Hacker News: cosmojg

New comment by cosmojg in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

cosmojg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:26:12 +0000

A bar in my Italian family's hometown sells beers for one or two Euros a pop. The gelateria down the street charges a bit more for ice cream, though.

New comment by cosmojg in "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"

cosmojg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:49:05 +0000

Ooh, this is great! Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite open-source Android apps: Sky Map! https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid

New comment by cosmojg in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

cosmojg — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:41:06 +0000

I think it's more likely that the big studios will start rolling out trivial offline modes (less risky) rather than overhaul their revenue models (more risky).

New comment by cosmojg in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

cosmojg — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:54:47 +0000

This is true of all markets.

New comment by cosmojg in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

cosmojg — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:21:17 +0000

They still come in real handy when you're stuck hacking away in a windowless SCIF.

New comment by cosmojg in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

cosmojg — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:42:21 +0000

How are you running the base model?

New comment by cosmojg in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

cosmojg — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:39:11 +0000

Look up whatever regional burns[1] exist in your country or neighboring countries, and attend one of those. Ideally, join whatever online community exists around it first, and then reach out to some of the camps that interest you about joining and helping with whatever it is they like to do. I love Burning Man, but I can honestly say that I've had a lot more fun at my local regional burns than I've had at the big burn.

[1] https://burnerguides.com/europe-burner-events

New comment by cosmojg in "Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets"

cosmojg — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:17:56 +0000

That's not a bad idea. It actually sounds like it could be a very useful hedge/insurance play.

New comment by cosmojg in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

cosmojg — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:09:27 +0000

This is certainly bad news, but at least an escape hatch exists (the "advanced flow") and it appears to be a one-time pain in the ass. If that changes, I hope GrapheneOS and friends[1] can get Google Pay or some alternative working so I can comfortably jump ship, as I rely pretty heavily on the ability to pay with my phone.

[1] https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

New comment by cosmojg in "IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00"

cosmojg — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:31:45 +0000

Oh wow, yeah, this is clearly a parody of that IPv8 draft. Just look at the ASCII tables! I suppose it's a commentary on how low the bar is for submitting drafts to the IETF.

New comment by cosmojg in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

cosmojg — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:05:56 +0000

Also, isn't insider trading the whole point of prediction markets? They were originally conceptualized as information aggregators.

New comment by cosmojg in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

cosmojg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:51:31 +0000

This is mine: https://cosmo.red

Inspired by: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com and https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

New comment by cosmojg in "I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours"

cosmojg — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:31:03 +0000

How comfortable is it? Do you have to wear it particularly tightly around your wrist or can you let it hang a little loose like a watch?

New comment by cosmojg in "FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site"

cosmojg — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:03:14 +0000

No, the Internet Archive is an organization that runs a web archive at archive.org while archive.is is an alternative domain for archive.today, a competing web archive run by an individual.

New comment by cosmojg in "Just let me select text"

cosmojg — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:17:20 +0000

I must admit, one of my favorite recent-ish Android[1] features is that all text is made selectable in the app switcher using on-device OCR. Regardless of the app[2], you can just swipe up and start selecting text.

[1] ...at least on the Google Pixel.

[2] ...unless it's a banking app and it blocks permissions for screenshots and similar things.

New comment by cosmojg in "Open models by OpenAI"

cosmojg — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:48:56 +0000

Have you tried Google's Gemma-3n-E4B-IT in their AI Edge Gallery app? It's the first local model that's really blown me away with its power-to-speed ratio on a mobile device.

See: https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery/releases/tag/1.0.3

New comment by cosmojg in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

cosmojg — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:44:26 +0000

The voice sounds great! I find it quite aesthetically pleasing, but it's far from genderless.

New comment by cosmojg in "How to increase your surface area for luck"

cosmojg — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:25:12 +0000

Host an event! My friends and I host a "project night" every Thursday where we invite people to bring whatever personal projects[1] they're working on, and we strongly encourage plus-ones. As long as you have a venue (we started in a bar about 45 minutes west of Boston) and know at least one or two other people who are willing to consistently show up every week and you all put the work into inviting new people that you like and encouraging the people you like to invite new people that they like, the momentum will build on itself such that you'll inevitably find yourself with a thriving community, undoubtedly meeting at least one or two totally new people (on average) every week!

[1] Projects have included: crocheting a bunch of adorable little stuffed cows, developing a privacy-first webapp for visualizing social graphs, painting the cosmos with oil on a wall-sized canvas, engineering the control system for a human-scale vending machine, building an automatic water turret which uses image recognition to shoot squirrels with water when they climb on a bird feeder, planning and beta testing LARPs, board games, social experiments, and so on and so forth.

New comment by cosmojg in "New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes"

cosmojg — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:31:32 +0000

To my eyes, it looked like TV snow made up of blue and green particles! Twas quite delightful.

New comment by cosmojg in "Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model"

cosmojg — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:20:18 +0000

For what it's worth, I think Kimi's modified MIT license still meets the OSI definition of "open source." For example, the explicitly OSI-approved "Attribute Assurance License"[1] contains similar wording:

> each time the resulting executable program or a program dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author’s attribution information

[1] https://opensource.org/license/attribution-php