<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Findecanor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Findecanor</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:10:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Findecanor" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 3D file browser was one of the demo programs that came pre-installed on SGI machines, at least in the late '90s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:39:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920679</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Sam Neill has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is a touchy subject. When you have it, you don't want to think about it all the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890341</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It has bugs with long words: I typed "MARRY AND REPRODUCE". That was the only try that got the last word on a single line, but with too much space between U and C.<p>If the string is empty, I can read "WRITTEN IN GHOST FONT" very faintly. I'm guessing that is a watermark Edit: Ah, it's decoy text. Of course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:30:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870669</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Install/Enable support for the Compose key. Map it to Menu or some other unused key. Then press Compose and three hyphens in sequence.<p>I have used emdash, typed this way for many years before LLMs. I had got the habit from mimicking my journalist father's writing style.<p>The Compose key is useful for many other symbols «×»÷₁²♥⋄•</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:03:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817182</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of my hobbies is making replicas of movie props, and my own creations that seem to be from fictional universes. I would love to see the tablet and "quill" embellished a bit.<p>Would it be possible to run a custom LLM that acts and has knowledge specifically like Tom Riddle?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816865</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "If you're a button, you have one job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that if you'd need to debounce requests, it would be better to put it in a pressed and/or highlighted state until the button is ready again.
Then you'd indicate to the user that the press was successfully received <i>and</i> that pressing it again won't do any good.<p>The buttons in an elevator panel typically work this way. They each light up to confirm a pending request to reach a floor. They each turn off when its floor has been reached. And while a button is lit up, pressing it does nothing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:50:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797385</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Bring back crappy forums"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm on a few classic forums with threads that are over 20 years old, with a <i>wealth</i> of information about a topic.<p>It is easier to revisit a thread and find new posts when posts are in chronological order. Most such forums remember the last post of your last visit, and takes you to after that position the next time you enter the thread.<p>Tree views get tedious to revisit after they have reached a critical amount of posts, especially if subtrees can shift position from up/down-clicks. So threads with no revisits don't last as long.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:53:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758924</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "My Favorite Keyboards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some enthusiasts have made custom PCBs for Topre and Niz switches, even columnar ergo. I've not seen the ErgoDox layout specifically, and I dunno how to source individual switches though.<p>There is also the XVX Whisper switch, with has a Topre-like mechanism for Hall Effect keyboards: with a magnet under the dome. You could buy pack of switches but reviews say it is mushier than Topre.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:44:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758861</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But isn't there be a legal difference between a "conspiracy" that led to a bad situation and a "conspiracy to commit murder"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:45:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728900</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't the purpose of zines to publish them? Then how could that even be considered concealment?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:39:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728866</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The world is not black and white and simple. Things could be taken out of context, and people tend to project.<p>People have got into trouble for having retold a controversial joke that they had heard, when the reason they retold had been because they themselves had been upset about it.<p>I too don't think that holocaust jokes should be accepted, but sometimes people say things because they don't know better at the time. There have been cases of people retelling "dog whistles" without having understood their contextual meaning for certain groups.
I've even seen politicians use the phrase "Works sets you free" without understanding why it is inappropriate.
People learn and change, but old posts can linger on the Internet for a long time.</p>
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<p>I've woken up from surgery with an epidural that had a leak. That wasn't fun.<p>It made it emotionally difficult to get surgery again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:14:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644509</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got an estimate of 70,550, from a score of 87/100 (20/18/16/17/16). Not native English speaker.<p>I suppose the words must be weighed, because other people in the thread with more correct words got a not much higher estimate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:38:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599827</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike many flip phones, there is smartphone hardware inside capable of running Android apps — except that it is only a curated selection from Commodore's own app store.<p>The cost of running the app store is probably included.<p>Smaller production runs also mean higher price.<p>BTW, early adopters can get up to $100 off. (pre-order discount + discount code in the newsletter)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:55:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554502</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had expected it to remind me of a bread-bin C64. A little "cassette futurism". Design language is such a big part of branding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:34:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554244</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WASM has a (pointer + i32) address mode, and the effective address is 33 bits.
So WASM implementations use 8GB mappings ...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:20:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540856</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How about making the standard client library's API <i>the</i> interface, and have it hide whatever the system is actually using?<p>A long time ago when I looked at designing a X11 replacement, that was my approach. AFAIK, only special X utilities used anything but Xlib anyway.
And later I think this is what early revisions of Canonical's Mir did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:32:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532995</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Open source AI must win"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no such thing as "Open Source AI". Open Source means that you respect <i>copyright</i>. The types of AI models that this web site refers to do not. Stop this nonsense!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:44:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517284</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have recently begun to call myself a "technorealist". Technorealism is an old movement that I've found my existing views have been aligned with for some time.
Technology is meant to serve man, and a solution that involves technology is not always the best one. We must consider the social and political aspects of technology, and discuss how it should best be applied before jumping headlong into using it.
Solutions should be made to be sustainable in the long term, even when technology fails.<p>We've seen many <i>applications</i> of AI lately that aren't particularly sustainable, in several aspects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:22:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423424</link><dc:creator>Findecanor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Findecanor in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta had taken its name from the virtual world "Metaverse" in Neal Stephenson 1992 novel <i>Snow Crash</i>. The novel is the earliest known use of that word, so if it wasn't directly then it was indirectly.<p>The book also describes "Gargoyles": people using headsets with cameras and sensors to spy on everyone around them for the "Central Intelligence Corporation" while being also simultaneously in the Metaverse.<p>Funny, how the gargoyles are described in the book in a somewhat derogatory manner, and the villain of the story is an billionaire who owns a large Internet corporation.<p>At least the gargoyles in the book got paid.</p>
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