Hacker News: nelup20

New comment by nelup20 in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

nelup20 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:19:01 +0000

For anyone else wondering which PTA solution to try/choose, I found this summary: https://plaintextaccounting.org/FAQ#which-pta-app-should-i-c...

I think I'll finally give PTA and beancount a go this year. I'm tired of changing and re-learning tools due to enshittifcation, so I heavily prefer those that use open formats / plaintext. I use Obsidian for my notes, specifically because it's just Markdown files. Since I realized that I don't even really use most of Obsidian's features, I might just switch to a regular editor + a markdown viewer.

New comment by nelup20 in "AMD GPU Debugger"

nelup20 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:38:40 +0000

Yeah, Xcode's Metal debugger is fantastic, and Metal itself is imo a really nice API :]. For whatever reason it clicked much better for me compared to OpenGL.

Have you tried RenderDoc for the OpenGL side? Afaik that's the equivalent of Xcode's debugger for Vulkan/OpenGL.

New comment by nelup20 in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

nelup20 — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:01:19 +0000

I personally appreciate Java (and the JVM) much more after having tried other languages/ecosystems that people kept saying were so much better than Java. Instead, I just felt like it was a "the grass is greener" every time. The only other language that I felt was an actual massive improvement is Rust (which so far has been a joy to work with).

It's a shame imo that it's not seen as a "cool" option for startups, because at this point, the productivity gap compared to other languages is small, if nonexistent.

New comment by nelup20 in "One year after switching from Java to Go"

nelup20 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:21:45 +0000

You can do AOT compilation with GraalVM to reduce both startup times and memory usage, but then you don't have the JIT.

New comment by nelup20 in "LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen"

nelup20 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:05:29 +0000

The actual jobs and networking aspect is fine imo, but I loathe the feed/content, even the SWE-related stuff is a lot of times bad or clickbaity.

I hide the feed + sidebar with a uBlock Origin filter and it's a much nicer experience: linkedin.com##main[aria-label="Main Feed"],aside[aria-label="Add to your feed"]

New comment by nelup20 in "Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study"

nelup20 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:42:00 +0000

Afaik if you cool the potatoes down to get resistant starch, the GI should be similar to a banana

New comment by nelup20 in "So you want to write Java in Neovim"

nelup20 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:28:33 +0000

I like the idea of LSPs and have tried switching to Vim/Neovim/Emacs a few times, but Jetbrains' refactoring/intellisense is just so much better imo

New comment by nelup20 in "Has the market spoken? Time to pick up Golang and Rust?"

nelup20 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:26:51 +0000

I guess it depends on the area, but I thought Rust jobs were still hard to come by even today?

For jobs, ecosystem and general productivity my go-to is always Java/C#/Go, if you learn one of those I think you'll be set, so Go in your case. The learning curve for Rust is similar to C++, much steeper.

New comment by nelup20 in "Using Ghidra and Python to Reverse Engineer Ecco the Dolphin (Dreamcast)"

nelup20 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:00:39 +0000

I just checked what the final boss looks like, combined with the phobias... glad I didn't finish the game as a kid.

Thanks for the article, great read!

New comment by nelup20 in "AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation"

nelup20 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:32:02 +0000

VCs preparing term sheets as we speak

New comment by nelup20 in "Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin"

nelup20 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:26:00 +0000

My favorite aspect is the music, I regularly listen to the OST while working: https://youtu.be/tqMuvFEKCOk

I've played a decent amount (never finished it), but I never understood why people say it's a horror game?

New comment by nelup20 in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

nelup20 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:03:25 +0000

We've now entered the age of exponential tech debt, it'll be a sight to behold

New comment by nelup20 in "AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%"

nelup20 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:10:36 +0000

AMD's ROCm just isn't there yet compared to Nvidia's CUDA. I tried it on Linux with my AMD GPU and couldn't get things working. AFAIK on Windows it's even worse.

New comment by nelup20 in "As America's Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms"

nelup20 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:47:48 +0000

> If it’s smoked it damages the lungs just like smoking anything else, and the compounds in it might have negative long term effects on cognition.

Also higher risk of a heart attack and/or stroke: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.123.030178

New comment by nelup20 in "12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux"

nelup20 — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:17:29 +0000

Made the move myself at the start of this year and I love it.

For those considering it, I wrote this blog post which might be helpful: https://neluplatonov.com/posts/2024/the-mere-mortals-guide-t...

Caveat: I don't use any special hardware like audio interfaces or racing wheels, so no idea about the experience with those (I'd assume getting drivers to work might be a PITA/impossible?).

New comment by nelup20 in "Drawing Graphics on Apple Vision with the Metal Rendering API"

nelup20 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:55:23 +0000

Looks great, thanks so much for writing this!

New comment by nelup20 in "Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated"

nelup20 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:09:29 +0000

One of the replies mentions this uBlock Origin AI blocklist (haven't tried it myself): https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

New comment by nelup20 in "炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space"

nelup20 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 08:58:11 +0000

Same, kanji is also the hardest for me, I have a much easier time learning new words by sound/hearing. But, I know some people that are the complete opposite & can't learn enough kanji, ymmv

でもやはり高低アクセントはもっと苦しいと思います。あれは無理ですww

New comment by nelup20 in "Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city"

nelup20 — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:06:42 +0000

Love the idea! I've wanted to meet fellow HNers to nerd out with for a while :D

Congrats on shipping and good luck

New comment by nelup20 in "Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]"

nelup20 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:02:48 +0000

Oh wow this is the first time I've read about this. Did you wake up frequently during the night or were there any other signs?

I have somewhat of a deviated septum, and even had surgery done half a year ago, but it didn't really change much unfortunately. I always need >=9 hours of sleep to feel good. I've slept on average 7 hours the past 2 weeks & I feel horrible (completely different reason for the reduced sleep). I did a sleep study a few years ago because I suspected sleep apnea, but because of anxiety or sleeping in a new place, I only ended up sleeping 1-2 hours that night. They didn't find anything, but I wonder if I should try again.