Hacker News: TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheFragenTakenHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:55:23 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "A4 Paper Stories"]]>>Like most sensible people with a reasonable sense of priorities, I do not carry a ruler with me wherever I go.

Let me introduce to you: the IKEA paper tape measure, folded neatly in your wallet.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:27:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526706TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526706https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526706<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "The UI future is colourful and dimensional"]]>There's also hard data suggesting the perceived usability is higher when the user interface is aesthetic. So it goes both ways.

]]>Tue, 27 May 2025 08:14:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44104923TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44104923https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44104923<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]"]]>There should be a term for this. I semi-unironically trust content written in Computer Modern, even if I know it's insane.

]]>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:25:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743356TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743356<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Moving on from React, a year later"]]>What kind of project did you "remove all React"? Also, curious whether you ended up with vanilla Web Components, or fast-element/LitElement/others?

]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:14:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790349TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790349https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790349<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Un Ministral, Des Ministraux"]]>With the advent of OSS LLMs, it's "just" a matter of renting compute.

]]>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:59:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860663TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860663<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming"]]>They can't be arsed to make consumer friendly software. Edge was amazing for about five minutes before it got enshittified. It took a world wide pandemic and thousands of businesses flocking to Zoom before Teams got okay at calls (never mind the Sharepoint/Teams side, which is still a mess). They lost enough developers they had to embed an entire Linux VM in their OS. I'll concede they nail Office and cloud compliance/regulations though.

]]>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:36:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728554TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728554https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728554<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Swimmable Cities"]]>It's just fun/sad reading about the concept of "swimmable cities" when you've taken it for granted all your life. Most cities with fjords or channels here, have "harbour baths" - essentially outdoor swimming facilities with springboards and tanning beds. Would have thought these existed elsewhere.

]]>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:35:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528886TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528886<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Google and Apple Face Billions in Penalties After Losing E.U. Appeals"]]>There's nothing regarding Google in the article, but it is specifically mentioned that Apple's back taxes are already in escrow.

]]>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:20:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500017TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500017<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Rust for the small things? but what about Python?"]]>Indeed would be interesting. Another one of the downsides of everything running on v8. It just feel it gives people the "wrong" impression, even if it helps (massively) with DX to run TS natively.

]]>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:33:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493402TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493402https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493402<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Rust for the small things? but what about Python?"]]>I just wish runtimes could take advantage of Typescript, and use type hints in performance improvements. Deno, and bun, currently do not, despite running Typescript "natively".

]]>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:37:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41489602TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41489602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41489602<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks"]]>The phonebook capabilities of pretty much all Google alternatives suck. Google is currently the only search engine that actually works for local queries (i.e. phone repair in ).

Alternatives while probably fine in America, suck in the Nordics. I think people forget just how much search traffic happens in this category.

]]>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:01:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478921TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478921https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478921<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?"]]>The first rule in any software backed by a server, but especially multiplayer games is, you never trust the client. You could have a perfectly deterministic game where every action is validated on the server, be defeated by running the game at half speed.

]]>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 06:15:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376494TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376494https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376494<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase"]]>Every day, we get closer to what Ember.js did/does.

]]>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:25:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326563TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326563<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Medieval"]]>GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) is very real, and talked about a lot in the music industry. There are books, and papers studying this.

]]>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 09:14:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41179566TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41179566https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41179566<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Preliminary Post Incident Review"]]>What validates the Content Validator? A Content Validator Validator?

]]>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:52:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054580TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054580https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054580<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred"]]>I'm not deep in Swift, but this would make it seem a reimplementation of Foundation is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/tree/main

]]>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:28:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661973TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661973<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"]]>I don't understand why people act like this is a new way of working. Hundreds of ISO certifications require independent audit. Functionally this can be done in many ways, like source code access by human reviewers, or static scanning with signed results. What's important is not who looks, be it PwC, Deloitte, or industry peers. It's important whats being looked for, and what standards are being followed.

]]>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:40:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638740TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638740<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "FFmpeg 7.0"]]>It's not quite a GUI, but I usually refer to https://alfg.dev/ffmpeg-commander/.

]]>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:01:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939821TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939821https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939821<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision"]]>Some of these NN models are quite heavy, and I'd argue, overkill for bounded applications, like "just" segmenting people from a video stream. People have built simplistic naive bayes based models before NN's were popular, using relatively few features, and applying a Kalman filter to track across frames, that could run on Pentium processors in the 2000's and 10's.

]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:25:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814479TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814479<![CDATA[New comment by TheFragenTaken in "What happens when an HTTP client raises $225M at a $5.6B valuation"]]>What I miss the most is the request interceptor. Yes, I know I can copy requests/responses from my browser.

]]>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:59:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702720TheFragenTakenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702720https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702720