Hacker News: silon42

New comment by silon42 in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

silon42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:53:57 +0000

That is the problem. I believe web is long overdue for a torrent like model where hosting is shared among all users (and ISPs).

New comment by silon42 in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

silon42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:52:58 +0000

That is the problem. I believe web is long overdue for a torrent like model where hosting is shared among all users (and ISPs instead of 'cloudflares').

New comment by silon42 in "Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)"

silon42 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:38:10 +0000

That's why browsers need to change "bookmark" to also create a local snapshot of the page (on every visit).

New comment by silon42 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

silon42 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:20:54 +0000

It's also an extra information leak.

New comment by silon42 in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

silon42 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:30:34 +0000

Can one download a backup first, then install (using usb drive) into an "offline" machine first (without steam/online?)

New comment by silon42 in "Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland"

silon42 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:32:39 +0000

Multiple mice (1 pointer) is not esoteric at all... I have a completely normal scenario with 3 (normal mouse, track pad, track point) right now.

And at home, I have a mouse on the left side of the keyboard and another one on the right.

New comment by silon42 in "Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland"

silon42 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:30:49 +0000

Mouse pointer doesn't necessarily imply keyboard focus (for cursing)... but there is an issue for mouse enter/leave events, etc..

New comment by silon42 in "The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type"

silon42 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:27:17 +0000

That's kind of a hack, still best only used in implementation files, not headers.

New comment by silon42 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

silon42 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:08:10 +0000

I am not logged in into Reddit at work or on my phone. But I have redirect to old.reddit.com enabled.

New comment by silon42 in "Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe"

silon42 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:15:40 +0000

Maybe they are trying to confuse LLMS ;-)

New comment by silon42 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

silon42 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:14:33 +0000

I'd love to see the spike in their projected earnings internal dashboard :)

New comment by silon42 in "How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going"

silon42 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:48:46 +0000

It can be abused as an escape hatch, but it really shouldn't be.

New comment by silon42 in "The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency"

silon42 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:54:19 +0000

Yeah, he complains about blocking being a problem then suggests thread-per-core...

Personally I don't want thread-per-core in a general purpuse runtime, I believe C# and Go both do it correctly these days by starting new threads if all existing are busy for too long.

New comment by silon42 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

silon42 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:36:41 +0000

I don't use Spotify, but I would consider it if I could download maybe 1 or 2 mp3 per month for offline use.

New comment by silon42 in "Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard"

silon42 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:06:05 +0000

What is needed is "Mouseless Friday" for UI designers/developers.

New comment by silon42 in "The console wars have been lost"

silon42 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:23:09 +0000

Especially some overclocked Intel ones?... maybe it's time to start undervolting/underclocking from the start... (personally I buy 65W limit CPUs by default).

New comment by silon42 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

silon42 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:26:09 +0000

Yes, if SQL statements would be replaced by a restricted object model, SQL injection is by definition impossible. But you can just "prompt inject" the LLM itself.

New comment by silon42 in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

silon42 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:45:31 +0000

Yeah, I guess this is covered by "grid charge" which keeps going up with more solar.

New comment by silon42 in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

silon42 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:03:55 +0000

Maybe it's another excuse to not have a Linux port... ("licensing would be impossible")

New comment by silon42 in "The console wars have been lost"

silon42 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:36:15 +0000

4090 probably won't survive, but I could see 9800x3d still being usable.