Hacker News: ulimn

New comment by ulimn in "GPT-5.5"

ulimn — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:36:03 +0000

Isn't the outcome / solution for a given task non-deterministic? So can we reliably measure that?

New comment by ulimn in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

ulimn — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:26:14 +0000

I think it's more about how they approach their users in general that is the problem here.

New comment by ulimn in "The C3 Programming Language"

ulimn — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:51:14 +0000

I am not a C programmer but I always find these low level languages intriguing.

I am wondering though: when does one pick C3 for a task/problem?

New comment by ulimn in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

ulimn — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:48:14 +0000

Regarding the KDE aspect: my preferred DE is KDE and I installed CachyOS with that. Everything seemed to go smoothly and using it was also a good experience.

With that said, I ran into an age-old problem: sleep.

(For reference, I have an AMD Ryzen CPU, RTX 4070 super GPU and some low-end motherboard and I am using the proprietary nvidia drivers.)

I searched the web for hours and tried a lot of things, including different kernels, but nothing helped. In the end, after I couldn't find anything new on forums, reddit, blog posts, etc, I asked chatgpt for some ideas.

It had me change BIOS settings, kernel params, nvidia module params (or something like that - I'm not well versed in this topic tbh), etc, but in some way waking up from sleep still did not work.

After it suggested some undocumented kernel param with the nvidia kernel module, I said that's it, let's try something else and reinstalled with Gnome.

To my surprise, it worked without issue. I've been using it like this for weeks now.

I have no idea if the explanation is good or not but chatgpt said it's because my hardware + proprietary nvidia driver + plasma wayland was a bad combination.

The Renaissance of written coding conventions: Because AI reads manuals, too

ulimn — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brokenrobot.xyz/blog/the-renaissance-of-written-coding-conventions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722075

Points: 3

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New comment by ulimn in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

ulimn — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:11:34 +0000

Or at least not anymore since this became the number 1 sign whether a text was written with AI. Which is a bit sad imo.

New comment by ulimn in "What excessive screen time does to the adult brain"

ulimn — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:51:53 +0000

I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this:

Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...]

Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my computer? Does it count as "bad" screen time?

Also, do they take into account what you do on said screen? Reading a book, learning something or binging tiktok videos, watching the facade people put up on facebook / insta don't sound the same to me.

New comment by ulimn in "Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine"

ulimn — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:52:16 +0000

I hate this about MacOS. It happens seldom enough for me to forget about it and every time I have to search the web for the solution. Thanks for posting the steps.

New comment by ulimn in "Remix Vite Is Now Stable"

ulimn — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:44:33 +0000

I think one could say that Remix is simple in the sense that there is less magic and reinventing the wheel like in the case of Next.

It's not simpler as in less features.

New comment by ulimn in "Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD"

ulimn — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:11:07 +0000

I recently tried cloudflare domains and it works well, does what I need. On PC I can download the invoice as pdf.

New comment by ulimn in "Netflix CEO says Apple Vision Pro market is too insignificant to bother with"

ulimn — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:11:30 +0000

Isn't adding customers a way of getting profit?

New comment by ulimn in "YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster"

ulimn — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:58:08 +0000

Recently, there was a post on reddit where people posted the amount of money content creators are getting from views with ads.

I don’t remember the numbers well enough to quote it but it’s barely anything. I recommend to look it up.

And the biggest surprise for me was that older videos get even less.

New comment by ulimn in "JDK 21 Release Notes"

ulimn — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:06:29 +0000

I kind of like the inside java website for these kind of things: https://inside.java/2023/09/19/the-arrival-of-java-21/

New comment by ulimn in "Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency"

ulimn — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:32:19 +0000

I think the book "Core Java for the Impatient" by Cay S. Horstmann is a really good one on (relatively) new java.

The author has a 2 volume, longer book as well if you want more details.

New comment by ulimn in "EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill"

ulimn — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:57:44 +0000

If I write a message to someone, them being blue or green means I will either pay for the message (sms) or it's free (iMessage).

New comment by ulimn in "DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer"

ulimn — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:28:55 +0000

Well... I understand what you mean but they only have "European" in their title. Europe != European Union.

New comment by ulimn in "Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate"

ulimn — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:01:02 +0000

Also, I think in case of a lot of stuff it's hard to tell if you also used it once or twice (e.g. small electronics which can be easily re-packaged).

New comment by ulimn in "Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?"

ulimn — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 13:55:01 +0000

I'm genuinely curious: Do you check/audit the code you compile and run on your machine? Going with the assumption of "no": How is it then different than downloading a prebuilt version from an official source?

New comment by ulimn in "Show HN: Socketify.py: Http/Https and WebSockets servers for PyPy3 and Python3"

ulimn — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:55:00 +0000

How is fiber slow? Can you please provide some source? According to the techempower fortune branchmark, it's the 3rd (prefork) and 6th (normal) fastest go framework and even in the all-language list it's 24th and 34th.

New comment by ulimn in "More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey"

ulimn — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:01:22 +0000

> font rendering

At least on Linux I can have crystal clear (looking) font on my 2K 27" monitor.

On MacOS it looks blurry because they expect you to buy a higher DPI monitor - there's no subpixel rendering. If you want to share your monitor with your gaming PC as well (and you don't want to spend thousands on video card and monitor), you are left with subpar fonts on your MacOS.