Hacker News: slashink

New comment by slashink in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

slashink — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:01:40 +0000

(I work for discord)

Discord Mobile absolutely supports animated WebP (in fact I just tried uploading one to make sure I wasn't hallucinating here).

New comment by slashink in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

slashink — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:01:55 +0000

I'll be real I'm not going to argue with the author but having had to use Windows 11 now for the last few months, these bugs seems like a polished castle compared to the state of the windows desktop.

New comment by slashink in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

slashink — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:19:28 +0000

(i work at discord)

Not saying that wasn't ONE of the reasons but the main reason was really that a large chunk of users had no idea that they even had a discriminator, as it was added on top of your chosen username. "add me on discord, my username is slashink" didn't work as people expected and caused more confusion than it was solving. This wasn't universally true either, if you come from a platform like Blizzard's Battle.net that has had discriminators since Battlenet 2.0 came out in 2009 it was a natural part of your identity. End of the day there were more users that expected usernames to be unique the way they are today than expected discriminators.

Addressing that tension was the core reason we made this change. We are almost 3 years past this decision ( https://discord.com/blog/usernames ) and I personally think this change was a positive one.

New comment by slashink in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

slashink — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:56:43 +0000

I run both, Tahoe on laptop, Sequoia on mac studio. Tahoe is strictly worse, the corner radius drag issue is driving me crazy on the daily.

New comment by slashink in "Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content"

slashink — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:32:09 +0000

That used to be true but they absolutely do this today :(

Spent so much time trying to repro some functionality only to realize that Windows has an allow list for what apps it listens to for certain APIs.

New comment by slashink in "Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells"

slashink — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:19:40 +0000

"WHY2025 orga has been a shitshow on the social & interpersonal level."

Curious to learn more as an outsider if you don't mind elaborating?

New comment by slashink in "VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV"

slashink — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:00:58 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)

New comment by slashink in "Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?"

slashink — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:51:47 +0000

Twitch does not add 10-60 seconds of latency. The average latency with default OBS settings is 3-6 seconds.

Source: I worked on the Twitch video system for 6 years.

New comment by slashink in "Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?"

slashink — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:40:58 +0000

Latency.

New comment by slashink in "Air Canada to remove free carry-on from basic economy"

slashink — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:49:30 +0000

It conflicts me to do “the reddit thing” and say “please read the article” but no. Personal item is not a carry on bag in the eyes of the airline.

New comment by slashink in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

slashink — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:17:46 +0000

Under $100:

I bought a $2 rice cooker at a yard sale in 2020. Changed my life, yes really. Rice ALWAYS turns out well. I don't know why I bothered to make it on the stove before.

Media over QUIC abandons the IETF process

slashink — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:02:04 +0000

Article URL: https://quic.video/blog/transfork/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881894

Points: 4

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New comment by slashink in "Rust needs a web framework"

slashink — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 01:28:03 +0000

For what I hack on I often run into issues with the FFI performance between go/c# <-> c/c++. I’d rather not write C or C++ and Rust is one of the few languages that allows me to mess around with obscure libs at native performance and yet slap a web interface in front of it. cxx/bindgen is stellar in how fast they allow you to wrap libraries. These cases is where I would want like the simplest most opinionated web framework (like gin in Go).

For everything else, there’s Go IMO.

New comment by slashink in "Dave: Discord's New End-to-End Encryption for Audio and Video"

slashink — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:57:27 +0000

The goal here has been for this to be transparent to users and "just work", hopefully you should see no downsides to this! If you do, let us know!

New comment by slashink in "WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System"

slashink — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:39:49 +0000

This is unhinged and I love every part of it! Apart from the repo having an attitude I often miss from the modern internet I also learnt something reading the code on how FUSE works!

New comment by slashink in "Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust"

slashink — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:28:34 +0000

Hey Sean, we both worked at Twitch Video but I left just as you were joining. I currently work on the Discord video stack and am somewhat curious about how you imagine Discord leveraging WHIP/WHEP. Do you see it as a way for these clients to broadcast outwards to services like Twitch or more as an interoperability tool?

New comment by slashink in "Converting a Cisco 7609 into a beer tap (2021)"

slashink — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:17:17 +0000

Fun to see this posted this on HN (I am the author!). Happy to answer any questions. I think the general question I didn't really touch on is "why" and really the only answer for that is "why not?"

New comment by slashink in "Apple Vision Pro's Optics Blurrier and Lower Contrast Than Meta Quest 3"

slashink — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 01:15:08 +0000

The author ends the review by saying “AVP is the superior product” so I find it hard to agree with your take. The information presented clearly shows the tradeoffs that Apple has chosen with their displays. It’s left up to the reader to decide if that’s a subjectively more enjoyable experience but from the objective viewpoint, the article does a good job at showcasing the drawbacks.

New comment by slashink in "I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows"

slashink — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:58:18 +0000

The Cyberpower series sold at Costco is unironically good. No frills or cool stuff, UI from 1995 but supports USB monitoring out of the box and just… works. I was about to make the brother comparison but after reading your entire comment realize you already did it.

New comment by slashink in "Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub"

slashink — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:05:59 +0000

I know time is relative but I realized 2015 is 9 years ago ? Made me feel old.