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The GAT at XIN.at
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The GAT at XIN.at is a personal blog at wp.xin.at about hardware and systems. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this blog's posts on low-bitrate x265 video compared with streamed desktops, and on Windows 3.1 themes and whether custom UI controls are needed, as in Photoshop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
While the geekery is really really cool I also wonder if this method can be beaten with the best in video comepression. Extremely low bandwidth encoding perhaps provides better results (if you put cpu/gpu load aside), for example see this x265 example over 50 Kbit/s. http://wp.xin.at/archives/4020/comment-page-1 People are watching Netflix in low quality in 100-200 Kbit/s. With the upcoming AV! (AOmedia Video 1) it…
Comment linking /archives/4020/comment-page-1
on “Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH”Submitted It is done The 486 DX4-S/100 finally did it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPhotoshop definitely uses native UI: http://wp.xin.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/photoshop-cs6-fu... That said, I'm not entirely sure Photoshop makes a strong point for making custom UI controls, since besides the primary interaction of pointing and clicking on an image, everything else is either dialogs, menus, and toolbars --- all of which are available in the native UI.
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on “Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment”Submitted Fixing AAC/MP4/M4A playback for XMMS on x86_64 (amd64) (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>Things like Windows XP or older won't install or run in SATA mode without a proper driver floppy for F6'ing, that's when it's easier just to use IDE mode sometimes. Also can be more challenging to add SATA drivers after installing though, and you usually end up pointing to the same files the floppy has on it. JFYI, as long as you have the actual driver files, and the motherboard can boot from a USB stick, you can u…
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on “Ask HN: What should I put in my “computer person” handbag?”Submitted A quality comparison between x264 (H.264/AVC) and x265 (H.265/HEVC) as a story · 1 points
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