Hacker News: omni

New comment by omni in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

omni — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:17:48 +0000

Isn't Black Mesa Half-Life 1?

New comment by omni in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

omni — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:18:19 +0000

That's not particularly rational given how quickly computers progress in both performance and cost, a current-gen $1k Macbook Air will run circles around your M1. You'd probably be much better off spending the same amount of money on cheaper machines with a more frequent upgrade cadence. And you can always sell your old ones on eBay or something.

New comment by omni in "ZType – Typing Game"

omni — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:53:44 +0000

Games like this based on an existing skill would really benefit from the ability to start at higher levels. I'm a pretty proficient typist, it'd be a lot more interesting to me if there was any risk at all of me failing.

New comment by omni in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth"

omni — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:56:56 +0000

Good? I've got gigabit symmetrical and I'd much rather stream just what I need rather than have to dedicate an entire hard drive to storing a planet I won't see 99% of. And if it replaces some of the god-awful updating procedures from 2020 then all the better.

New comment by omni in "Apple AirPod Pro 2s can now work as hearing aids"

omni — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:00:52 +0000

Where did this article title come from? Last I checked, "soon" isn't "now," the feature isn't actually available yet

New comment by omni in "I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own"

omni — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 18:30:24 +0000

I had a near-identical experience. I looked into switching in 2019 and ran into this 2016 bug which was a showstopper for me. Fixed it myself, grand total 4 line diff. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10643

New comment by omni in "Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification"

omni — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:53:01 +0000

Can someone please help me understand why this is useful? The article mentions malware scanning applications, but if I'm sending you a malicious PDF, won't I want to clearly mark it with a .pdf extension so that you open it in your PDF app? Their examples are all very obvious based on file extensions.

New comment by omni in "Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird"

omni — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 01:34:45 +0000

Alright dude, you clearly just want to enjoy your $3500 toy, don't let me stop you. I love and support you, brother. Meanwhile I'll keep doing a ton of stuff on my technically inferior VR headset that the AVP can't do at all, like actually playing games.

New comment by omni in "Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird"

omni — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 16:50:54 +0000

I'm not ignoring anything, but if my Lamborghini got out-accelerated by a Toyota I'd be upset about that, too. There's all sorts of other things to be upset about, again compared to the Quest 3. External battery pack and weight issues. No PCVR support, so you can't use the established ecosystem of games. No controllers at all, even for what could be an emerging ecosystem of Apple games. No headphone jack (I can't believe we're still doing this). The EyeSight thing doesn't work and it seems like all the marketing for it was simulated images.

The parts that are better end up not mattering. Why do I care if the resolution is better if what I want to do with it is play PCVR? Why do I care if it's great for watching movies if I'm not a loner who lives by myself? Why would I ever want to be represented by some nightmarish Persona thing?

Again, there are just way more compromises here than is justifiable for something that's literally 7x (at minimum!) the price of the competition. I want the iPod of VR/AR, this ain't it.

New comment by omni in "Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird"

omni — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 16:34:23 +0000

Blatantly false. The FOV, which is one of the most critical performance characteristics of a headset, is inferior to the Quest 3. I'd _expect_ every single thing to be better if I'm paying 7x, but it just isn't.

New comment by omni in "X-Wing is video gaming's Greek Fire"

omni — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:15:01 +0000

It's VR-only but VTOL VR is incredible and I think matches what you're talking about here? I haven't played those older ones you mentioned though

New comment by omni in "X-Wing is video gaming's Greek Fire"

omni — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:08:20 +0000

We are in an absolute golden age of PC flight sims, especially with the immersion that we can get from VR, so when you say "all games" you mean "console games"

New comment by omni in "New York City declares state of emergency amid flash floods"

omni — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:43:46 +0000

I spent all day with friends going around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. We had to Uber around since the subway was mostly disabled. That was expensive and traffic wasn't great but we got around just fine. All the places we went to were open and happy to serve us.

New comment by omni in "Airline Passengers Will Be Forced to Pay for $5T Carbon Cleanup"

omni — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:19:15 +0000

Oh my, polluters will need to cover the cost of their externalities for once in human history, let me go grab my pearls

New comment by omni in "Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC"

omni — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:46:14 +0000

AC in the context of electricity has meant "alternating current" for literally more than a hundred years. This is a you problem, not OP's, so turn down the snark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current

New comment by omni in "Threads, an Instagram app"

omni — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:35:26 +0000

This is complete bullshit. I have the exact same experience Parent has, my feed used to be full of interesting people from tech, science, and journalism. Now it's ~80% meme feeds sprinkled with a small helping of what I actually care about. How is that my fault, as a user that had a perfectly good curated feed prior to For You existing?

New comment by omni in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

omni — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:54:43 +0000

> On my most recent visit this spring I paid $24 for a single very mediocre cocktail.

I have bad news about every restaurant in Manhattan since Covid.

New comment by omni in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

omni — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:10:32 +0000

Sure you can, businesses generally love you giving them money in exchange for goods and services.

New comment by omni in "Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]"

omni — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:05:00 +0000

The only guaranteed quests are for Lazarus and Diablo at the end of the game. It was possible for the Butcher to not show up in any given playthrough. https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Quests_(Diablo_I)

New comment by omni in "Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)"

omni — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:24:41 +0000

What's not open about it? I see the source, I see instructions to build from source, I see a license that seems to say I can copy and make derivative works out of it. Can you try to make a more substantive comment?