Hacker News: oofbaroomf

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

oofbaroomf — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:38:51 +0000

Takes time to move your hand to it.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

oofbaroomf — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:50:14 +0000

Proton is a tool Valve made, based on Wine, to easily run Windows games, on Linux [0]. GP meant Proton.

[0]: https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:43:15 +0000

Have you ever been forced to code something impossible and tedious by a user who keeps getting more and more frustrated as you keep trying?

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

oofbaroomf — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:28:13 +0000

Wayland is great and I generally prefer it, but it's worth keeping X around for KDE Plasma I think. Things like remote desktop are nicer on X, X is much easier to use on Android compared to Wayland, etc.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:43:58 +0000

If DDG got 28% more visits, Google lost about .6% of their visits.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:40:53 +0000

Egeustimentis.

source: https://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/p/significant-digits.html

New comment by oofbaroomf in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

oofbaroomf — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:44:53 +0000

Wow. Hopefully, Ternus will bring what he brought to Apple's hardware to their software. The hardware is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else, but their software gets worse and worse every generation. I'm glad to hear this.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "State of Homelab 2026"

oofbaroomf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:07:23 +0000

Seems like it's down right now. I guess that's the "State of Homelab"? :)

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

oofbaroomf — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:04:29 +0000

ChatGPT recommended me some good hard drives for price per TB, and one particularly cheap one had direct checkout with Walmart, so I tried it, because why not? It let me get all the way to the payment step before it told me it was out of stock. Walmart's website told me it was out of stock when I decided to click on the link. This is probably part of why it doesn't convert.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

oofbaroomf — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:01:16 +0000

I'm currently using a fully vibe-coded, personal River window manager that works just how I want it to. I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland (e.g. tile windows to equal areas instead of BSP by default).

Simple example of how impactful this separation has been for me.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:39:57 +0000

Wait... weren't there many ARM Chromebooks already?

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:30:10 +0000

Ugh, I just wish there was a deterministic and formal way to tell a computer what I want...

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Two insider cases we've recently closed"

oofbaroomf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:42:49 +0000

"Prediction" markets were supposed to be great because of insiders: they make the probabilities much more accurate and actually useful for forecasting.

But they ended up just being for gamblers and there is no more signal.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents"

oofbaroomf — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:46:48 +0000

Is this essentially a cloud-managed specialized subagent with an LLM-friendly API?

Seems like an interesting new category.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:01:41 +0000

20% loss isn't too bad if you start out at double the capacity though.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Some software bloat is OK"

oofbaroomf — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:41:43 +0000

Ok, but something like Zed is almost as snappy as native GUI frameworks AND has a consistent user experience. It doesn't seem like they are making any tradeoffs there.

Ask HN: KDE and Fedora or Omarchy?

oofbaroomf — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:37:05 +0000

Are there any who have tried both? What are the advantages and disadvantages for devs?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294009

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

oofbaroomf — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:11:29 +0000

a "clear" opinion... :)

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:36:20 +0000

I think AI Studio uses the API, so rate limits are extremely high and almost impossible for a normal human to reach if using the paid preview model.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Claude 4"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:09:45 +0000

Mathematicians don't do high school math competitions - the benchmark in question is AIME.

Mathematicians generally do novel research, which is hard to optimize for easily. Things like LiveCodeBench (leetcode-style problems), AIME, and MATH (similar to AIME) are often chosen by companies so they can flex their model's capabilities, even if it doesn't perform nearly as well in things real mathematicians and real software engineers do.