<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bambax</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bambax</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:19:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bambax" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Hello, me. It's been a while"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Earplugs work very well for me. I can't hear anything with them on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295918</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Hello, me. It's been a while"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Recently, as I reached for the play button out of habit, I stopped. I thought: what if I just do this chore in silence today?</i><p>It seems most people today have headphones on all the time. I don't understand it. I'm not sure, but it would seem people hate their own voice?<p>I just love silence.<p>I can't work in anything but complete silence. In open spaces I wear earplugs. (If I'm not wearing earplugs it means I'm not doing much of anything ;-) That's one of the main benefits of remote work: at my home there is complete silence most of the time.<p>I need silence for many other activities too. Cooking, reading (of course), even driving.<p>In fact, I think my problem is the opposite: I just can't do two things at once. If I'm listening to something, then I can't be doing anything else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:51:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295803</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excellent! Thanks for the info!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:11:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262235</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But grandma doesn't use an Entreprise version now does she?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:21:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254045</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why Windows Entreprise PCs have 'Images', 'Videos' and 'Music' folders that can't be deleted is beyond me. If I want to store music on my work PC I can create a folder for that, but why force it on me??</p>
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<p>True! How did you spot this though? Did you look at every possible position?!?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:52:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253854</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I was a kid (many, many moons ago) I found a solved Rubik's Cube in a house where we were staying. I played with it and soon enough couldn't put it back in its solved state.<p>So I took it apart and rebuilt it 'properly', which didn't take long and wasn't too hard. I wonder how many people did the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253839</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been looking for a plugin for "AI inpainting" for Gimp3 but couldn't find any that really works? Which seems weird? Anyway, I decided to make my own. Functionally it's pretty simple: you manage prompts and image model (on Openrouter), and then send a layer with instructions for modifications by the model. But it turns out fine-tuning the UI to make it as simple as possible takes some time.<p>Will release it on ShowHN when ready!</p>
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<p>I used to like Steve's posts. They were all way too long, but a fun and interesting read nonetheless. He started to lose me when at Sourcegraph where he oversell Cody which didn't do anything useful (I even had a commercial meeting with Sourcegraph people who weren't of much help); then he completely lost me with his GasTown business where AI meets crypto (what could possibly go wrong with that). Now I can't read anything from him anymore ;-(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153412</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "More German than many Germans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first time I was in Berlin I had to take a bus. It was just leaving the stop as I was getting there, but stopped at the next red light. So I ran to the bus and knocked on the door. The driver looked at me with a concerned look to see if something was wrong, and once he understood I was just asking to come onboard outside of the regular stop, he laughed. Not ironically or in a mean way: it was a genuine laugh like I was doing something so weird and out of this world that it had to be a prank. And when the light turned green, he just left.<p>I could not believe it; but when I told the story to my German friends they too didn't quite understand why anyone would try to board a bus outside of a stop.<p>Being French, I have a hard time understanding why you wouldn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:25:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152340</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is wonderful and amazing, but isn't there a risk to over promise? Reality can never be as perfect as a 3D rendering...?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107020</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>NOVA: So Fermat's original proof is still out there somewhere.</i><p>> <i>AW: I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. But what has made this problem special for amateurs is that there's a tiny possibility that there does exist an elegant 17th-century proof.</i><p>Yes, it's generally accepted that Fermat didn't in fact have a proof, with the tools available to him at the time. But wouldn't it be cool to send some AI on this chase and see what comes back? Is anyone attempting this?</p>
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<p>> <i>We don't have to value one more than the other.</i><p>Yes we do. We should evaluate threats and choose our allies carefully.</p>
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<p>Yes, I will probably never go back to the US. But I find it sad that my kids for example, will have to think twice before visiting, if they do.</p>
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<p>Those kinds of projects are super fun, and the writing here is good, so congrats to the author.<p>That said, why do people need clocks? I usually know the time, day or night, within 30 minutes or so, and if I need to know the exact time (which happens rarely if ever), I look at my watch. There are zero clocks in my home. I would find it quite aggressive to have a big display that tells me exactly what time it is.<p>Come to think of it there is one clock in the kitchen, on the oven. It's usually never correct because it resets after any power flicker and nobody takes the time to set it back properly. This is a recent oven; it's surprising kitchen appliances still are so dumb.</p>
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<p>Well, in fact a good principle is to limit side effects as much as possible. Copy or cut inside the same document should probably not involve the system clipboard at all. The system clipboard could be triggered/populated when the app goes out of focus for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:11:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055841</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>She's really nice, fun and engaging. She has a recent video about AI agents selling mugshots that's well made and clear.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:21:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045286</link><dc:creator>bambax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bambax in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with TFA on all points and therefore strongly disagree with all that is said in this post. "Cut'n paste" should be one atomic operation. If you want to do multiple pastes (why? what's the context?) then copy to the clipboard and paste to your heart's content.<p>It's also a fundamental flaw that undoing cut doesn't undo its side effects. Undo should always mean: restore the state of the world (/of the system) to where it was before. Not just "back up a few steps depending on this or that".</p>
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<p>At least in this configuration ads are separate from answers. I fear there will come a time where ads will be intermingled in the response tokens. In fact SEO people on SEO forums have been talking about how to inject products into training for many months; but at some point the model operators will offer this directly.</p>
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<p>If there is a browser then that's all that's needed. Just point it to the LAN IP of your Jellyfin install.</p>
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