Hacker News: MultifokalHirn

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "I Stay Sane Running a 'Default Dead' Startup"

MultifokalHirn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:56:18 +0000

"Just do basic sensible things, man"

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think"

MultifokalHirn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:32:27 +0000

Nice

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Why I Don't Ship Preferences"

MultifokalHirn — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:37:06 +0000

I got a bad case of vicarious cognitive dissonance from reading this article. At first I thought it was purely me, but the section on his reasoning behind limiting the option space for how long the clipboard history should be showed me, that he basically just doesn't like configuring stuff and will come up with any reason to avoid implementing user configurable options. To clarify: He clearly acknowledges that there are various good reasons for people wanting different behaviour, which generally contradicts his goal of arguing for not shipping preferences. This contradiction at the root of the article never gets resolved, which is what creates the cognitive dissonance, and which makes it almost comical when he arbitrarily limits the clipboard history length to be configurable as a value between 50 and 200. This limit cannot be explained through any of his arguments (like that preferences increase the space of possible states that need to be tested), and so I conclude that it is actually all about the vibes for him - he just doesn't like preferences. And that's ok.

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "I'm a 30-year veteran SWE, and my industry is currently overrun with addicts"

MultifokalHirn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:34:18 +0000

thank you for the context info - would have had no idea

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

MultifokalHirn — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:37:34 +0000

“I think it’s difficult to point out the power imbalance in a way that is not potentially described by somebody as an ad hominem attack.”

Amazing answer.

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "DevMem: A CLI Based Auto-Updating Documentation and Changelog Capture"

MultifokalHirn — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:06:44 +0000

Yeah I definitely noticed. I think it would be a good idea though to put a disclaimer for what already works and what doesn't. The website makes it appear like a finished product (props for it btw), and the goals of your app are quiet interesting. I will check back later once you got to it to a state that is more or less what the website promises Keep at it, it looks really cool what you are trying here

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "DevMem: A CLI Based Auto-Updating Documentation and Changelog Capture"

MultifokalHirn — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:01:31 +0000

I had copilot take a look through your repository, I will link its finding at the bottom. as a tl;dr for anyone who got interested by the sales pitch of the website:

"DevMem is a moderately clever idea — tying AI-generated documentation updates to git commits is a legitimate problem worth solving — expressed in a Go codebase that is not yet production-ready, does not compile as committed, contains a material security misrepresentation in its documentation, and ships approximately one-quarter of the features its website describes.

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The marketing website is polished to a degree inversely proportional to the maturity of the code behind it. The claims about credential security are not merely aspirational — they describe a specific technical mechanism ("macOS Keychain", "system credential store") that simply does not exist in the implementation. Users who trust that claim may store secrets in a file that is one cat command away from exposure."

https://github.com/MultifokalHirn/DevMem/blob/copilot/write-...

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Acme Weather, from the Creators of Dark Sky"

MultifokalHirn — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:30:47 +0000

Not available in Germany(/Europe?)

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Tiles Music Player"

MultifokalHirn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:10:37 +0000

"The black box present in modern technologies such as mobile phones abstracts away what’s going on behind the interface and don’t require any process to interact with it"

Then they just added an artificial interaction process and somehow felt confident to having solved the problem.

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case"

MultifokalHirn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:04:53 +0000

"it sounds like Google was voluntarily cooperating with the investigation, which makes sense."

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions"

MultifokalHirn — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:56:35 +0000

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "If you invested $100k in ETH when Eric Trump told you to buy, you have $1,245"

MultifokalHirn — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:52:03 +0000

Good.

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

MultifokalHirn — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:06:50 +0000

thx :)

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Faceless (2007 Film)"

MultifokalHirn — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:31:51 +0000

Couldnt find either... oh well

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Show HN: A calm baby-name decision tool (not a generator)"

MultifokalHirn — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:45:01 +0000

I only get names starting with A, could not get it to do otherwise. Also, is "popularity" of the name implicitly for the US..? I am not from the US and I doubt the results are as uncommon as my filter setting wants them to be. Ideas: - just add various optional filters that you can come up with, length, sillables, origin, first letter, must have letters etc etc - allow the option to not select gender, since some people may look for names for children before pregnancy - add some more info on the dataset, and maybe even let the users look at all the namesunfiltered. I was wondering how complete it is as well..?

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Faceless (2007 Film)"

MultifokalHirn — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:05:50 +0000

Did you find this anywhere to watch?

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Notable Book Covers of 2025"

MultifokalHirn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

hmm from a quick glance I did not see anything that interesting...

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

MultifokalHirn — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:18:28 +0000

"Ambient 4: On Land" is for me one of the most beautiful and mystical Albums of all time

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Show HN: Nakso – An Excalidraw Alternative for Desktop"

MultifokalHirn — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:05:46 +0000

GitHub Link? or closed source..? :/

New comment by MultifokalHirn in "Ask HN: Photos corrupted on Google Pixel phones over time?"

MultifokalHirn — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:30:29 +0000

I have heard of this happening before yes. But I am an iPhone user so cannot talk from personal experience.