Hacker News: pipeline_peak

New comment by pipeline_peak in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

pipeline_peak — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:08:22 +0000

If there’s anything I really want written in Rust, it’s a Chrome extension to filter out all the HN posts about Rust.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

pipeline_peak — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:28:38 +0000

Feels a bit too long winded to be AI generated.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

pipeline_peak — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:10:59 +0000

>The feeds we can subscribe to in our own feed reader to follow our favorite creators without having to be on your platform at all?

And why would YouTube go out of their way to allow you to do that?

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

pipeline_peak — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:25:54 +0000

When I was a kid I used to rate my uncles and aunts based off who got me Legos or Megablocks.

Idk how I’d feel if they got me this.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The race to build the next WordPress"

pipeline_peak — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:57:12 +0000

The fact that author automatically jumps to “distributed system cloud goodness” has me glazed over.

We don’t need a new Wordpress that subscribes to today’s current tech trends.

“It doesn’t scale well” what does that even mean?

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

pipeline_peak — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:40:33 +0000

The private sector has no need for Firefox. Government grants are better spent elsewhere.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "State of Kdenlive"

pipeline_peak — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:07:27 +0000

Google

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

pipeline_peak — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:04:16 +0000

Where exactly do you expect Mozilla to gain revenue from other than non browser projects?

Do you want people to pay to use Firefox?

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

pipeline_peak — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:05:48 +0000

What have you heard about SwiftUI being bloated?

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

pipeline_peak — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:14:08 +0000

Why tie your app to Windows at all?

Microsoft developed VS Code and Teams in Electron. That says a lot about how they see the future.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

pipeline_peak — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:16:52 +0000

Good, Mac Pro was fugly.

I like Apple when they make pretty stuff. Especially small, shiny, and quiet.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

pipeline_peak — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:16:51 +0000

>The headline could read instead: No evidence cannabinoid isolates help anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

There’s no evidence that what they tested with was pure THC isolates. If they’re using cannabis in plant form, even if it was bred for higher thc content, there is still cbd.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

pipeline_peak — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:16:56 +0000

Assuming you consider services like Wordpress and blogspot outside of the small web, people advocating that domain refuse to acknowledge why those services are successful to begin with.

If being part of the small web requires technical expertise, it will always be limited to tech minded people who also happen to cook and play guitar.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

pipeline_peak — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:08:02 +0000

You want the government to fund the small web?

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

pipeline_peak — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:51:15 +0000

Every answer I’ve seen to corporate internet whether it be Mastodon or Gemini just sounds like shell script slab city.

Just another place for hackers to go and keep to themselves.

Non tech people, who needs them! In shelf script slab city, we can share cooking recipes in plaintext.

Just spin up your instance, map it to a port, initialize the listener daemon, download the cli viewer…and you’re in shell script slab city! Who needs Twitter

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Ex-Windows chief praises MacBook Neo, laments Surface defeat"

pipeline_peak — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:46:05 +0000

The point I’m trying to make isn’t that it was difficult. It’s that the transition was effective because they had to.

Unlike Windows with this grey area of Arm / x86.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "Ex-Windows chief praises MacBook Neo, laments Surface defeat"

pipeline_peak — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:31:28 +0000

Microsoft never forced developers to jump onto Arm the way Apple did.

That’s a key part in why Windows Arm is such a substandard experience.

The Windows executive in this article sounds delusional. He talks about how if the Surface Product line actually had footing, we’d eventually see Arm bases desktops under the Windows umbrella.

The Surface failed because Windows just isn’t cool. No one consciously buys a Windows PC. It’s either to play games or do work.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The MacBook Neo"

pipeline_peak — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:11:34 +0000

All the professional software that’s capable of running in the MacBook Neo, you know Final Cut etc.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The MacBook Neo"

pipeline_peak — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:52:54 +0000

>The one company that could theoretically pull this off is Google with ChromeOS on their own Tensor chips, and the fact that they haven't is probably the more interesting question than why Asus is shocked.

Successful Chromebook’s have always been the throwaway $200 models. Higher end ones like the Pixelbook served more as flagship devices to prove they could do more but were never really marketed.

I don’t think Google’s gonna make a souped up Chromebook because they know their place. They’re entirely internet dependent devices with little brand recognition and no serious software. The Neo serves somewhere in between that. They have the brand recognition and MacOS.

New comment by pipeline_peak in "The MacBook Neo"

pipeline_peak — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:12:50 +0000

This feels like the first time Apple’s walled garden approach has paid off in the desktop arena.

With a cheaper Windows alternative to the MacBook Neo, your options are inferior battery life with AMD 64, or Windows Arm’s inferior compatibility.

I doubt Microsoft is holding developers hands when transitioning to Arm the way that Apple does. Not to mention they’ve been using their own chips.