Hacker News: Novosell

New comment by Novosell in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

Novosell — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:36:16 +0000

I really like her, but man I find Michael unbearable.

It also just feels too fake to me. I know they already knew the info they just had a strong reaction to, but they're reacting strongly on purpose for the sake of being engaging. I didn't find it annoying to start with, but it got more grating as I tried more episodes.

I recall in one episode she says "That's amazing" or something to that effect, to a fact regarding fluid dynamics. She has a PhD in fluid dynamics. She already knew whatever that fact was.

New comment by Novosell in "Back to Kagi"

Novosell — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:22:43 +0000

I seem do to about 1000 searches a month, though I'm not sure if that's also including my partners usage.

Less than 10 searches a day is crazy to me :O

But I have quite PC-centric hobbies, I suppose.

New comment by Novosell in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

Novosell — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:30:12 +0000

Just wanna point out that this sort of statement only really applies to the anglosphere. As in "medical students the world over can generally only speak english and their native language, so they can either apply for studies in their home country or an english speaking country, and some try to go to the US".

Not every country is in contention, as even if, for example, Hungary has the best medicine program, very few people are gonna learn Hungarian just to attend the university. The same argument applies for every country which requires a non-english language for admission.

New comment by Novosell in "The new bibliomaniacs"

Novosell — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:07:50 +0000

Why would you need to turn off the ereader? Just put it in airplane mode.

New comment by Novosell in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

Novosell — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:23:33 +0000

It is one part of the plot that focuses on inner city schooling in season 4 :)

New comment by Novosell in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

Novosell — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:13:25 +0000

I imagine it's due to having had decent enough GPUs and decent enough CPUs, from a single vendor.

If you want the platform to be x86 but not AMD then your only other choice is Intel, but they've only recently started making high performance GPUs. So then you need another vendor for the GPU, and your only choice is Nvidia.

A lot simpler, cheaper and predictable to go with a single vendor for both I imagine?

New comment by Novosell in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

Novosell — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:55:05 +0000

Zed maybe?

New comment by Novosell in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

Novosell — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:42:46 +0000

Making even the background run electron, eh?

New comment by Novosell in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

Novosell — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:01:18 +0000

You wish Meshtatstic would mention CellSol on the Meshtatstic website? Why would they do that?

New comment by Novosell in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

Novosell — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:23:05 +0000

That's not what you wrote in the post though, and an actual human adult would never call that a "trick".

New comment by Novosell in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

Novosell — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:01:26 +0000

This is so ai-written it is hard to take serious. You figured out the trick to making tall skinny things stable? Weight or a wide base?

New comment by Novosell in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

Novosell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:23:44 +0000

Did you ai generate the Chrome and Firefox logo? That isn't what they look like, or have ever looked like, from what I know.

New comment by Novosell in "Why I love NixOS"

Novosell — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:09:28 +0000

24 != 24.14.0

New comment by Novosell in "A Review of Dice That Came with the White Castle"

Novosell — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:44:23 +0000

That's how I understand it as well :)

New comment by Novosell in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

Novosell — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:24:21 +0000

Yeah, exactly. I just love working with and understanding computers. They open up so many possibilities.

Working with ai vs. coding yourself is the difference between ordering electrical components from digikey vs. designing them yourself. You can end up with functionally the same result and a lot faster, but they're hardly comparable activities!

And I'm just 28, but I've been fucking around with computers non-stop since I was 12 :) Only as a hobby, mind you. Never as a job.

New comment by Novosell in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

Novosell — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:59:33 +0000

I've been doing programming and sys admin as a hobby for a long time and only recently started my bachelors in compsci, and I'm sad to have waited so long as almost everything has been infested with ai to some degree.

New comment by Novosell in "F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026"

Novosell — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:18:36 +0000

Oh man, I am still annoyed about Signal removing SMS support. Had to add another app to my phone and I can now no longer accidentally discover that someone I'm texting has Signal, which happened more than once to me!

New comment by Novosell in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

Novosell — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:14:34 +0000

It's DDoS. No e.

New comment by Novosell in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

Novosell — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:44:18 +0000

On android you can, usually, go into the settings, go to the app section, go into the specific app you wanna downgrade and, if it's an app that comes preinstalled and can't be deleted outright, you get an option to "remove upgrades" or some such thing.

New comment by Novosell in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

Novosell — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:03:40 +0000

I just removed updates from whichever app it is that handles the launcher, all ads gone, still get to be on latest OS version :)