Hacker News: pragmatick

New comment by pragmatick in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

pragmatick — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:22:08 +0000

It only shows "Update and shut down" (which is a lie as it still will reboot) or "Update and reboot.

I think all this was a response to severely outdated Windows machines being infected with worms and what not. Microsoft got bad press for this and went (way) overboard with trying to force users to install updates as soon as released.

New comment by pragmatick in "LLM plays an 8-bit Commander X16 game using structured "smart senses""

pragmatick — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:09:39 +0000

Please add a button to disable a background animation (or just remove it). It adds visual noise and is so distracting I closed the website after reading a couple of sentences.

New comment by pragmatick in "The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)"

pragmatick — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:07:40 +0000

Not what you asked for but you may enjoy Pitch Perfect 237: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiC9X_MoE1M

New comment by pragmatick in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

pragmatick — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:34:21 +0000

This bullshit attitude to make in-jokes that don't make any sense to people not part of the cultural or social phenomenom that an article is about is one of the most infuriating aspects of them. You can barely find proper user review for books like this or Welcome to Night Vale or such.

New comment by pragmatick in "Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code"

pragmatick — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:39:45 +0000

I thought "I know that username". I love ntfy, thanks for developing it.

New comment by pragmatick in "Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library"

pragmatick — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:37:45 +0000

And the only one I can think of where I can't post my comment using Ctrl+Enter.

New comment by pragmatick in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

pragmatick — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:47:53 +0000

My experience has been somewhat different. I've had a linux server for a long time so I'm not new to the OS but my main computer which I use for development and gaming and everything else has always been Windows. I recently added a dual-boot Ubuntu for some performance-heavy development where the better docker integration made sense for me to use.

I had to try three window managers until I was able to use fractional scaling in such a way that my main 4K 32" screen shows 150% and my secondary screen shows a sharp image because Gnome cannot do fractional scaling only on one screen and for some reason 100% resulted in a blurry image.

The window manager crashed multiple times when I tried to unlock it.

Whenever I woke up my screen the whole system froze, apparently because of the USB hub in the monitor which registered. So far the only solution has been to disconnect the USB hub.

Fan control doesn't work properly because the chipset isn't supported.

I see rendering issues with window decorations all the time.

That's just after two weeks. I can't remember the last time my windows froze or crashed or had display errors. Whenever I'm in the console or do IO heavy stuff I feel right at home but as a desktop OS it's still inferior to me. I don't have fewer problems on Linux, just different ones.

New comment by pragmatick in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

pragmatick — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:57:09 +0000

I'm using DisplayFusion on Windows and am very happy with it. Haven't found anything similar on Linux that works as well.

New comment by pragmatick in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

pragmatick — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:06:22 +0000

> Yes, Gaming Couch is currently free to play!

Emphasis mine. Sounds like they're not ruling it out.

New comment by pragmatick in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

pragmatick — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:27:02 +0000

From what I've read and heard Gemini is the superior model but Claude Code is the better tool.

New comment by pragmatick in "Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers"

pragmatick — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:23:12 +0000

I found the documentation confusing and as so often with general-approach tools too overwhelming for what I'm trying to do. sdkman works fine for what I need it for and usually you only need one instance of gradle and maven installed.

And sdkman is written in rust and only needs curl, zip and unzip, no JVM.

New comment by pragmatick in "Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience"

pragmatick — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:15:11 +0000

I would've expected this kind of inane take on Reddit or X, not here. Or on SO where somebody asks "How do I do X?" and is told "X sucks, you want to use Y".

New comment by pragmatick in "Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game"

pragmatick — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:59:17 +0000

FWIW I like yours better. I'd just love to play the ones from previous days.

New comment by pragmatick in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

pragmatick — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:07:56 +0000

They're not strictly taxes but they kinda are. They're mandatory and paid by workers into a fund but are linked to your future pensions. Like taxes they're automatically deducted from your salary and legally required but earmarked as to be used in the future.

Which has worked well for quite some time but I don't believe I'll every see any of the money I'm currently paying into the system.

New comment by pragmatick in "I drank every cocktail"

pragmatick — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:05:37 +0000

Hi! I wondered why the Gin Basil Smash is in the column with rare, specialized ingredients? Sounds pretty basic to me, especially compared with the other cocktails in the list.

New comment by pragmatick in "Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users"

pragmatick — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:28:25 +0000

Yesterday I tried CC the first time. I have the $20 package. I asked it to improve the code in a small kotlin based chess engine. Five minutes later I reached my limit and the engine performed poorer than before. It just created two new classes, changed some code in others and created a couple of tests which it ran. So I hit the limit pretty quickly.

New comment by pragmatick in "Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly"

pragmatick — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:28:41 +0000

"For most documents, Harper can serve up suggestions in under 10ms." 10l is OK. 10kg as well. Why is 10ms wrong?

New comment by pragmatick in "Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser"

pragmatick — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:26:23 +0000

Minor thing: When I load the page and click "Load example file" while Pyodide is still loading I see a stacktrace for a short time. Perhaps disable the button until it's loaded?

New comment by pragmatick in "Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry"

pragmatick — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:44:11 +0000

Relatively early on the page it says:

"docker save | ssh | docker load transfers the entire image, even if 90% already exists on the server"

New comment by pragmatick in "LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego"

pragmatick — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:40:44 +0000

The opposite for me on Firefox Desktop - I didn't realize they were gifs and wondered what the pictures were supposed to tell me.