Hacker News: pointlessone

New comment by pointlessone in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

pointlessone — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:41:22 +0000

> 3. You don't need to use async Rust.

Technically correct, but… Want to build a web app, every more or less popular framework is async. Want to make a web request? High change of async. Database? Very likely async, too. A huge fraction of crates are async. Right now crates.io says there are "54172 reverse dependencies of tokio”. And the page that lists them struggles mightily to load. And that’s only direct dependencies of tokio, no indirect ones, no dependencies on other runtimes, no generic dependents.

New comment by pointlessone in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

pointlessone — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:53:55 +0000

DLNA usually doesn’t force any system and more or less exposes fs. Some TVs natively have a client. Otherwise Kody or some other client app can be used to browse and play files.

New comment by pointlessone in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

pointlessone — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:50:57 +0000

As far as I can tell plex only wants separate folders for different kinds of media and file names that give at least some clue to what it is. Plex is much more lax.

New comment by pointlessone in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

pointlessone — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:25:29 +0000

One thing Plex does better is media detection. Like you can plop all your shows in a folder and it still will make sense of it. Jellyfin insists on a very specific directory structure and file naming. It’s very frustrating if you only want to watch a show and not interested in maintaining a perfect library.

New comment by pointlessone in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

pointlessone — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:21:17 +0000

It does give full access but Obsidian does tell you that. Community plugins are not enabled by default, you have to enable them manually. Same happens with a shared vault: once you get it you still have to manually enable plugins. So far no one managed to sneak in a plugin completely unnoticed.

New comment by pointlessone in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

pointlessone — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:01:43 +0000

A feature request of sorts. An option to reveal and highlight the element the color is for would be cool. There are so many colors and so many elements of the UI that it’s not immediately obvious where it is to properly see the changes I make.

New comment by pointlessone in "An update on GitHub availability"

pointlessone — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:45:27 +0000

I’d guess it has much more to do with the extra load agentic ai generates. If we take the charts in the OP at face value, do you think gh suddenly exploded in popularity? At this point I think almost everyone who has any use for gh already has an account and use it as much as they ever would. But all the charts go to the moon. Gh obviously didn’t take into account that ai agents can generate a lot of activity they don’t have capacity for.

New comment by pointlessone in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

pointlessone — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:38:10 +0000

I feel like this is some sort of butchered metaphor because in a vacuum just picking a color that has no context or effect outside of the experiment framing is really easy. But it’s not that simple if there are some externalities. Say, red guarantees your survival but there’s 50% chance your pet will die. Or every red choice has a 10% flipping one red choice among your friends and family to blue. Now it’s not just a selfish choice but a choice with a known downside. This is a much more interesting game to play. Maybe even a more realistic one.

New comment by pointlessone in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

pointlessone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:33:46 +0000

Wow. Much security.

I too remember DOS. Data and code finely blended and perfectly mixed in the same universally accessible block of memory. Oh, wait… single context. nwm

New comment by pointlessone in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

pointlessone — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:59:42 +0000

I agree that there’s chaos everywhere and system integration on individual axes is a better way to look at it but then it turns out that Electron is more native than most GUI libs out there. Browser devs worked very hard and for a long time to integrate with host OSes. Browsers have native text rendering, good accessibility, IME support on all platforms, etc. All these features are usually missing from the hot new UI libs.

ImHex is a great hex editor, lots of features. It’s got antialiased fonts like only a year ago. Fonts still look not exactly as the rest of the OS. Has no accessibility integration at all.

Zed, looks pretty good at first glance. No accessibility.

“Native” implies all the features that the platform provides. It is chaotic on all major platofrms but it’s still meaningful.

New comment by pointlessone in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

pointlessone — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:07:31 +0000

I’d wager that it’s as native as Electron. It might be faster, sure, but it’s not native to any platform.

New comment by pointlessone in "AirPods Max 2"

pointlessone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:53:21 +0000

It literally gives me a headache after more than an hour of wearing it. This never happens with may AKG that has a very utilitarian and simple headband—a flat piece of plastic. It’s not pretty but I can wear AKG for a whole day and enjoy every minute of it while I’m phisically sick after an hour of AirPods Pro.

New comment by pointlessone in "Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects"

pointlessone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:26:43 +0000

How can you expect adoption of this scale if the AI side is so obviously negative? You might as well label the full AI option “I drown kittens” and go write a long post about how AI users won’t engage with your AI usage disclosure initiative in good faith.

To have any chance of adoption you have to be at least a little strategic. You may think AI is pure evil but you have to make some concessions to AI users to incentivise participation. Try making it sound neutral through out the spectrum, use neutral colour scheme. Yes, you’re not telegraphing your position on AI so obviously any more but you might get some useful information out of others.

New comment by pointlessone in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"

pointlessone — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:39:23 +0000

This kind of news are about nothing. Tell me in a year, even in 3 months, how your fork has been doing. Clicking Fork on gh and writing a blog post is not a fork. A fork is a lot of work. Color me surprised if this will even keep up with the upstream just filtering out the AI commits.

New comment by pointlessone in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

pointlessone — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:29:16 +0000

> How are you all staying sane?

Making some bold assumptions, eh?

But more seriously, you can do very little about most of the things listed. Do that little and leave the rest behind.

Tune out of news. Find sources of news that are relevant to you immediately. Like your local community, city council news, your employer, that sort of things. You can’t do anything about war in Iran or wherever, it’s not actionable, stop worrying about it, stop following the news.

Be more offline. Go for walks. Read paper books. Listen to music, preferrably not streamed. Meet real people. Like, talk to a stranger at a coffee shop shop or in a park.

New comment by pointlessone in "The war against PDFs is heating up"

pointlessone — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:13:29 +0000

PDF is not exactly closed source though. It’s an international standard. And even, unlike most ISO standards, is freely available.

New comment by pointlessone in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

pointlessone — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:17:34 +0000

It doesn’t change the fact that people took political action on a massive scale. Both times mostly motivated by unsatisfactory personal circumstance.

New comment by pointlessone in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

pointlessone — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:44:10 +0000

Is it so? They had changed form of government twice in less than a century. Not just head of state or ruling party, form of government. You assume that because their baseline is miserable they can tolerate a lot but there’s a big difference between living a miserable life unter a totalitarian regime barely affording basic necessities, and all the same but starving.

New comment by pointlessone in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

pointlessone — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:13:23 +0000

It’s not just a copy. It’s a caricature of a copy with a plenty of nonsense in it: typos and weird “text”, broken arrows, etc. Even a cursory look gives a feeling that something’s fishy.

New comment by pointlessone in "FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes"

pointlessone — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:18:19 +0000

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