Hacker News: ouraf

New comment by ouraf in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

ouraf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:13:31 +0000

How to murder bug bounty programs with one website

New comment by ouraf in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

ouraf — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:18:00 +0000

So... If your latest nap was comprised of nightmares and solving a job issue, can you charge your boss for overtime and harmful working conditions?

New comment by ouraf in "Zed 1.0"

ouraf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:49:05 +0000

I encourage you to mail them specifically about this concern.

If it is a matter of communication, they can fix and clarify it. If it's genuinely scummy, they can change their approach now that they know they were caught in the act

New comment by ouraf in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

ouraf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:24:06 +0000

We are extremely well served in open source and free options for SNES emulation. The dev wants to make something new, is using Unity for multiplatform and gor partial shader code abstraction and he has proven he can deliver good stuff if properly funded.

Let the man cook, and if you have some technical question, i'm sure Lord would answer you.

New comment by ouraf in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

ouraf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:22:23 +0000

download it and test on virustotal

New comment by ouraf in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

ouraf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:48:08 +0000

Guess you could say it helped you find some clojure

New comment by ouraf in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

ouraf — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:15:05 +0000

So they've been advancing in making the AI use the computer through the same API as a person (screen/cursor/keystrokes), and the dream is a Future where AI can use a PC and handle tasks and tools like a human user.

But to use their product,you have to go through the non-human-friendly API route, or else it's against the rules and Anthropic will sic their legal team onto you...

Something about this reasoning seems brittle. Specially in a world of Agentic tools

New comment by ouraf in "Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war"

ouraf — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:04:37 +0000

Have someone already brought the "reinstate the Fairness Doctrine" talking point for this issue? The best back and forth arguments happen under it.

New comment by ouraf in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

ouraf — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:12:49 +0000

One thing I never understood on these recompilation projects is how static recomp translates the graphics between radically different architectures. Even with the supporting libraries, this translation shouldn't "just work"

New comment by ouraf in "Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with"

ouraf — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:20:20 +0000

The second big board with all the radio buttons doesn't work in my phone.

I barely started the article and CSS is already causing problems.

New comment by ouraf in "A Research Preview of Codex"

ouraf — Sat, 17 May 2025 01:06:03 +0000

Don't shoot the messenger. He's just sharing his experience with the tool and using an anecdotal example.

New comment by ouraf in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

ouraf — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:50:34 +0000

this means the example wasn't made to be lightweight. You'll need an apples to apples example to convince any detractor. Implement the same app using two different toolsets, document the process with each and then benchmark it

New comment by ouraf in "Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit"

ouraf — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:18:16 +0000

Anyone here old enough to remember if the Fairness doctrine worked? Current internet is impossible to regulate and it's easier to run Doom in a walnut than getting any site to issue a retraction or correct blatant lies, but relying on "arbiters of truth" or wasting hours or days to untangle every article and author is also a hard to concile with real life obligations.

New comment by ouraf in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

ouraf — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:48:43 +0000

We already advanced beyond Taylorism's myopic time-motion glorification. This isn't a tool to improve the process, but to push the employee towards the meat grinder rather than look for a more intelligent approach (matching an employee's tasks and abilities rather than just giving him a red rating and ugly performance numbers)

New comment by ouraf in "Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k"

ouraf — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:16:17 +0000

Nice catch! And finding a vulnerability on such a high profile service will look very nice on the resume.

Congrats!

New comment by ouraf in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

ouraf — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 03:14:57 +0000

Typo. I meant C.

And I still think the culture clash angle should be taken more seriously.

An accomplished senior C dev can find good jobs writing drivers or microcontroller code more easily than starting over into a junior rust dev and being talked down by whomever joined the rust wave before them.

(which would be even more aggravating if the C dev is doing it since before the rust adopter was born).

New comment by ouraf in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

ouraf — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:24:19 +0000

Is Sima paid for his contributions?

New comment by ouraf in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

ouraf — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:30:43 +0000

Maybe it's because of Linus' age or because the players involved are bigger than many past issues, but the way I see it, both decisions are really costly:

- Endorse Rust with little reserve and over half of the C++ devs will feel betrayed and quit supporting the Linux project. They've been working on C++ for Decades and things mostly worked, so they won't pivot for a new language and way of developing for something that exists for less than 30 years.

- Ban rust contributions and the entire Linux foundation goes directly against some big players, like DARPA and other departments of the American government[1], which itself is a trend setter. Some big sponsors might also pull out and that ALSO removes devs from the project.

So, which decision would be so overwhelmingly more advantageous that's worth taking all the negatives of the other on the chin rather than trying to minimize harm and wait to see if either Rust software proves to be not so magically immune to memory leaks and vulnerabilities or if some tool makes the transition less contentious?

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/30/in-rust-we-trust-white...

New comment by ouraf in "Lua is so underrated"

ouraf — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:10:54 +0000

I wonder how viable is Lua for a full stack application or webpage.

It has a very barebones standard library by design

New comment by ouraf in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"

ouraf — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 13:24:34 +0000

They are baiting for a lawsuit. Posting this right now isn't very beneficial for openAI, since they themselves want to loose the self inposed restrictions.