Hacker News: mikae1

New comment by mikae1 in "New iMac with M6"

mikae1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:24:52 +0000

Considering the insane memory price surge it's going to take years (or an eternity) before most people will consider upspecing their machines to run local over paying $20 per month to have the honor to loan a slice of Altman's hardware.

The only hope we have is the AI bubble bursting, but that will undoubtedly come with its own set of macroeconomic surprises.

Mapping the landscape of software vulnerabilities in connected vehicles

mikae1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11219-026-09787-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255265

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikae1 in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

mikae1 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:30:18 +0000

> with a better encoder you can get it down to 178kB

What encoder?

New comment by mikae1 in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

mikae1 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:19:55 +0000

I'd say I'm rather well-versed in this topic but I have a really hard time following what you're saying. Could you attempt rephrasing?

MFT is a sensor size and lens mount, not a raw file format. Panasonic and Olympus (among others) have made cameras using this standard, but use different raw file formats.

New comment by mikae1 in "Tiny Little Office"

mikae1 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:58:12 +0000

And then you're also the maintainer of the software in charge of keeping it up-to-date with its dependencies etc.

New comment by mikae1 in "Voice Dictation for Linux that learns as you speak"

mikae1 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:50:55 +0000

I would recommend not downloading 67MB of data without asking.

New comment by mikae1 in "Muse Wonder"

mikae1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:46:50 +0000

> upholding the law

What law? Saudi Arabian law, US law? Both depending on the user?

New comment by mikae1 in "Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns"

mikae1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:27:12 +0000

I can tell you that this is, for better or worse, what a lot "forests" look like in Sweden (and I assume, Finland too). A large part of our forests are industriskog (industrial forest).

Great for the economy (in the short term), not great for biodiversity.

New comment by mikae1 in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

mikae1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:28:06 +0000

Nitter is a hydra. One instance goes down, another one goes up.

https://status.d420.de/

New comment by mikae1 in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

mikae1 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:37:45 +0000

AGI arrived recently because Jensen Huang is getting scared shitless about the unprofitability of the LLM companies that are his customers.

New comment by mikae1 in "CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development"

mikae1 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:26:59 +0000

Not that I know of.

New comment by mikae1 in "CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development"

mikae1 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:27:14 +0000

Eye opener. I think I looked through almost all of them and none got basic typography right such as less margin bottom beneath a heading (to the paragraph following it) than above.

Many had zero left/right margins on mobile.

Overall terrible defaults.

New comment by mikae1 in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

mikae1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:42:59 +0000

That happens to social media accounts too. My friend lost her Facebook account to scammers. It was impossible to get back because Meta support is an automated AI shit show. Now someone else gets her messages.

New comment by mikae1 in "Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux"

mikae1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:37:41 +0000

> This handles use cases Distrobox can't

Which?

Why Omarchy Exists

mikae1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://mikael.pika.page/posts/why-omarchy-exists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822122

Points: 31

# Comments: 73

New comment by mikae1 in "Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++"

mikae1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:35:38 +0000

True, not the earliest gen. But it's a 2001 console (not 2004) despite this being a 2004 title.

New comment by mikae1 in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

mikae1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:18:41 +0000

> although being Android based it's not really an option for me. It'd be like trading a Porsche 911 for a Pontiac Aztec.

I use GrapheneOS for my own phone and have always been forced into iPhones at work.

iOS, after 12 years of use, is still so terrible that I can't just get over it.

I open my MacBook and will do whatever needs to be done from there.

I should probably get an iPhone for private use too though. It would surely stop me from being on my phone more than I'd like to.

New comment by mikae1 in "Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++"

mikae1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:34:41 +0000

I'm so emotionally torn about all the awesome decompilation work done.

Too bad all the cool decompilation is happening for games on early 3D centric consoles. I say this a Quake fanatic. Low res textures combined with that blurry bilinear style filtering is a look that's not easy to love. It's just a generational thing I guess.

New comment by mikae1 in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

mikae1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:37:05 +0000

Say you want to add an artist or change some information. Regeneration will end up with another poster altogether, right?

New comment by mikae1 in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

mikae1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:19:12 +0000

There's little margins and whitespace and this bothered me like hell before making the switch. It's funny, now I kind of like it. A lot is happening too. The latest Plasma had a very high degree of polish IMO.

It's far more consistent than Windows 11, but you have to pick Qt/KDE software, not GTK/GNOME for that to be true. I always choose the more KDE native option.