Hacker News: BoingBoomTschak

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:21:56 +0000

I'm not writing a blog post just for this, but the man is right. For me, the only thing I expecte from a LLM is a StackOverflow/Google that actually works and maybe some static code analysis.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "GitHub Down Again?"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:18:34 +0000

Codeberg has its own issues with anti-scraping measures often impacting (not just annoying) users or some deep ideological bias; and I'm not talking about LLM/open source, which I agree with.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "GitHub Down Again?"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 10:11:19 +0000

Just another day in "Azure code", I guess.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

BoingBoomTschak — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:06:57 +0000

I haven't, no room for a TV in my small rented Yuropoor flat =(

But I'm too used to good sound (Genelec) to even consider these, sorry for the lack of answer.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

BoingBoomTschak — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:25:32 +0000

What my own research led me to: https://www.viewsonic.com/global/products/commercial-display... (OS-Free Commercial Display, all sizes available) + HTPC.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "When electric cars were for women"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:22:54 +0000

The 2.0L ND2 does the 0-60 in 6s. Still not fast, but not slow either! Get them before they're discontinued (it is in Europe, I got lucky).

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "When electric cars were for women"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:20:08 +0000

American drivel. A revvy 4 pots like what Honda used to put in their S2000 or old Type Rs (Integra, Civic) is more exciting than lazy V8s.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

BoingBoomTschak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:02:19 +0000

"Though they like to fancy themselves independent thinkers, the intellectuals are (allowing for individual exceptions) the most oversocialized, the most conformist, the tamest and most domesticated, the most pampered, dependent, and spineless group in America today."

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

BoingBoomTschak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:58:51 +0000

> but the vast majority of people in academia are just regular people with families and interests outside of academia

If most people realized that, we would have much less problems: academics are often shrouded in an aura of virtue and wisdom they don't deserve in the least. Like what you see in this thread, that their narrow (or worse, illusory) knowledge will somehow help them being good rulers/leaders.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

BoingBoomTschak — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:51:29 +0000

I did that yesterday after updating from macOS 14 to 15 on my work laptop; well, added "10.0.0.0/8" too. Spent a few hours trying to understand that that new permission thing simply couldn't work with my Emacs launch agent (service)... fucking Apple treating CLI users like dirt.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:31:29 +0000

"Democracy Just Werks^tm" is starting to look like "The Free Market will solve it" more and more with each passing day...

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "How is music possible"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:07:31 +0000

Someone never tried shoegaze...

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "How is music possible"

BoingBoomTschak — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:05:22 +0000

The unspoken question here is "can a species with an aversion to harmony form a civilization, something requiring some form of strong and extended cooperation?".

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick"

BoingBoomTschak — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:23:37 +0000

I pretend to have a modicum of taste and while I didn't find it boring on the whole, there's a much smaller yet better novel that could be extracted from it. It's just way too self-indulgent and meandering at times.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Porsche Mission S"

BoingBoomTschak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:58:41 +0000

Well, they call it a pure "driver's car" but it's really too fussy to be that. A Miata or Elise/Exige would be what I'd put that label on.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Porsche Mission S"

BoingBoomTschak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:56:24 +0000

Electric car, decent autonomy and light weight: choose two; at least for now.

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

BoingBoomTschak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:37:38 +0000

"Man, you know what that FAANG device lacks? A microphone and/or camera."

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package"

BoingBoomTschak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:29:25 +0000

Very related and interesting discussion that got posted in the comments about the new Crubit thingie: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/embedder-dev/c/W_...

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

BoingBoomTschak — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:40:03 +0000

Still nothing for people who don't care about the color gimmick? I mean my Aura One is still going strong, but I fear it'll never be replaced by something better (or even as good).

New comment by BoingBoomTschak in "ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam"

BoingBoomTschak — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:20:23 +0000

"No, no, you don't understand. If you keep putting bigger and bigger engines in a car, it'll somehow turn into an aeroplane at some point! There's no other way, believe me!"