Hacker News: sirjaz

New comment by sirjaz in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

sirjaz — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:04:19 +0000

This is awesome. Love seeing projects like this.

New comment by sirjaz in "Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11"

sirjaz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:37:35 +0000

Great job, these are the apps we need to see. Native Windows apps.

New comment by sirjaz in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

sirjaz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:32:43 +0000

The biggest issue in my opinion is that Microsoft is chasing web devs. XAML is pita, just like css and html markup. They need to pick a lane and just use it. Allow other frameworks access to the default low level api such as Win32, but document it to the same level as Google does on Android and Apple with SwiftUI

New comment by sirjaz in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

sirjaz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:38 +0000

It's that Nadella doesn't really care about Windows, even though the kernel is the root of Azure. In addition, all the newer gui frameworks abandoned RAD interface. That is what made and still does make Winforms and WPF popular.

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

sirjaz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:43:44 +0000

It's a Windows container. It runs the NT kernel and a few minimal other things. The closest would be the Nano Server container

New comment by sirjaz in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

sirjaz — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:06:16 +0000

But what about Hydrogen? Many ICE companies would be better to focus on that. It would allow legacy vehicles to stay on the road, and fix the range anxiety in places like the US which is way bigger than all of the EU and bigger than the populated parts of China.

New comment by sirjaz in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

sirjaz — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:40:52 +0000

At this point Microsoft needs to go back to service packs and a three year OS version cycle. Rapid development doesn't seem to be working.

New comment by sirjaz in "Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux"

sirjaz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:46:24 +0000

Also, to add the current CEO doesn't care about the OS. All he cares about is the stock price, and his AI mistake.

New comment by sirjaz in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"

sirjaz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:17:53 +0000

This is great, and I love that this is not another webapp

New comment by sirjaz in "Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"

sirjaz — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:18:13 +0000

This would be a great tool if it was a local tool that could run in a tui or as a desktop app ala devtoys on Windows

New comment by sirjaz in "Linux is good now"

sirjaz — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:50:58 +0000

If Microsoft could get their heads out of their rears, they could potentially get back to a better OS for gaming. The hybrid kernel Dave Cutler designed is in many ways still better than the Linux kernel. It's the userland that is the issue with Windows 11. Look just by enabling true nvme support you close the gap between Linux and Windows performance wise.

New comment by sirjaz in "Linux is good now"

sirjaz — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:06:13 +0000

Enterprise and ltsc have none of the nagware or tracking. Ai is still there though

New comment by sirjaz in "Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite"

sirjaz — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:33:39 +0000

This would be awesome as a cross platform app.

New comment by sirjaz in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

sirjaz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:05:12 +0000

Then why is Google killing the ChromeOS/Chromebook? Also Windows is increasing in its share again. Maybe that is due to companies that want AI in there systems.

New comment by sirjaz in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

sirjaz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:49:11 +0000

Thank the web for that. We have lost more control of our devices and our privacy; the more we depend on the web and SaaS. We need to get back to writing native software, be it for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, or Windows. We need to make the local device the priority.

New comment by sirjaz in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

sirjaz — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:07:28 +0000

If you have pro or enterprise you can still setup a local account. It is home edition that is the issue

New comment by sirjaz in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

sirjaz — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:53:42 +0000

I would be amazing if you released this as a Windows app. I would love to use it on my surface which sits in the kitchen.

New comment by sirjaz in "Zenroom – No-code cryptographic virtual machine"

sirjaz — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:16:30 +0000

There is no C# support, they need to fix this.

New comment by sirjaz in "People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows"

sirjaz — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:31:01 +0000

Funny a the stats he points to show a smaller number of devices being recorded each time. So of course the percentage would go up. There are still more Windows devices in active use compared to all MacOS/iOS devices.

New comment by sirjaz in "Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset"

sirjaz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:27:53 +0000

Microsoft dropped the Hololens and it was in this price range with a much better product. So I have a feeling this will be a google glass type item