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New comment by bool3max in "Last.fm is now independent"

bool3max — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:22:22 +0000

For me it doesn't really compare: with Last.FM all I've gotta do is navigate to my profile and the song I'm _currently_ playing on Spotify is right at the top, I just click it and boom, I'm on the track's page.

Besides, you can't leave comments under specific tracks on RYM.

New comment by bool3max in "Last.fm is now independent"

bool3max — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:39:47 +0000

I love clicking on a random person's profile and seeing that they're actively using the account (as in, I can see they're currently listening to a specific song!) they've had for 20+ years. So cool.

New comment by bool3max in "Last.fm is now independent"

bool3max — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:38:40 +0000

For me last.fm's value lies in the community aspect: you can leave a comment on any artist, album, or individual track's page. There's not a single other place on the internet where I can go to to see what the people think of a song I'm listening to at any given moment (apart from perhaps YouTube, but we all know what the comments there are like - last.fm attracts a more sophisticated crowd by nature).

Unfortunately they have recently taken a rather drastic step towards undermining this community aspect of the site by gating the comment (or "shout", as they call it) box behind a "SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING BUTTON". Previously the top 5-10 comments would by default be visible on every artist/album/track page, but now there's an extra level of indirection you've go to go through to see or post comments. The move was never justified despite the vocal community's outrage on their forums [1], but I suspect it's got something to do with the site's poor performance, as previously comments failed to load about 30% of the time. Strange, yeah.

I've cancelled my Pro subscription a while ago as a result, but I'm excited to see what their independence from Paramount will bring.

[1]: https://support.last.fm/t/artist-shoutbox/117534

New comment by bool3max in "Copy Fail"

bool3max — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:59:46 +0000

It's not the effort or the lack thereof here that's the issue, but rather the message you're sending by using slop tools to create the design of the advertisement of your research. It looks cheap.

I'm sure that, at first glance, many more people would take this much more seriously had the authors gone with a style-less HTML page or something, and that'd require _less_ effort, not more.

New comment by bool3max in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

bool3max — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:45:10 +0000

Totally agree, the same fonts at the same pixel sizes often look massively different in different environments. I -love- macOS’ native font rendering, but have been unsuccessfull in emulating it on Linux :/

New comment by bool3max in "I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion"

bool3max — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:45:33 +0000

Why can you not enjoy both the journey and the destination? Surely you find some sub-disciplines of writing code more pleasant than others - can't you just keep doing those manually and offload/automate the rest to the machine?

New comment by bool3max in "Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics"

bool3max — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:23:46 +0000

Why is the comment calling out the biggest issue with this so heavily downvoted? Privacy is a massive concern with this.

New comment by bool3max in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

bool3max — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:39:06 +0000

You want the people that couldn’t create a competent TUI to make a messaging app?

New comment by bool3max in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

bool3max — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:03:57 +0000

… Or how hard it is to replace archaic software that’s extremely prevalent.

New comment by bool3max in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

bool3max — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:23:30 +0000

I agree, but surely your description is art in itself?

New comment by bool3max in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

bool3max — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:13:58 +0000

You're absolutely right -- that's the crux of the problem. There are no shortcuts, only future liabilities.

New comment by bool3max in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

bool3max — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:36:18 +0000

At a certain point I used some "windows 11 debloat script" and I haven't encountered a bit of Copilot or any other AI nonsense anywhere in Windows since.

New comment by bool3max in "LLM=True"

bool3max — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:13:15 +0000

That could be because Claude offers a dedicated /init command to generate a CLAUDE.md if it doesn't exist.

New comment by bool3max in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

bool3max — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:56:01 +0000

Farming interactions on twitter

New comment by bool3max in "The political effects of X's feed algorithm"

bool3max — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:06:23 +0000

I automatically tune out any blue checkmark post or reply and just assume it's an LLM responding to earn $.003

New comment by bool3max in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

bool3max — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:14:40 +0000

Are you sure they don’t get sent to Apple as part of some telemetry / diagnostics implementation?

New comment by bool3max in "Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)"

bool3max — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:13:39 +0000

That's wishful thinking. The reality is that your iGPU will be used to decode the video stream of an Unreal game running on a dedicated GPU on some cloud server which you pay a monthly subscription fee for.

New comment by bool3max in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

bool3max — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:36:10 +0000

What’s interesting to me is that no matter how “hidden” the AD indicator may be, my brain always seems to very quickly train itself to swiftly skip such posts when scrolling/browsing.

Or I could simply be another clueless victim of advertising. If only I could know the number of sponsored posts I never consciously acknowledge and am influenced by on the daily.

New comment by bool3max in "Open-source Zig book"

bool3max — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:35:43 +0000

We really are in the trenches. How is this garbage #1 on the front page of *HN* right now?

Even if it was totally legitimate, the "landing page" (its design) and the headline ("Learning Zig is not just about adding a language to your resume. It is about fundamentally changing how you think about software."?????) should discredit it immediately.

New comment by bool3max in "The Swift SDK for Android"

bool3max — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:42:41 +0000

> Flutter goes out of its way to do that work for you, aiming for a "Cupertino" theme that looks-and-feels pixel-perfect on iOS.

Key word _aiming_ lol