Hacker News: __fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__fst__Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:43:56 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"]]>My wife got a square cast iron dutch oven that she bakes bread in. The breads have this nice crust and soft texture inside. To die for.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:02:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694717__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694717https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694717<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "How to get better at guitar"]]>I started learning guitar using tabs. It's good for easily picking up a song, but I found it painful to learn new songs. Everything I played I simply memorized and learning a new song was always a start from scratch.

I mostly play classical guitar and now force myself to get better at sight reading standard music notation. I find it extremely hard but very rewarding because I'm now able to simply pick up a sheet of music and with a couple of tries figure out the basics of a piece. It opens up a whole library of beautiful pieces.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:44:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682300__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682300https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682300<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Music for Programming"]]>I love all the recommendations here. Great selection that I can add to my personal hacking background music. I can also recommend

- Pure Shakuhachi music (ignore the ones with 'relaxing' background music)

- Brian Eno

- Vangelis

- Hiroshi Yoshimura

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:23:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662976__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662976<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Android Developer Verification"]]>Let everyone who wants it be safe using the Google App Store. But please let me do stupid/experimental things with my phone.

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:54:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581124__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581124https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581124<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"]]>For me it was a close finish between Fira Code and RedHat Mono. I mostly look out for

* no <= or === ligatures (i still like to see the separate characters)

* 'i' vs 'l' vs '1' (I now mostly prefer fonts where the lowercase 'l' has the righthand bend on the bottom)

* dotted zero vs slashed zero (i prefer the slashed zero, but dotted is fine as well)

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:29:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579935__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579935https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579935<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"]]>Was playing around a bit and for its size it's very impressive. Just has issues pronounciating numbers. I tried to let it generate "Startup finished in 135 ms."

I didn't expect it to pronounciate 'ms' correctly, but the number sounded just like noise. Eventually I got an acceptable result for the string "Startup finished in one hundred and thirty five seconds.

]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:29:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447271__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447271https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447271<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "AI World Clocks"]]>This is why we need TeraWatt DCs, to generate code for world clocks every minute.

]]>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:27:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932908__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932908https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932908<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "D2: Diagram Scripting Language"]]>Main "killer" features for me are:

- d2 is a standalone executable compiler, I once tried mermaid-cli (mmdc) but couldn't get it to work properly plus anything I need to install with npm scares the hell out of me

- ASCII rendering: I love rendering to ASCII which I can copy-paste around.

But I do use mermaid a lot embedded in other programs (e.g Obisidian). The selection of different diagram types is amazing.

]]>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:21:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709764__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709764<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Disable AI in Firefox"]]>Apart from the browser.ml.* config the newest update also adds and activates the @perplexity search shortcut.

Deleted it in my config. I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo.

]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:55:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697275__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697275https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697275<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]"]]>Can't wait for an LLM implementation in the Game of Life too.

]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:59:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455498__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455498https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455498<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell"]]>Brilliant. Really nice looking TUI. One thing I noticed is that I still find myself using the mouse to click the form fields. The keyboard navigation seems to sometimes get stuck on fields and I then can't move around anymore. Is there an easy trick for jumping between the fields?

]]>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:30:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203190__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203190https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203190<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine"]]>Amazing overview!

It's interesting how the level of public computer/computing knowledge changed. The Byte magazine goes into deep details of hardware, software and programming.

I feel that nowadays a lot of it is taking for granted or very few people care how things work under the hood. But probably at the time of the Byte magazine only very few people cared too :-).

]]>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:46:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029888__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029888https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029888<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "AI LLMs can't count lines in a file"]]>yup, exactly what I meant, e.g

5 Brazil liziarB

]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:04:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183691__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183691<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "AI LLMs can't count lines in a file"]]>I also noticed that they struggle reversing strings. Ask it to "generate a list of the 30 biggest countries together with their name in reverse". Most of the results will be correct but you'll likely find some weird spelling mistakes.

It's not something they can regurgitate from previously seen text. Models like Claude with background code execution might get around that.

]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:34:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177262__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177262https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177262<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Simple Web Server"]]>python3 -m http.server -d /path/to/dir

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:30:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685263__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685263https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685263<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "So you want to build your own data center"]]>Can anyone recommend some engineering reading for building and running DC infrastructure?

]]>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:23:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743909__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743909https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743909<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"]]>I'm using Linux as my main desktop for so long now (>15yrs) that I probably wouldn't be able to handle a modern Windows system anymore. I have not touched any Windows installation for years, and everytime I have to help my wife with some issue on her Windows laptop I just find it crazy how people can tolerate that. It might not be on the same quality level as MacOS but I like the freedom of choice Linux gives me.

]]>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:02:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554571__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554571https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554571<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles"]]>EVs are topping the list of (imho) useless extras in cars. I'm still cherishing my Honda Fit pre-touchscreen edition. I'm going to drive it until it will fall apart. My next car will be an EV but I have yet to find one that still comes with mechanical features (door handles, knobs/buttons), without a whole battery of surveillance/telemetry tech and (crossing fingers) exchangable batteries. Simple electric propulsion ...

]]>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:10:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525083__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525083https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525083<![CDATA[New comment by __fst__ in "WakeMeOps – DevOps tools repo for portable applications"]]>WakeMeOps is a Debian repository for portable applications. The repository contains over 100 applications and is divided into five components: Desktop, DevOps, Dev, SecOps, and Terminal.

]]>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 06:51:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41472032__fst__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41472032https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41472032<![CDATA[WakeMeOps – DevOps tools repo for portable applications]]>Article URL: https://docs.wakemeops.com/

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