Hacker News: renrutal

New comment by renrutal in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

renrutal — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:01:10 +0000

> a sudden jump to more than 200 MB near the start of 2017

Google Meet was launched in March 2017.

New comment by renrutal in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

renrutal — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:00:24 +0000

> This comment and the parent one make me realize that people who answer probably value the exchange between experts more than the answer.

I'm more amused that ExpertsExchange.com figured out the core of the issue, 30 years ago, down to their site's name.

New comment by renrutal in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

renrutal — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:41:01 +0000

I feel the biggest advantage about GitHub over other platforms is that many tools that integrate with a software project platform are GitHub first, others later.

Tooling support can be miserable when you had something in BitBucket, GitLab, and non-existent if isn't those top 3.

New comment by renrutal in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

renrutal — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:31:16 +0000

I won't put it as "just another tool". AI introduces a new kind of tool where the ownership of the resulting code is not straightforward.

If, in the dystopian future, a justice court you're subjected to decides that Claude was trained on Oracle's code, and all Claude users are possibly in breach of copyright, it's easier to nuke from orbit all disclosed AI contributions.

New comment by renrutal in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

renrutal — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:59:34 +0000

Kinda reminds me of a quote attributed to Bjarne Stroustrup:

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses"

I feel there are no absolutely "good" systems, only the ones with added compromises over time. Battle scars on a beautiful body.

New comment by renrutal in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

renrutal — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:52:07 +0000

How does one tell a "well-meaning" request from an attack?

New comment by renrutal in "Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September"

renrutal — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:30:33 +0000

There is no PIX in Portugal, or places other than Brazil.

What they have there is a Brazilian person receiving payments from another Brazilian person, only through Brazilian accounts, all happening remotely in Brazil(at least for now)

New comment by renrutal in "Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September"

renrutal — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:23:49 +0000

Cash is a hassle. It requires everyone to have change. You need to count the money, the cashier needs to count the money and store it. The line behind you gets longer. The end of day close-out process is longer.

Brazilians also generally don't like to walk with cash in their pockets. Only politicians usually do it, but in their underpants.

The pros is that cash is analog, no battery, internet connection or digital system needed to process it.

New comment by renrutal in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

renrutal — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:34:02 +0000

I clicked the story wondering if the speed of light has changed since the late 90s.

Apparently not.

New comment by renrutal in "Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System"

renrutal — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:16:49 +0000

It would be neat if we could take a hitchhike with it.

Probably only Project Orion would be able to catch up to its current 60kms/s speed by October.

New comment by renrutal in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

renrutal — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:27:57 +0000

With Microsoft opening Windows's kernel to the Xbox team, and a possible macOS-iPadOS unification, we are reaching multiple levels of climate changes in Hell. It's hailing!

New comment by renrutal in "Learning C3"

renrutal — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:04:23 +0000

Vectorization unrolling?

New comment by renrutal in "Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells"

renrutal — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:07:49 +0000

> set to the equivalent output of two suns...

I didn't realize we have achieved a Kardashev Type II civilization already :)

New comment by renrutal in "Show HN: Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs"

renrutal — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 13:25:22 +0000

> Airy Enterprise

> * E2E Encryption & Storage

This worries me, I believe it's unethical and irresponsible to pay-wall privacy features.

We live in a world where companies and governments are actively spying and harming those under them.

New comment by renrutal in "Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones""

renrutal — Thu, 20 May 2021 16:38:10 +0000

Well, some emulator devs are making huge sums of money nowadays in "donations"/crowdfunding, to much chagrin of others in the emudev scene.

It seems they got the business model right this time.

New comment by renrutal in "Phoenix 1.3.0 Released"

renrutal — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:32:50 +0000

In some cases, more like 30x - 75x:

http://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-bl...