Hacker News: Tenemo

New comment by Tenemo in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

Tenemo — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:40:01 +0000

Mandatory PSA for Android users because people tend to have similar complaints each time in popular threads: ReVanced allows you to have YouTube with Sponsorblock, background play, no ads, Shorts completely hidden, (estimated) dislike counter brought back etc.

Couldn't imagine using YouTube on my phone without it, it's night and day difference – that's despite being a premium subscriber anyway.

New comment by Tenemo in "Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves"

Tenemo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:59:02 +0000

> The authors acknowledge funding from the College of Literature, Science, and Arts at the University of Michigan. R. L. P. was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP) DGE-2241144. M. E. C. was partially supported by the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School through a merit and predoctoral fellowship. The authors would like to acknowledge the professors and students of the Mapping, Measuring, and Modeling Microplastics in the Atmosphere of Michigan team for their support and helpful discussions. The authors thank Jennifer Connor, Curtis Refior, Amy Pashak, Megan Phillips, Josh Hubbard, Bill Joyce, and David Lee for their community partnership. The authors would also like to thank former Dean Anne Curzan from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan for funding this work through the “Meet the Moment” grant program. The authors acknowledge technical support from the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization.

Is there anything wrong here? Not sure I understood your comment

New comment by Tenemo in "LLMs can be exhausting"

Tenemo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:31:01 +0000

I'm not 100% convinced, while iterating fast on an early prototype, what's wrong with legitimately not knowing what e.g. the data structure will end up looking? Just let it run, check debugger/stdout/localhost page and adjust: "Oh, right, the entries are missing canonical IDs, but at the same time there are already all the comments in them, forgot they would be there – neat". What's wrong with that? Especially at uni, when working on low-stakes problems.

New comment by Tenemo in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

Tenemo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:50:40 +0000

Was the number of partners you picked random or you chose 2137 on purpose? As it's actually somewhat related to the topic...

New comment by Tenemo in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

Tenemo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:02:13 +0000

I tested the latest flagship reasoning models (so the only models I use outside of coding for general questions):

- Opus 4.6 (Extended thinking): "Drive it! The whole point is to get the car to the car wash — you can't wash it if it's still in your driveway."

- Gemini Pro Deep Think: "You should definitely drive. Even though 50 meters is a very short distance, if you walk, your car will stay where it is—and it's pretty hard to use a car wash if you don't bring your car with you!"

- ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (Extended thinking): "You’ll need to drive the car—otherwise your car stays where it is and won’t get washed. That said, since it’s only ~50 m, the most sensible way to do it is often: 1. Walk over first (30–60 seconds) to check if it’s open, see the queue, confirm payment/how it works. 2. Then drive the car over only when you’re ready to pull into a bay/line."

A pretty reasonable answer by ChatGPT, althought it did take 2min4s to answer, compared to a few seconds by the other two models.

New comment by Tenemo in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

Tenemo — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:00:35 +0000

I' migrated to purelymail.com around 2 years ago and. Reaaally cheap, easy to set up and without any bloat whatsoever. The webpage might look sketchy at first, but don't judge a book by its cover :)

New comment by Tenemo in "AI is a horse (2024)"

Tenemo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:48:30 +0000

You seem to imply that its outputs aren't found by people to be useful, which isn't true.

New comment by Tenemo in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

Tenemo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:45:28 +0000

That's super cool! Do you have any plans to commercialize it or it's just a pet project?

New comment by Tenemo in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

Tenemo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:42:54 +0000

I think it is true that it is a real problem (EDIT: but doesn't necessarily make "hosting untenable"), but you are correct to point out that modern pages tend to be horribly optimized (and that's the source of the problem). Even "dynamic" pages using React/Next.js etc. could be pre-rendered and/or cached and/or distributed via CDNs. A simple cache or a CDN should be enough to handle pretty much any scrapping traffic unless you need to do some crazy logic on every page visit – which should almost never be the case on public-facing sites. As an example, my personal site is technically written in React, but it's fully pre-rendered and doesn't even serve JS – it can handle huge amounts of bot/scrapping traffic via its CDN.

New comment by Tenemo in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Tenemo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:07:50 +0000

https://piech.dev/

New comment by Tenemo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

Tenemo — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:59:19 +0000

I've been on-and-off working on a portable, sturdy electrical cloud chamber for a couple of months now. It's a device that lets you see ionising radiation with a naked eye, right on your desk.

It's already working, but it requires so many tweaks and adjustments that make the project hard to finish-finish.

It's controllable by an ESP32, can run automated cooling benchmarks (to find the power vs temp sweet spot) and is pretty much all made out of metal, not 3D-printed – I've learned a ton about working with metal, especially around drilling, cutting, and tapping/threading. Who knew precise drilling a solid copper block could be so tricky at times (saying this as a person who has never drilled anything except wood/concrete before)!

New comment by Tenemo in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

Tenemo — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:02:27 +0000

I'm not the person you replied to, but yes, I've been using RiF since the API changes ...with a small 4-month l break last year when I was automatically flagged as bot API traffic and instantly permabanned with no warning. Reddit's built-in appeals went unanswered and ignored. Luckily I live in the EU, I appealed under DSA and they unbanned me after actual human review right before the 1-month deadline.

Could have I created a new account instead? Maybe. Did I want to check if DSA actually works in practice and can get me back my u/Tenemo nickname that I use everywhere, not just on Reddit? I sure did! Turns out Reddit cannot legally ban me from their platform without a valid reason, no matter what is in the ToS. Pretty cool!

Back to using RiF with a fresh API key after that and haven't had any issues since.

New comment by Tenemo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

Tenemo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:56:17 +0000

A portable, robust desk cloud chamber with a 10x10cm viewing plate. It's taking ages and having just one AIO cooler wasn't the smartest choice, but nothing else would've fit. It's a way harder project than I expected, at least if you want everything to be vibration-resistant for car transportation and for it to last years. I've learned a ton.

New comment by Tenemo in "“You should never build a CMS”"

Tenemo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:43:31 +0000

It does read very LLM-y to me, too. The short sentences, dramatic pauses – but maybe I'm oversensitive nowadays, it's really hard to tell at times.

New comment by Tenemo in "I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop"

Tenemo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:33:03 +0000

Huge fan of those AIOs as well! I have LFIII 420mm in my PC and I've successfully built a 10x10cm cloud chamber with another one which is really pushing it as far as it can go.

New comment by Tenemo in "What if tariffs?"

Tenemo — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:44:32 +0000

So what you are saying is that no company has raised prices for any product after tariffs had gone live? That's easily proven to be false (https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-tariffs-raise-prices-co...).

Going by your logic, tarrifs would have always no impact on consumers, even e.g. 300% tariffs?

New comment by Tenemo in "42,600 ton ship to break the world record for the deepest drill at 7 miles"

Tenemo — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:12:51 +0000

The topic and the ship are super interesting, but this whole article is blatantly AI-generated. Presumably they used an LLM to translate and summarize from Chinese?

New comment by Tenemo in "Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking"

Tenemo — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:38:37 +0000

> We found Netflix producer Adam Ciralsky, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Benny Wenda, Austropop star Wolfgang Ambros, Tel Aviv district prosecutor Liat Ben Ari and Ali Nur Yasin, a senior editor at our Indonesian partner Tempo.

Political figures being there I somewhat understand, but a Netflix producer? Why would anyone need to track a Netflix producer?

New comment by Tenemo in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

Tenemo — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:13:40 +0000

You have 120 wifi-connected devices at home?? What kind of devices? 100 smart light bulbs or something like that?

I'm just curious – I'm a relatively techy person and I have maybe 15 devices on my whole home network.

New comment by Tenemo in "Go ahead, write the “stupid” code"

Tenemo — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:29:11 +0000

And reading the Linux kernel mailing list would allow him to... do what exactly? And by when? Compared to writing simple, working, usable apps in TypeScript, immediately after reading about how Deno/TypeScript/etc. work?