Hacker News: meandmycode

New comment by meandmycode in "BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access"

meandmycode — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:02:07 +0000

More like ads passion, truly a lot of better results from searching using your favourite search index..

New comment by meandmycode in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

meandmycode — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:56:08 +0000

I personally went with https://endeavouros.com/ in the end, so far working really great, I appreciate Linux distributions will have different audiences which is great, I think regardless of distribution though it seems like a lot more software (and hardware) is 'just working' and it's actually delightful to use the computer again, kudos to many hard working people making free software

New comment by meandmycode in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

meandmycode — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:08:53 +0000

I will say, for anybody reading and finds it in any way uplifting, I have been a Windows user for 30 years, been a .net developer for 5 years at one point, groaned at how bad the 'Linux desktop' always was, but this year I finally switched to using Linux instead of Windows and I think it's because the inflexion point is starting to hit more of the masses.

New comment by meandmycode in "Cloudflare was down"

meandmycode — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:38:42 +0000

This has to be setting off some alarm bells internally, a well written postmortem on an occasional issue, great, but when your postmortem talks about learnings and improvements yet major outages keep happening, it becomes meaningless..

New comment by meandmycode in "Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD"

meandmycode — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:36:16 +0000

I think the point they are making us that the intermediate representation the model works with is parametric and then converted to step for use with other tooling, I could be wrong, but I understand the argument both ways of their solution enables editing of that parametric version before conversion out.

New comment by meandmycode in "Show HN: One prompt generates an app with its own database"

meandmycode — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:20:49 +0000

Absolute cinema https://true-deer-rsndsw.manyminiapps.com

New comment by meandmycode in "The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug"

meandmycode — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:05:03 +0000

Truly awesome analysis, it's great that Asus spends this effort to quality check their hot garbage.. oh wait..

New comment by meandmycode in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

meandmycode — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:21:04 +0000

I think actually Linux has come a long way and recently I actually dual booted fedora with windows and fedora was easily my main choice unless gaming.. unfortunately when updating from 41 to 42 there was clearly an issue with the GPU not having drivers for acceleration or cuda, updating the drivers bricked the OS immediately and while I could recover, I spent hours and hours on this and could never get the GPU drivers installed again without bricking it.. ultimately I realised how at mercy of drivers Linux is. I hope though that in the next few years things improve as windows is dismal to work on these days

New comment by meandmycode in "We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly"

meandmycode — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:58:30 +0000

This was my view once, but practically the languages have their own ecosystem strengths, now I think most of the major languages have similar concepts, async await, etc.. instead we now teach transfer your skills, and tbh I think it makes for a more interesting culture that's adoptive and excited by tech, and also learns better

New comment by meandmycode in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

meandmycode — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:58:09 +0000

The connector on the main body is just exceptionally questionable, I see it being a big issue of getting broken or worn and then non trivial repairs.

New comment by meandmycode in "The Nearest Neighbor Attack"

meandmycode — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:37:35 +0000

Anybody else get a feeling it was Volexity that did all this research? Interesting story none the less

New comment by meandmycode in "Civet: A Superset of TypeScript"

meandmycode — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:52:16 +0000

I think the most exciting aspect here is this might actually push JavaScript to add some missing features that can make a lot of difference, the pipeline operator for example can really improve the design of JavaScript code and has been proven already in several languages, C#, swift, kotlin to name a few I know

New comment by meandmycode in "Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database"

meandmycode — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:31:06 +0000

It actually reads distinctly not ai written, but calling things ai is vogue now

New comment by meandmycode in "Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says"

meandmycode — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:48:46 +0000

Any company with sufficient size will fail to incentivise the things they claim at the top, unfortunately the impacts of decisions (especially during austerity) are poorly understood, so even the supposedly best intending will fail once you reach a size

New comment by meandmycode in "I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL"

meandmycode — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:11:01 +0000

What unique position does this browser have? in the nicest way, truly nobody cares, both are pet projects

New comment by meandmycode in "Mistral Fine-Tune"

meandmycode — Sat, 25 May 2024 11:52:20 +0000

Which kinds of use cases?

New comment by meandmycode in "The last days of my type checker for JavaScript"

meandmycode — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:46:14 +0000

By 2019, typescript was for some time dominant over flow and had won the js ecosystem, so either the author was naive to this or isn't quite portraying the story well.. I think it should be fine for the author to say they had personal preference over something like flow and so you developed tools to their own preference

New comment by meandmycode in "Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout"

meandmycode — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:15:12 +0000

I'm dubious that a constraints system would ever be considered, CSS has so far had some strong goals around it's predictably on layout cost.. that said, Houdini layout proposal is the closest to your comment, offloading layout to an isolated js context https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/blob/main/css-layo... .. but honestly flex and grid, plus other things like containment have solved so many things for folks now that there's just far less demand for improvement than the days before flex

New comment by meandmycode in "Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection"

meandmycode — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:23:44 +0000

The browser in this adversarial scenario is also in control of the audio context too

New comment by meandmycode in "Big Post About Big Context"

meandmycode — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:22:48 +0000

Also, while the cost of tokens is lower, let's argue it's cheap enough not to care. Reading 1m tokens surely isn't realistic for latency?