Hacker News: nwsm

New comment by nwsm in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

nwsm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:30:19 +0000

usually when you call something "evergreen" it's not 2 months old

New comment by nwsm in "Nano Banana Pro"

nwsm — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:11:33 +0000

Google will never beat the "sunset after 2 years" allegations on all products that don't have "Google __" in the name

New comment by nwsm in "Steam Machine"

nwsm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:15:24 +0000

Saying “everyone” played those two titles is still incorrect. Personally I think the landscape was more fragmented then.

New comment by nwsm in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

nwsm — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:01:41 +0000

From UI perspective you are right, but not for APIs.

New comment by nwsm in "Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night"

nwsm — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:25:45 +0000

My Windows 10 updates had been failing for the past 6 months. When shutting down my PC I'd get the notification to "update and shut down", but the update would routinely fail. I thought the outstanding updates were the reason I wasn't given an option to update in place to Windows 11, but that was actually because my i7 7700k isn't officially supported. I ended up needing to create a Windows 11 iso that doesn't enforce hardware requirements with Rufus [0]. I was building a new gaming rig in tandem, so I reformatted the lone remaining SSD on the machine and left the new windows install unactivated as I plan to give it to a neighbor or family friend who can be tasked with buying a copy of windows. But this means I was left without any free Windows 10 -> 11 upgrade and had to buy a new license for the new rig. I didn't try to do anything other than browse the internet on the unsupported hardware, but things seem fine.

So far Windows 11 on the new rig has been very smooth/stable and I can't think of any issues I've had after 2 weeks of gaming and other typical use. But the amount of internet-driven widgets that ultimately are a medium for ads is frustrating.

[0] https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

New comment by nwsm in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

nwsm — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:30:53 +0000

Is local not infeasible for models of useful size (at least on a typical dev machine with <= 64GB RAM and a single GPU)

New comment by nwsm in "AI's $344B 'language model' bet looks fragile"

nwsm — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:05:16 +0000

I want to say Mark Zuckerberg but I think Meta's investment is also targeted at creating their own social media content

New comment by nwsm in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

nwsm — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:37:10 +0000

I think you may have been under a rock for the last 5-10 years

New comment by nwsm in "Nimtable: Open-source web UI to browse and manage Apache Iceberg tables"

nwsm — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:46:55 +0000

Well, what query engine do you use?

We use normal RDB tool like DBeaver against Trino JDBC and it works fine.

New comment by nwsm in "Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry"

nwsm — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:50:59 +0000

You're completing brushing over the rampant racism and xenophobia in white conservative America.

New comment by nwsm in "You should know this before choosing Next.js"

nwsm — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:47:36 +0000

Vite and an express server

New comment by nwsm in "Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project"

nwsm — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:14:53 +0000

Things like that have been developed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3ZyGlqUkA

New comment by nwsm in "Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go"

nwsm — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:40:04 +0000

Thank you for the detailed README!

New comment by nwsm in "Nardwuar on his best and worst interviews"

nwsm — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:55:03 +0000

I have the same reaction as you - his persona makes me physically uncomfortable and I feel bad for the artists unless they have the common wholesome reaction to well-done research.

But how much of it is a "shtick"? I take it the guy is just weird. If that's the case, it's not forced or over the top.

New comment by nwsm in "I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go"

nwsm — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:58:25 +0000

I love spyware!

New comment by nwsm in "I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go"

nwsm — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:57:16 +0000

Here we have an open-source algorithm that is useful to anyone with data. It doesn't have to be music

New comment by nwsm in "Investigating corrupt Winamp skins"

nwsm — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:13:15 +0000

Love this stuff - so weird and obscure. The Acura skin is cracking me up. I'm listening to OP's playlist now

New comment by nwsm in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

nwsm — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:34:28 +0000

Are you implying there isn't a minimum age for president of the United States?

New comment by nwsm in "Win your fantasy league using operations research"

nwsm — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:39:31 +0000

First of all, other players are likely using the same naive approach and you need to differentiate yourself. Second, using simple EVs will give you consistent, but not top, results. You will likely always finish in the top third, but never in the top 1%, losing out to people who successfully predicted a low EV player's incredibly high output in a game.

New comment by nwsm in "Total Annihilation Graphics Engine (2012)"

nwsm — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:43:08 +0000

This sounds very much like a spritesheet to me (who has never worked on video games). Is the concept similar, and what was the better approach at the time?