Hacker News: danielEM

New comment by danielEM in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

danielEM — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:41:37 +0000

You saying it like there are no other easy ways to launder money. Every time I walk by a cleaning service or hairdresser in a less dense populated area I wonder if they are involved in money launderinng.

New comment by danielEM in "Your phone is an entire computer"

danielEM — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:59:06 +0000

Why would you allow your phone to be a computer if you can sell a computer AND a phone? Allowing "random" OS to be installed on your phone would mean loosing control over your phone (including spying, gathering statistical data to influence major decisions, ability to paralyze communication of your country etc etc)

Android phones are nothing but linux phones and video output (DP over USB-C, earlier MHL) is for many years already included in many phones. I would love to carry one device with everything on it. I would be very happy if that device was like a laptop with detachable core, that acts as phone.

New comment by danielEM in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

danielEM — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:09:21 +0000

> problems because Dell sourced the absolute cheapest stuff for their computers;

Price itself has nothing to cause problems, it is either bad design or false or incomplete data on datasheets or all of it. Please STOP spreading this narrative, the right thing is to make ads, datasheets, marketing materials etc, etc to tell you the truth that is necessary for you to make proper decision as client/consumer.

New comment by danielEM in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

danielEM — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:44:34 +0000

It is finally a time to replace laptops with phones and laptop like docking stations. With hardware prices you'll save on buying twice, keep all your stuff in one device etc. That is what any disrupting company should head for.

New comment by danielEM in "Microgpt"

danielEM — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:09:21 +0000

Well, I also think that there is a lot that we process 'in background' and learn on beforehand in order to learn how to drive and then drive. I think the most 'fair' would be to figure out absolute lowest age of kids that would allow them to perform well on streets behind steering wheel.

New comment by danielEM in "74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology"

danielEM — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:36:02 +0000

Actually social media is relatively easy to replace and as such not as big threat to European economy as other types of service. The biggest threat from social media is manipulation and collection of data that can be used to manipulate.

New comment by danielEM in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

danielEM — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:36:08 +0000

Benefits are bigger than anyone realizes. Even if it would cost same it would still be money that are to circulate further in local economy.

New comment by danielEM in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

danielEM — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:11:19 +0000

Looks like advertisement of codeberg - worked, got my account there

The message itself could be a bit nicer however. I agree with what it says but not with how it is written.

New comment by danielEM in "Why is Zig so cool?"

danielEM — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:00:01 +0000

@pron If all you mean is there is more syntax to D than to zig to achieve same/similar thing then you may be a bit aggresive on how you communicate it.

Ask HN: How much money do you burn on AI APIs with coding agents?

danielEM — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:42:06 +0000

If you're a software developer and using coding agents "all the time" for your work please share here your bills and APIs you're working with.

I was easily able to burn $1 a minute with deepinfra. But I have just tried it only a couple of times.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506270

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by danielEM in "VR Headsets Are Better Than Ever and No One Seems to Care"

danielEM — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:52:19 +0000

Inconvenient, most of the times freaking expensive or vendor locked, no privacy - these are major reasons why it doesn't work out.

A good VR headset will be most probably a form of wireless screen (not a beafy computer) that is simple, lightweight (at most 200g in front of your face), cheap enough so you'll be able to wear it with you and not worry that something happens to it or be able to afford it for each member of your family without major effort and most of all - it should be replacing computer/laptop screen for daily tasks.

We could do it today, big tech is just holding us back with their vision of products

New comment by danielEM in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"

danielEM — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:36:45 +0000

Ryzen AI max+ 395 128GB can do 256GBps so lets put all these "ifs" to bed once for all. That is absolutely no brainer to drop more RAM as long as there is enough bits in address space of physical hardware. And there usually is, as same silicons are branded and packaged differently for commercial market and for consumer market. Check up how chinese are doubling 4090s RAM from 24 to 48GB.

New comment by danielEM in "Hacking birds to store images;-) [video]"

danielEM — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:20:00 +0000

Interesting video about birds and sound

Hacking birds to store images;-) [video]

danielEM — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:20:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44696347

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by danielEM in "Philips now offers 3D printable replacement parts [video]"

danielEM — Sun, 11 May 2025 08:13:38 +0000

That is a bit unexpected from company that produces light bulbs (pun intended ;-) ), but deserves spreading that idea out.

Philips now offers 3D printable replacement parts [video]

danielEM — Sun, 11 May 2025 08:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85lZdNStGs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952252

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by danielEM in "Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days"

danielEM — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:15:50 +0000

Google saying they gonna reboot my phone for my safety - not suspicious at all ;)

New comment by danielEM in "JSLinux"

danielEM — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 06:37:06 +0000

100% agree, would like to meet that guy one day

New comment by danielEM in "I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses"

danielEM — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:51:59 +0000

Didn't try Quest 3, but biggest disadvantages of quest 2 are:

- half a kilo hanging in front of your face

- working in the summer w/o air conditioning is a nightmare

New comment by danielEM in "I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses"

danielEM — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:37 +0000

Having nreal air. It is so freaking inconvenient to wear for longer that every time I see someone posting how they replaced regular screen with ar glasses or vr (yes, tried also Quest 2) I laugh HARD!