Hacker News: AltruisticGapHN

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:25:14 +0000

All I know is I used to have full on colds during winter in my 20s to early 30s, like every winter I would get two weeks of runny nose till the skin became red and irritated, sore and painful throat, coughing, etc. Since I take 25000 IU (D-Cure in Belgium) like 2-3 times a month during winter for the past 15+ years my cold last 2-3 days and symptoms are much more mild. For me the data is there.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:13:16 +0000

We need a new term like appslop

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

AltruisticGapHN — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:24:30 +0000

Damn. I set up a 2vCPU 4GB RAM VPS on Linode for my web app (Linode 4GB). Was ready to move there. Then I found Hetzner has servers in the US and I could get more for my budget (~30$/month). Not anymore!

CPX22 (2vCPU 4GB) seems to be the exact same price as Linode 4GB (24$/month).

Linode dashboard is really good.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

AltruisticGapHN — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:25:21 +0000

YouTube seems a little much. Plenty of examples of bright kids who learn coding or electronics at a very young age, no doubt having access to YT is a big part of it.

Hmm I guess those kids would use their parents account or something like that.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:20:54 +0000

I've never had to configure anything in uBO, it works great out of the box.

Therefore uBOL experience is practically the same. I haven't seen a single ads in months of browsing.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:17:48 +0000

The UI is just better overall. Ever since Chrome came out with the "unified search bar" imho Firefox was behind in usability. Firefox just follows. Like recently didn't they add tab groups after Chrome implemented them?

Isn't Brave based on Chrome?

Personally I think it is really stupid to choose a browser based on privacy. I choose a browser based on usability. Whats the selling point of Brave? That it hides ads?

Safari's OK if you're on Mac. I'm on Windows 11. Chrome looks tight, the tabs look great, my bookmarks bar looks great and I can fit a ton of bookmark folders on there. Firefox looks worse in almost every way.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:57:38 +0000

Because Chrome is the better browser, lelz.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:28:24 +0000

uBlock Origin Lite works just as well. I don't see any ads anywhere. My experience has not changed one yota.

People just like to rage against Google.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

It's even available on iOS, I have it running in Safari

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue"

AltruisticGapHN — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:56:13 +0000

That's awesome. I wish there was like a "raw code" option like on many icons sites you can just copy the SVG.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Public Domain Image Archive"

AltruisticGapHN — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:53:49 +0000

Superb site. Just annoying in the Infinite View it keeps opening random pages when I just want to drag and scroll.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "How LLMs work"

AltruisticGapHN — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:41:41 +0000

I don't like how most LLM explainer articles and videos say that essentially a LLM " predicts the next word".

I'm a developer but not very good at maths and I still don't understand any of it.

A LLM clearly has some "visual" capacity. You ask Gemini to build something with Canvas and it's able to reason about the shape of things. Like recently I waanted a checkbox that has like a gradient flowing around the edge. It figured out it could use a radial gradient from the center of the checkbox, and overlay that with a small inner div so you only see the edge that looks like the gradient is circling around the checkbox.

How is that "predicting the next word"?

Not saying AI is intelligent or conscious or anything like that, but the algorithm clearly is far more complex than "predicting words".

What I mean, is the LLM is able to represent things in space . That part I don't understand.

I also still dont understand the relationship between the chat based LLM and the multi modal stuff. I think I read somewhere when image is generated it is also tokens?

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

AltruisticGapHN — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:46:37 +0000

I mean Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use and it extends the LTS support of 5 years so a total of 10 years afaik.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:47 +0000

What's the big deal?

https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli

They just revamped Gemini CLI. Plus it gets the harness of Antigravity, seems like a straight up upgrade to me?

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

AltruisticGapHN — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:27:10 +0000

Talk about patience...

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

AltruisticGapHN — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:06:11 +0000

> No more keyboards or mouse support for iPads.

Pretty sure there are students at Uni using iPads with keyboard. It's smaller form factor than a laptop.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

AltruisticGapHN — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:01:23 +0000

This is insanely good. But wow, prompting to get any one of these images is way more complicated than prompting Claude Code. There is a ton of vocabulary that comes with it relating to the camera, the lighting, the mood etc.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

AltruisticGapHN — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:42:08 +0000

I agree. I think of AI as a search engine on steroids.

But I think it IS the best way to search for information, to be able to put a question in natural language. I'm always amazed just how exactly on-point the answer is.

I mean even the best of docs out there that have a great search bar like the Vue docs still only matches your search term and surfaces relevant topics.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "When do we become adults, really?"

AltruisticGapHN — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:25:56 +0000

I'm 51 now and I feel like I will never be an adult. Looking around I see a lot of broken people, each in their own peculiar ways. Everyone has some coping mechanisms, triggers, and behaviours rooted in childhood. I don't see it in a bad light, I think it is just humanity.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

AltruisticGapHN — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:41:36 +0000

"some people apparently exist who need to support ES3 - think IE6/7, or extremely early versions of Node.js"

Seriously what kind of business today needs to support ES3 browsers? Even banking sites should refuse to run on such old devices out of security concerns.

New comment by AltruisticGapHN in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

AltruisticGapHN — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:12:29 +0000

You can have Vim bindings in vscode.