Hacker News: virtue3

New comment by virtue3 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

virtue3 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:51:42 +0000

That is totally false.

They have been getting replacement MiG-29s and Su-25s from allies and are starting to use f-16s from NATO nations.

"A coalition of NATO countries, primarily the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium, are providing F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. The United States authorized the transfer and is providing training and spare parts, with deliveries having begun in 2024 to strengthen Ukraine's air force against Russia."

So yes, they still have an airforce. They're just getting re-supplied.

Also the Ukrainian airforce was ULTRA conservative about sorties to make sure they conserved as many fighters as possible.

New comment by virtue3 in "Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude"

virtue3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:35:58 +0000

Remote code execution - aka they can run arbitrary code on the compromised machine via the bug.

Basically the worst possible thing.

New comment by virtue3 in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

virtue3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:28:07 +0000

We are 100% there already. In browser.

the webgpu model in my browser on my m4 pro macbook was as good as chatgpt 3.5 and doing 80+ tokens/s

Local is here.

New comment by virtue3 in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

virtue3 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:00:14 +0000

That's fucking insane. Thank you for sharing.

I had a bad feeling we were basically already there.

New comment by virtue3 in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

virtue3 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:35:40 +0000

They have variable dc power supplies on amazon on the cheap.

If you want that sort of reliability it will probably go towards 100$.

New comment by virtue3 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

virtue3 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:15:37 +0000

Please go try and do anything on the internet at 2G speeds in todays world.

You can barely even use FB messenger (you need to get messenger-lite).

I only know this cuz tmobile would give you free 2g all over europe. it was JUST BARELY helpful. mostly just sms and email.

google maps was unusable etc. This only got worse over the years.

They now give you free 3G and it's bearable. 2G is insanely slow in the 2020+ world.

2G ~= 5 KB/s. That means 40 seconds just to download a properly optimized react bundle.

5MB site? 16+ minutes.

New comment by virtue3 in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

virtue3 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:02:14 +0000

thank you going to try this. I noticed my heartburn got a lot worse after having to take a few courses of antibiotics.

New comment by virtue3 in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

virtue3 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:29:25 +0000

I hate liquid glass with a burning passion. I've never understood why people get so irritated at design changes until now.

New comment by virtue3 in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

virtue3 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:29:06 +0000

at best it's "cover your ass security" so when you do get pwned you can say you went through an "accrediting auditor" - blah blah blah.

Agreed on everything you said. Just wish there was a more efficient way to do things :/

New comment by virtue3 in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

virtue3 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:43:22 +0000

Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

New comment by virtue3 in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

virtue3 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:52:45 +0000

I think this change is really disingenuous.

If they hide how the tool is accessing files (aka using tokens) and then charging us per token - how are we able to track loosely what our spend is?

I’m all for simplification of the UX. But when it’s helping to hide the main spend it feels shitty.

New comment by virtue3 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

virtue3 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:09:36 +0000

Some additional context to explain the numbers:

Game industry in general pays like shit - japanese software engineering pays even worse, so double negative modifiers on salaries in this comparison.

source: worked in games, worked at japanese tech company with us division.

New comment by virtue3 in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

virtue3 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:33:59 +0000

Swagger is critical. The graphql schema.json is very very good at helping ai's figure out how to use the service. Swagger evens that advantage.

New comment by virtue3 in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

virtue3 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:18:41 +0000

It helps to not look at this as zero sum.

A lot of people are more comfortable with a shared experience objective. This provides a means to do something and a reason behind meeting.

If you are always in the mindset that you are giving and everyone else is taking that can really impact how you perceive everyone. And 9/10 most people over estimate how much they give and under-estimate how much they take.

There is also something powerful with "I _get_ to take my new friend to a place I find cool" rather than "My new friend is using me to go to my cool place". Changing the way you internally frame things drastically helps.

I know it sounds absolutely stupid hogwash but it helps.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/gratitude-bed-every-morning...

I hope this helps!

New comment by virtue3 in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

virtue3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:03:01 +0000

It’s hard for some people to understand that situation until they are in it. Unfortunately.

Totally agree with you.

New comment by virtue3 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

virtue3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:22:00 +0000

It's always about the oil.

Venezuela has a substantial amount of heavy crude oil. which the USA is good at refining. Shocking.

New comment by virtue3 in "Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source"

virtue3 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:12:54 +0000

they probably deem it as not important. "Context is all you need to tell the difference, keep the font clean"

New comment by virtue3 in "A “frozen” dictionary for Python"

virtue3 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:32:42 +0000

I also SUPER LOVE this feature. Especially when you make a type union of the keys for easier indexing.

New comment by virtue3 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

virtue3 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:32:13 +0000

I think they also used their metrics to figure out people liked kevin spacey (whoops) - and created house of cards - which catapulted netflix's production side.

https://medium.com/@danial.a/how-netflix-used-data-to-create...

New comment by virtue3 in "The HTTP Query Method"

virtue3 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:55:50 +0000

I think graphQL as a byproduct of some serious shenanigans.

"Your GraphQL HTTP server must handle the HTTP POST method for query and mutation operations, and may also accept the GET method for query operations."

Supporting body in the get request was an odd requirement for something I had to code up with another engineer.