Hacker News: toxik

New comment by toxik in "Olo (Color)"

toxik — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:24:26 +0000

This was very interesting, thank you for the link.

New comment by toxik in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

toxik — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:02:48 +0000

In program code? Unlikely, surely¡

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

toxik — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:14:43 +0000

I have noticed this too. I have been playing it quite a bit. There is no reason to have one unique solution per board though.

Some thoughts:

Insane is not harder than Hard. Often times the opposite seems true.

Scratch mode auto-committing on win is a bit too nice.

Dark mode is whack, terrible contrast.

I would like a player profile with stats and so on.

Random Insane seems to play like one of 50 levels. I recognize them often. Seems not so with hard. Now I just enter the puzzle IDs in turn...

Some puzzles seem to have no prior solutions as my time is often exactly the global average.

I would like to know how many solved a puzzle. Also if I did.

Overall great job and I love this. I would like it to be an app or something that can be bookmarked.

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Elevators"

toxik — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:57:49 +0000

> Robot motion planning is basically just elevator scheduling with more degrees of freedom.

Certainly a take, ChatGPT. Not a very good one, but a take nonetheless.

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

toxik — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:15:28 +0000

Well it is different, you can have multiple solutions in this variant. Classical minesweeper is not like that. Imagine a grid with just a 1 and the rest is empty. There are then eight different solutions. The same situation can't happen in classical, it is simply going to reveal everything except the predetermined mine.

Because of this ambiguity, the search space is much larger here. Source : I play A LOT of Minesweeper.

New comment by toxik in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

toxik — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:05:10 +0000

... or cargo culted a site that did. I think this is far more common. It's almost like you're not a serious web site if you don't have a cookie popup of some kind.

New comment by toxik in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

toxik — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:03:19 +0000

I'm not sure why, but apparently my experience is unwelcome enough to be downvoted. Drive by changes are really annoying, IMO, and as the GP shows, the formatting tool outcome differs. So there are many "valid" versions of the same program logic. You have therefore not do what these formatters pretend to do, namely take this variable out of the equation. Rather, the wrong auto format can look much worse than the original.

I'm not sure why people felt formatters were necessary. but now they're part of the zeitgeist and there is no going back.

New comment by toxik in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

toxik — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:37:45 +0000

I have never discussed code formatting and drive-by changes more than in projects with auto formatters.

New comment by toxik in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:25:55 +0000

Well, they showed better performance if the AI had full state observation... Not very practical.

New comment by toxik in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:08:49 +0000

I think I would write mirrored. Especially in this day and age, there is no reason to write LTR over RTL by hand. You basically never have to write legibly for official reasons.

New comment by toxik in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:06:40 +0000

My big problem with the fountain pens is that the ink evaporates over a few weeks. Like bone dry, needs a refill.

New comment by toxik in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:05:16 +0000

Hard disagree on both accounts. Mechanical keyboards are obnoxious and tiring to use because of the insane travel. Fountain pens are nice when they work, but the ink evaporates, the nibs clog up, and accidentally bluing yourself is not uncommon among fountaineers.

New comment by toxik in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

toxik — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:13:44 +0000

Soon enough it'll read email [_]

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New comment by toxik in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"

toxik — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:07:22 +0000

Search for boxing timer.

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

toxik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:13:02 +0000

Off topic but it annoys me so much that Apple decided not to make the hands see-through as they pass the day window on the face. Like even the actual analog clocks do this with a little window on the hand?

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

toxik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:10:45 +0000

I did the very same thing. Interesting phenomenon. I mainly use "analog watches", well, they're facsimiles of analog watches on digital devices.

New comment by toxik in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

toxik — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:33:11 +0000

Opus has been extremely stupid recently, reckon that's because Fable needs to look appealing?

New comment by toxik in "Internal Combustion Engine (2021)"

toxik — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:43:38 +0000

I thought it pretty well established that auto on/off is bad for the engine, as is intermittently turning off some cylinders as some do. Is that wrong?

New comment by toxik in "Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages"

toxik — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:51:51 +0000

Well, this is plain old protectionism and typically you down the line realize you're falling behind the rest of the market as your domestic products are not subject to the same competition. This is how China fell behind last time, with its reckoning in the beginning of the 20th century. It's hysterical that they have decided on doing the same thing again. It's hysterical that the US has decided to do so as well.

New comment by toxik in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

toxik — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:13:02 +0000

Nobody gets promoted for building open-source software at corpos. It is allowed, at best, not condoned. So what manager is going to go for this? Let's dedicate our limited resources to gratuitous goodwill work. Carrer suicide, I expect. Unfortunately.