Hacker News: sagacity

New comment by sagacity in "Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years"

sagacity — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:38:27 +0000

The article is about arcade games.

New comment by sagacity in "Vivaldi 8.0"

sagacity — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:40:22 +0000

You can just right-click and hide it, though.

New comment by sagacity in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

sagacity — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:36:58 +0000

It also really depends on whether you pick your battles or not. If an engineer complains every detail of a system then you get a "boy who cried wolf" effect at some point.

New comment by sagacity in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

sagacity — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:22:58 +0000

This is genuinely a really fun way to browse Wikipedia. Only drawback is that folder names that contain ellipsis don't show the full name when clicked.

New comment by sagacity in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

sagacity — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:43:49 +0000

Oof, that first example (the idiomatic C++26 way) looks so foreign if you're mostly used to C++11.

Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways

sagacity — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:41:30 +0000

Article URL: https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/refl_enum_to_string.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119326

Points: 96

# Comments: 179

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

sagacity — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:04:36 +0000

Clearly if that was the actual issue I would've been able to get it working :)

The thing is, I was online, I had a working internet connection (and confirmed this by doing the 'utilman' hang to get a command prompt and getting a working ping command). It was just that Windows corrupted some kind of internal Microsoft Account connection and was locking me out.

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

sagacity — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:01:38 +0000

I've reinstalled using this trick, so this issue won't bite me again in the future.

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

sagacity — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:25:46 +0000

Yeah, so, to be clear: I'm fairly sure Linux will also have its fair share of issues that I occasionally would have to repair.

I don't necessarily even have a problem with Windows occasionally needing a bit of hand-holding, either. It sucks, but it's IT so meh, unfortunately it still comes with the territory.

What I'm mostly pissed off about is the fact that I have a perfectly useable machine but since I'm unable to login due to vague Microsoft nonsense and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it I need to reinstall. This seems wholly unnecessary.

Even having some sort of repair installation that doesn't blow away all installed applications would have been somewhat ok as a last resort, but that doesn't exist either.

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

sagacity — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:49:38 +0000

I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even though I didn't have a previous password for that account.

Hacking around in the recovery console to add another administrator user worked, but then I couldn't reset the original user's password because it was tied to the Microsoft account and you can't change the password locally.

I don't need Copilot managing my inbox through AI, nor do I need a more exciting widget experience.

I just want an OS where if something like the above happens there's a way to fix it without having to reinstall. It doesn't seem like much to ask.

Edit: yes, I can use Linux but I have decades of Windows muscle memory and I do a bunch of DirectX programming. I shouldn't have to switch :)

New comment by sagacity in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sagacity — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:52:50 +0000

Sure, but do you diagnose cables so often that you need a permanent icon in the menu bar?

Following that logic, every application you use more than a handful of times should live there.

Anyway. I'm not trying to argue, I think this is a neat tool, but when the Windows tray got bloated with icons people used to complain about it.

New comment by sagacity in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sagacity — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:55:07 +0000

This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?

New comment by sagacity in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

sagacity — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:26 +0000

Ah yes, like those EUV machines America and China have worked on.

New comment by sagacity in "Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame"

sagacity — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:24:45 +0000

Dreams uses SDFs though?

New comment by sagacity in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

sagacity — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:39:22 +0000

To be fair, it's mostly an evergreen skill because people don't know how to exit.

Fret is a GPU-first Rust UI framework

sagacity — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Latias94/fret

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803338

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by sagacity in "Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch"

sagacity — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:30:59 +0000

The argument is that it is older software in the sense that it's unmaintained because better alternatives exist.

Also, I don't believe it is fair to dismiss skeptics as inventing reasons. If anything, "believers" are bending over backwards to praise Anthropic even though they didn't actually release anything.

New comment by sagacity in "Razor 1911 (first place at revision 2026 demoparty) [video]"

sagacity — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:40:37 +0000

There are plenty of size limited competitions, too (256 bytes, 4k, 8k, 64k) and competitions for old-school platforms.

Data Inheritance

sagacity — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:18:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/memononen/data_inheritance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584216

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary [video]

sagacity — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:19:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572163

Points: 3

# Comments: 0