Hacker News: duiker101

New comment by duiker101 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

duiker101 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:44:32 +0000

Let's not give anyone ideas!

New comment by duiker101 in "Show HN: The bedtime – Another little bedside clock I made"

duiker101 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:02:37 +0000

Ah! Fantastic! I have been wanting to do this exact same project. I have been held back by trying to choose a screen. I want something REALLY dim at night.

In the end, I created a custom watchface for an amazfit band 7 that I had lying around and that worked decently, actually.

New comment by duiker101 in "Google Earth imagery reveals spoiler for yet-to-air episode of TV show Pluribus"

duiker101 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:42:58 +0000

I'm really curious what it is, but I don't want to spoil myself, so I'll just come back to this after I see the episode!

New comment by duiker101 in "Affinity Studio now free"

duiker101 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:48:22 +0000

How long before that's no longer the case?

New comment by duiker101 in "Roast my landing page"

duiker101 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:51:52 +0000

Why do you still think it's ok to override default scrolling behavior just to create a buggy mess so that is scrolls "smooth"?

There is a bug, if you scroll down and then press the home icon, it takes you to the top, but if you start scrolling again it goes back to the original position. Please do not override default scrolling

Page looks nice tho

New comment by duiker101 in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

duiker101 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:53:17 +0000

That was a long time ago. In 2014 they took a bite of the poisoned apple and received 40 mil. I can imagine that's where the rat race began, till they sold to this MediaLab company in 2021.

I can imagine anything of value, both culturally and technologically, is just being squeeze for any possible penny.

New comment by duiker101 in "Best Vibe Coding Tools"

duiker101 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:26:35 +0000

I am pretty AI-skeptic. But I just tried to create a little tool with Junie, and I'm quite in shock. It was SO good I barely had to do anything.

Personally, I still think that they shouldn't be relied upon too heavily, but if you already know what you are doing, some of these tools can definitely give you a big boost.

New comment by duiker101 in "Googler... ex-Googler"

duiker101 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:00:10 +0000

People are more important than businesses

New comment by duiker101 in "California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers"

duiker101 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:22:51 +0000

"We have identified that you are at an increased risk of cancer. To ensure we give you the best care your insurance premium has now gone up 20x, you are welcome."

New comment by duiker101 in "RustDesk – open-source alternative to TeamViewer"

duiker101 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:57:08 +0000

I am not sure about a "professional" experience. But my personal one is that I had my parents install it on their machine years ago, and since it's running stable and without great changes or weird banner or any other silly stuff that would break the flow.

I can log in remotely and help them. It is also easy to install and run, which is also bonus points.

For me, this smooth experience has been a godsent. When I used TeamViewer I feel like every time I would use it, sometimes months apart, it would break or something would change.

New comment by duiker101 in "Show HN: A remake of my 2004 PDA video game"

duiker101 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:52:22 +0000

Very cool! I'm actually curious to learn more about how the bin conversion works. The pack files are pretty interesting!

New comment by duiker101 in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

duiker101 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:36:14 +0000

For those unaware, this comment is referring to premium bonds in the UK[1]. It is a very interesting system, I agree! But there are quite a few parts of the system that make it way more fair than a lottery.

Most obviously, it doesn't cost to enter. So the most you can "lose" is a missed interest income from putting the money in another source.

After that, it's definitely the fact that the algorithm is designed to both pay a certain percentage of people and always have specific return. [1]

You are also limited to how much you can enter to 50k.

With all that in mind, at the end of the day it feels like many small wins over time, with the super random chance of occasionally having a big-ish payout.

It's definitely designed to feel like a lottery, but in reality is way more akin to normal savings than a lottery.

[1] https://www.nsandi.com/products/premium-bonds

New comment by duiker101 in "Show HN: Tududi – A Minimalist, Open-Source Task and Project Management Tool"

duiker101 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 23:07:15 +0000

Why is it? Doesn't sound particularly unfortunate to me

Bots use YT comments to find private info [video]

duiker101 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:29:36 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769293

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by duiker101 in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

duiker101 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:56:29 +0000

Fantastic! Only comment I could possibly have is that the cats page needs more pics of cats.

New comment by duiker101 in "Jailbreaking RabbitOS"

duiker101 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:33:33 +0000

HN has actually a page entirely dedicated to posts that went overlooked and are therefore invited to resubmit

https://news.ycombinator.com/invited

Baking the Most Average Chocolate Chip Cookie (2018)

duiker101 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:20:52 +0000

Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2018/05/cookies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40866843

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by duiker101 in "Remote shell to a Raspberry Pi at 39,000 ft"

duiker101 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:25:37 +0000

For those like me that were wondering what the resource monitor shown in the photo is, it's btop.

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

New comment by duiker101 in "Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe"

duiker101 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:47:35 +0000

oh no, the whole reason why I like Affinity products is the pricing model. I can't imagine that will last long.

New comment by duiker101 in "My 2024 Setup"

duiker101 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:01:53 +0000

install the plugin and enjoy? what specifically is keeping you?

if you just type in the search bar it will automatically use Kagi so there isn't really any friction.