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New comment by willx86 in "9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes"

willx86 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:35:53 +0000

Not pedantic enough https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/gaming/25g590b-b/

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

willx86 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:56:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539110

Points: 109

# Comments: 11

A (UK) Open Banking API for Personal Use: Meet Endute Connect

willx86 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:39:50 +0000

Article URL: https://endute.com/blog/open-banking-api-for-personal-use

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527024

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by willx86 in "Almost Went Back: One Month on NixOS"

willx86 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:41:33 +0000

Hyprland will bite you in the bum soon

They changed their config to lua, so no more hyprland.conf good thing nix has rollbacks !

Maybe migrate sooner rather than later

How I rid myself of short form media

willx86 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://tcotc.dev/weekly/2026-w28/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985403

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by willx86 in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

willx86 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:12:19 +0000

I'd prefer reading about a rust rewrite then a saas paas CMS integration web thing on the latest framework It'll probably go nowhere, but it's cool to see people test the limits of what they can do and I can't watch without spending a penny

Kinda like jackass, fascinating to watch but damn I do not want to do it

New comment by willx86 in "Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh"

willx86 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:02:54 +0000

I highly recommend UV If you find yourself forced to use python, UV is the way to go

Try it out :)

uv init uv add XXX uv run main.py

( You can pin python versions and auto install them etc )

New comment by willx86 in "NixOS 26.05"

willx86 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:19:03 +0000

I converted with claude Use my repo for lsp.nix as neovims new v10 has a new way of configuring lsp's as lspconfig is depreciated, so I used the new lsp configuration method but went doc hunting to find out I need lspconfig for proper completions! ( I'll give it a push now to ensure it's my latest version)

New comment by willx86 in "NixOS 26.05"

willx86 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:32:20 +0000

I eventually gave up using mason and lsp servers and used nixvim

https://github.com/will-x86/nixos-dotfiles

( ./home/base/nixvim)

New comment by willx86 in "Bot vs human traffic"

willx86 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:57:26 +0000

..... I like my auto generated username it's a funny one

New comment by willx86 in "My wife tried to log 1k phone-free hours but quit. So I vibe-coded an app"

willx86 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:25:46 +0000

Used it today, I like it so far

One small thing I have now got 30 more red dots as during my gym session I regulary change the music by opening my phone :)

New comment by willx86 in "The PSP feels surprisingly present right now"

willx86 — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:06:06 +0000

Seems like you want a custom cartridge

They exist, e.g. https://www.coolspotgaming.co.uk/products/custom-game-boy-ad... ( I haven't used this service )

This seems like a good mid point between a $500 cartridge and having no friction between games

New comment by willx86 in "Running LLMs locally? Cut your VRAM consumption by 45% with one line of code"

willx86 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:49:53 +0000

Docs are 404 and terms send me to pricing...?

New comment by willx86 in "Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2"

willx86 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:08:11 +0000

Fascinating

Are you not wasting 8 bits using a Qn.m of 8.8? If you values are only 0-1?

New comment by willx86 in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

willx86 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:56:58 +0000

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

A bit like this? ( iocaine is newer)

New comment by willx86 in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

willx86 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:57:45 +0000

If engines are hard to build, why not build a car 3x the size of a normal one, well you can but due to things like aerodynamics, etc etc you'll never match the speed or fuel economy of cars.

Same with chips, efficiency, speed, etc all depend on good design, and cutting edge factors, if the main reason your chip isn't faster is because of the distance between your L1 cache and your core is far, then having a bigger node process but bigger chip won't make it quicker.

New comment by willx86 in "Building a Shell"

willx86 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:40:17 +0000

https://st.suckless.org/

New comment by willx86 in "Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest?"

willx86 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:54:20 +0000

+1 I love the parental controls I can limit social media to only a few hours a day ( only on my phone profile) And it has good Tailscale integration!

New comment by willx86 in "Show HN: ShellSelf – A Developer Portfolio That Feels Like Home"

willx86 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:34:49 +0000

Love it!

New comment by willx86 in "Searching for a Well Designed API"

willx86 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:27:11 +0000

Very interesting thank you :)