Hacker News: rxyz

New comment by rxyz in "Layoffs at Block"

rxyz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:31:16 +0000

Dorsey is in AI psychosis. He required every employee to send him an email weekly which then he had summarized by AI because of course he aint reading it himself.

New comment by rxyz in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

rxyz — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:16:41 +0000

Ray tracing support on the newest AMD chips is getting good enough. They are still behind Nvidia but definitely not a disaster anymore

New comment by rxyz in "I just want working RCS messaging"

rxyz — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:29:09 +0000

I don’t believe early adoption applies to SMS. In a lot of Europe people just migrated from SMS to other services around 2010 because it worked better

New comment by rxyz in "OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO"

rxyz — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:51:58 +0000

Corporations used to not have that much political power

New comment by rxyz in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

rxyz — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:37:39 +0000

on Windows, LG TV Companion fixes the sleep issue

New comment by rxyz in "Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?"

rxyz — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:28:05 +0000

I try to give a clear timeframe of when I’ll get back.

New comment by rxyz in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

rxyz — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:12:24 +0000

Can you stream games at over 60fps?

New comment by rxyz in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

rxyz — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:27:54 +0000

The best and brightest are worth the extra $100k tax, no?

New comment by rxyz in "macOS Tahoe"

rxyz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:15:49 +0000

Wouldnt be surprised if he spends more time on an iPad than Mac these days

New comment by rxyz in "macOS Tahoe"

rxyz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:14:18 +0000

Contrast and pixel response time. OLED PC monitors still look amazing even with low all-screen brightness.

New comment by rxyz in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

rxyz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:56:55 +0000

The Max phones always have better battery life

New comment by rxyz in "iPhone Air"

rxyz — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:36:32 +0000

first two features are gimmicks

New comment by rxyz in "What if every city had a London Overground?"

rxyz — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:17:50 +0000

systembolaget closes at 3pm????

New comment by rxyz in "Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy"

rxyz — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:44:26 +0000

I think Valve will not accept crypto unless they run out of options. They don't accept any games that use NFT's on their platform and haven't added crypto top-ups to this day, even though it would be simple for them via providers like Stripe

New comment by rxyz in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

rxyz — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:16:14 +0000

the whole point of ADP is that they cannot provide access

New comment by rxyz in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

rxyz — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:29:22 +0000

Integrated Intel GPU's have come a long way since Windows Vista. They started to be usable around 2012 and actually decent in the current decade

New comment by rxyz in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

rxyz — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:01:53 +0000

Wasn't 2022 a huge outlier because of the war in Ukraine?

New comment by rxyz in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

rxyz — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:39:11 +0000

I opened the website in his profile and joined the discord.

Yes there's a discord for this.

New comment by rxyz in "Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games"

rxyz — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:27:43 +0000

> Neither smartphones nor Macs have been powerful or ergonomic enough to play current-generation games for decades. So the user base is almost entirely people who don’t play games.

Current Macs and iOS devices are powerful enough. There's a handful of developers shipping full current-gen games to both platforms.

New comment by rxyz in "Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger"

rxyz — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:49:15 +0000

To add: I found the M4 iPad Pro keyboard to be a better typing experience than my MacBook Pro keyboard or the standalone Magic Keyboard