Hacker News: spookie

New comment by spookie in "Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image"

spookie — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:12:36 +0000

Outside trained images or objects, Hunyuan falls apart pretty hard.

Out of 30 objects I tried, only 4 had relative success. And even then, the topo ain't great.

New comment by spookie in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"

spookie — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:35:06 +0000

Look at SSD prices over the last 6 months. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/

New comment by spookie in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

spookie — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:41:23 +0000

Depends on the definition of "nice". Is it time or pay?

New comment by spookie in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

spookie — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:54:53 +0000

And knowing these little tricks to get what you want with image generation models also takes time. Not to mention you need some knowledge on some other software just to make the underlying layout.

New comment by spookie in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

spookie — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:59:26 +0000

Brother, it is a simple email to a mailing list.

They are professional security researchers, they must know this is the way it is done in the ecosystem.

Kicking the can around leads nowhere.

New comment by spookie in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

spookie — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:26:10 +0000

Strix Halo TDP is significantly lower. Comparing apples to oranges, really.

New comment by spookie in "Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements"

spookie — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:06:56 +0000

> Such a weird foundation for a project. Tons of hype but not a lot of successful games relative to usage.

Road to Vostok. Dev jumped the Unity ship and remade the game in Godot, seems to have gone pretty well.

New comment by spookie in "Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared"

spookie — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:41:34 +0000

> I've got some web applications I wrote that run perfectly on the MQ3, especially after I got target sizes up to WCAG AAA level and it is fun to put the headset on and crash out on the couch and get things done

One way to have better text in VR for 2D content is to make use of OpenXR composition layers:

https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unreal/os-...

Don't worry, not Unreal specific. Hope it helps you out!

New comment by spookie in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

spookie — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:19:55 +0000

> SDL isn't a that relevant project

Unreal 5 uses SDL to be able to create "windows" in a cross platform manner (specific use case, but not just a thing on Linux [1]). Many others do as well.

[1] https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/updati...

New comment by spookie in "Helium is hard to replace"

spookie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:20:32 +0000

Would like to add Vox is nowhere near the other's popularity, and has received substantial donations from... Hungary. A total of 6.5 million euros during the 2023 elections.

New comment by spookie in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

spookie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:40:47 +0000

The author of the article is not from the US, and is talking about a Slovenian alternative to Cloudflare.

Either way, we are on the internet. Pretty international stuff.

New comment by spookie in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

spookie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:29:29 +0000

Eh, I think its just that the infrastructure rewards having a car and not bikes. I thought the same before, only after experiencing for years the small things that make it possible, have I come around to it.

The little Honda City/Today with its trunk scooter from the 80's was ahead of its time, really. Its a path one should look at in large metropolitan areas. With electric bikes, even cities with large elevation deltas have a chance nowadays.

New comment by spookie in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

spookie — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:07:50 +0000

Hell, you can see it too in the latest F1 movie.

Shots in which the base plate was taken from live footage (crews trained in filming the sport) are stable and show all the action. Shots from Hollywood camera crews can barely keep up.

One may say this is a bad comparison point, and that it was an artistic choice, but I call bullshit on that. So much of the movie was based upon live footage that the ones that didn't just look amateurish.

And yet, both crews are professionals. It is difficult to film these things well.

New comment by spookie in "Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)"

spookie — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:45:56 +0000

Hopefully such automation also covers fixing instead of giving open source devs headaches, like the one over some obscure codec from the 90's.

Nevertheless, attacking is a targeted endeavour, unlike defense. Fixing is, in _general_, more difficult in theory.

* reference to past google and ffmpeg incident

New comment by spookie in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

spookie — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:56:28 +0000

I use krita, adobe substance 2024, blender and whatever other software. Professionally.

When I hear these arguments I just think these people are simply chained.

New comment by spookie in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

spookie — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:22:51 +0000

You really shouldn't trust ventoy.

New comment by spookie in "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years"

spookie — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:07:01 +0000

Hell you still find explosives from WW2 all over. It really is difficult.

New comment by spookie in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

spookie — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:40:51 +0000

Isn't cross language function calling expensive? I assume it is significant.

New comment by spookie in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

spookie — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:55:48 +0000

Honestly same thing, taxis seem to be polite and up to have a chat about anything here. So, not that hyped about these things really.

New comment by spookie in "EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push"

spookie — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:39:13 +0000

> There's a common thread that the EU is some awful unaccountable organisation. This tends to mainly come from the US. It's also the line pushed by Russian propaganda for the last 15 years.

Not sure about the US, haven't seen such sentiment much. But from Russia? Yup, lots of EU skeptic parties have ties to Putin or Russia.

Classic divide and conquer.