Hacker News: throwaway2046

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:20:42 +0000

I've used proot in the past but it crashed often, I'm interested in finding other rootless chroot-like projects.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "What's been going on in w64devkit the past year"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:45:43 +0000

w64devkit is an absolute joy to use, and I'm surprised that it's still not widely adopted by devs. Extracting a single ZIP archive to get a complete POSIX environment on Windows with all kinds of build tools is nothing short of impressive, and it even supports Windows XP! (minus CMake and a couple other tools)

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:09:36 +0000

> Just dynamically link against the oldest glibc you want to support.

Just the other day I tried running an older binary and it failed with a glibc error, despite it being linked to a glibc version that's barely 5 releases behind the one on my system. So maybe glibc isn't backwards compatible after all...

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

throwaway2046 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:54:28 +0000

    > Even if you use OpenGL you still need to write shaders.

Not in OpenGL 1.x

New comment by throwaway2046 in "HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:03:00 +0000

Where does it say that the OS was vibe coded?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Building Principia for Windows XP"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:59:03 +0000

Excellent write-up. Does anyone have the source of the background image shown in the last screenshot?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Mel Brooks is 100 today"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:58:42 +0000

https://archive.ph/LQ3n3

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:55:09 +0000

Looks interesting... Is there an equivalent encoder that can be used with this to generate VHS footage purely in software?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:05:25 +0000

Could you provide a link to your project?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:56:44 +0000

I see what you mean, but ultimately the video shows both the social worker and the judge were on the couple's side, despite the first impression... The social worker was painted as this very bureaucratic person who follows the rules to a tee, while still being sympathetic to the couple's situation. And the judge was painted as the intimidating figure with the final say, who eventually rules in favor of the couple and gives the child a permanent home. I agree with the other commenter who said the story was too good to be true, so the film making some artistic decisions for dramatic effect doesn't sound too bad.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:46:33 +0000

Inspiring to see the couple accomplish this and in the early 2000s no less. Wishing them all the best. If you haven't already, watch the animated short film[1] by Zombie Studio. It was my introduction to this case before reading the article.

[1] https://vimeo.com/1092249009

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

throwaway2046 — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:51:02 +0000

The mirrors one was part of the PC game[1], I remember it vividly.

[1] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory:_Sci...

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ubuntu 26.04"

throwaway2046 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:59:39 +0000

Debian offers Nvidia drivers as well although they tend to be outdated. Thankfully you can use Nvidia's official .deb repos to get the latest drivers on both Debian and Ubuntu.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "State of Kdenlive"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:10:23 +0000

That's quite the impressive feature set. I do want to use Kdenlive but coming from Shotcut I didn't find the UI as easy to use, especially when it comes to handling the timeline... Maybe I'll try it again one day.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:50:53 +0000

The official website states on the front page:

    This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:59:46 +0000

Absolutely amazing collection, and it has lossless FLACs too! Many thanks to the fans and IA for making this possible.

Remember to donate and help keep the Internet Archive alive.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:03:23 +0000

Ninja is great and feels natural coming from Make. What it lacks in features it makes up for with speed, which is what ultimately matters.

Also worth mentioning is samurai[1], a pure C implementation of Ninja that's almost as fast yet easier to bootstrap needing only a C compiler.

[1] https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:11:31 +0000

> Stable ABI literally only benefits software where the user doesn’t have the source

Stable ABI benefits everyone. If I need to recompile a hundred packages with every OS update instead of doing real work then there's something seriously wrong with my OS.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Windows native app development is a mess"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:02:39 +0000

wxWidgets is just a wrapper around existing UI libraries; win32 on Windows, and Gtk/Qt on *nix.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:39:10 +0000

These are beautiful, thank you for sharing. I really like the one with the triangles, was it inspired by Rule 30?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30