Hacker News: Beijinger

New comment by Beijinger in "Midjourney Medical"

Beijinger — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:27:56 +0000

"It's a controversial and complicated idea. "

It is neither controversial nor complicated to detect some cancers by scent.

Taking the "headspace" of something is also not really complicated.

There are people who can reliably smell/detect Parkinson:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/8202745...

New comment by Beijinger in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

Beijinger — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:05:41 +0000

Does it work for porn collections too?

New comment by Beijinger in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

Beijinger — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:26:15 +0000

I 100% agree. They need to be much harsher and will lead to a regime change soon. But not in Russia, but in Germany (AfD), UK (Farage) and France (LePen), as predicted by Emmanuell Todd. ;-)

New comment by Beijinger in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

Beijinger — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:58:50 +0000

Trump would be happy if the UK joins the US. With Canada. And Greenland. ;-)

New comment by Beijinger in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

Beijinger — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:57:47 +0000

This post is 2 years old and pretty bleak:

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/broken-bri...

New comment by Beijinger in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

Beijinger — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:10:09 +0000

"There's a big difference between having something explained to you and developing expertise in it."

No, there isn't. You get things explained in University. Then you build on top of this knowledge.

New comment by Beijinger in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

Beijinger — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:53:52 +0000

"Not everything moved. Cloudflare is a US company, I still use it, and I’m at peace with that."

I am not. THe cancer of the Internet. Sometimes Cloudflare does not work abroad. It is annoying.

"Here’s the reasoning: Cloudflare sits in front of my public-facing websites. Its job is to cache, protect against DDoS attacks,"

If your host has no protection against DDoS then find a better host.

You can find very cheap CDN, if you really need them. Likely you dont.

As a word of caution, Cloudflare can have a devastating effect on SEO if you are not a paying customer and serve your stuff from your own URL. Cloudflare allows this only for paid accounts.

New comment by Beijinger in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

Beijinger — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:29:53 +0000

I found the computer in the article more interesting than the fact, that gaming is getting faster under Linux.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/944362954/bapaco-the-wo...

Interesting, but I wish it was half the size folded...

New comment by Beijinger in "I hate soldering"

Beijinger — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:49:01 +0000

No shit. And an Open OS. It works great.

New comment by Beijinger in "I hate soldering"

Beijinger — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:14:23 +0000

26 USD: https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...

It runs IronOS - Open Source Flexible Firmware for Soldering Hardware

https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

New comment by Beijinger in "I hate soldering"

Beijinger — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:52:52 +0000

I hated it too because I had a shitty soldering iron. Could have used a ironing iron instead, so shitty was it.

Use this, stop complaining: https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/07/29/pinecil-v2-soldering...

Pinecil RISC-V soldering iron with the Pinecil V2 featuring a new Bouffalo Lab BL706 RISC-V microcontroller with Bluetooth LE connectivity, optimizations for higher power levels, as well as tentative support for the new USB PD EPR standard (Extended Power Range) working at up to 28V.

New comment by Beijinger in "PAI Is a Life Operating System"

Beijinger — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:32:09 +0000

A buddy sent me the link. Looks interesting, I am going to check it out. I am not aware it was on HN before. Maybe some people here have an opinion about it.

PAI Is a Life Operating System

Beijinger — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109788

Points: 1

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New comment by Beijinger in "Looking at the data behind prediction markets"

Beijinger — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:51:11 +0000

Most people don't know, that "prediction markets" are acutally based on an idea by DARPA in 2002, after 9/11/2001.

New comment by Beijinger in "UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing"

Beijinger — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:43:56 +0000

Why the downvote?

You can fly to the EU for 600 USD (retour), more in high season. Non business people are willing to spend 1200, 1400 USD. I assume around 2000 USD the demand will fall off significantly. At 5000 USD for economy it will be close to zero.

New comment by Beijinger in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

Beijinger — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:54:02 +0000

Inkscape is great but I wish Xara Xtreme for Linux had not died.

New comment by Beijinger in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

Beijinger — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:12:39 +0000

I use mc as a file manager. I have no idea what you are talking about.

New comment by Beijinger in "Breaking up with WordPress after two decades"

Beijinger — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:20:21 +0000

After a terrible, possibly criminal experience with a hoster, I ended up with: https://www.interserver.net/

I am very happy. The speed is insane. I always thought and was told that WP is the reason for a slow website. No, it was my host. I pay around 10 USD per month but I think the smaller plans starts lower.

For what it's worth, I am very happy with them. But I only host a few WP and FreshRSS. I think they support python too but for Django I use: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ I pay 5 USD a month there but I think this plan is not sold anymore.

New comment by Beijinger in "Breaking up with WordPress after two decades"

Beijinger — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:15:29 +0000

Directus seems an unorthodox idea for a website. Is this a marketing post?

New comment by Beijinger in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

Beijinger — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:56:03 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuODGZ30vsc