Hacker News: thewavelength

New comment by thewavelength in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"

thewavelength — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:33:11 +0000

Thanks!

1: True, although it also limits the addressable memory and the typical 4GB limit seems less these days. I’m thinking of large apps like Figma running in the browser.

2: Will existing 32-bit WASM binaries break on WASM64 engines or does the binary have a flag for compatibility?

New comment by thewavelength in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"

thewavelength — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:02:34 +0000

Why is a relatively new technology like WASM being limited to 32-bit pointers? Why repeat the same mistake again?

> Web is 32-bit. Your 64-bit structs will break. This was the root cause of most of my bugs. WASM is 32-bit address space, pointers are 4 bytes not 8.

New comment by thewavelength in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

thewavelength — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:48:12 +0000

I need this without knowing before that I needed this. Makes me question why this wasn’t implemented years ago. Anyway, great.

New comment by thewavelength in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

thewavelength — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:08:53 +0000

TIL. Thanks for letting me know.

New comment by thewavelength in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

thewavelength — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:08:07 +0000

Because I lose the manufacturer-provided five-year-guarantee if I don't.

New comment by thewavelength in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

thewavelength — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:35:07 +0000

I just called the shop to replace the perfectly fine e-Call battery in my soon four year old Hyundai car. 250€ to change a battery that has a ten year lifespan. I am not allowed to replace it on my own as it would invalidate the five year long guarantee provided by the manufacturer (not the one by law). Why is this stuff not considered as well?

Also curious whether the "specialized devices" exemptions are AND requirements. Even if those are AND, wouldn’t smartphone manufacturers try to satisfy all three of them?

New comment by thewavelength in "Berkshire Hathaway's website today resembles its 1997 design"

thewavelength — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:06:43 +0000

Got curious because of semiquaver's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064337

New comment by thewavelength in "Berkshire Hathaway's website today resembles its 1997 design"

thewavelength — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:05:17 +0000

Also beautiful in the most recent version at https://www.berkshirehathaway.com:

The ad in the footer of the page is the same ever since.

Note: not meant to mock, I find this truly amazing.

Berkshire Hathaway's website today resembles its 1997 design

thewavelength — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:05:17 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/19970530212007/http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072096

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

thewavelength — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:08:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067678

Points: 328

# Comments: 315

Vibe Engineering: What I've Learned Working with AI Coding Agents

thewavelength — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mrexodia/status/2010157660885176767

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596038

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikes

thewavelength — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:05:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-us-has-captured-venezuela-president-maduro-2026-01-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46474824

Points: 23

# Comments: 1

I made auto-aim for mini golf [video]

thewavelength — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:01:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQB8aNKyeao

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455694

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thewavelength in "[dead]"

thewavelength — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:27:00 +0000

Implementation: https://github.com/VirtualAlllocEx/HWBP-DEP-Bypass

New comment by thewavelength in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

thewavelength — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:19:00 +0000

Hetzner says they are affected: https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ec8a2f28-e964-46cb-94fa-...

New comment by thewavelength in "Ask HN: Why does Mozilla now allow to pay for Firefox?"

thewavelength — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:46:44 +0000

Friendly reminder that Kagi offers Kagi Ultimate for 25$, which includes their Assistant [0], which gives you access to more models than only ChatGPT.

[0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/bangs.html#kagi-assistan...