Hacker News: BodyCulture

New comment by BodyCulture in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"

BodyCulture — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:23:55 +0000

What is the state of the art regarding open source collaborative desktop publishing? Do exist any usable Wiki to Scribus workflows?

New comment by BodyCulture in "Building reliable agentic AI systems"

BodyCulture — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:07:46 +0000

Most important piece of information is in the linked Frontiers article:

   However, the overall capability of the chatbot to fully meet user needs received a lower average score (3.1/5.0), highlighting the need for further improvements.

Also there is still the problem of hallucinations, as we see in the „Evaluation“ paragraph:

   Live traffic evaluations are essential for monitoring system behavior, identifying potential issues like hallucinations in production, and understanding performance on diverse live queries.

This are quite devastating results. This is a system for scientific research on medicines and mediocrity and hallucinations will kill people.

Would be interesting to know how much money was flushed down the toilet with these experts.

New comment by BodyCulture in "macOS Container Machines"

BodyCulture — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:01:58 +0000

This is not a problem at all as most Apple computers come with plenty of RAM and lots of disk space! We are so lucky that Apple engineers always think so differently into the future!

New comment by BodyCulture in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

BodyCulture — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:56:50 +0000

This is not a question of ideology or personal beliefs. It’s just a matter of fact that AI systems, especially LLMs, are not capable of producing reliable results.

This is a fundamental issue and for many uses we still need the old school way of computing that produces reliable results. It doesn’t happen accidentally, you know, a lot of resources went into this. AI just isn’t there yet and probably won’t be there anytime soon, no matter how much compute we throw at it.

New comment by BodyCulture in "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy"

BodyCulture — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:51:32 +0000

Funny how they are publishing free advertising for X, fb, yt etc. on their website. This is telling more about the situation than any speaker at the conference will be able to do.

New comment by BodyCulture in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

BodyCulture — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:01:09 +0000

From my pov and after using AI a lot to better understand its usefulness I see this discussion as totally misleading and irrelevant.

The elephant in the room is that even the best frontier models still produce errors.

This is a fundamental issue and should be discussed instead of some esoteric pseudo-scientific nonsense.

If the current systems can not produce reliable results they are useless. The promise of actual usefulness needs to be fulfilled in a very near future.

New comment by BodyCulture in "Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire"

BodyCulture — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:53:58 +0000

Why are your queries slow?

New comment by BodyCulture in "PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue"

BodyCulture — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:49:09 +0000

Is your comment referring to this project specifically?

Because the docs say:

  PgQue avoids that whole class of problems. It uses snapshot-based batching and TRUNCATE-based table rotation instead of per-row deletion.

Would be great if you could specify if you had problems with the exact implementation linked by op or if you did write about a different thing, thanks!

New comment by BodyCulture in "State of Kdenlive"

BodyCulture — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:49:33 +0000

Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an advanced project state has a high potential of total destruction.

Choose wisely! Resolve is available for very little money and not only a much safer choice, but you will also learn to use an industry standard tool and might be able to monetise that skill one day.

Kdenlive is a hobbiest project and is probably still ok for occasionally splitting a downloaded YouTube video or converting your OBS recordings, but never should you remotely think about using it for a project where you need to rely on your tools.

The developers are not warning you enough, instead still trying to market this software as kind of a serious competitor to pro software, so I do that as a service for the aspiring video editor, taking your downvotes proudly as the price honest people have to pay.

Yes, obviously I write from experience.

New comment by BodyCulture in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

BodyCulture — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:57:38 +0000

What are you using instead of pandas? Thanks!

New comment by BodyCulture in "RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update"

BodyCulture — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:22:32 +0000

No.

New comment by BodyCulture in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

BodyCulture — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:58:36 +0000

Can we study this second pipeline? Is it open so we can understand how it works? Did not find any hints about it in the article, unfortunately.

New comment by BodyCulture in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

BodyCulture — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:37:55 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing your research results!

I really appreciate your work and even more that you took time and risk exposing your findings, I wish more people did this.

New comment by BodyCulture in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

BodyCulture — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:21:37 +0000

Distribution of the content as static html or in any other format is a very tiny aspect of managing content and mostly a solved problem for any CMS nowadays. Focusing on that minimal aspect seems grotesque as there are much bigger challenges in making potentially large amounts of content actually manageable by a potentially very heterogeneous group of content creators with varying skills, responsibilities and relationships.

New comment by BodyCulture in "Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small"

BodyCulture — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:43:39 +0000

We need more aggressive laws to prevent privacy destroying platforms. Every person who creates a website or platform that advertises any kind of private communication but does not fully encrypt user data must go to jail. This cancer needs to be stopped.

New comment by BodyCulture in "Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released"

BodyCulture — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:43:18 +0000

Seems like it still has no official support for any kind of disk encryption, so you are on your own if you fiddle that in somehow and things may break. Such a beautiful, peaceful world where disk encryption is not needed!

New comment by BodyCulture in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

BodyCulture — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:19:16 +0000

You underestimate the value of this piece of information taken at different times. It can be enough to know in which country a person was yesterday or is today.

New comment by BodyCulture in "We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky"

BodyCulture — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:49:10 +0000

Thank you very much!

New comment by BodyCulture in "We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky"

BodyCulture — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:29:33 +0000

Wound be great if you posted the URL to the relevant documentation for this… I guess there must be some docs about these delicate details? Thank you very much!

New comment by BodyCulture in "Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies"

BodyCulture — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:12:20 +0000

How many people do the security code review with this process? How do they avoid piling dozens of well hidden holes when you not use a library that is publicly available and seen by thousands of eyes?

Isn’t the best argument for open source code that it has so many people, most companies can not afford such a global quality assurance.