Hacker News: superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=superb_devHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:29:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"]]>Some civilian casualties may be unavoidable in a conflict sure, but the US and Israel are not trying very hard

]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:10:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736080superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736080https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736080<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "EFF is leaving X"]]>Probably around the same time as the Citizens United decision. Supporting a business with your money also means supporting the things they choose to spend that money on

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:18:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708434superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708434https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708434<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"]]>From my experience, Claude Code is just better. Although I recently started using Zed and it’s pretty good

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:49:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654734superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654734https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654734<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"]]>My understanding is that MLX is Apple’s CUDA, so a CUDA translation layer would target MLX

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:43:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643772superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643772<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls"]]>I don’t know why this would kill systemd

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:47:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457194superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457194<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"]]>I’ve never had respect for the industry as a whole, only individuals within. There has a been a serious lack of rigor and professionalism in software engineering for as long as I’ve been a part of it

]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:21:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445379superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445379https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445379<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"]]>I can’t believe that someone paying for this actually expects to chat with the model. Just think of the logistics, it would be impossible

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:09:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380661superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380661https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380661<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"]]>I don’t think it’s an age thing, I think is desperation. I’m not desperate enough to get it

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:08:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380636superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380636https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380636<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good"]]>I’m pretty sure the dictionary just gets put on the front of the compression algorithm’s “context” so that it can be referenced just like any other part of the document. You wouldn’t need individual blocks with different compression schemes, it would all get compressed together.

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:59:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143826superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143826https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143826<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"]]>How is long term ethnic cleansing different from genocide?

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:53:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143743superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143743https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143743<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"]]>Im questioning whether the Israelis are the good guys. Frankly I don’t know how you can look at their history of provocation and unbalanced retaliation and not begin to wonder if maybe they aren’t the good guys

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:51:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143714superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143714https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143714<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good"]]>Or you could use the previous version to generate the dictionary for the current version?

I would assume chunks that didn’t benefit from the dictionary would receive the standard compression, so you can’t get worse than gzip.

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:13:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133863superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133863https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133863<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"]]>How are you dealing with the Pope saying priests shouldn’t use your product?

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:20:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121974superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121974https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121974<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"]]>I don’t find that to be less inspiring

]]>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:30:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026651superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026651https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026651<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"]]>Another interesting note, the trapezoidal TFR is still in place

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:20:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976890superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976890https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976890<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage"]]>Drone are noisy and invasive. I know I’d be upset if the neighbor boy was flying his camera drone around my property. Amazon doesn’t get a pass just because they’re a corporation. There is all kinds of passive data gathering that a these could be doing

]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:07:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939053superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939053https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939053<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "I am happier writing code by hand"]]>And when they’re actually good at their job, they’re invaluable in my opinion

]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935255superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935255https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935255<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"]]>I don’t know how this can be true when almost everyone I know is struggling right now

]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:41:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931628superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931628https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931628<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "How virtual textures work"]]>Which image?

]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:31:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919624superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919624https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919624<![CDATA[New comment by superb_dev in "ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use"]]>It’s so hard to believe people posting in support of ICE aren’t trolls or bots. Are you watching them commit obscene crimes in broad daylight?

]]>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:36:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897224superb_devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897224https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897224