Hacker News: dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dantondwaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:33:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"]]>On my Paperwhite from 2018, the battery life is better on KOReader than on Amazon’s firmware.

]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:32:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545988dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545988https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545988<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"]]>I use it on my Kindle and I love it. I can use better and more dictionaries, the controls are ergonomic and customizable, I can easily override the font so that every ebook looks exactly the same. It supports epub and with it my Kindle is faster, the battery lasts longer and it supports dark mode on an old model while Amazon officially doesn’t. Amazing software all around!

]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:29:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545951dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545951<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index"]]>Ecosia is a non-profit, so being profitable is not their mission. Each month they publish a breakdown of their expenses and donations. In January they got around 4 million euros, so I’d say they are certainly successful at what they do.

]]>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:56:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318671dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318671<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Reflections on Palantir"]]>As a stylistic note, it’s funny that philosophy graduates often can’t help but mention that they are one at every opportunity they have, as if that carried a particular a certain intellectual prestige. They do that while perhaps missing the point: a critical mind does not need to announce its status and does not rely on declarations of prestige to be one.

It’s also funny how a marvelously rational philosophy graduate can then support the most banal moral positions. The life of the mind is quite something.

]]>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:30:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898555dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898555<![CDATA[Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone]]>Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/01/18/microsoft-just-renamed-office-to-microsoft-365-copilot-on-windows-11-for-everyone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726

Points: 45

# Comments: 47

]]>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:54:17 +0000https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/01/18/microsoft-just-renamed-office-to-microsoft-365-copilot-on-windows-11-for-everyone/dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Books I Loved Reading in 2024"]]>Sometimes the writing itself is a guide for the mind of the reader, and the indirect path prose can take is part of the message.

Not everything has to be written in digestible snippets of text.

]]>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:59:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566043dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566043https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566043<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Darktable 5.0.0"]]>While you're definitely right about it having a steep learning curve, it's also true that not many RAW editors do what Darktable does. Darktable aims at serving advanced, tecnically-minded users. It's complicated, but in a way, it's nice it is, for those who need it.

]]>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:42:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42558955dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42558955https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42558955<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture"]]>Still happens to me when using software that is GPU intensive, like Blender. When I drag a slider, I hear the buzzing of the GPU.

]]>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:30:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115322dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115322https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115322<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox"]]>They’ve been there for a long while, I don’t think they’re new.

]]>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:53:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41464260dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41464260https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41464260<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Kagi Assistant"]]>After being a user for a long while, my enthusiasm for Kagi has decreased. Their UI is lovely, but I feel in the end they are just repackaging other indexers. I’ve started using Google + Ublacklist and for me it works the same. I also don’t like how much they have focused on AI, given even their Quick Answer, when it’s wrong, it does so with such confidence it makes the tool quite untrustworthy.

]]>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:32:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41453807dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41453807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41453807<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "OpenAI is good at unminifying code"]]>There is a certain justice in the use of OpenAI as a name for their product, given that OpenAI has turned the generic technical GPT name into a brand.

]]>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:10:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389975dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389975https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389975<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Public Work: a search engine for public domain images"]]>Thank you for your work. While looking for references of past artifacts, this website has been so valuable.

]]>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:42:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200883dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200883https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200883<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"]]>Sorry, but I don’t think families who escaped in those times were exactly just innocent property owners.

]]>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:10:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41019957dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41019957https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41019957<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease"]]>I wish this worked on Windows too. In general, I'd love to see all those lovely GTK4 apps on Windows, they look so nice.

]]>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:09:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003256dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003256https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003256<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)"]]>Note that the latest version of this wallpaper is CGI. [1]

[1] https://mspoweruser.com/new-default-windows-10-light-theme-w...

]]>Thu, 23 May 2024 16:40:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456858dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456858<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Making a 3D modeler in C in a week"]]>The two best SDF modelers in existence are MagicaCSG[1] and Adobe Substance Modeler[2]. There are also a few others, like Womp, but those two are the most feature-complete. Blender is also adding them as part of geometry nodes, and there is also an add-on that is working on adding SDF for hard-surface.

[1] https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=magicacsg & https://www.patreon.com/magicavoxel

[2] https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d/apps/modeler.html

]]>Thu, 02 May 2024 22:13:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241961dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241961<![CDATA[Whistle­blow­er who accused Boeing supplier of ignoring defects dies]]>Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/5/2/whistleblower-joshua-dean-ex-worker-at-boeing-supplier-dies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233213

Points: 142

# Comments: 2

]]>Thu, 02 May 2024 06:13:02 +0000https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/5/2/whistleblower-joshua-dean-ex-worker-at-boeing-supplier-diesdantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233213https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233213<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Arc Browser for Windows, now generally available"]]>I do not understand how a browser can launch in 2024 without caring for privacy. Arc is probably the worst browser ever in this regard, making it mandatory to have an account.

]]>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:01:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214030dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214030https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214030<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "Arc Browser for Windows, now generally available"]]>Their interface on top of Chromium is written in Swift, so they're bundling all the stuff that is necessary to make Swift run on Windows, top of of Chromium.

]]>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:59:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214015dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214015https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214015<![CDATA[New comment by dantondwa in "'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue"]]>And the fact that humans have feelings does not mean we can’t use them as slaves when needed.

See? Ethics are like that: there must be something we give value too, if we want to stop somewhere and build something. In that case, the core value being raised is that the ability to be aware, suffer and have emotions is morally valuable.

]]>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:03:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105438dantondwahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105438