Hacker News: _nivlac_

New comment by _nivlac_ in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

_nivlac_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:58:49 +0000

Great read. Didn't realise how widespread this was, and I know someone who is stuck in this system.

How would you approach someone to help them out of it? Don't think I can just throw them this article and say "you're wrong".

New comment by _nivlac_ in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

_nivlac_ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:37:21 +0000

Now we just need a generated version of this based on a package.json!

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty"

_nivlac_ — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:10:26 +0000

The example for "avoid short last lines" has a short last line - if that was intentional, a great touch by the writer!

New comment by _nivlac_ in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

_nivlac_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:35:49 +0000

I love this, especially the GIF demo. Very satisfying to stare at :)

Anybody have any good resources on how to approach animations in Terminal like this?

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Midjourney is alemwjsl"

_nivlac_ — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:53:03 +0000

Everyone has gaps in their knowledge which can be things that "should be obvious" to others. If someone doesn't know something, they either forgot or haven't learned it yet! I appreciated the author's honesty here.

New comment by _nivlac_ in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

_nivlac_ — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:56:51 +0000

I am SO glad jofzar posted this - I remember this website but couldn't recall the company name. Here's a good video on how the site is so fast, from a frontend perspective:

https://youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

_nivlac_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:25:00 +0000

I really enjoyed this! I can't even comprehend how levels can be generated for it. After reading instructions I found it straightforward to play.

FYI there's a misspelled word - "accountat" on the home page.

New comment by _nivlac_ in "BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English"

_nivlac_ — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:53:14 +0000

I think it's a play on the Chinese language having Traditional/ Simplified versions. I'm choosing to take this repo as tongue-in-cheek, which is hard to really determine online...

New comment by _nivlac_ in "TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid"

_nivlac_ — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:55:17 +0000

You might be interested in the noprocrast settings!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695

New comment by _nivlac_ in "I've acquired a new superpower"

_nivlac_ — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 07:12:26 +0000

I did the exact same thing, due to a feeling of wanting to "even" things out between right and left. Blew my mind that it was a known pattern; after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prh72BLNjIk&t=549s

I'm always reminded that we are all more alike than we realise :)

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony"

_nivlac_ — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 06:54:56 +0000

I've also enjoyed Google's blob opera, for something similar!

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW...

New comment by _nivlac_ in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

_nivlac_ — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:56:10 +0000

I found it unclear because the title of the article and the title of the TV show imply it's only during school, but it's only the second paragraph that it mentions "completely". It seems to contradict the opening sentences.

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval"

_nivlac_ — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:45:44 +0000

If you click on the timestamp of the comment (e.g "N days ago"), you should be able to add it to your favourites, which is then accessible through your profile.

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

_nivlac_ — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:06:07 +0000

I would love a version of this based on orange. I've always felt my perception of orange is different from others.

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

_nivlac_ — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:26:24 +0000

For the other commenters here - looks like this site does the job? https://hotprices.org/

With the corresponding repo too: https://github.com/Javex/hotprices-au

New comment by _nivlac_ in "The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining"

_nivlac_ — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:25:48 +0000

I'm getting confused reading your first sentence based on the rest of your comment; should homelab and laptop be swapped?

New comment by _nivlac_ in "GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0"

_nivlac_ — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:36:32 +0000

Appreciate the recommendation, thank you!

New comment by _nivlac_ in "GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0"

_nivlac_ — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:15:40 +0000

I am very grateful for GIMP, but I hope that the UX can be improved. It gets the job done, but it always feels a bit janky to me. Wish it felt more professional like Photoshop.

I didn't think this sort of polish was possible for a free program, but after seeing MuseScore and Blender, it gives me hope that it could happen.

I know how entitled I sound asking for this ;)

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Harmonics Explorer"

_nivlac_ — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:29:38 +0000

I love these. My favourite part is that you can hear the fundamental frequency when you add up the non-octave frequencies (i.e. increase all harmonics except 1, 2, 4 and 8). Even though the fundamental frequency isn't "there", your ears can still hear it.

New comment by _nivlac_ in "Changes we're making to Google Assistant"

_nivlac_ — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 07:58:17 +0000

I had the same issue with the Google Assistant/AnyList integration, and I hacked together a pair of Lambda functions to move Keep list items to an AnyList list. Both unofficial APIs ;)

If anybody's curious, repo with most of the code is here: https://github.com/csimpf/keep2anylist. Happy to answer any questions about it!