1. matsz Dec 22, 2025 parent

   Valve saw the writing on the wall when Windows 8 was released. Their investment made Linux more feasible for the average user.

   This makes me wonder how much better the world would be if corporations didn't have to answer to shareholders. Valve isn't publicly traded, Microsoft is.

2. matsz Dec 22, 2025 parent

   Arguably CTA isn't exactly an obscure acronym. It's multi-disciplinary - quite common in UI/UX design and marketing; and also decently common in any branched of software engineering that interact with these topics, like... web development.
3. matsz Dec 16, 2025 parent

   I couldn't imagine living in a country where my every move is being watched.

   Privacy is a human right. Sacrificing your human rights just for a bit of "safety" is just short sighted.

4. matsz Dec 9, 2025 parent

   You might not even need ffmpeg.js for that anymore. WebCodecs API is well supported nowadays.

   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VideoEncode...

5. matsz Dec 2, 2025 parent

   I've been running Arch (on my desktop and servers) for over a decade, and never had issues. Just read their homepage before upgrading.
6. matsz Nov 19, 2025 parent

   It's probably one of the best introductory projects to x86 assembly on bare metal.

   More advanced than my attempt: https://github.com/mat-sz/pongloader

   BTW: You could provide a live online demo using v86 - https://github.com/copy/v86

7. matsz Nov 18, 2025 parent

   One can dream.
8. matsz Nov 18, 2025 parent

   Finally, been waiting for this moment since I've learned about Oracle. Would be well-deserved for them. Hope Larry Ellison loses his yacht.
9. matsz Nov 18, 2025 parent

   > VSCode already renders terminal on GPU

   When did they add that? Last time I used it, it was still based on xterm.js.

   Also, technically Chromium/Blink has GPU rendering built in for web pages, so everything could run on GPU.

10. matsz Nov 10, 2025 parent

    True, I was considering going back to Poland for business... if only Poland was more politically stable.
11. matsz Nov 10, 2025 parent

    > Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?

    Honestly, reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve the dire situation of startups here. It's so bad right now that a tax advisor straight up told me to move to a less business-hostile country.

12. matsz Oct 25, 2025 parent

    Not everything is about profit :)
13. matsz Oct 2, 2025 parent

    As a patient, I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable with the doctor operating on me doing a speedrun.

    Full sterilization before each surgery is a good thing. Better safe than sorry. Same for only having one patient in the operating room - reduced risk of contamination and human error.

14. matsz Sep 30, 2025 parent

    "Late stage enshittification."

    We're already at a point where more often than not people want to quit using online apps. I wonder if at some point we'll end up with the internet being completely abandoned because we did nothing to keep it usable?

    Similar scenario to what might likely happen to our planet, now that I think of it.

15. matsz Sep 26, 2025 parent

    I'm not sure if linking to those files is allowed by HN, and it could potentially expose me to lawsuits.

    However, searching for "Yandex git sources magnet link" might help.

16. matsz Sep 25, 2025 parent

    You could take a look at the leaked Yandex source code from a few years ago. I'd believe their architecture should be decent enough.
17. matsz Sep 2, 2025 parent

    One layer up, the blade. Silicon would be the iron in this analogy.

    The physical server itself would be the wooden handle, I guess.

18. matsz Apr 25, 2025 parent

    > Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs

    Nitpick: the "H" in HMRC stands for "His", since it always changes to match the current monarch.

19. matsz Feb 28, 2025 parent

    > Andreas Kling, the same person behind SerenityOS

    Important context - Andreas isn't involved with SerenityOS much anymore. He decided to prioritize Ladybird, which is arguably the more important project here.

    Also, he used to contribute to WebKit. Even ended up working at Apple for a period of time. Quite definitely the right person in the right place.

20. matsz Feb 6, 2025 parent

    Audiophile USB cables are pure placebo, there's no controversy here. Changing the medium doesn't magically make digital signal higher quality, only reduces data loss, if anything.
21. matsz Dec 8, 2024 parent

    The "X" rebranding is finally making sense.
22. matsz Nov 30, 2024 parent

    Random question but why would you not switch banks? I wouldn't want to be a customer of a business that clearly doesn't respect me.
23. matsz Oct 30, 2024 parent

    Wonder how good are those for LLMs (compared to M3 Pro/Max)... They talk about the Neural Engine a lot in the press release.
24. matsz Aug 19, 2024 parent

    At this point, Google should accept new sign-ups for critical products ONLY from countries that have a functioning law enforcement system when it comes to this - and check based on ID card/passport.
25. matsz Aug 1, 2024 parent

    Python's imports are the worst I've seen in any mainstream programming language by far.

    Relative path imports are unnecessarily difficult, especially if you want to import something from a parent directory. There's no explicit way to define what you'd like to export either.

    The syntax is inconsistent, too:

        from X import Y
        import Z
    

    vs. (modern JS)

        import { Y } from 'X';
        import * as Z from 'Z';
    
    

    Even C/C++ make more sense here.
26. matsz Jul 31, 2024 parent

    I was searching for a job from April to June 2024 as a senior/lead front-end (React) dev in EU (Germany). In addition to the usual mid-year slow down, the market itself was tougher. It seemed like a lot of companies had weird standards, contradictory at times even; even though the salaries they offered were much lower than before.

    Luckily I landed a great job in late June, but it took 60+ applications and countless interviews.

27. matsz Jul 31, 2024 parent

    Same experience when it comes to LinkedIn, tons of InMail in 2022 and before, barely any in 2023 and afterwards.
28. matsz Jul 29, 2024 parent

    Interesting that it uses a similar configuration syntax to Apache HTTPd.
29. matsz Jul 29, 2024 parent

    That'd be a great solution, I'm using ffmpeg in my personal media server app to generate thumbnails and transcode media on the fly and I was wondering that too.

    There are also a few things that I had to patch on top of ffmpeg (for example it doesn't do well with generating singular HLS packets on demand). Would be nice to have a pluggable architecture that can link multiple things together like that.

    Might implement this myself if I end up having the time for that.

30. matsz Jun 24, 2024 parent

    Tangentially, I wonder how much of the research chemical ("legal highs") market is just companies releasing things to gather data for compounds that could be then commercialized.

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