Hacker News: alfanick

New comment by alfanick in "Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery"

alfanick — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:46:46 +0000

It's ('is/was) amazing! On launch date I've spent good couple of hours there. The execution is magnificent. Realtime rave in minecraft-like world. Somehow this needs business model to keep it actually alive and well.

Show HN: Mini-film, processor of RAW files with XMP profiles – Linux and Rust

alfanick — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:25:41 +0000

I got sick of the state of processing RAW images on Linux, especially when you apply film emulation. So vibe-coded (took 2h and 20CHF of tokens) my own solution - uses rawtherapee or dcraw for RAW development, converts Adobe XMP RGBTables into Hald LUT tables, applies Gaussian/Perlin noise to simulate grain, and applies simulation based on LUT using ImageMagick.

Batch processing and multithreading is supported.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395306

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alfanick in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

alfanick — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:45:06 +0000

I don't hate it. I'm just not compatible with it I guess. It's like GIMP in its early days - has most of the features of competition (Lightroom vs Darktable, Photoshop vs GIMP), even more features, and tweaks, and more knobs. But it misses USER EXPERIENCE part, it's basically unusable, unless you use it since early days.

If Darktable had a grant/GSOC just to improve UX, it could be a valid competitor to Lightroom. Currently, it's not. It's bunch of Python/Lua scientific code with some UI, that processes pictures.

New comment by alfanick in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

alfanick — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:16:23 +0000

Edit: Still garbage, required 100-lines script and LD_* shim to make it even run at Linux Mint 22.3 on AMD CPU + GPU. UX is even worse than Darktable, don't bother, not even close to Lightroom.

At this point we need a Kickstarter campaign to make Lightroom run in Wine/Proton (no, no matter how much you try, it will not work so far). Edit: or GSOC to support Darktable to improve their UX.

New comment by alfanick in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

alfanick — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:40:09 +0000

The Lightroom competitor working on Linux is a huge news.

(Darktable doesn't count, it's a scientific software with some wobbly UI).

New comment by alfanick in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

alfanick — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:09:05 +0000

I'm confused. Never heard of Bun until a few days ago here on HN. It's some nodejs wrapper thingy, written in Zig, and someone decided to use LLM to rewrite it in Rust. Is this a big deal? Who is even using this software? Why is this big?

New comment by alfanick in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

alfanick — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:51:49 +0000

Hey, it loads! Unlike ~10% of pages on first page of HN, hugged to death.

New comment by alfanick in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

alfanick — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:31:27 +0000

> Oh wait, never mind. I guess I won't be signing up for electricity, then?

You ~~will~~ should be picking up your phone and calling the electrical company to confirm and to tell them their links are nonsense. Couldn't bother with AI agent on phone, or 60 min waiting queue to a human? Fuck it, don't pay the bill, figure it out later.

New comment by alfanick in "Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB"

alfanick — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:13:06 +0000

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New comment by alfanick in "Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services"

alfanick — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:49:00 +0000

It's fine to mature projects if they're good enough according to author's point of view. No point of fixing something that's not broken. No point of adding features that no one needs.

New comment by alfanick in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

alfanick — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:13:55 +0000

Lego is quite impressive, but most of their parts are static and not moving at 500-2000rpm, so they're optimizing for a different problem.

New comment by alfanick in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

alfanick — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:55:43 +0000

Oh I meant without USB4 enclosure ofc, PCIe5 directly. It's truly the best consumer-level SSD available around.

It beats my previous desktop's RAM speed, what a time to live in.

New comment by alfanick in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

alfanick — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:17:57 +0000

I bought this one when upgrading my desktop, it indeed delivers what it promises. 14.5GB/s on my tiny random desktop, it's impressive. Everything feels so instantaneous, my Linux desktop finally feels like a Mac :)

New comment by alfanick in "How does GPS work?"

alfanick — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:04:47 +0000

It's quite fun area, I used to work in related technologies. Some of the countries maintain their own networks, but there are also commercial networks - so called reference stations that provide RTK/Network-RTK, basically your GPS can be augmented with a model based on those reference stations (which are ground GPS/GNSS receivers with very well known position) and improve accuracy to even 1cm (based on differences from your GPS position vs positions in network compared to well known positions).

How does GPS work?

alfanick — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861087

Points: 241

# Comments: 49

New comment by alfanick in "Not buying another Kindle"

alfanick — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:59:45 +0000

Why do those devices need 3GB RAM and 8-core CPU if they well, show books? There is no hurry there. Give us full-blown terminal and ssh/mosh at least.

New comment by alfanick in "Claude Brain"

alfanick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:08:17 +0000

In such case, soon we will need licenses-for-AI, just like with guns... There is no way a smart person wouldn't write this as a joke or an art project, but for serious.

New comment by alfanick in "Claude Brain"

alfanick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:02:01 +0000

You don't have to explain that to me :D I'm agreeing with your critical comment before.

I'm just trying to make any sense why someone thought it would be any good idea to do memory->QR->MP4 encoding, instead of some sane format.

New comment by alfanick in "Claude Brain"

alfanick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:43:41 +0000

"Okay, so this project encodes memories as QR codes within an MP4 file. And if I'm correct, I believe it's doing some sort of vector search based on the text embedding of the data to find the frame within the MP4 file."

I'm just as puzzled as you. What the heck, did people forgot how to encode data?

Unless it's actually smart, in sense QR codes carry some limited amount of data, MP4 does compression introducing artifacts and losing some data, QR codes can recover from some (well from a lot) loss of data, repeat. So it's DB with natural low-passing of data. Conceptually cool, kinda how memory update process worked in TV Series "Travelers" for Historians.

Or you know, I'm hearing SQLite is kinda nice and does not need encoding/decoding to-from QR-videos.

New comment by alfanick in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

alfanick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:04:29 +0000

Is this sarcasm? It's still Hacker News - running servers by hand is what people do, and it is fun to do :)