still based on xterm.js.

Also, technically Chromium/Blink has GPU rendering built in for web pages, so everything could run on GPU.

New comment by matsz in "European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws"

matsz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:30:33 +0000

True, I was considering going back to Poland for business... if only Poland was more politically stable.

New comment by matsz in "European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws"

matsz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:12:40 +0000

> Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?

Honestly, reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve the dire situation of startups here. It's so bad right now that a tax advisor straight up told me to move to a less business-hostile country.

New comment by matsz in "Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser"

matsz — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:25:20 +0000

Not everything is about profit :)

New comment by matsz in "The history of cataract surgery"

matsz — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:12:29 +0000

As a patient, I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable with the doctor operating on me doing a speedrun.

Full sterilization before each surgery is a good thing. Better safe than sorry. Same for only having one patient in the operating room - reduced risk of contamination and human error.