Hacker News: silverlight

New comment by silverlight in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

silverlight — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:03:14 +0000

Google really can’t help themselves but to have some internal re-org kill off a public thing people are actively using. It’s honestly impressive how consistent they are.

New comment by silverlight in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

silverlight — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:12:30 +0000

There was a moment about a week ago where Claude went down for about an hour. And right after it came back up it was clear a lot of people had given up and were not using it.

It was probably 3x faster than usual. I got more done in the next hour with it than I do in half a day usually. It was definitely a bit of a glimpse into a potential future of “what if these things weren’t resource constrained and could just fly”.

New comment by silverlight in "Our approach to advertising"

silverlight — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:13:55 +0000

Seems like a big opportunity for Google to consider keeping Gemini ad-free as a differentiator. They can afford to burn cash on it for a long time to come if they choose to do so.

New comment by silverlight in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

silverlight — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:24:26 +0000

Glad to hear the impact was so muted. Thank you for the response!

New comment by silverlight in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

silverlight — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:56:53 +0000

Did the client side JS being infected produce any issues which would have affected end users? As in if a web owner were on an affected version and deployed during the window would the end user of their site have had any negative impact?

New comment by silverlight in "XMLUI"

silverlight — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:02:42 +0000

Recently used a lot of HaxeUI for a game and it felt similar to this. A lot of components included out of the box that “just work” with some basic styling. And you can use CSS styling on top to further customize as needed. Works across a lot of different platforms as well.

New comment by silverlight in "Seedance 1.0"

silverlight — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:03:03 +0000

Is this available somewhere to use?

New comment by silverlight in "VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future"

silverlight — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:59:44 +0000

Anyone using one as your daily driver for coding? Or tried and it didn’t keep?

New comment by silverlight in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

silverlight — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:58:21 +0000

Happy to support this, desperately needs to be changed.

New comment by silverlight in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

silverlight — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:09:21 +0000

I made one of the original posts on HN about this years ago after hearing about it from my CPA. Both then and now these changes make zero sense to me as a matter of good policy. I am also still surprised at the number of people in tech who either haven’t heard about this or are willfully ignoring it and likely filing their taxes incorrectly.

New comment by silverlight in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

silverlight — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:39:51 +0000

Somewhat related topic: anyone used something like the Luxedo to do a projection mapping? It seems like it’s more complicated and expensive but I love the idea of doing something cool to the house for Halloween and Christmas without having to lug out a ton of lights and decorations.

New comment by silverlight in "Launch HN: Quetzal (YC S24) – Stripe for Internationalization"

silverlight — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:06:24 +0000

I think that ideally, every project would be setup from scratch in the beginning to use t() tags or something similar to have translation keys so that setting up translations is as easy as swapping out what t() returns (from e.g. a config file or the like).

Of course, we all know that this is very rarely how projects end up getting setup especially in the early stages, and then it's just massive amounts of work to go back and set it up later.

The thing that's the most intriguing to me about what you're describing is automatically setting up translations in the build step where you auto-detect strings to translate. But looking at the site, most of it seems to be focused around the VSCode extension which will just sort of find and replace strings in the source code with t() tags.

Can you talk more about the translations in the build step? Is there a reason you're not talking more about that on the site? (Is it just newer, not very reliable/good, or...)?

The idea that I could just throw something like this into my project, not have t() tags in my source code but still get translations, sounds like magic and I think it would be really neat.

New comment by silverlight in "Babylon 7.0 Is Out"

silverlight — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:10:19 +0000

At Roll20 we just released a beta version of our new VTT engine which is powered by Babylon. The devs on the team have really enjoyed getting to use the modern workflow compared to the legacy decade-old stuff we were using before. Thanks Babylon devs!

GitHub GraphQL Service Down?

silverlight — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:20:54 +0000

We seem to be unable to access Github's GraphQL API service. All requests with a Bearer token are timing out. You can see this for yourself by trying to use their GraphQL Explorer here:

https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer

(After trying to fetch the schema it will time out and show an error).

This has been going on for at least an hour and the Github status page still shows green. Anyone else seeing this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563765

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by silverlight in "Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI"

silverlight — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:15:50 +0000

In the U.S. you have to actually file for a copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office if you actually want to bring a copyright suit against someone.

New comment by silverlight in "Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?"

silverlight — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:00:38 +0000

I don’t actually know how it works for paying yourself. But if you were paying someone else, in 2024 they would get 10k carried over from 2023 and $5k from 2024. You only get 10% the first year. I am not an accountant and this is not tax advice :-)

New comment by silverlight in "Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?"

silverlight — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:47:29 +0000

I did contact my Congressional Representative but I would love to know what interest groups are working on this actively that I can support further.

Thank you for sharing your own experience with your CPA as well.

New comment by silverlight in "Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?"

silverlight — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:22:18 +0000

Wow, thank you for that detailed explanation. Very interesting.

New comment by silverlight in "Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?"

silverlight — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:56:12 +0000

Research and Experimental. It’s what the tax code calls it.

https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/usc26/174

New comment by silverlight in "Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?"

silverlight — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:48:57 +0000

So you're saying that the advice you got was that if it's a launched product, you can treat software development as an operating expense and just ignore the fact that 174 says software development is an R&E expense?

I mean that sounds great to me...I just also feel like it's probably a very "liberal" interpretation indeed.

The part I'm getting hung up on is essentially, previously R&E expenses (as you note) were a lot more fungible, it depended on a number of factors including how risky the endeavor was. Things that you just do day-to-day in the service of keeping your company afloat (which for a launched SaaS for example would include fixing bugs or even developing basic features) were likely not R&E. Maybe if you embarked on a journey to develop a totally new product, it would have been.

It seems like the most basic reading of this is pretty straightforward: they've taken that decision making away and said "if it's software dev, it's R&E." Not "if it's software dev for a new feature, but hey existing bug fixes and maintenance don't count," just, "software is R&E now always."

Obviously everyone has their own risk tolerance for how they interpret things and what definition they use.