Hacker News: ArekDymalski

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Glacier Mice"

ArekDymalski — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:49:08 +0000

I would say they are features.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

ArekDymalski — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:44:30 +0000

But it wasn't in the early cyberpunk works. When you consume them you can notice how important was the concept of "style", that characters were excited by the specific brands (implants, weapons, shaders, venues), associated them with social status etc. It was the 90s that brought contempt for brands to (paradoxically) mainstream.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

ArekDymalski — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:19:51 +0000

I guess the good examples where music could be an important driver to the movies popularity (or revival of popularity) might be: "Requiem for a dream" and "Das Boot". Also for me personally - "The Mission" as incredible score by Ennio Morricone has brought me tia film I'd rather ignore. Other (also personal) example is " The Spawn" with it's mind-blowing OST.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

ArekDymalski — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:03:16 +0000

I wonder how effective it finally will be. At first glance it reminds me painting by numbers a d I'm not sure if that will help the real painter to keep his skills and surely won't teach aspiring painter much about the craft.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?"

ArekDymalski — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:03:59 +0000

> Re. disclosure: How do they want to do it? It seems to be similar to a “disclosure” used in students’ works: “Source: internet”…

I think enforcing compliance with the law will be rather simple, just like it happened with GDPR, food labeling and many other regulations. But I wonder how will the disclaimers/declarations even be verified? The more I think about it the more I see open sourced (both dataset and weights) models as the only truly verifiable solution. And that makes it less attractive as a business foundation if. So we might end up with state-funded models working in similar fashion to museums it other culture/art institutions ensuring that original material creators are treated fair. But that will bring whole other set of challenges...

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Show HN: Btfy – a blockchain that uses weather observations"

ArekDymalski — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:56:32 +0000

Very interesting idea. I really like the aim to eliminate the absurdal energy waste of standard Blockchain.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

ArekDymalski — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:12:46 +0000

it's time to re-read "The water knife " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife - but this time as a manual, not a fiction.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Show HN: Elevators"

ArekDymalski — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:41:19 +0000

Would you like to learn more? If you meant an aircraft elevator or a building elevator malfunction, tell me more so I can give you the right facts.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)"

ArekDymalski — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:32:10 +0000

A lot of modern metal is mostly one note played rhythmically. And it is can sound awesome, however timbre is obviously part of this awesomeness.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

ArekDymalski — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:46:48 +0000

that is really interesting idea. I'd be really happy to read such a site, as I very often wonder if current hype/prediction will be relevant in the future. But I always forget to check being flooded by more hype.

What would you need to start such a project?

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app"

ArekDymalski — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:25:44 +0000

Congratulations on shipping your app! I like the design and the concept of avoiding forced hierarchy like folders etc. I think this concept is worth building on even more. For example do users really need a rigid hierarchy like post-it vs A4? What would happen if I would be able to click anywhere on the canvas and immediately write down the thought (just like in MS OneNote) and format this text after writing it down - give it a distinct background to make it that physical note feel? Personally I'd be happy as it would give more freedom. Now that experience is a bit broken - I can click anywhere on the canvas to create a post-it, but inside of it I need to click on the top row to even start writing. I hope this quick opinion will be useful/inspiring for you.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

ArekDymalski — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:24:08 +0000

I used to think the same, as I was fascinated with the Swatch Beat time concept. Until I read this: https://qntm.org/abolish - the brilliant argument against universal time.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "A History of Menus Is a Menu of History"

ArekDymalski — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:03:06 +0000

At least 2 of us :)

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Dark Sky Lighting"

ArekDymalski — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:47:00 +0000

Also from the article "2 minute read". And I thought that those news about atrophy of attention span are exaggerated.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

ArekDymalski — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:58:25 +0000

Everything went off the rails after we invented crackpottery.

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery"

ArekDymalski — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:42:03 +0000

> how about using the "tracker" technology of yore?

now that would be a party I'd join to rock to some Dune/Orange or Purple Motion/FC tunes :)

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms"

ArekDymalski — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:33:30 +0000

>If you were to have done this exercise for any business in 2022 it would have given that business a significant advantage.

Hmm, what about businesses that have done it in 1922? Because that's how old the methodology is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_mapping

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

ArekDymalski — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:55:16 +0000

As I have learned about Gaussian Splatting just a few weeks ago, I have (perhaps funny/naive/stupid) question: is there any progress or at least theoretical chance to have dynamic lighting?

New comment by ArekDymalski in "The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced"

ArekDymalski — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:37:08 +0000

I am pretty sure that Altman is just a German version of Oldman. Sorry about ruining your intricate theory :)

New comment by ArekDymalski in "Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?"

ArekDymalski — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:20:01 +0000

This is a very ingenious and interesting idea, presented in an esthetically pleasing way. However two related things make me curious. As the identified registers and arcs are very un-orthogonal how useful they are for your intended users? For example how their workflow/decision making process would look like if they discover that their script matches "The Crucible" in 78% and "The Graceful Endurance" in 82%? Also who is an actual target group? Creators themselves or rather agents, producers, editors and other execs or "gatekeepers"?

Edit: typo fix + "execs" added