Hacker News: chr15m

New comment by chr15m in "Rsync and outrage"

chr15m — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:44:25 +0000

> Marge, those people chased us with pitchforks and torches. TORCHES! At four in the afternoon!

New comment by chr15m in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

chr15m — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:09:42 +0000

I constantly find myself accidentally selling your product to people just because I find it so useful myself. It's great, please don't ruin it, and thanks for making it. Congratulations on the raise and best of luck!

New comment by chr15m in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

chr15m — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:20:02 +0000

> The point is the Foundation is rich. Seventeen-plus months of operating runway in the bank.

I don't think "rich" is the correct way to describe this. It sounds like a lot of money but there are a lot of expenses and people to pay. Seventeen months sounds fragile - one long-ish recession and they're toast. I hope they survive.

New comment by chr15m in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

chr15m — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:49:01 +0000

> the more barriers there are the better

No. Barriers have tradeoffs beyond simply safety. Safety is often possible without these barriers. False dichotomy.

New comment by chr15m in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

chr15m — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:46:38 +0000

Yes it's often a problem. I am a Joplin user. Many times I have thought "X would be so much easier if these were just Markdown files on disk." Joplin has an API you can use, but it's annoying. Files on disk would be better.

> if you want always direct edit access and do it often why not then a simple plain text

I like the Joplin UI and features. I also have use-cases where I want plain text access outside Joplin. Obsidian shows its possible to have both (but I also want software libre).

Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training

chr15m — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13829

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231633

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chr15m in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

chr15m — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:58:24 +0000

This new version is not something you'll be able to run locally. It's a "cloud" model and likely too beefy if they do release the weights.

New comment by chr15m in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

chr15m — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:39:45 +0000

Side note: don't underestimate how much literal, physical time and energy "unfold" implies. Proofs occur on physical substrates.

New comment by chr15m in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"

chr15m — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:57:02 +0000

> iOS

Speaking from experience, it requires a disproportionate amount of effort to get web audio apps working reliably across different versions of iOS.

New comment by chr15m in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

chr15m — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:52:42 +0000

It saves to sqlite though, not markdown files you can edit on disk.

Do less so you can do better (2020)

chr15m — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:12:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/do-less-so-you-can-do-it-better-3ea77e92b4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173973

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by chr15m in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

chr15m — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:23:02 +0000

Never mind the Pollocks.

New comment by chr15m in "Show HN: Embedded Spritesheet PNG Standard"

chr15m — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:49:30 +0000

It's true, editors can cause a problem if they strip the metadata.

The idea is to only add the metadata as a final step when you export the spritesheet, so at that point there's no need to edit further.

Show HN: Embedded Spritesheet PNG Standard

chr15m — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:04:49 +0000

Hi HN!

2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want.

I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and tools and libraries can read the metadata directly from it. That's what this spec/standard is about.

The linked page proposes a standard, describes the technique's details, and provides an online tool for inlining metadata into the sheet. Hope it's useful!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119503

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by chr15m in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

chr15m — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:53:34 +0000

> what do you actually want?

To make gatekeeper happy without paying a large amount of money and own Apple hardware (same thing).

New comment by chr15m in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

chr15m — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:51:04 +0000

There are many cases of signed & notarised software that pwned users.

New comment by chr15m in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

chr15m — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:35:04 +0000

PR most welcome for https://github.com/chr15m/awesome-clojure-likes

New comment by chr15m in "All means are fair except solving the problem"

chr15m — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:09:21 +0000

Backwards compatibility is golden.

New comment by chr15m in "ClojureScript Gets Async/Await"

chr15m — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:12:36 +0000

Epic win for cljs, congratulations!

New comment by chr15m in "Knitting bullshit"

chr15m — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:27:49 +0000

> No – knitting bullshit bothers me

This is a great article. The presence of this single emdash threw me off for a bit though!