Hacker News: mdre

New comment by mdre in "Mel Brooks is 100 today"

mdre — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:17:46 +0000

Well I have good news for you. It’s in production, there’s a teaser and release date.

New comment by mdre in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

mdre — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:30:42 +0000

This so much. If only they ditched both node styles and made Nuke style nodes but with horizontal flow by default maybe. The Color page nodes are so so wonky.

New comment by mdre in "Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?"

mdre — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:54:42 +0000

Seems like a cool idea but it's kinda hard to tell without seeing a whole movie or two fully broken down into those scale steps. Maybe it's there behind a paywall.

New comment by mdre in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened"

mdre — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:49:34 +0000

And yet it's still not all roses in the actual everyday life given that we have higher prices than Germany (food, phones, computers) while earning 3x less. But it surely beats how we had it the 90s.

New comment by mdre in "Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series"

mdre — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:36:43 +0000

Looks like they are acknowledging the gap and trying to offer something usable before they close it. B60 is still 8x weaker than a 5090 in real compute, which is sad

New comment by mdre in "Blender 5.0"

mdre — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:24:30 +0000

That would be both feature completeness of the implementation and also some kind of a native USD authoring mode (editing the structure and layering multiple USD files properly), like Houdini Solaris or Nvidia Omniverse. For now Blender can’t even read/write MaterialX properly. (I’m not an insider though)

New comment by mdre in "Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video]"

mdre — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:08:03 +0000

What’s really groundbreaking is the amount of ignorance displayed in this video. Also, I’m curious how long will it take for blender to reach performance parity with OpenGL. Houdini has been taking a few years now and VK is still 2x slower then opengl apparently.

New comment by mdre in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

mdre — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:56:34 +0000

Yes.

New comment by mdre in "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache"

mdre — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:23:39 +0000

Hmm. I’m using an AIO cooler, a 3090 and a 1600W platinum psu - might be a bit inefficient. I remember unplugging the PSU and 3090 and plugging in a 650W gold PSU — the system drew 70W IIRC. That’s a wild difference still!

New comment by mdre in "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache"

mdre — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:32:31 +0000

What's your idle power consumption for AMD vs Intel if you don't mind me asking? I'm getting avg 125W for my 13900k build, measured at the wall and it mildly bugs me when I think of it, I thought it'd be closer to 80. And power is very expensive where I live now.

New comment by mdre in "4K 1000Hz Monitor Exhibited"

mdre — Mon, 20 May 2024 11:43:32 +0000

This is cool and all, but it's been 10 years since 4K monitors. Where are (affordable) DUHD ultrawides and why there is not a single 42 inch 6K or 8K panel in the entire world?

New comment by mdre in "It's the End of the Web as We Know It"

mdre — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:22:19 +0000

Well, you could change your user agent string.

New comment by mdre in "GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation"

mdre — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:36:27 +0000

Was this at Ubisoft maybe? I remember their presentations, some really amazing tech a decade ago... Never seen anything as straightforward to use in off-the-shelf software since.

New comment by mdre in "AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source"

mdre — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:11:19 +0000

I'd say it's even worse, since for rendering Optix is like 30% faster than CUDA. But that requires the tensor cores. At this point AMD is waaay behind hardware wise.

New comment by mdre in "AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source"

mdre — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:39:15 +0000

Fun fact: ZLUDA means something like illusion/delusion/figment. Well played! (I see the main dev is from Poland.)

New comment by mdre in "If Every Brand Is Funny Online, Is Anything Funny?"

mdre — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:08:38 +0000

https://archive.ph/8lqJT

New comment by mdre in "Orion – HDMI Monitor for iPad"

mdre — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 08:36:57 +0000

Would be nice if they recommended a capture card that can actually take advantage of iPad's native resolution. The one they recommend is 1080p. That's good for Xbox, not productivity.

New comment by mdre in "Gimel Studio: Non-destructive, 2D image editor"

mdre — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 15:34:53 +0000

Not just the UI, also the hotkeys! I immediately went for pressing Shift-A... awesome!

New comment by mdre in "Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?"

mdre — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:53:32 +0000

Blender's UI is rendered with openGL and it's glorious. Photoshop is getting really slow in my opinion since 2015. I see all those Chromium processes running with it and wonder just how much of its stuff is being replaced with this slow shitty code. Everything 'modern' that has rounded edges feels just slow and laggy.

New comment by mdre in "Official Firefox add-on bringing offline translation support to Firefox"

mdre — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:49:09 +0000

I compared it (german-english) to google translate and it's on the level of how google was 7 years ago.