Hacker News: cabalamat

New comment by cabalamat in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

cabalamat — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:37:31 +0000

Working on boring accounts software.

New comment by cabalamat in "“Your frustration is the product”"

cabalamat — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:17:26 +0000

I don't even try to read newspaper sites, I just look at the Archive Today version.

New comment by cabalamat in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

cabalamat — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:08:46 +0000

I'm sure the UK government (which is against VPNs because they help people circumvent their Online Safety Act) will love them.

New comment by cabalamat in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

cabalamat — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:37:00 +0000

What does it mean when it surrounds a word in red? Is this signalling an error?

New comment by cabalamat in "AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU"

cabalamat — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:22:54 +0000

> and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment

So if an AI can't change its weights after deployment, it's not really an AI? That doesn't make sense.

As for the other criteria, they're so vague I think a thermostat might apply.

New comment by cabalamat in "You Wouldn't Download an AI"

cabalamat — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:19:48 +0000

> strongly suggestive that they have been trained on copyrighted materials

Given that everything -- including this comment -- is copyrighted unless it is (1) old or (2) deliberately put into the public domain, this is almost certainly true.

New comment by cabalamat in "Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?"

cabalamat — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:11:35 +0000

Putin. It solves the problem of Putin.

New comment by cabalamat in "Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?"

cabalamat — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:10:13 +0000

EU countries are not required to join the Euro.

They are required to say they will at some unspecified future date, but that's another matter.

New comment by cabalamat in "Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first"

cabalamat — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 02:08:06 +0000

> high-quality modern UI

I do think that some UIs are more complex than they need to be.

New comment by cabalamat in "Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first"

cabalamat — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:30:07 +0000

> Creating websites and apps is simply too complex

And the solution, of course, is a framework on top of a framework on top of JS and the DOM. OK, maybe I'm being too harsh.

New comment by cabalamat in "Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data"

cabalamat — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:53:51 +0000

This includes some railways but not others. For example the Edinburgh tram is missing.

New comment by cabalamat in "Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments"

cabalamat — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:05:17 +0000

Is it intentional that the 3D plan image doesn't show the positions of doors and windows? They seem kinda important to me.

New comment by cabalamat in "Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments"

cabalamat — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:03:59 +0000

I still can't get the "Walk" mode to work. (Firefox 129.0 on Ubuntu 22.04)

New comment by cabalamat in "Let's stop counting centuries"

cabalamat — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:11:04 +0000

You need to count from 0.

1 BC should be renamed year 0. Then the years 0-99 are the 0th century, the years 1900-1999 are the 19th century, etc.

To avoid confusion between new style and old style centuries, create a new word, "centan", meaning "100 years" and use cardinal instead of ordinal numbers, for conciseness. Then the years 1900-1999 are the 19-centan.

New comment by cabalamat in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

cabalamat — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:33:20 +0000

Imagine Ladybird is developed and is successful. Lots of people use it to read websites.

But then Badcorp takes the code and builds their own varient with extensions. Badcorp is big and has lots of market share. Lots of people use Badcorps's browser, and because lots of people are using it, lots of web developers code for it, including coding for its extensions.

Soon, lots of websites -- including Badcorp's own websites, and they have lots of popular ones -- use the extensions in the Badcorp browser.

Then people still using Ladybird can't use it for most websites. They have lost something.

New comment by cabalamat in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

cabalamat — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:56:41 +0000

But if they embrace, extend and extinguish, in a way that harms your users' freedom, that would not IMO be a good outcome.

New comment by cabalamat in "Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go"

cabalamat — Sat, 18 May 2024 16:51:18 +0000

I note form the demo that there's a "Flat" button that looks like normal text. This is a mis-feature and should be removed; controls should look different from things you can't interact with.

New comment by cabalamat in "YouTube's secret weapon to win the TV streaming wars: Its top creators"

cabalamat — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:09:20 +0000

> the general public still gravitates towards more general content

I'm not sure that's true. The vast majority of the stuff I watch on YouTube is way too niche to be on television.

New comment by cabalamat in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

cabalamat — Wed, 08 May 2024 09:44:56 +0000

Not if a small number of people are victims of multiple crimes.

New comment by cabalamat in "Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs"

cabalamat — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 01:57:09 +0000

> to the point that knowledgeable users have to tiptoe around all the UI that breaks styles

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.