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New comment by tux3 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

tux3 — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:06:18 +0000

Vivado already supports Linux, the development is supported by very large customers that put FPGAs in cars, [REDACTED], and other kinds of objects that crash into other objects.

This is just hurting students and hobbyists.

New comment by tux3 in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

tux3 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:58:59 +0000

How confident are you that the verification tool detects all of the watermark, and not just one layer?

I would layer two watermarks and let the public remove the most visible one.

New comment by tux3 in "Native all the way, until you need text"

tux3 — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:13:17 +0000

At this point on Win32 Qt might as well be the native UI. They did a better job of maintaining a coherent visual theme that says "Windows" and fits the design patterns than the actual owners of the platform.

New comment by tux3 in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

tux3 — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:11:14 +0000

The true AI doomsayers believe in some sort of technological singularity, which means a point after which things become so strange that the world is radically transformed.

Things like "jobs" and "careers" are so integral to society that we can't really imagine what society would be like in a world where people don't have any clear purpose. That's why you won't get a definitive answer. The whole idea of a singularity is that people don't have the faintest clue what day to day life would look like after.

We often to choose to believe that a singularity can't happen, because we don't know what that even means. We can't answer the simple question. So it definitely better not happen, that would be very inconvenient.

New comment by tux3 in "A HN post with negative points – how?"

tux3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:40 +0000

Downvotes on comments need a little bit of karma. Now downvotes on submissions, those are not normally doable by random users.

New comment by tux3 in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

tux3 — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:37:57 +0000

The state reserves some of the harshest punishments for counterfeiters, since large scale counterfeit operations is one of the few crimes that is an attack on the state itself.

The US secret service was originally created specifically to combat counterfeit money, it's no surprise that they would keep tracking this man for a decade.

This man is unusual because he did the tiniest amount of one the most severely punished crime.

New comment by tux3 in "Automatic Brightness in Plasma"

tux3 — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:50:03 +0000

There's usually a large gap between Android and Samsung. If you've tried Samsung, it's not necessarily going to be the same, even if they started from AOSP.

New comment by tux3 in "Dav2d"

tux3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:05:07 +0000

Not just C, dav1d and dav2d are actually mostly written in ASM! Then there's a bit of C as the glue or for functions that don't have optimized ASM yet.

Since dav2d is newer it has a higher fraction of C, but not enough for it to be the main language in the codebase :)

New comment by tux3 in "The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics"

tux3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:12:35 +0000

It's been really bad the last few months. You'd think people would want to share human blogs written by people. But half of the links are just different themes on different blogs all ghostwritten by Claude.

New comment by tux3 in "A Gopher Meets a Crab"

tux3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:33:10 +0000

Sometimes you just want a fancy boolean. The advantage is that Result has all the Result APIs and you can compose it with other Results, but otherwise this is just a success bool.

New comment by tux3 in "Clay PCB Tutorial"

tux3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:44:45 +0000

>assuming 1% annual growth and utilization of PtL / Fischer–Tropsch

Is that assuming a large fraction of the supply will be synthetic fuels created by electrolysis?

I would like to see the napkin. I wasn't aware synthetic fuels were on that kind of a trajectory.

New comment by tux3 in "Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"

tux3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:36:08 +0000

Thanks, I enjoyed the article. I've bought a couple creative commons books (PDF and printed), both to have the physical artifact and to send gratitude to the author, in a form that unambiguously means something. I rarely see a pay-what-you-want option, but that would make sense to me. Buying a free PDF isn't really like buying an apple or a manufactured good, it feels more like buying music on Bandcamp. It costs nothing to copy a file, but I still want to send what I can.

Sadly I haven't been very satisfied with print on demand books. It can be serviceable for textbooks, it does make prints a lot more accessible, but the quality has been pretty disappointing for me. When I buy a POD I often end up reading the PDF instead, which seems a bit wasteful.

New comment by tux3 in "Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"

tux3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:27:17 +0000

Love the price transparency, the obvious followup question is where the other ~85% of the pie goes when I buy a ~50€ paper book, if the author only earns a little under 15%?

I imagine printing will be about 2 to 5€, if it's not ultra cheap print on demand refuse. Is the rest all for publishers and Amazon dot com?

New comment by tux3 in "Scammer used an AI-generated MAGA girl to grift men"

tux3 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:31:47 +0000

You can further distinguish between ethics, the law, consequentialism, empathy, and your own personal sense of morality (what your intuition says, based on vibes).

Any combination of these is valid motivation. Some people are mostly motivated by the long arm of the law, some by more subjective feelings. But there's many other ways that people can use to justify things to themselves.

Waiting for PostgreSQL 19 – Add pg_plan_advice contrib module

tux3 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:03:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.depesz.com/2026/03/22/waiting-for-postgresql-19-add-pg_plan_advice-contrib-module/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846763

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Highlights from Git 2.54

tux3 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:43:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845773

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tux3 in "Category Theory Illustrated – Orders"

tux3 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:23:20 +0000

Sure, category theory can't prove the unsolvability of the quintic. But did you know that a monad is really just a monoid object in the monoidal category of endofunctors on the category of types of your favorite language?

New comment by tux3 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

tux3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:09:28 +0000

H264 patents are finally starting to expire, all the known patents have already expired in Europe.

As for HEVC, that particular licensing trash fire continues to burn bright. VVC had an opportunity to learn from the situation, and decided what they really wanted was a trash fire that burned even brighter.

So, we might be stuck with H264 for a little bit.

New comment by tux3 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

tux3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:03:50 +0000

Thanks, that's helpful. This says about ~70% of the money was paid to employees, ~10% infra costs, the other ~20% various other fees and smaller expenses.

It would be interesting to have a breakdown of what part of the Thunderbird team is working on Thunderbird, Thunderbolt, or other forms of thunder.

New comment by tux3 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

tux3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:41:58 +0000

>Thunderbird is revenue positive

Hmm, I thought the for-profit Thunderbird pro hadn't launched yet?

I know Thunderbird is for profit, but what are they profitting from without the paid service, and how much of that profit is going into this unrelated Thunderbolt AI platform, exactly?