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New comment by cseleborg in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

cseleborg — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:25:16 +0000

No, thank you. LLMs are great for fuzzy things. But there are still a lot of things I do on my computer that are just a few mouse clicks or keyboard shortcuts away, achievable in less than 3 seconds. It'd be a disaster if that got removed.

New comment by cseleborg in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

cseleborg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:58:03 +0000

Isn't "why" what commit message bodies are for?

New comment by cseleborg in "Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs"

cseleborg — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:50:32 +0000

If you create a chatbot, you don't want screenshots of it on X helping you to commit suicide or giving itself weird nicknames based on dubious historic figures. I think that's probably the use-case for this kind of research.

New comment by cseleborg in "GNU Health"

cseleborg — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:55:13 +0000

> The easiest way to get MyGNUHealth is by installing the package from your favorite operating system / distribution. Many operating system distributions already ship MyGNUHealth.

I was actually curious to try this out on my phone, since they claim to support mobile devices.

If running a command-line package manager is the easiest way to install this on Android, I don't want to know what harder ways exist.

I find this is quite typical for open source projects. The community still hasn't really, truly adopted mobile. I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores? But if it's possible for servers, why is this so rare to have open source projects as app store vendors?

New comment by cseleborg in "A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn"

cseleborg — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:16:16 +0000

There is something to be said for trust here. I like that I can go straight to the imprint ("Impressum") to know with whom I'm dealing with online, where the company is located and who the CEO is. This is not always easy to decipher from the "Terms" pages companies in the US and elsewhere provide.

The downside for founders is that you have to divulge your address, unless you take additional steps to give yourself a mailbox address, but this can also be illegal if you're not careful. You can also rent an office of course, but for indie devs and freelancers, this is usually not financially viable.

New comment by cseleborg in "A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn"

cseleborg — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:07:15 +0000

That's a bit exaggerated. I did have a company, and while it did come with bureaucracy, the vast majority of my time was spent on what you expect a founder to do (sales, marketing, product, etc.).

New comment by cseleborg in "Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability?"

cseleborg — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:03:25 +0000

This piqued my interest. Can you elaborate?

New comment by cseleborg in "AnandTech Farewell"

cseleborg — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:41:35 +0000

There's an excellent podcast called Acquired with a 3-part episode covering the birth and evolution of NVIDIA, highly recommended.

New comment by cseleborg in "AnandTech Farewell"

cseleborg — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:39:19 +0000

Slackware!!! Dang, I had forgotten that name. That was the first distro I installed as well. Xeyes and stuff. Oh, dear...

New comment by cseleborg in "Start presentations on the second slide"

cseleborg — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:44:32 +0000

This very technique is why I loved Salman Khan's teaching videos on Khan Academy so much. On any topic, he goes straight to the content, no intro whatsoever.

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

cseleborg — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:46:42 +0000

That's a great answer, very helpful. I just picked up Avalonia for a test drive. Why do you think Uno is better than Avalonia for mobile?

New comment by cseleborg in "Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct"

cseleborg — Mon, 06 May 2024 06:03:31 +0000

The strain of bacteria was described as "notoriously drug-resistant". It didn't sound to me like the bacteria became drug-resistant in space.

New comment by cseleborg in "A useful front-end confetti animation library"

cseleborg — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:27:17 +0000

The developer has of course provided a print stylesheet (expect no less from a pro). Just print it, frame it, hang it up on the wall and voilà! A no-JS confetti demo right there in your living room.

New comment by cseleborg in "The purge of German science in 1933"

cseleborg — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:41:01 +0000

String theory has, however, been successfully applied to oranges. Here in Germany, these are now routinely sold in nets, made of some sort of string. QED

New comment by cseleborg in "Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms"

cseleborg — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:33:31 +0000

Should we send them a warning? Maybe they haven't spotted it yet? It's our junk after all...

New comment by cseleborg in "How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?"

cseleborg — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:23:13 +0000

I agree. I'm writing a desktop app based on a web stack and I'm agonizing over tiny details in how tabbing should work and how the arrow keys should interact with lists etc. I don't know if my UI is any good, but I know that good UI takes a tremendous amount of attention to detail.

New comment by cseleborg in "The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam"

cseleborg — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:40:40 +0000

But we'll all be dead one day! It's a compelling idea that if something happens to me and I lose touch with all my relatives, there might still be someone at my funeral.

New comment by cseleborg in "YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI"

cseleborg — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:02:31 +0000

This is interesting because it highlights the trust we've always placed in real-looking images. It brings real-looking images down to the same level as text.

It's always been possible to write fake news. We've never had to add disclaimers at the top of textual content, e.g. "This text is made to sound like it describes real events, but contains invented and/or inaccurate facts." We feel the need to add this to video because until now, if it looked real, it probably was (of course, "creative" editing has existed for a long time, but that's still comparatively easy to spot).

It's the end of a media era, really.

New comment by cseleborg in "Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law"

cseleborg — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:13:29 +0000

> I agree with this. We recently removed all tracking (eg google analytics) from our homepage because we didn't want to have a cookie banner. The result: everything is going fine. Turns out we didn't need the tracking at all. Should've done it way sooner.

Thank you. The industry needs more such testimonies showing that letting go of tracking is okay and won't sink the ship.

New comment by cseleborg in "Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law"

cseleborg — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:57:39 +0000

There are a bazillion unclear laws all over the world. It's common practice, really, to formulate things a little bit generally, and let practitioners (lawyers and courts) figure out the details.

In this case, the unclear point is around the notion of "legitimate interest". I guess something like fraud prevention can be thought of legitimate interest. But ad companies just said, "well, we make money out of tracking the hell out of users, so it's in our legitimate interest to keep doing it, and never mind that the whole point of the law was explicitly to rein in our industry's nasty behaviour."

So now law practitioners how to hash out amongst themselves what "legitimate interest" actually means in 2024, and this of course can change in 2034, so you write the law to not have to be updated every time the tech industry invents new ways of being naughty.