Hacker News: aacid

New comment by aacid in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

aacid — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:16:16 +0000

You've answered yourself if fourth paragraph. For me (and guessing for many other engineers) usability is more important than crisp visuals..

I personally prefer same font (one I choose) everywhere opposed to "whichever font developer likes for his app).

TUI apps are quick, efficient, portable and usable through ssh. If crisp graphics is the only downside I really don't mind.

New comment by aacid in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

aacid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:44:47 +0000

Isn't this same premise as "lets buy few GPUs to mine crypto and have passive income"? It didn't work very well and it probably won't work now either. If there is money to be made, bigger players will get in there, buy out all mac minis they can, drive price up for regular people and inevitably drive inference price down so you'll be lucky to get initial investment back

New comment by aacid in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

aacid — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:48:12 +0000

I personally hate that I need to download app from every company for every service they offer. On the other hand I love tje simplicity of opening webpage, do what I want to do there and forget it. Probably 80% of app in my phone are used very rarely, often just once yet they still sit there, getting updates, requesting permissions and sometimes eating battery... good web app can do everything native app can.

New comment by aacid in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

aacid — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:07:28 +0000

You have to imagine other people might think differently than you do... I forget, it happens, nothing I can do with it. Having notification on my phone (place I'll look sooner or later) that laundry is done was great lifehack for me. No longer I forget and leave it there for whole night or even days...

New comment by aacid in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"

aacid — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:32:42 +0000

You need ID to buy cigarettes and alcohol, prescription drugs or to get sim card... you will need it to register for social network account... do not seem as big of a deal to me. Even less when considering all the positives.

New comment by aacid in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

aacid — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:17:24 +0000

Punishment is only one reason of inprisonment, another is correction. Majority of prisoners do not serve lifetime sentence, at some point they wikl return to society and ideally you don't want them to get right back to what they have been doing before because they have no other options or they don't know nothing better.

New comment by aacid in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

aacid — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:09:40 +0000

NixOS is open-source, if needed it can be forked anytime and continued to work on with new maintainers.

New comment by aacid in "Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan"

aacid — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:11:38 +0000

But tou don't have to pick one, you can have both. I pay for gamepass and most of the games I play I'm fine not owning them ever. But when any is worth it, I purchase is on steam and can have it forever. And I really don't mind "paying twice" because the game is worth it.

New comment by aacid in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

aacid — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:25:01 +0000

Currently in the process of obtaining vw eup, I'm little bit nervous if I'm not doing a mistake but this thread gave me some comfidence. Thanks

New comment by aacid in "Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization"

aacid — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:22:36 +0000

Really love this project, I only have small little UX nitpick: as lefthanded person it is quite cumbersome to tap right side of screen. Go to solution is to navigate using swiping which is ambidexterous.

New comment by aacid in "Life as Slime"

aacid — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:28:02 +0000

Life on Earth would be perfect ecosystem without human. Sure lion eats zebra but there are no animal species capable of eradicating other species. my (very amateurish) opinion is that "high inteligence" is very effective and successful short term genetic strategy (it allowed very average mammal species to become absolute apex predator) but long term it is very unsustainable and self destructive. Look at the lion, apex predator in his environment and it is completely content. People are never content, always need more and more. We are intelligent but so bored that we spend most of our time finding out new ways to kill or at least hate each other.

yea, I'm not a big fan of Humanity...

New comment by aacid in "Facebook is just Craigslist now"

aacid — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:27:37 +0000

While I agree that facebook is mostly obsolete outside marketplace, one thing I cannot find substite for is small communities mostly tied to specific location. If I go to facebook it is for marketplace (we have nice dedicated web in our country that works great) but for one or two groups created for our neighbourhood and the wider area around us.

New comment by aacid in "Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows"

aacid — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:18:05 +0000

I have currently some relationship issues so I might be biased but I keep asking myself what will I miss if not in relationship except sex that cannot be supplemented with family or friends… I've yet to find the answer.

New comment by aacid in "Fair Pricing"

aacid — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:53:09 +0000

this. I tried so many times to run away from google but I have to come back every time because all search engines are extremely anglo-centric (or maybe rather US centric) and really don't care about other localizations.

New comment by aacid in "Lego price per part over the years"

aacid — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 06:25:35 +0000

It doesn't work for me, I do have ADD and lego puts me into flow, but after that I kust feel bad that I spent time and money on something without actual value. Thinking I could have spend that time on chores, home improvement or side projects...

New comment by aacid in "OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall"

aacid — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:58:24 +0000

But pihole is dns only, any requests directly to ip address will still pass.

New comment by aacid in "The Miele Dialog: cook a fish in ice without melting the ice"

aacid — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:20:23 +0000

don't we have more effective ways to seal in moisture and flavor than freezing fish in block of ice?

New comment by aacid in "Particle Life"

aacid — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:33:59 +0000

I honestly believe that high intelligence while short term is extremely advantageous, long term it is self-destructive.

I like to imagine there are countless planets with perfect ecosystems of living organisms where no single species dominates whole planet.

New comment by aacid in "Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars"

aacid — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:22 +0000

On a touchscreen?

New comment by aacid in "Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars"

aacid — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:45:34 +0000

changing climate controls, changing radio station, changing driving modes.