Hacker News: smartmic

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

smartmic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:29:15 +0000

Article URL: https://loreline.app/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576395

Points: 223

# Comments: 54

Webview – cross-platform HTML5 UI abstraction layer

smartmic — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/webview/webview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560467

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by smartmic in "Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI"

smartmic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:34:09 +0000

> Btw this was initially coded without AI, but I've used it for the recent clean up and features

Then it makes sense to update the submission title. To me it reads as if the project was written completely without the help of AI (which might be a quality badge to some), but it is not 100% true then.

Anyhow, cool project ;)

The Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water and Land

smartmic — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-Use-Carbon-water-and-land-footprints

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502162

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

How Worried Should You Be About Climate Change?

smartmic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:46:48 +0000

Article URL: https://mishaglouberman.substack.com/p/how-worried-should-you-be-about-climate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493771

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

LumoSQL – Add features to SQLite for security, privacy, speed and measurability

smartmic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:40:23 +0000

Article URL: https://lumosql.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487469

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Okular – The Universal Document Viewer

smartmic — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://okular.kde.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476050

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

XML and JSON in 2026

smartmic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:33:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/06/01/XML-and-JSON-in-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466473

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

2 Kinds of People

smartmic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466335

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smartmic in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

smartmic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:04:17 +0000

The path is not closed; it must be earned through trust. It has always been this way. Also, note that "pull requests" are a GitHub invention; the concept is not native to Git or most other SCM systems. Before, you would have to submit your patch by email. It would be reviewed by the "maintainer" (or BDFL), who would then accept or reject it. If your contributions are accepted several times, you may be able to earn the rank of "maintainer."

Returning to the topic at hand, the challenge for new developers is to earn trust. I bet there are ways to do so aside from the muddy swamp of GitHub's (AI) bazaar.

New comment by smartmic in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

smartmic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:38:55 +0000

There are great Open Source projects doing fine with the cathedral style, just look at Sqlite and its siblings (Fossil, …).

So I do not see a problem with Ladybirds decision, in contrary, IMHO it strengthens the human aspect of software development and puts the brakes on AI free riders

New comment by smartmic in "Why Janet? (2023)"

smartmic — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:43 +0000

I am happy with https://github.com/pyrmont/churlish

New comment by smartmic in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

smartmic — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:19:21 +0000

Not by me, but by the mods. They also changed from "full of hallucinations" to "and most citations were hallucinated". Maybe a rep from "EY Global" filed a complain ;)

EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

smartmic — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://gptzero.me/investigations/ey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339580

Points: 326

# Comments: 141

New comment by smartmic in "Claude Opus 4.8"

smartmic — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:26:15 +0000

> This is a refreshing attitude!

Well, I think the attitude is that costs are allowed to escalate faster and more steeply than the features delivered. From that perspective, semantic versioning is a handy tool for adjusting pricing strategies. IMHO, it (versioning) only makes sense for open-source projects, where you can clearly see the actual changes made with each version upgrade. Anything else is more than a little suspicious…