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New comment by nnevatie in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

nnevatie — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:11:52 +0000

Why is it called "ROCm” (with the strange capitalization) in the first place? This may sound silly, but in order to compete, every detail matters, including the name.

New comment by nnevatie in "A Tour of Oodi"

nnevatie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:37:59 +0000

It almost reads as you were not a fan.

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

nnevatie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:31:47 +0000

Completely agreed. However, typically a new tool needs to be significantly better for that to happen. In many ways, I see Meson already being that but it hasn't really gained traction at scale.

New comment by nnevatie in "The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite"

nnevatie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:52:42 +0000

Considering that Claude sometimes confuses the identities of itself and the user, this might as well cite the user - "you just said X".

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

nnevatie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:03:27 +0000

People using CMake might want to build the same code on multiple platforms - this is trivially achievable, unlike with Make.

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

nnevatie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:01:51 +0000

Cmake might suck, but is arguably the de-facto now. It's not standard, since the C++ committee does not want to deal with the real world (tooling).

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

nnevatie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:00:06 +0000

The em dash - it's always the em dash.

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

nnevatie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:58:38 +0000

The same AI tool could have written a de-facto CMakeLists.txt file for you.

New comment by nnevatie in "Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards"

nnevatie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:23:28 +0000

It's a pile of paper. Not sure my description sells it any better.

New comment by nnevatie in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

nnevatie — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:21:05 +0000

Who really needs more than warmth, shelter and something to eat and drink?

New comment by nnevatie in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

nnevatie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:41:46 +0000

You wouldn't download a downloader.

New comment by nnevatie in "Goodbye to Sora"

nnevatie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:50:27 +0000

Good riddance.

New comment by nnevatie in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

nnevatie — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:24:52 +0000

> I am so excited to keep building with you.

Fixed: I am so excited to take these millions of dollars.

New comment by nnevatie in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

nnevatie — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:03:08 +0000

Seriously good-looking gfx - kudos!

New comment by nnevatie in "DOS Memory Management"

nnevatie — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:02:01 +0000

Good times. Our DOS game PaybackTime 2 was only capable of using conventional memory. That was a major reason for the game really not having any proper animations for its player characters.

New comment by nnevatie in "Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right"

nnevatie — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:18:27 +0000

Yeah, I meant this from the perspective that for example, I'd love to have that environment and approach in my sleeve, but utilizing C++ and all I have built using it.

New comment by nnevatie in "Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right"

nnevatie — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:51:15 +0000

BEAM/OTP are great, but do impose an exotic language onto the user. Most programs and solutions of today aren't Erlang-based.

New comment by nnevatie in "I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye"

nnevatie — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:15:24 +0000

Hmm, is SSIM a good metric for comparing fonts? I'd imagine it isn't ideal, as fonts are mostly textureless and SSIM has no concept of glyph identity or typographic intent.

New comment by nnevatie in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

nnevatie — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:31:24 +0000

Oh look. Another random and unneeded feature appears in their legacy tool.

New comment by nnevatie in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

nnevatie — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:24:52 +0000

That's it basically. I do not think running the tool in a container really solves the fundamental danger these tools pose to your personal data.