Hacker News: atmanactive

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome"

atmanactive — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:51:23 +0000

Ah, no, my bad, didn't define "seen" properly. Seen can mean "posts that I clicked to open", but it can also mean "posts I scrolled past". Seems that this second use case is not covered l.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome"

atmanactive — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:20:14 +0000

Top notch. Thank you very much.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome"

atmanactive — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:47:32 +0000

Awesome, thanks. Does it have on-page post list indexing? Just a number counting upwards from 1. I find such a feature very useful to combat doomscrolling.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome"

atmanactive — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:31:27 +0000

Looks great, thanks for sharing. Does it have seen posts tracking and subsequent hiding?

New comment by atmanactive in "Montray – a tray icon for systemd service health"

atmanactive — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:58:50 +0000

Very nice! Thank you.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: Babytalk: Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32"

atmanactive — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:50:40 +0000

Thanks. I will ask an LLM to investigate if this could be implemented in a STT-to-HID standalone offline device. If I reach any semblance of success, I will let you know so the projects can link to each other.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: Babytalk: Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32"

atmanactive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:02:06 +0000

Thank you for the explaination. So it is a library and would require someone to adjust it to their use case. That's what got me confused: wide open use case, but nothing tangible. I mean, if an ESP device is doing STT+TTS, then what am I supposed to be talking to? But if it is an ESP device that can do ANY->TTS and/or STT->ANY with some code customization needed, then I think I get it.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: Babytalk: Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32"

atmanactive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:47:13 +0000

I was hoping this could be a hardware STT-to-HID, but, even after looking at the Git ReadMe, I still don't understand how is the text supposed to exit the device?

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: I'm color blind, so I built a way to show people how I see"

atmanactive — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:47:24 +0000

This is awesome, thank you. Few observations from my own experience: floaters are smaller, less hair like and more blood vessel like, and they are always on the move. I have three more temporary conditions to suggest that might be interesting: 1.) PVD - Posterior Vitrous Detachment: considered harmless, milions of dark speck floaters all moving due to eye movement inertia, clears out naturally after a week, 2.) Retinal Detachment, considered a medical emergency: dark shadow in random corner slowly becoming bigger and bigger day by day, can be stopped only with a surgery, leads to complete blindness if left untreated, 3.) Gas Bubble, a temporary consequence of a retinal detachment surgery, lasts about a week, starts as fully blurred vision which is gradually being replaced by perfectly focused vision in a horizontal line that falls down like a curtain. In reality the eye is absorbing the gas and replacing it with vitrous liquid slowly, but due to camera obscura optical properties this is perceived as upside down, so the liquid surface line is not rising up from the bottom, but falling down from the top.

New comment by atmanactive in ""The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut down after update"

atmanactive — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:52:49 +0000

Out of 10 different SSD make and model I have in use around the house, the only one I ever had problems with were Samsung.

New comment by atmanactive in "French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with sovereign encrypted messaging"

atmanactive — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:35:26 +0000

Finally.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: Layered writing – a novel way to write and read digital text"

atmanactive — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:14:53 +0000

This is great! A much needed tool in today's information overload world. In my opinion, the next step would be an engine capable of automatic conversion of any text into Layered format. If it stays manual writing only - it is doomed.

New comment by atmanactive in "The Machine Behind Michael Jackson's "Undeniable" Genius"

atmanactive — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:01:37 +0000

Exactly. But some would call it a team, not a machine, no?

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: Fractalysis – Online interactive infinite-zoom Mandelbrot viewer"

atmanactive — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:29:21 +0000

Looks great, the colors are really pleasant. What I personally find missing with all fractal zoom animations is that they always insist on zooming-in motion, while I believe the more logical direction would be zooming-out motion. Yes, yes, I know, I could download the YouTube video and reverse it to achieve the same thing, but, somehow, I could never find the time to do that.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

atmanactive — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:32:36 +0000

I remember a game on Steam called Tiny Brains, great couch co-op.

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative"

atmanactive — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:21:09 +0000

What's the point in showing me events half way across the country? Is there a narrow-down filter available?

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: LingBot-World 2.0 (1.3B) running at 16 FPS on one RTX 5090"

atmanactive — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:49:02 +0000

Very interesting, congrats, and thanks for sharing. What are the major advantages to running something like this as opposed to running a simple Unreal Engine scene?

New comment by atmanactive in "Show HN: A fast, private, cross-platform Markdown editor built with Tauri/Rust"

atmanactive — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:08:16 +0000

multi platform

New comment by atmanactive in "Ontoplano, FOSS life management app with a mobile app, MCP server and more"

atmanactive — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:55:44 +0000

Awesome. Looking forward.

New comment by atmanactive in "Ontoplano, FOSS life management app with a mobile app, MCP server and more"

atmanactive — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:45:10 +0000

The challenge with an inventory, as opposed to shopping is classification. With shopping lists, I don't need much classification, milk is milk, lettuce is lettuce. But, for an inventory, I need a tree of parent-child relationships as well as tags, with freely configurable destination fields, like, for example, KeePassXC/KeePassDX. Not all objects have same data attributes, like, for example, that measuring tape, is it a 3m or 5m tape, is it a construction tape or tailor tape. My USB cables in the drawer, are they USB2 or USB3, USB-C or USB-A. In my brain, a shopping list is a flat array, while home inventory is a file system with tags.