Hacker News: sitzkrieg

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

sitzkrieg — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:08:00 +0000

anything but admitting the design is bad and frivolous

New comment by sitzkrieg in "USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers"

sitzkrieg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:21:10 +0000

hope nothing goes wrong with it

New comment by sitzkrieg in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:22:46 +0000

i assumed it was malware out the gate. yep

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran"

sitzkrieg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:44:55 +0000

i apologize i missed this. the core hot loop was fairly straightforward to optimize and audit all aliasing. we ported from c89 to all cutting edge (at time) c99+ compilers. we still couldnt quite eek out that minor difference. the intel compiler unsurprisingly generated the most close asm for the machine

the fortran library we only had one license on a physical machine, i had to travel for one extensive recompilation of that side lol! it wasnt the library mentioned below, i would have to ask a collegue.

New comment by sitzkrieg in "US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say"

sitzkrieg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:28:51 +0000

sending young americans off to die for israels relgious war and bury epstein news. the entire usa still operating my team vs your team. president trump is pedophile child rapist and noone can bother to care. sad times all around

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

sitzkrieg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:23:58 +0000

the only fix for windows 11 is installing windows 10 LTSC

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

sitzkrieg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:23:04 +0000

constant growth for stockholders ruins all it touches

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Windows native app development is a mess"

sitzkrieg — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:25:48 +0000

2026 and people are complaining about the oldest, most stable gui api available, seems right on target

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:48:52 +0000

ive maintained a simulation software where the core is written in fortran. its using some intel math library that is expensive that i cannot recall, does immense calculations and makes faster binaries than c on every compiler we tried

New comment by sitzkrieg in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

sitzkrieg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:20:11 +0000

yea thats barely playable for single player games

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

sitzkrieg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:12:59 +0000

raspberry pi have some of the worst power management and usage of any SBCs. theyre a non starter for an entire class of projects (battery powered). so no. dont just get a pi. do 5 minutes of research.

btw, i have inherited projects that used raspberry pis for the computing. every single one had to be reworked replacing the pi.

additionally, if the pi doesnt fit your RF footprint needs in an enclosure, it is not possible to get the chips standalone. plus the schematic is not open source. fuck broadcom and fuck raspberry pi foundation. acceptable for light hobby use only

New comment by sitzkrieg in "I fixed Windows native development"

sitzkrieg — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:48:19 +0000

if you want to link msvc built libraries (that are external/you dont have source), mingw may not be an option. for an example you can get steamworks sdk to build with mingw but it will crash at runtime

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Can my SPARC server host a website?"

sitzkrieg — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:28:30 +0000

its incredibly uninteresting and marks the perfect point to close the tab and go back to something enriching

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:12:40 +0000

we need a site like this for ios alarms going off completely silently. still happening

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]"

sitzkrieg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:51:39 +0000

quake series has way more players than xonotic, interesting framing

New comment by sitzkrieg in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:58:13 +0000

today FOUO or CONFIDENTIAL, maybe tomorrow or next week SECRET and after that seemed fine maybe some TOP SECRET or throw in a SAP for fun! call it the maralago bathroom

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:42:14 +0000

so many things flat out ignore it in 2026 let's be real

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:39:49 +0000

tor nodes are zero risk as long as they're not an exit

been running nodes since 2017 on two providers and zero issues

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Backseat Software"

sitzkrieg — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:45:20 +0000

i tend to uninstall/not use things that say "not right now" or "maybe later" instead of no. such a terrible and telling trend

New comment by sitzkrieg in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

sitzkrieg — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:23:42 +0000

it was sold so israel could have more control over the narratives visible. nothing to do with any real safety concerns