Hacker News: mzmzmzm

New comment by mzmzmzm in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

mzmzmzm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:20:08 +0000

I wonder if this is part of why Apple is behind most competitors in terms of fast charging. Would almost make marketing sense to come out and say it at this point.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

mzmzmzm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:16:29 +0000

I felt that way too, but having used it a few devices as an end user I enjoy being able to close the browser and have the whole stack disappear. Instead of having to install a creepy Logitech tool to pair a mouse with a receiver, as soon as that task is done, goodbye Logitech. I guess a real concern is manufacturers stop offering native drivers, but for the majority of hardware the PnP or the Linux kernel just handle it.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

mzmzmzm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:52:52 +0000

Dropbox and GDrive desktop clients can be configured to sync files to a local directory. Backing them up with an additional platform would probably need some sort of logic like you described for VCS.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

mzmzmzm — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:27:35 +0000

Personally, after using Windows at home since I was in kindergarten (3.1), having an employer-provided Macbook the last 15 years, and every few years dipping a toe into Linux for various projects, I can say they finally did it. I panic built a new PC for gaming, video editing, and messing with LLMs just at the start of the RAM crisis and thought what the heck, why not CachyOS. I might not be the average user, but it has been so much more convenient, snappy, and fun to troubleshoot than any other time I can remember. KDE just works and has sane defaults. The Arch repository has almost everything you can imagine, and usually the Cachy maintained "safe" repos do too. I downloaded Steam and immediately jumped into my saves from BG3, Cyberpunk, Claire Obscur, and more, like nothing happened. QGIS, Affinity apps (bye Adeobe), LM Studio can take advantage of my GPU. DaVinci Resolve is wonky, but Kdenlive is fine as a stopgap. I want to evangelize now as much as possible since it's all so starkly different from even 5 years ago, largely but not wholly thanks to Steam's Proton work. Microsoft really doesn't care about Win users (fine, it doesn't make them any money), and now is our chance.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens"

mzmzmzm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:05:40 +0000

It's hard not to get incredibly excited about the second order benefit of this. Remember the first year of COVID when lockdowns actually reduced the common cold and other less lethal bugs? Imagine if this thing worked well at scale--in a generation you could have people straining to remember getting colds all the time.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"

mzmzmzm — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:00:48 +0000

So it's an MVNO mostly on the AT&T network with extra privacy features? I think it still all then comes down to how you use your phone and how much you can trust the whole pipeline. I use Credo Mobile which doesn't seem totally different. https://www.credomobile.com/our-story

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

mzmzmzm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:41:15 +0000

There are some things that are hugely better on the iPhone, like accessibility setting that can be set on a per-app basis. Overall though, I expect the whole UX feeling to differ, but I am surprised that both camps have sort of given up on feature parity. Back in the days when "pull down to refresh" was novel it seems like iOS and Android meticulously copied each other's innovations.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

mzmzmzm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:38:28 +0000

I find the shortcuts extremely powerful all over different parts of the system, but I wish the contours of what it can and can't do were less opaque. Feels like a lot of time-wasting trial and error to discover what is or isn't possible on an iPhone.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

mzmzmzm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:55:52 +0000

I recently switched to iPhone for network reasons, and some UI/UX things are really shocking. There is no way to toggle location services without going into settings. The alarms are tricky to set and don't have niceties like telling you the time until your morning alarm. There is no clipboard history. They want you to use swipe gestures so much, the touch targets to exit fullscreen media are barely functional. If you use browser extensions and a browser other than Safari, to change their settings you don't open the app that bundles the extension; you don't look in the menus of your browser or Safari; you dig several layers into Safari's app preferences to find the extension's settings. After such praise, there are so many rough edges I can't believe iOS users just put up with.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Who owns Rudolph's nose?"

mzmzmzm — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:02:06 +0000

"Robert L. May died in 1976. But before he did, he established The Rudolph C ompany that holds the rights to Rudolph. Licenses are managed by a professional agency all to the benefit of Mr. May's children and grandchildren.

What makes this a holly-jolly Christmas story for me is knowing that the heirs of someone who would have been an unknown author are still benefiting from copyright protection, properly registered and renewed,"

I'm sorry but this is perverse. It's bad enough that we pretend ordinary property should be heritable, much less intangible knowledge.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

mzmzmzm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:14:17 +0000

Surely you could have found a source for this concept not entirely generated by an LLM?

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

mzmzmzm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:39:15 +0000

And so the arms race continues!

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

mzmzmzm — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:51:45 +0000

The featured article today on Wikipedia's Main Page is "Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons," iD's pre-DOOM side-scroller. I like when Wikipedia editors land on subtle topicality with featured articles and images; it makes it more fun to check the page everyday.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

mzmzmzm — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:23:31 +0000

One of the "I wish I'd paid for premium sooner" services I use is Newsblur. The UI is not the most modern, but it centralizes, organizes, offlines, etc with enough power features to handle edge cases that I can feel like I "read everything today" the way I used to with Google Reader.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

mzmzmzm — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:09:30 +0000

I've used Win 11 for years and never had an MS account. If you just get the right European/enterprise/education image the first time you don't even have to do anything to skip OOBE. But it feels like the walls are closing in, and the day I finally can't do anything without an MS account, I'll finally daily drive Linux. Hopefully the part of my Steam library that will still need Proton will run smoothly--that's the main thing I'm scared of.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

mzmzmzm — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:11:57 +0000

There's a Group Policy setting in Windows: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\File Explorer\Turn off numerical sorting in File Explorer Group Policy has so many essential settings I hurry to change with every isntall. I wish Windows would expose more of them to the user in ordinary settings.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

mzmzmzm — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:41:50 +0000

Not to overly praise Valve which does have a profit motive, but their ecosystem + the Steam Deck + the openness of SteamOS really changes the landscape to where the "gaming on linux" punch line could really clear the hump and reach critical mass for developers. Something to fantasize about with each Windows update that adds new privacy converns and nothing else.

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Super-Resolution with Structured Motion"

mzmzmzm — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:31:55 +0000

Brown University team uses motion blur as a tool to construct super-resolution images (sensor motion data is combined with the "blurry" image to produce an image with higher resolution than the sensor itself)

Super-Resolution with Structured Motion

mzmzmzm — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15961

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45172807

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by mzmzmzm in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

mzmzmzm — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:31:12 +0000

At the same time NYC and Toronto, we are removing protected bike lanes. In North America the acceptable amount of lives per year to sacrifice for a little convenience for drivers is above zero, and apparently rising.