Hacker News: Mobius01

New comment by Mobius01 in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

Mobius01 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:21:24 +0000

Microsoft has historically made poor choices in product naming, but this has to be a new low.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Not buying another Kindle"

Mobius01 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:10:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing Bookshelves. It’s great.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

Mobius01 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:09:53 +0000

It would require an administration that had a modicum of care for the average consumer/taxpayer, and the current one isn’t it.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Demis Hassabis on DeepMind's Journey to AGI"

Mobius01 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:45:41 +0000

What is this? An AI generated article based on a podcast? Are you serious?

New comment by Mobius01 in "US carmakers say proposed EU rules could block large pickup trucks from Europe"

Mobius01 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:16:58 +0000

I will take a wild risk here and say that… it’s probably by design.

New comment by Mobius01 in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

Mobius01 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:51:45 +0000

I grew up in the 80s/90s further south, and still the film was very much a high fidelity memory playing on-screen. The production design will never be fully appreciated by people that didn’t live that time, it was truly special.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

Mobius01 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:09:54 +0000

This is really unfortunate. Google Fiber has maintained a low, no-nonsense price for years with near-perfect uptime, and besides the odd upselling email, they have never really pushed upgrades. More importantly, I can use my own hardware without having to engage in a war with technical support on 2 hour long calls.

Maybe I was in denial that Google would behave differently about this product considering their track record.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Ask HN: What do you want people to build?"

Mobius01 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:42:42 +0000

I have to be honest - build a blog and post your thoughts. Human thoughts, your ideas, the projects, the tips, and the art. Just add more human voices to the internet. We need them.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Product and design are the new bottlenecks"

Mobius01 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:56:59 +0000

Engineering is never the bottleneck… until it is. I have at this very moment months of completed design features that engineering should have already implemented if they were not in a constant churn of refactoring, reorganizing and spiking to fix self-inflicted defects.

Bottlenecks happen everywhere.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Use social media mindfully"

Mobius01 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:26:33 +0000

My mental health improved in meaningful ways when I dropped all social media close to a decade ago. Now I can feel the impact when someone insists I look at some shared item they sent me on Instagram or whatever. I´d rather not return to algorithm-driven services if I can avoid them.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

Mobius01 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:10:48 +0000

Definitely a perfect timing situation, though with substantial risk. Considering the time the game was in development, an alternative could have showed up in the market.

However, I believe Stardew Valley’s appeal wasn’t simply of fulfilling a void in the market. It is great because there is genuine passion for the subject in the execution, and the content in the game is truly compelling for a wide audience. An amazing story.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Paradox and Colossal Order have mutually decided to pursue independent paths"

Mobius01 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:20:16 +0000

This seems like a breach of publishing terms / loss of confidence on Colossal Order. They released CSII in late 2013 clearly unfinished and unoptimized, delayed paid DLC expansion and content for nearly 2 years and there seems to be no end in sight for the performance problems. But the key part is that the announced console ports never materialized, leaving a large addressable market on the table. That Colossal Order may have captured lighting in a bottle with the first title when there was a gap in the market after the demise of SimCity, but looks like the second time around they were overambitious and may have put the franchise in a position to be sunsetted.

New comment by Mobius01 in "How to turn off Copilot and protect your data from Microsoft's AI"

Mobius01 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:12:33 +0000

The only solution for that - all caveats and compromises considered - was paving over Windows with Linux. I tried to be patient. Yet Microsoft is hellbent on justifying their AI investments to shareholders by sacrificing their user base at the altar of the invasive LLM. I’m out.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can"

Mobius01 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:00:47 +0000

I wonder if Apple’s doomed car project distracted them from creating a viable CarPlay strategy with OEMs. CarPlay Ultra looked like the salvageable part of that failure and it was too late then.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery"

Mobius01 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:57:57 +0000

This would be the next step for flight simulators, which while remarkable still require handmade assets for accurate details.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Affinity Studio now free"

Mobius01 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:20:38 +0000

I am disappointed by this development, as the precedent for this business model is out there for anyone to see. But I have little to add about that

What I do hope to see is more talent and investment contributed to OSS tools. It would really benefit everyone if GIMP, Inkscape, Krita and others received the Blender treatment.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

Mobius01 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:17:02 +0000

I was seriously irritated with Windows 11 for the past few months. If my PC went to sleep, it would wake up and freeze at the logon screen. The constant updates that would reset some preferences - and worse, reinstall CoPilot and OneDrive - pushed me over. I went and installed Bazzite on the PC I built early this year with a Nvidia RTX 5080, somewhat skeptical that it would work well despite my extremely positive experience with the Steam Deck. The result is outstanding.

New comment by Mobius01 in "All-natural geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune"

Mobius01 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:23:50 +0000

Frank himself, you can get a clear picture of the ecosystem as outlined here by the end of Children of Dune.

One (possible) omission here - the sand trout traps water underground by linking and forming dams around water pockets - that’s the cause of Arrakis’ ultra arid environment, but maybe it’s also the source of nutrition?

Anyway, it is a bit silly indeed but in the novel’s context it feels grounded.

New comment by Mobius01 in "How to make sense of any mess"

Mobius01 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:37:37 +0000

Interesting to see it crop up here. I met Ms. Covert when she released the book and have a signed copy around here somewhere. It remains relevant as ever, and has value well beyond UX practices. It’s a short read too, I recommend it.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Google's Gemini tops Apple's App Store, snagging lead spot from ChatGPT"

Mobius01 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:04:30 +0000

I suspect this is happening due to the nano-banana image model becoming available to the general public. As a designer/artist, the generative image models’ impact on my field has been disastrous and depressing. For the average person, it’s the greatest thing they’ve ever seen.