Hacker News: ecolonsmak

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with new command editor"

ecolonsmak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:14:59 +0000

Is this supported through the chrome dev tools mcp server?

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition, commissioner finds"

ecolonsmak — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:35:05 +0000

They did $9.2 billion in revenue for the 2020 financial year. Quoted from the article, which is worth reading.

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

ecolonsmak — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:07:31 +0000

I built a small throwaway project that's kinda like that. https://flipr.social/

I should add the links for sharing as a feature update.

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Eurorack Knob Idea"

ecolonsmak — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:01:09 +0000

Knobs shouldn't be hard to use - hold down the knob that needs the adjustment and then drag in either of two directions to set the value. Maybe have a pop-up over the knob that displays the value as it's in use.

Show HN: Frog Snack

ecolonsmak — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:11:34 +0000

Weeks ago there was a submission describing an experiment with AI coding a simple game. I've been spinning up quick efforts using Claude Sonette and this is the most recent and polished example. It took about two hours of refining prompts to get it to behave as desired. Getting the global scoreboard functioning may have been the most challenging, but the rest of the project was all the AI output.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43697173

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecolonsmak in "I tried making artificial sunlight at home"

ecolonsmak — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:01:45 +0000

I've been tracking that on and off for years - https://parans.com/

Not sure it's really caught on, but it's out there

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Bocoup Is Now Worker-Owned"

ecolonsmak — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:21:26 +0000

anyone curious how employee ownership can work for large tech enterprises, a good starting point can be the material made available through the Beyster Institute - https://rady.ucsd.edu/why/centers/beyster/index.html

The founder built an $8 Billion dollar employee owned company, SAIC - and then allowed it to be carved up once he left having failed to ensure the culture of employee ownership was rooted as firmly with the board of directors as it was with the rank and file employees. I worked there for 12 years and saw firsthand the slide away from the ownership model, and it was instructive for me in my early career years.

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function"

ecolonsmak — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:26:37 +0000

Huh, are there speciality chewing sticks purpose made for this?

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

ecolonsmak — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:32:13 +0000

Should add how many working hours are left in the given quarter.

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Best Pens for 2025"

ecolonsmak — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:29:45 +0000

Wow! What fun reading this niche interest. The Pilot FriXion sounds fun, for spycraft, or to recreate the Acme disappearing reappearing ink from who framed Roger rabbit.

"If you accidentally make your writing disappear, you may be able to get it to reappear by placing the paper in a freezer that reaches below 14°F (-10°C)."

The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer

ecolonsmak — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://postgamecontent.com/post/771726085147803648/the-unisys-icon-one-canadian-xennials-memories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594387

Points: 80

# Comments: 35

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Minimalistic Beat Maker"

ecolonsmak — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:21:34 +0000

This is fun! I'd like to be able to drag the notes around the circle to align the beat as needed, or a snap to grid with resolution options - but does the thing as described, very nice!

New comment by ecolonsmak in "AI regulations are crony capitalism"

ecolonsmak — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:06:45 +0000

This whole article is predicated on AI investor engagement not falling off a cliff in the next 24 months.

Alzheimer's disease may be inherited more often than previously known

ecolonsmak — Mon, 06 May 2024 16:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/health/alzheimers-apoe4-gene-risk/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276273

Points: 30

# Comments: 18

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Speeding fine issued as result of daylight savings time calculation glitch"

ecolonsmak — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:15:50 +0000

Trucker fined $11,820 as time change resulted in his average speed recorded an hour faster than expected

Speeding fine issued as result of daylight savings time calculation glitch

ecolonsmak — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:15:50 +0000

Article URL: https://bigrigs.com.au/2024/03/11/safe-t-cam-daylight-saving-glitch-proves-costly-for-truckie/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759245

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ecolonsmak in "BrainGPT turns thoughts into text"

ecolonsmak — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:57:54 +0000

With half of individuals reportedly having no internal monologue, would this be useless with them? Or just render unintelligible results?

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)"

ecolonsmak — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:40:07 +0000

Are there not binoculars available that will take pictures?

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Everything We Know About 1970s Mainframe RPGs We Can No Longer Play"

ecolonsmak — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:45:31 +0000

Excellent book about the PLATO system, it goes into some of the game mechanics and social aspects - 'the friendly orange glow' by Brian Dear.

New comment by ecolonsmak in "Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco"

ecolonsmak — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:22:04 +0000

I assumed Otis was a indy dev library project and Acapulco to be a code name for a upcoming release.