Hacker News: NKosmatos

New comment by NKosmatos in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

NKosmatos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:28:27 +0000

I upvote every post related to the demoscene due to my age, so I couldn't let this one, especially when it's coming from RZR. Imagine if we could get a new release from FC as well in 2026 (40 years since their founding)!!!

More about Razor 1911 and Future Crew for the young readers of HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Crew

P.S. Too many groups to mention, but these two hold a special place in my mind ;-)

P.S.2. Extra mention to the most famous Greek demo group - ASD (Andromeda Software Development) - https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1317

New comment by NKosmatos in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

NKosmatos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:20:07 +0000

Is this a joke? Is this guy for real? And he calls himself a REAL engineer? He’s a manager doing damage control because all this time Microslop is greedy and has stopped caring about power users.

We’re not first time users, we don’t want Microsoft BOB as our UI, we don’t want ads and internet search “functionality” in our Start menu, we don’t want AI everywhere and we don’t want things hidden from us.

Make Windows 11 Pro for real pro users and 11 Home for new users. I hope a few people from MS are reading this, especially Mr Engineer.

I’m going to get downvoted for this, but I don’t care.

P.S. Yeah yeah guys, I know about Linux ;-)

New comment by NKosmatos in "Places to Look for Alien Life"

NKosmatos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:03:54 +0000

Direct link to the paper: “ Probing the limits of habitability: a catalogue of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone” - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/547/3/stag028/8526432

Places to Look for Alien Life

NKosmatos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/best-places-look-alien-life-scientists-identify-45-earth-worlds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452945

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

What Happens When We Die

NKosmatos — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/05/alan-lightman-death/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267007

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by NKosmatos in "Layoffs at Block"

NKosmatos — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:33:30 +0000

I totally agree. In this strange era we're all in, it seems that not using proper capitalization is a sign of "importance". Other high ranking people/CEOs/technologists don't use the correct rules, especially for important announcements like laying off 4000 people. O tempora, o mores!

New comment by NKosmatos in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"

NKosmatos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:59:53 +0000

I agree 100% with the author, clean, easily readable and well structured URLs make the web a better place. URL is a hierarchical structure as introduced in the RFC1738 by a guy you might have heard, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web :-) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738

Easily readable URLs is something I learned in the 90s and I still try to enforce in everything I create.

First public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years

NKosmatos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/OldUnreal/UT2004Patches/releases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039661

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by NKosmatos in "Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?"

NKosmatos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:00:02 +0000

AI is here to stay but not in the way big corporations dream of it. People will continue using AI but when the AI bubble pops, sooner than later, things will stabilize and adapt to real usage with a different business model.

As you correctly state, the cost of AI as a Service (AIaaS) will increase for end users, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It will allow the "real" users to continue having access to it and sieve out the ones who are just playing around. Prices for RAM, GPUs, SSDs will normalize a lot and more people will move towards local models.

Similarly to what happened with the dot-com bubble (I saw it happening), it doesn't mean that everything will disappear, but that it will change/adapt. All of us AI realists are currently being treated like technophobes when we say things like that ;-)

New comment by NKosmatos in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

NKosmatos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:54:50 +0000

Being a similar age with the author, I can relate with many things (like so many people in the comments below). The writing style is a bit strange and as mentioned by others, it might have been (re)written by AI, but the message is still there.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sees farthest galaxy

NKosmatos — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:01:04 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-pushes-boundaries-of-observable-universe-closer-to-big-bang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802939

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by NKosmatos in "New YC homepage"

NKosmatos — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:03:42 +0000

Impressive! Seeing all the before and after photos is a nice touch. With regards to the actual web page, white text on light background (partners part) makes it nice easily readable.

New comment by NKosmatos in "Show HN: Free AI Image Upscaler (100% local, private, and free)"

NKosmatos — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:31:03 +0000

Thanks for posting this, there are also some other helpful (free) tools on the same page.

Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool

NKosmatos — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:33:32 +0000

Article URL: https://airmass.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637937

Points: 58

# Comments: 9

New comment by NKosmatos in "Henley Global Passport Index 2026"

NKosmatos — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:01:30 +0000

Article with more insights and details: https://www.henleyglobal.com/newsroom/press-releases/henley-...

Henley Global Passport Index 2026

NKosmatos — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:00:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599422

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by NKosmatos in "Periodic Spaces"

NKosmatos — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:57:33 +0000

Just opening this page is a "heavy" benchmark for your PC/browser :-)

New comment by NKosmatos in "Cloudflare was down"

NKosmatos — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:15:29 +0000

LOL, 500 returned for many big sites…this is going to hurt and make people rethink. If it’s not DNS, then someone pushed to production on Friday :-)

New comment by NKosmatos in "N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics"

NKosmatos — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:36:22 +0000

Love this, reminds me of a Windows program (whose name I’ve forgotten) that I was playing with some decades ago… Solarwinds or something similar. You could add planets/masses and play with orbits, trajectories and all sort of options.

New comment by NKosmatos in "Human Fovea Detector"

NKosmatos — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:07:36 +0000

What kind of sorcery is this? Incredible visualization!