Hacker News: stelonix

New comment by stelonix in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

stelonix — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:32:09 +0000

I'm interested in seeing a plot of that percentual over the years. The past 3 or 4 years I've been seeing less and less tech savvy comments over here and this data seems a great way to find out if it's just placebo.

New comment by stelonix in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

stelonix — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:20:21 +0000

And then the new car no longer has the camera where you need it, the panel buttons changed, the cup-holder is in another place. Even worse, the upgraded firmware & OS of the car no longer comes with an app you needed; or it does, but removed a feature that was essential for your daily use. All because some SWE takes "computer security" as more important than having an useful system.

It's the kind of rhetoric that enables shoving down user-hostile features during a simple update. And breaking many use cases. Quite common in the FOSS/Linux mentality, not so much on the rest of the world.

New comment by stelonix in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

stelonix — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:40:06 +0000

Yet the interface is fundamentally different, the output feels much more like bro pages[0] and it's within a click of clipboarding, one CTRL V away from extracting the 13th second screenshot. I've been using Google the past 24 years and my google-fu has always left people amazed; yet I can no longer bother to go through Stack Exchange's results when an LLM not only spits it out so nicely, but also does the equivalent of a explainshell[1].

Not comparable and I fail to see why going through Google's ads/results would be better?

[0] https://github.com/pombadev/bropages

[1] https://github.com/idank/explainshell

New comment by stelonix in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

stelonix — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:55:41 +0000

It is not specific to right wing grifters. Left wing grifters use the same talking points but with a different reason behind. Yet they want to censor the same products: one group based on puritanism & moralism while the other based on feminism & LGBT rights. Both extremes want the same thing.

New comment by stelonix in "I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up"

stelonix — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:43:11 +0000

I believe it's a general consensus. I thought it was just me but I also thought it couldn't be just me. We've been reading for years how Google results have sucked and specially the past 12 months it seems to have gotten worse and worse. Meanwhile with ChatGPT, I no longer need to use Google-Fu to find my way around stuff, which is good because the past year it feels like no amount of decades using Google were helping me find any results. It does feel like the fall of AltaVista but without the company going under.

New comment by stelonix in "CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion"

stelonix — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:27:14 +0000

Tried on my simple 60Hz PC screen and also on my phone with OLED screen and sadly, it's just a flickering image. Will try later this week on my friends' retrogaming setup. Looks promising

New comment by stelonix in "Incredibly Ambitious SMB 3 Hack Released After 12 Years"

stelonix — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:53:41 +0000

Used to hang in the same irc room as the author. The asm hacks were impressive at the time. It's crazy it's been 20 years

New comment by stelonix in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

stelonix — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:04:48 +0000

I read somewhere Google makes $350 per year off each user. Divided by 12 months that's a bit less than $30. In a way, you're paying $20 less than you would by using Google, while keeping your privacy etc. Seems great when you take into account the fact with Google you're the product.

New comment by stelonix in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

stelonix — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:15:59 +0000

I've been using Windows 10 for the past year and a 4 months now, after some 10 years 100% on Linux. I had to disable a weird setting which would forcefully update and reboot the computer when it considered to be "Not Active". I believe it was called "Active Hours" and by default had no way to turn off: you had to choose some hours of the day when you're supposedly not using it. Lost some work like this and had to do some tinkering, not sure if register or otherwise. Or maybe I just disabled automatic updates I guess.

So, in conclusion, no, an OS taking control off my hands forcefully is not user-centered, no matter how much in programming circles updates are seen as "crucial". Nothing is more crucial than the computer being predictable to its owner.

New comment by stelonix in "ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”"

stelonix — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:48:52 +0000

I believe if you look further and deeper you'll reach the conclusion the real issue is how awful copyright laws are and more importantly, how absurd is the current economic system. Glorified markov chains are not the culprit here.

So the current movement where artists "shame" random joes for using a cool technology has only one possible outcome which is to push said average joes into being politically active in defense of AI. No one seems to want to properly organize and file a class-action, just twitter bickering.

New comment by stelonix in "Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy"

stelonix — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:31:18 +0000

What were those regressions in your opinion? I liked XP a lot but I don't remember being bothered by 7 and I'm pretty bad at changing UIs.

New comment by stelonix in "How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020)"

stelonix — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:36:18 +0000

If you find it hard to take it seriously, I find it even more to take you seriously. What you're saying only makes sense if there's no such thing as coercion and deception, 2 things we know are practiced by Washington. A small, meaningless semantic meaning of hierarchy, when you have secret courts and plain, obvious examples of government & corporate media working together, it's like you're asking us to believe in fairy tales. And it's all backed by "we wouldn't lie, they would", which is xenophobia, quite simply.

You'd have to ignore Snowden and all the leaks of the past 20 to 50 years, to have such a misconception of how the USG operates. You'd have to have the USG's trustworthiness as the pillar of your belief system and then comes the usual philosophy. That's exceptionalism and xenophobia.

New comment by stelonix in "How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020)"

stelonix — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:00:57 +0000

If you look at the number of ex-CIA/intelligence now working for mainstream media, you'd have to suffer from a very bad case of American exceptionalism to suggest the fact they do not stand up to power (after Snowden) is NOT linked to their roles as state assets.

New comment by stelonix in "How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020)"

stelonix — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:43:44 +0000

I believe it's disingenuous to pass it off as "well it's just semantics" when, in reality since the 80s neolib explosion and after the 2010s Snowden revelations, it's pretty clear the relationship between Washington and corporations/the press is as intermingled as the Chinese and their equivalents.

New comment by stelonix in "How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020)"

stelonix — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:20:08 +0000

If it were only the WaPo the ones saying things such as the comment I was replying to, then "them" would mean the WaPo. But since every corporate news outlet uses the same wording to make it seem like the CIA was "evil back in the day but it's fine now", in this context, "them" means pretty much every corporate outlet out there. Each one of them who pretends Julian Assange is not a political prisoner by orders of Washington. Each and every one of them who publish stories whose source is "unnamed officials" (aka "trust me bro") and are usually just copying verbatim the government narrative without batting an eye. Since that's all of the big ones, NYT, WaPo, Guardian, even Reuters nowadays; might as well consider "them" all of them who do this kind of propaganda.

New comment by stelonix in "Fq: Jq for Binary Formats"

stelonix — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:54:36 +0000

I used to be from the romhacking community back in the 2000s and due to usage of Windows, open source/foss wasn't even known to most people. The culture of Windows programmers is way more focused on freeware/binaries.

Still waiting to this day for FuSoYa to release the source code of Lunar Magic.

About a central database of binary parsers, I've been wanting this for ages too. The closest I ever found was augeas, but that's for configuration files.

New comment by stelonix in "The socialist calculation debate"

stelonix — Mon, 01 May 2023 16:49:41 +0000

You mean examples why they didn't. Just because Starship exploded at launch it does not prove all Starships are going to explode. Likewise, if you have a handful of trials of planned economy it does not imply the whole concept is infeasible. Stating otherwise is fallacious.

New comment by stelonix in "CLib: Header-only C library that implements the most important classes from GLib"

stelonix — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 12:50:36 +0000

There really is no "correct way" to distribute C libraries and at this point it seems you're nitpicking just to nitpick. Imgui uses the same method, no one ever complained. If you do require obj files to not be "bloated" (why?) you can always do it the C way of having separate C/H files.

New comment by stelonix in "Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It"

stelonix — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:19:14 +0000

Brains can solve the halting problem, Turing machines cannot.

New comment by stelonix in "Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It"

stelonix — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:50:25 +0000

I said either, not both points.

Point 2 does not require what you call a "dualist view", it's simply stating that deep neural networks are not all there is to intelligence. Another layer of fact checking, maybe even imperative programming, could be an answer. It certainly has nothing to do with soul, but with the belief the human brain is a bunch of lookup tables.