Hacker News: xcjs

New comment by xcjs in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

xcjs — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:32:59 +0000

Mine is contributing to media preservation by reverse engineering Android apps/games that were forced into obsolescence by Google's policies: https://xcjs.com/blog/2026/08/29/resurrecting-2013-with-qwen...

New comment by xcjs in "Resurrecting 2013 with Qwen3.8 27B"

xcjs — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:14:17 +0000

Author/poster here: I might be biased, but I fully agree. I believe AI has good uses in the right hands and circumstances. I try to lead by example.

Resurrecting 2013 with Qwen3.8 27B

xcjs — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://xcjs.com/blog/2026/08/29/resurrecting-2013-with-qwen3.8-27b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496380

Points: 2

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New comment by xcjs in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

xcjs — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:40:27 +0000

This is exactly what I was hoping to see. I also returned one I ordered with the feedback that I needed physical function keys and the touchbar just wasn't cutting it for me.

New comment by xcjs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

xcjs — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:50:37 +0000

Oh man, I am extraordinarily late to this.

I built a fairly sophisticated Discord bot called Musebot that integrates with both Ollama and ComfyUI: https://xcjs.com/discord

New comment by xcjs in "Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM"

xcjs — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:01:46 +0000

Try playing on a 43" TV. You can tell.

New comment by xcjs in "PHP 8.4.4 Released"

xcjs — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:46:44 +0000

It has Composer: https://getcomposer.org/

New comment by xcjs in "LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground"

xcjs — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:33:02 +0000

Did they ever get around to three-way merges? That's a must-have if you use Git as a VCS.

New comment by xcjs in "Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source"

xcjs — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:05:53 +0000

As far as I'm convinced, PowerShell isn't a replacement for an interactive shell, it's a Windows-native replacement for Python.

New comment by xcjs in "Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)"

xcjs — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:40:34 +0000

A competent stylesheet will sidestep all those issues. Admittedly, I do wish MathML were in place to be used online and in epub documents as that would make the problem much more easily solvable.

New comment by xcjs in "Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)"

xcjs — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:18:37 +0000

Only if they exist as poor conversions. Properly formatted epub documents are worth their weight in effort.

Epub documents _are_ HTML files in a zip archive - I'd argue that if a web site is a proper presentation of the source material, an epub is even better.

Additionally, PDF documents _are_ worse for any kind of document technical or otherwise. PDF documents are primarily Postscript instructions without any relation or hierarchy to the included elements. Epub documents/HTML provide semantic relationships and hints to the content.

New comment by xcjs in "Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)"

xcjs — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:15:36 +0000

I'm familiar with those tools, but they don't preserve the formatting of the source document (when PDF) and certain types of embedded resources don't transfer properly.

Some PDF documents don't contain the source text as digitized text, either. It's just a bundle of scanned images.

New comment by xcjs in "Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)"

xcjs — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:37:19 +0000

I love projects like this, but I really wish instead of converting text resources to web sites that these projects would produce epub outputs. It's great for distribution, offline reading, and scaling to different display sizes, aspect ratios, and resolutions.

New comment by xcjs in "Parts of Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover seen in 36 years"

xcjs — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:32:29 +0000

The reef is being dominated by a few species without lasting power to stay through turbulent ocean activity based on the report. This may not work out of the long term, and it's too soon to tell.

This has nothing to do with what's fair - you can't "both sides" something we have direct and increasing evidence of.

This isn't caused by some Jewish space lasers, experimental military weaponry, or whatever additional conspiracy you're implying.

New comment by xcjs in "Fast and free multi-language code editor for Android"

xcjs — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 04:12:31 +0000

I understand that VSCode is different, hence the "though" part of my sentence.

The remaining examples are all almost identical, though.

New comment by xcjs in "Fast and free multi-language code editor for Android"

xcjs — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 03:14:22 +0000

A lot of code editors for Android are almost identical, and it makes me think that they're all forked from the same base project, including this one.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.co...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxdebug.a...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.ed...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.spck

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alif.ide

I've been looking for a good mobile editor for quite a minute, and they all practically have the same UI and features.

I did just discover a port of VSCode, though: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.environmen...

New comment by xcjs in "Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’"

xcjs — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:55:19 +0000

That was brought up in a lot of discussions as something the users would be willing to do, but leadership so far has not been interested in engaging with those suggestions.

New comment by xcjs in "Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’"

xcjs — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:28:54 +0000

The lack of regulated net neutrality is still something to be concerned about if you care about accessing sites and services at will without additional costs, limitations, or outright blocks.

The only reason a large effect hasn't been noticed is the protections offered at some state levels that enforce neutrality in practice nationwide (assuming you're in the United States).

New comment by xcjs in "Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?"

xcjs — Wed, 03 May 2023 19:02:55 +0000

WSL 2 is available on Windows 10 already just in case the above comment made it sound like it wasn't.

Also Windows 10 won't be EOL until October 14th, 2025.

New comment by xcjs in "Why I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

xcjs — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:36:59 +0000

If so, that's by design in a way.

That's an indicator that your root level certs are not being maintained or updated. That risk is worse than just a few certificate authorities not being recognized.