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tlhunter

2,453 karma · joined April 14, 2011

I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

https://thomashunter.name

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tlhunter··on What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
An obvious solution is to require the use of Google docs and include the history as part of the assignment. If there is no sign of sentence restructuring then fail the assignment.

This is the equivalent of asking students to show their work when they do math problems and that is how we thwarted those evil calculators.

tlhunter··on Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers
> Is this an actual SLR replacement

There's just no way to replace the massive 35mm sensor of a larger DSLR / mirrorless camera. The amount of light gathered can only be simulated by capturing many frames. True depth of field can only be emulated by imperfectly blurring estimated background area via software, leading to goofy blurred hairs. Even the reported megapixels of a smartphone contain a quarter or less the equivalent DSLR resolution detail (a 24MP smartphone photo is roughly equivalent to the detail of a 6MP DSLR photo).

tlhunter··on Apple to end support for Intel Macs next year: macOS 27 to require Apple Silicon
At least the price of a used Intel Mac will plummet. They sometimes make for good Linux machines.
tlhunter··on Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
Microsoft notepad is also getting markdown support. It's a very interesting coincidence!

Overall, I'm surprised to see markdown become mainstream so quickly.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/30/text-fo...

tlhunter··on Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)
man + woman = adult female body
tlhunter··on Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go
Do the apps render as slow as their website? https://www.cogentcore.org
tlhunter··on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
In case you haven't seen this: https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-devterm
tlhunter··on AI will change the world but not in the way you think
It's still terser than a pg essay!
tlhunter··on How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE)
In vim insert mode you can type `Ctrl+k - m` or `Ctrl+k - n` to insert them.
tlhunter··on GIMP 3.0
> Copying and pasting now creates a new layer by default rather than a “floating selection”, which many users found confusing. Floating layers can still be created with the “Paste as Floating Data” option for those who prefer that workflow.

Oh thank god

tlhunter··on Skynet won and destroyed humanity
What are you talking about?
tlhunter··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
Is it worth buying a Kindle now?
tlhunter··on The Duo Lingo owl is dead
Any idea what's happening? Seems weird for a company to kill its brand like this.
tlhunter··on De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge
Lately I've been wondering if there's a way to do this to Smart TVs. Personally, I like the name "stupify" better ;)
tlhunter··on I've acquired a new superpower
It blows my mind that every human doesn't know this. I figured it out as a child. The easiest way to prevent this is to have one of the two images be slightly tilted. I can rotate my eyes but it's much harder than crossing them.
tlhunter··on Show HN: Kate's App
Not to be confused with the Kate app (KDE text editor).
tlhunter··on I'm quitting the Washington Post
Guy?
tlhunter··on Ghostty 1.0
Looks like there are a few deps needed:

  sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev git
Otherwise you'll get this error:

  error: unable to spawn glib-compile-resources: FileNotFound
  Build Summary: 78/83 steps succeeded; 2 failed (disable with --summary none)
  install transitive failure
  └─ install ghostty transitive failure
     └─ zig build-exe ghostty ReleaseFast native transitive failure
        ├─ run glib-compile-resources (ghostty_resources.c) failure
        └─ run glib-compile-resources (ghostty_resources.h) failure
  error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
  /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty/.zig-cache/o/57acb02f2b1ccf1b03b9597a8c5f2d09/build /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0/zig /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty/.zig-cache /home/tlhunter/.cache/zig --seed 0xb4306e7d -Z11426c6f3a70c8b9 -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
```

I'm quite surprised they don't provide a .deb package as that checks off 90% of Linux users.

tlhunter··on Tell HN: 2FA code for Google account gone after Google Authenticator update
I was super annoyed when they added accounts to Authenticator and one misclicked pop-up sent my 2FA codes to the cloud. The moment I saw this new feature I knew something like what happened to OP would happen.

On the bright side I keep a copy of everything in a Yubikey as well.

tlhunter··on I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24
I hand write in full caps as it helps with legibility
tlhunter··on New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups
Every sheet I open lately wants to turn my data into a "table". What the fuck? It's already a table.
tlhunter··on Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
Are the Trefolo legs weak? It looks like the wood for both sides of the legs only connect in the back.
tlhunter··on John Carmack imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs
Yeah, sans Raspberry Pi ;)
tlhunter··on Debian Stable and the Framework 16
I just got a Framework 13 AMD laptop with a 2k display and installed Debian 12.8 on it. So far the experience has been pretty smooth from a hardware compatibility standpoint.

I only discovered the InstallingDebianOn page after reading this article but the laptop is working fine without making any of the changes. Notably the graphics don't freeze and crash, Audio doesn't have static, and palm detection works out of the box. Plus fwupd reports everything with firmware available is using the latest version.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/FrameWork/Laptop1...

All of the gripes I have so far result from KDE, fractional scaling, and Wayland. KDE, for whatever reason, doesn't have a configuration panel built in for handling gestures. My usual fusuma + xdotool approach for sending XF86Back/XF86Forward keys when swiping don't work with Wayland. X11 apparently doesn't do partial scaling so Wayland is needed. Wayland leaves all sorts of visual artifacts. When two monitors are involved, one with no scaling and the other with fractional scaling, I get all sorts of visual issues.

Up until now I've been holding out and using 1080p displays. I figured surely in 2024 HiDPI would be a smooth experience on Linux.

tlhunter··on Ask HN: Have you created a 'fake' (pseudo anonymous) social account; if so, why?
I had to create some fake accounts as a pen name for paid articles that I had written. They were controversial takes on technology that my employer didn't need to know about. Think "Why React Sucks", etc.
tlhunter··on Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?
Flipper Zero. I got it when it was new and never really used it.
tlhunter··on Syncthing Android App Discontinued
The Google Play Store is a massive pain in the ass lately. For whatever reason Google wants me to continuously update my Android apps to use whatever the latest APIs are despite such apps being mostly glorified webpages.

The Apple App Store is a massive pain in the ass lately. For whatever reason Apple wants me to continuously update my iOS apps to use whatever the latest APIs are despite such apps being mostly glorified webpages.

tlhunter··on Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected
> But recently we found a more problematic issue that also affects many > more distributions and all the previous GNU Boot release candidates. > The vboot source code used in Coreboot and in the vboot-utils package > available in many GNU/Linux distributions contains nonfree code in > their test data in tests/futility/data (nonfree microcode, nonfree BIOS, nonfree Management Engine firmwares, etc).

Test data doesn't seem like a huge deal

tlhunter··on Stark et al. vs. Patreon, Inc. Class Action Settlement
Usually it doesn't matter if you submit a claim or not. The company receives the same fine. It's just that the number of slices increases.
tlhunter··on Express v5
Curiously, it still isn't `latest`:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/express?activeTab=versions

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