Hacker News: scott01

New comment by scott01 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

scott01 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:28:12 +0000

Same. Also the “russophile” part sounds kinda racist.

New comment by scott01 in "Improving C# Memory Safety"

scott01 — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:59:26 +0000

I respectfully disagree — a lot of conveniences that C# provides produce GC trash which will cause frame spikes. I remember having had to add a non-allocation string.contains alternative at one project. Lambdas and linq also have this problem, or if a string is passed through native-c# boundary. Language itself is really nice though :)

New comment by scott01 in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

scott01 — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:17:31 +0000

I have email backups from a provider where filenames are extremely long.

New comment by scott01 in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

scott01 — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:10:08 +0000

I’m not as experienced as some people here, but in ~10 years, I’ve never needed to write code for anything other than x86 or arm. So I agree with the author on their priorities.

New comment by scott01 in "The sigmoids won't save you"

scott01 — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:05:47 +0000

Obviously. I responded to the commenter with some context, but your comment doesn't bring anything to the discussion.

New comment by scott01 in "The sigmoids won't save you"

scott01 — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:27:09 +0000

If I'm not mistaken, he's either affiliated with or otherwise connected to the effective altruist movement, hence he can't be unbiased. I find this article tells an interesting perspective on it: https://www.noemamag.com/the-politics-of-superintelligence/

New comment by scott01 in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

scott01 — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:53:00 +0000

I’ve never heard of anyone making distinction between “sound design” and “sound effect design” in gamedev. I don’t know anything about cinema or other creative industries though, but my original post is only about video games.

New comment by scott01 in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

scott01 — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:33:44 +0000

From my experience, it’s very rare to see someone not using Reaper for sound design. Some use Pro Tools or Cubase, but they aren’t as common as Reaper. It really has no competition due to how easy it is to prepare dozens of assets with a single render (all with correct naming and loudness) as well as extensions that add features no other DAW has (e.g. Global Sampler, stuff by LKC Tools, etc.).

It’s not very good for music, though, so here, the situation is a bit more diverse. So yes, I’m talking concretely about sound design.

New comment by scott01 in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

scott01 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:12:55 +0000

And Reaper is currently a de-facto standard for game audio design.

New comment by scott01 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

scott01 — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:38:57 +0000

I’ve seen managers hiring people with an intent to lay them off when winds change to protect themselves and their close circle. I can only imagine they’ve had great KPIs in both cases: first for scaling the team, and then for cutting costs.

New comment by scott01 in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)"

scott01 — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:04:02 +0000

It’s convenient to buy fat-free products to lower caloric density of everyday food. Given mostly sedentary lifestyle, maintaining healthy caloric intake is pretty hard, and limiting fats (not only fat-free dairy, but also lean meats) and sugars really helps. Note limiting, not excluding — going extreme fat-free is definitely bad for health, and it also takes huge effort compared to just limiting.

New comment by scott01 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

scott01 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:14:41 +0000

I don’t think so. Windows is very easy to administer compared to both, Linux and Mac. There is also a compliance part that MS makes easier, though it’s a bit beyond what I really know.

New comment by scott01 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:18:06 +0000

Check out mixes by Blackest Ever Black label (now defunct) from NTS and Berlin Community Radio, listening to them literally feels like a journey. Funny part, sometimes they use a contrasting tune to end a mix, which creates a feeling similar to movie credits roll in the end.

New comment by scott01 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:01:08 +0000

This appears to be a troll account, that only ever engages in heated discussions. Please, do not engage with it, folks :) On a related note, has anyone noticed actual bots commenting on HN? I sometimes feel discussions are a bit weird here.

New comment by scott01 in "iPhone 17e"

scott01 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:06:47 +0000

Same here, just replaced the battery.

New comment by scott01 in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:37:43 +0000

Maybe yeah. Though I doubt they’d reset data collection settings like that.

New comment by scott01 in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:15:24 +0000

It’s possible to disable history in YouTube’s settings. This will turn off algorithmic feed replacing it with a reverse chronological feed of channels you’re subscribed to.

New comment by scott01 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

scott01 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:57:50 +0000

Obviously, I wasn’t serious :)

New comment by scott01 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

scott01 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:03:26 +0000

But if legal system decides the output of LLMs belongs to the entity that trained it, and given that Copilot has the capability to generate any possible code, that means Microsoft, via Copilot, will own copyright to all possible code in the universe, which will naturally allow Microsoft to acquire ReactOS.

New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: I'd like to learn about software licensing. Any recommendations?"

scott01 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:55:22 +0000

Oh, thanks for the information, very interesting!