HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

TheRoque

1,182 karma · joined December 4, 2022

submissionscomments
TheRoque··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
What's wrong with just Android?
TheRoque··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Ok my bad. I remember hearing that it was a criticism of common harnesses and that the creator of Pi wanted more control over that feature, so I assumed it wasn't enabled by default. Thank for pointing it out !
TheRoque··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
What extension do you use ? With all the supply chain attacks I am warry of adding extensions, so I wonder if there's like a go-to one that everyone uses
TheRoque··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
A lot of harnesses compress the context when it becomes massive, Pi doesn't do that out of the box (EDIT: that's wrong, as pointed out below). It can be both good and bad. Also since it doesn't have a lot of tools out of the box, the context is not polluted with external tool call descriptions that the agent has to be aware of.

Basically, it doesn't handle the context "better", it barely does anything special to it, which can actually be better for cost efficiency.

TheRoque··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Isn't it a non profit too ? But you seem to imply it's going into individual's pockets ?
TheRoque··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Then why try to act like one ?
TheRoque··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
I had "investigate if bun is worth it" too, and decided not to use it, but instability was one of the reasons. So it feels it was the right move.
TheRoque··on P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC
Solution I've been using for a while is KDE Connect. Works on windows, linux, android
TheRoque··on Organic Maps
Thanks for the heads up, I wasn't not aware of that. I never got a single ad in OM though
TheRoque··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
> The amount of otherwise decent games that run poorly due to Unity or UE is very unfortunate. I wish people would stop recommending this stuff. I do hope Godot and Bevy are better, but I'm not sure if they are.

Games don't run poorly "because of unity or UE", those engines are highly optimized for the graphical fidelity they provide, It's super easy to find examples of games that run flawlessly with these engines (UE5: Arc Raiders, Unity: Arknights Endfield). Seriously, this narrative is ridiculous and needs to stop.

Some games with those engines run poorly because no matter the engine, if the developers don't take the time to optimize their games, the result will be an unoptimized mess. Is Unity engine responsible for the fact that Cities Skyline 2 devs decided to render the full polygons of every individual's teeth no matter the distance ? There are a ton of tools built in to handle level of details and they didn't use them...

I doubt those unoptimized games would do any better and in a shorter time if the studio had to build their own engines, or with any other available engine. Bevy is too barebones to be compared, and Godot is not as capable as Unity/UE.

TheRoque··on The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
In your country maybe.. In mine it's super boring and intellectual
TheRoque··on I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
On YouTube ? I don't have that
TheRoque··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
The thing is they don't setup their "intelligence system" for the type of task you wanna do. They are integrating it for tasks like "buy me a plane ticket for my next holidays", "order diner for me, the usual"...
TheRoque··on Nobody clicks share buttons
I click on the share button to get the link, that I copy and share myself.

And it's on my phone only, on my computer I'd just copy the URL since I'm out of an app

The YouTube share feature let you pick the time to share but they removed it for some reason m..

TheRoque··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Do you have some metrics to back this up ? Because from what I can see with my own eyes, outages everywhere, security holes everywhere too, doesn't seem that things are improving..
TheRoque··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
So with LLM outputting average code, and people using LLM more and more, I guess the average code will become worse over time ?
TheRoque··on Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig
Vulkan is a graphics API, not a UI library or framework. It's way lower level and if your goal is to make a user interface, you're not really supposed to do it with Vulkan (but you could i guess)
TheRoque··on Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers
Are you talking about the end of the Bretton-Woods agreement?

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

I mean, it's cherry picked, but still funny to see all those charts.

TheRoque··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
It's already here, mobile OSes are just computers with ton of guardrails and you can't do whatever you want with it, for the sake of security. I mean we almost got an Android where you can't install the APK you want.
TheRoque··on Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
What's the standard for a "battle station" interface to manage agents for programming (using isolation with maybe git work tree and ideally VMS ?)

I found this one: do you guys know something else ?

TheRoque··on Does anybody like React?
I use Angular 2+, and I find it quite pleasant to use. I also like how they make the framework evolve. Not scared to have opinions (back when it came out, Typescript was barely a thing). Never got into React (but didn't try that hard to get into it), but it seems like it's a huge bloated mess.
TheRoque··on Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
For me the most amazing thing about Sebastian Lague is how the youtube algorithm can screw you up. He used to do millions of view on his videos, and now he barely makes half a million. Well it might also be because of covid, and everyone at home getting interesting in random stuff.
TheRoque··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
Well not really, since the board game itself doesn't need a paid human to work. It's been crafted by a human, but video games are also crafted by (arguably many more) humans. The closest would be escape games, or larger scale games maybe
TheRoque··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
What's the human form of a video game ?
TheRoque··on Zig → Rust porting guide
Why didn't they use Rust in the first place then ? All this was true before AI
TheRoque··on Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Ah good catch. I like their CLI too. Though sometimes it feels like they take security a bit too loosely
TheRoque··on Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Which service provides this one for a decent cost ?
TheRoque··on Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Which providers do you use ? I find copilot's prices pretty hard to beat, but if there's something better I'll cancel too.
TheRoque··on AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
I cringe every time I read this "punch card" narrative. We are not at this stage at all. You are comparing deterministic stuff and LLMs which are not deterministic and may or may not give you what you want. In fact I personally barely use autonomous Agents in my brownfield codebase because they generate so much unmaintainable slop.
TheRoque··on Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement
True However a french chess streamer I follow had an interesting take: since Lichess is all free, all the content is computer generated, or low quality. Apparently, some content even was just stolen content from other paid platforms. His take is basically that Chess.com gives out money to many chess actors (teachers, coaches, book writers) while lichess is not helping the whole ecosystem make money. Anyways competition is good.
← PreviousPage 2 of 16Next →