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New comment by s20n in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

s20n — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:09:03 +0000

xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247

New comment by s20n in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

s20n — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:35:14 +0000

but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo Pascal blue.

New comment by s20n in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

s20n — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:47:22 +0000

I agree with the first part. I think this article by FSF about Intel's ME summarizes the issue https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/blogs/Intel_ME_Carikli_article_...

As for the second part, I am not sure about how living in a five eyes state would mitigate it. What do you mean by that?

New comment by s20n in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

s20n — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:53:39 +0000

I'm failing to understand GP's logic here. Why would someone who's posting some TV show's content in complete disregard of their intellectual property rights be bothered about AI scraping?

New comment by s20n in "Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC"

s20n — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:01:58 +0000

Thanks, that would be great! I am trying to think how this could work. Generally, subtitles are embedded as a separate track in the video container or as a sidecar .srt file [1].

Perhaps they can be converted and shown using the WebVTT API[2] or tags [3]?

Edit: Maybe that wouldn't work, here's a relevant stackoverflow post [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebVTT_API

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61446205/webrtc-and-text...

New comment by s20n in "Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC"

s20n — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:45:29 +0000

I used to stream movies from my desktop over the local network with VLC and the main issue I faced was that I could never get the subtitles to work. I took a quick look at this repository and it doesn't look like they support subtitles either.

New comment by s20n in "A HN post with negative points – how?"

s20n — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:36:05 +0000

OP should have archived the page when the count was negative.

Here's a snapshot from when the count was 0 https://web.archive.org/web/20260512115623/https://news.ycom...

New comment by s20n in "Bliss (Photograph)"

s20n — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:19:19 +0000

Microsoft Design also released 4K renders of nostalgic wallpapers (including bliss) a few years ago. I can't find the original link but here's the reddit post with the pictures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/ogpni5/microsoft_n...

New comment by s20n in "Bliss (Photograph)"

s20n — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:14:20 +0000

The name didn't help much either, I suppose.

New comment by s20n in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

s20n — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:40:47 +0000

It really grinds my gears that the uploader had to ruin the "Greatest Shot in Television" by stretching the 4:3 video to 16:9.

I know I sound like a pedant but so many of these old TV recordings are uploaded this way on youtube. I was so annoyed by this infact that a few years ago I made a dumb extension that squeezes the video element back to 4:3 [1]. I'm not sure if this still works though.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/doddimnledmldclhlbf...

New comment by s20n in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

s20n — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:08:26 +0000

It's ridiculous how accurate this recreation is to the original, it looks and feels identical.

The author was able to do this just decompiling the exe files, without looking at the original source code. Basically, completely blind.

So it goes without saying: The deaf, dumb and blind kid sure makes a mean pinball.

New comment by s20n in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

s20n — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:09:04 +0000

Clickus Hereus

Sev: A graphical Emacs-like text editor, scriptable with Chibi-Scheme

s20n — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:08:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dylancobb/sev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964595

Points: 30

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New comment by s20n in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

s20n — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:03:40 +0000

Sorry, complete noob here. Why didn't you just cd into $(yes a/ | head -n $((32 * 1024)) | tr -d '\n')? Why do you need to use the while loop for cd?

EDIT: got it. -bash: cd: a/a/a/....../a/a/: File name too long

New comment by s20n in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

s20n — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:58:37 +0000

I've been pronouncing both of them as /dʒis/ like hiss and not /dʒɪz/. I however am not a native english speaker of English. I wonder if native speakers gravitate towards the z more?

New comment by s20n in "EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code"

s20n — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:14:58 +0000

EvanFlow - thoughts arrive like butterflies?

New comment by s20n in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

s20n — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:13:07 +0000

I could never in a million years have imagined that LLM-slop driven fuzzing would become the ultimate vindication for the microkernel philosophy

New comment by s20n in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

s20n — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:01:17 +0000

While I know that it may have been a security liability, I'm particularly sad that they're removing the AX.25 module from the kernel.

> and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree to protect our sanity.

This thread from the linux-hams mailing list [2] has more insight into this decision. I guess the silver lining is that, more modern protocols (in userspace), written in modern languages will become the norm for HAM radio on linux now.

[1] : <https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel....>

[2] : <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hams/CAEoi9W5su6bssb9hELQkfAs7...>

New comment by s20n in "Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language"

s20n — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:13:34 +0000

I agree with the notion that having multiple passes makes compilers easier to understand and maintain but finding the right number of passes is the real challenge here.

The optimal number of passes/IRs depends heavily on what language is being compiled. Some languages naturally warrant this kind of an architecture that would involve a lot of passes.

Compiling Scheme for instance would naturally entail several passes. It could look something like the following:

Lexer -> Parser -> Macro Expander -> Alpha Renaming -> Core AST (Lowering) -> CPS Transform -> Beta / Eta Reduction -> Closure Conversion -> Codegen

New comment by s20n in "The Importance of Being Idle"

s20n — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:26:02 +0000

Reminds me of the essay 'In Praise of Idleness' by Bertrand Russell <https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/>