Hacker News: tapoxi

New comment by tapoxi in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

tapoxi — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:01:30 +0000

This is neat but my employer rates my performance based on token consumption; is there one that makes Claude needlessly verbose?

New comment by tapoxi in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

tapoxi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:33:05 +0000

He's using this approach because the EU requires documents to be in an open format, and by him advocating that OOXML is only open by name, he can advance a legal argument that OpenDocument is the only acceptable format.

Office supports OpenDocument.l, it just doesn't use it by default.

New comment by tapoxi in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

tapoxi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:26:27 +0000

SteamOS is just an immutable Arch, and all Steam Linux games use the Steam Linux container runtime or Proton.

Bazzite and a few others provide a similar console-style experience.

New comment by tapoxi in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

tapoxi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:23:04 +0000

Bazzite is incredible, I've been running it on my gaming PC for about two years now. Games just work these days, and the updates are silent so I never need to think about them.

New comment by tapoxi in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

tapoxi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:15:22 +0000

Specifically their failure to meet reasonable uptime requirements. I can't run a 99.9 service on a 99.0 platform.

New comment by tapoxi in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

tapoxi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:35:59 +0000

The state of GitHub and Windows 11 certainly qualify as sub-par.

New comment by tapoxi in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

tapoxi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:43:39 +0000

Yes that's exactly how it works, it's called curtailment.

New comment by tapoxi in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

tapoxi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:44:47 +0000

It's a black box that thinks for me, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it times out.

I am extremely skeptical of AI products anyone builds. It's just using one black box to build scaffolding around another black box and then typically want to charge money for it. I don't see any value there.

My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II

tapoxi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mikhe.ch/quake2-on-fpga/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484893

Points: 6

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New comment by tapoxi in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

tapoxi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:19:41 +0000

I highly recommend playing Frictonal Games' Soma from 2015. It is an extremely critical examination of this entire concept. Without spoiling the plot, a digitized consciousness doesn't imply just one, but an infinite number of copies, some just subjected to torture as they are essentially disposable.

New comment by tapoxi in "No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

tapoxi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:07:48 +0000

But I don't think we've seen cannabis, especially when not smoked, have anywhere near the health risk of alcohol.

New comment by tapoxi in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

tapoxi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:40:20 +0000

But that's what we signed up for in the Linux wirld. Linux systems are smorgasbord of different components by design, and that means being specific. I'm using KDE Plasma 6, that's a different experience than someone using Cosmic or Sway.

New comment by tapoxi in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

tapoxi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:51:50 +0000

There is no "Wayland" to address these issues. It's like asking "web" to address its issues.

Wayland is a protocol with multiple different implementations.

New comment by tapoxi in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

tapoxi — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:41:33 +0000

Like going to the dentist for a root canal when it's your neighbors that actually needs one and you can't afford it because a significant portion of your income is already paying down debt, the problem is getting worse, and you just decided to make less money this year

New comment by tapoxi in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

tapoxi — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:28:04 +0000

It's not so much tournaments but viewership. People watch others play on Twitch, that gets you money directly as well as sponsorships. This incentives people to cheat so they're good on stream.

New comment by tapoxi in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

tapoxi — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:52:22 +0000

Deliveries have been falling for the past two years.

New comment by tapoxi in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

tapoxi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:58:53 +0000

How many Bluesky servers are there?

New comment by tapoxi in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

tapoxi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:48:46 +0000

I just hit printscreen and save, I think you may be confusing your familiarity with a system with user friendliness.

For comparison, MacOS doesn't have a printscreen key, it's command-shift-3 or command-shift-4. Much more confusing to newcomers in my experience.

New comment by tapoxi in "Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds"

tapoxi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:34:43 +0000

The administration already lost and the tariffs were found to be illegal, this is Nintendo wanting their money back.

Taxpayers already paid for it, companies raised their prices to compensate.

New comment by tapoxi in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

tapoxi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:47:56 +0000

The user's bio is literally "Teaching engineers to build production AI systems"

It would be funny if these LinkedIn/Twitter influencers weren't so widespread.