Hacker News: ciberado

New comment by ciberado in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

ciberado — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:40:29 +0000

Still impressed. And, to be honest, I don't think that this problem matter much. Physical accuracy is very nice, but for example is not the most important aspect when I watch a fantasy movie. Or even a scifi one.

New comment by ciberado in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

ciberado — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:09:04 +0000

My Tailscale exit node disagrees ;)

New comment by ciberado in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

ciberado — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:02:11 +0000

Electric blankets. I put mine in the chair next to me and my cat will furiously ask me to turn it on each morning. Three hours of peace.

New comment by ciberado in "The Waymo World Model"

ciberado — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:43:27 +0000

That one was motivated by the need of controlling the app distribution channel, just like they keep the web as a second class citizen in their ecosystem nowadays.

New comment by ciberado in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

ciberado — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:22:42 +0000

Can you please point me to some interesting Lemmy instances? I haven't been able to find anyone with strong activity by myself. Appreciated.

New comment by ciberado in "Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode"

ciberado — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:28:59 +0000

If you are using VSCode against WSL2 or Linux and you have installed Docker, managing devcontainers is very straightforward. What I usually do is to execute "Connect to host" or "Connect to WSL", then create the project directory and ask VSCode to "Add Dev Container Configuration File". Once the configuration file is created, VSCode itself will ask you if you want to start working inside the container. I'm impressed with the user experience of this feature, to be honest.

Working with devcontainers from CLI wasn't very difficult [0], but I must confess that I only tested it once.

[0] https://containers.dev/supporting

New comment by ciberado in "John Varley has died"

ciberado — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:44:25 +0000

At thirteen or fourteen, I was lucky enough to read "The Persistence of Vision" in a science fiction collection published by Orbis at such an affordable price that I could buy every volume with my weekly allowance.

The stories had a powerful impact on me, because at that age concepts like the normalization of sex change or living a full life while being deaf-blind didn't fit into my mental frameworks. I enjoyed it from beginning to end, each and every one of the stories.

Two months ago (almost forty years later) my mother found the old book in our family library, and I've been able to reread it, enjoying it as much or more than the first time. I remembered the general plot of all the stories perfectly, which is proof of their intrinsic quality, and we can clearly see their influence on later authors like my beloved Doctorow.

The most curious thing is that some perspectives have shocked me again. Not the sex change, of course. Not raising children in a commune (whether on Earth or Mars). But sex between adults and minors is a topic that I'm sure makes me more uncomfortable now than when I was a kid.

So, for the second time, I can only be grateful to the author for giving me a good time without condescension or fear of presenting societies different from my own. For making me think. And feel.

New comment by ciberado in "Amazon EC2 M9g Instances"

ciberado — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:54:48 +0000

I think that is a joke that reflects pretty well the feeling of many people (me included) that miss the ten years ago AWS and their ability to amaze us with solutions for practical problems, instead of marketing claims on PowerPoints.

New comment by ciberado in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

ciberado — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:28:26 +0000

At work, we have the opportunity to choose. Many people are like you and find that going to the office helps their productivity and mental health. Most of us (including me) visit the office only a few times a year.

I think having the choice is great. Although it comes with its own challenges, it works really well when you establish the right culture.

New comment by ciberado in "Gemini 3"

ciberado — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:38:53 +0000

This is something that is happening to me too, and frankly I'm a little concerned. English is not my first language, so I use AI for checking and writing many things. And I spend a lot of time with coding tools. And now I need sometimes to do a conscient effort to avoid mimicking some LLM patterns...

New comment by ciberado in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

ciberado — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:18:02 +0000

Same here. Still, I prefer to wait instead of suffering those aggressive ads.

New comment by ciberado in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

ciberado — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:49:37 +0000

This doesn't correspond to my experience. The terminal is not faster than light, but good enough for my requirements, and I use it both locally and through VNC. May it be a problem with your VDI setup?

New comment by ciberado in "How to Give a Good Talk"

ciberado — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:58:43 +0000

Let me also share the English version of my own list of tips, tricks, checks, etc. I’ve been compiling it over the past 15 years while teaching, doing consulting, presenting results to clients, and so on. Every now and then, I find it useful to read it again to be clear on how to prepare presentations.

https://github.com/ciberado/100-trucos-para-hacer-mejores-pr...

I will be grateful if you help me to enrich it by opening Issues or creating PRs.

New comment by ciberado in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

ciberado — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:20:07 +0000

Amazon always competes with everybody. Clients, partners... Everybody.

My intuition is that the root cause it's their frugal culture (frugal as in cheap). They don't want to start a compensation race.

New comment by ciberado in "Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy"

ciberado — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:00:47 +0000

Also, public cloud machines come with IPs of well known ranges. It may be easy to spot them if required.

On the other side, this is the approach that I'm currently using, without any problem for my particular case.

New comment by ciberado in "Where's Firefox going next?"

ciberado — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:19:04 +0000

It allows using the browser as a very convenient and accessible programming platform for many types of applications, not only web-based. That's specially important for beginners, I think, as they can run (and create) all kind of projects just by opening a web page. But it is also very handy for more advanced users, as the wled project [1] shows.

And yes, there are security implications. But that's true for any other platform and as long as the users are asked for the proper permissions, I'm good with it.

[1] https://kno.wled.ge/

New comment by ciberado in "Show HN: Cpdown – Copy any webpage/YouTube subtitle as clean Markdown(LLM-ready)"

ciberado — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:45:18 +0000

Looking forward to installing the Firefox add-on :) I'm sure it is going to be useful for helping to prototype LLM workflows. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by ciberado in "Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees"

ciberado — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:31:56 +0000

You are absolutely right. I don’t have detailed knowledge about the internal administrative organization of U.S. states, and I simply assumed that a county housing a world-class city like Las Vegas would have a very large budget. Even if this initiative is primarily symbolic, it could still play a valuable role in shifting public perception about managing street temperatures.

New comment by ciberado in "Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why"

ciberado — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:25:16 +0000

I'm experimenting with both Thunderbird and MailSpring. The latter looks like a much more natural fit for someone used to GMail/OWA like me.

[1] https://www.getmailspring.com/

New comment by ciberado in "Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees"

ciberado — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:28:14 +0000

In Spain, a private company has planted almost 1 million trees in one year as what I guess is in part a marketing effort[1]. Barcelona itself counts with 1.5 million of exemplars.

So yes, you are probably right. 60K in 25 years is a PR note.

[1] https://www.iberdrola.com/press-room/news/detail/iberdrola-h...

[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/participacion/las-fotos-de-los-... (Spanish)