Hacker News: throwaway58670

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Windows native app development is a mess"

throwaway58670 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:58:20 +0000

I made an app using Win32 in Golang. It controls my monitors' brightness and "true-tones" them to match the sun cycle via DDC/CI. It has autostart, global hotkeys, persistent settings, sits in the tray, silent auto updates etc.

The hard parts were seeded by Claude Code. Happily maintaining and modifying it for close to 3 months now. Just a data point, especially about not needing C++.

I ported one program to 10 languages to see how an LLM thinks

throwaway58670 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexv.lv/llm-ports/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137584

Points: 2

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New comment by throwaway58670 in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

throwaway58670 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:03:03 +0000

I continue to be dumbfounded by programmer articles (and project pages for that matter) that would benefit immensely from leading with screenshots and videos but instead bury or omit them, opting for "a thousand words" that fail to deliver.

You're writing about desktop environments. Show pics.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Googler... ex-Googler"

throwaway58670 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:47:27 +0000

Please test your site on a phone. 2fps while scrolling text is not ok.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

throwaway58670 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:48:27 +0000

While this is impressive, how come you can't make your website scroll without stutter?

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you"

throwaway58670 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:42:07 +0000

Some old-enough browsers don't support SSL. At all.

Also, something I often see non-technical people fall victim to is that if your clock is off, the entirety of the secure web is inaccessible to you. Why should a blog (as opposed to say online banking) break for this reason?

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media"

throwaway58670 — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 05:54:23 +0000

Agreed! Nothing that can't be easily remedied though! https://www.remove.bg/

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

throwaway58670 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 09:07:42 +0000

Care to share the salary range?

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

throwaway58670 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:31:20 +0000

What's the salary range?

New comment by throwaway58670 in "What happens to a smartphone when it gets stolen?"

throwaway58670 — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 21:14:21 +0000

Barely Sociable did an amazing video on this: https://youtu.be/3Ws3YptLmLQ

Don't want to spoil anything, but locked down phone doesn't always mean it's a brick :-)

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Things not available when someone blocks all cookies"

throwaway58670 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:48:34 +0000

I recently read a thread about privacy here. One point was that the one best thing you can do is disable JavaScript. So I decided to try it. I installed Brave on my phone and disabled pretty much everything, including all cookies.

My thinking was, all I do is browse HN, hn.algolia, and lobsters. Those should work, right? Well lobsters works perfectly, including collapsing comments.

HN loses the ability to collapse comments. But algolia is the worst. Not only does it require JS, being an SPA, but it refuses to work until you enable cookies! My theory is that it reads the settings (popular, 24-hour) from a cookie, and plain dies if they're not there.

On another note, and to a pleasant surprise, a lot of the web works perfectly fine, and feels a lot snappier, including even google search. And many of the annoying cookie and paywall popups never appear, since they appear to be implemented in JS.

So yes, if you haven't tried it, I recommend you do. You can always whitelist sites you trust or really need to use.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

throwaway58670 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:15:14 +0000

The pro-Russia Mexico argument is a bit off, I agree. But please don't compare the Baltic countries to a 44 million population country. We'd barely fill half of Kiev.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Fetch API has landed into Node.js"

throwaway58670 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:24:05 +0000

  there isn't an IDE that takes care of doing this part for you

Did you try WebStorm? Any setup specifics that it doesn't support for you?

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation"

throwaway58670 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:16:57 +0000

Why not Waze then? It's where google buys traffic data anyway. You also get police / speedcam etc locations and reporting.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Todo apps are meant for robots"

throwaway58670 — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 20:52:36 +0000

Fully agree. Have come to similar conclusions with time.

Nowadays the only tool I'm using is https://workflowy.com. It's basically an infinitely nested list that you can expand / collapse or zoom into. Extremely fast to dump items into and delete afterwards.

I use it as a cache or stack for my immediate more complicated developer tasks. Once something's done - delete it.

Here's a referral link if you'd like to get me (and yourself) more free items: https://workflowy.com/invite/200f24b.lnx

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game"

throwaway58670 — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:18:04 +0000

So basically https://hexxagon.com/.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)"

throwaway58670 — Thu, 06 May 2021 17:23:40 +0000

Highly recommend "The Shallows". (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) It's a book about our brains becoming shallow, incapable of deep processes like reading a book.

New comment by throwaway58670 in "An update to storage policies across your Google Account"

throwaway58670 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:03:49 +0000

I’ve gotten a flurry of “your unused firebase database will be deleted” for tiny hackathon projects from years ago. Guess they’re running some global cleaning.

Maybe machine learning stuff needs a lot of space?