Hacker News: DoctorOW

New comment by DoctorOW in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

DoctorOW — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:50:03 +0000

Even then you're watching them from those broadcast stations. The live channel feeds in those apps is from your local station, and if you're watching any local news it's also clips from your station's newscast. You'll be impacted by fewer perspectives as stations consolidate.

Is easy to think about content from a consumer mindset that everything just exists for you, but no the stuff on the internet is made by real people who are impacted by the works around them.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

DoctorOW — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:32:51 +0000

All this debate about how politics are defined or how bias is measured. My question is why should I care? Grok identifying as Mechahitler didn't drag me any further right, why would ChatGPT be able to drag me left? If you vote the way AI tells you, that's already a problem regardless of what it said.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Steam Machine launches today"

DoctorOW — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:40:37 +0000

I'd say about half of Steam players aren't male. The "video games are for boys" thing is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy because anyone who believes that will obviously not play with a woman.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

DoctorOW — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:53:18 +0000

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I've been feeling like HN feels more and more repetitive.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle"

DoctorOW — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:23:15 +0000

This looks cool, and one of the first posts I've seen on HN in a few months where I genuinely wanted to try it.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

DoctorOW — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:27:48 +0000

> For your specific question: Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier?

> This is AMD's marketing decision.

> Kind Regards,

> Anatoli Curran,

> Xilinx/AMD Forum Moderator

I mean, nobody in that forum necessarily knows why. It just came from above.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Bolt CEO says he let go of HR team for creating problems that didn't exist"

DoctorOW — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:32:40 +0000

In my experience, HR is all too willing to explore gray areas for company benefit, so any "problems" created are likely actual laws.

New comment by DoctorOW in "TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense"

DoctorOW — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:59:49 +0000

Hey I'm sorry for the confusion. This isn't my project, that's why I didn't use a Show HN or anything. I'm not in a position to make changes.

New comment by DoctorOW in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

DoctorOW — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:09:00 +0000

> I used Typst for a few weeks. It already feels much more understandable, consistent, hackable, and customizable. I guess that is the difference between an ad hoc macro system and an actually thought through programming language.

> The only drawback I can see is the ecosystem being smaller and less mature. That is, however, counteracted by being able to do things on your own, without immersing yourself deeply in LaTeX for years. Also, it will improve with time.

New comment by DoctorOW in "SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits"

DoctorOW — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:13:44 +0000

Kind of ironic while he as an investor is suing OpenAI right now

TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense

DoctorOW — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:12:08 +0000

Article URL: https://togetherloop.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045003

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by DoctorOW in "A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF"

DoctorOW — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:17:08 +0000

A very important note about being charged with something, it's not evidence of guilt but rather an accusation. As an example, of all unsolved murders in the United States, I theorize that you the reader have committed all of them. How does it reflect on your local law enforcement, courts, etc. that you're not sentenced for these crimes?

New comment by DoctorOW in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"

DoctorOW — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:40:52 +0000

This is such a HN blog post it's almost funny. You wanted to selfhost and you can but it wasn't easy or particularly Linux friendly, so you got a Rust server from the community, but you wanted something officially supported, so they made a specifically lightweight self-hostable version but it's in a programming language you don't like. :( Those bastards!

New comment by DoctorOW in "Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage"

DoctorOW — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:14:28 +0000

> I'd rather hear "the code is bad" than "the post sounds AI-written".

Of course you would. Reading through and judging the quality of AI output is the largest amount of effort in a world where you can get everything else by prompting. Please internalize this: If you want to be respected you will have to put in effort yourself. There is no way around this.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

DoctorOW — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:53:08 +0000

You can absolutely install Linux on a Mac. Back before Apple made custom CPUs they supported and even advertised installing Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)

New comment by DoctorOW in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

DoctorOW — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:49:31 +0000

Missed opportunity to call it Vopilot

New comment by DoctorOW in "Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI"

DoctorOW — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:48:34 +0000

I absolutely do, every single time it comes up.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files"

DoctorOW — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:19:28 +0000

Let me just say the performance is absolutely incredible, and the persistence is so transparent. I actually was given access to an in-browser video editor that chokes pretty quickly so I'm impressed. The tracks didn't seem to work well for me. I'm on Firefox on Windows and couldn't drag and drop tracks to change the order, there doesn't seem to be any layer transformation tools (position, rotation, scale) that I could find to counteract it not handling footage of different aspect ratios (I.E. portrait and landscape).

New comment by DoctorOW in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

DoctorOW — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:23:25 +0000

I wonder if since IR is invisible you could theoretically, in an intellectual exercise, blast IR light in a room and mass change them surreptitiously if that was your goal.

New comment by DoctorOW in "Not buying another Kindle"

DoctorOW — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:52:38 +0000

> You can only use one library card at a time with OverDrive, and don't have access to the audioboks or periodicals on Libby.

I personally was fine with the limitations, after all I'm only one person and I would only ever read books on my ereader.