Hacker News: edgarvaldes

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:22:45 +0000

Agree. Any hobby can become superficial content for Instagram, especially if your only or main source of information is online channels. But real communities exist, and you need to be in the real world to experience them firsthand.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

edgarvaldes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:08:17 +0000

Super cool. I love how baseball tends to be easily represented through text.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

edgarvaldes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:04:06 +0000

"But they will", "They do, but they don't know", "They do, indirectly"

I don't get these comments.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:46:53 +0000

Almost all opinion pieces are like that. They lack information density, but some readers (like me) like them that way. Otherwise, I'd only read one-line summaries.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

edgarvaldes — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:18:26 +0000

Cool. Big fan of dtmts.com myself.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:10:25 +0000

Yes, please. A general-purpose filter like the one on 4chan would also work.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:33:23 +0000

> the obsession with childbearing

To be fair, I think all species are obsessed with producing offspring, regardless of culture.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:09:12 +0000

So exactly as we "modern" people are to the Amish, yet the Amish persist in its way of life.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:00:27 +0000

Some have expressed the opinion in this forum that the future of software lies in programs that are created and adapted at runtime, using genAI. I don't know how far we are from that.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

edgarvaldes — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:15:26 +0000

Yes, I'm surprised no one else has commented on this. Some regulations require that at least some backups be located in the same country or region.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:46:19 +0000

No numbers provided, but from TFA:

>In Slovenia, this has resulted in so-called "fuel tourism", as drivers from neighbouring countries, particularly Austria, take advantage of the lower, regulated prices here.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:23:11 +0000

Gambling may be bad on its own, but the gambling and advertising combo are a very harmful combination IMHO.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "So where are all the AI apps?"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:18:26 +0000

Hard agree. A 10x productivity increase would bleed outside the personal or internal use cases, even without effort.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:47:59 +0000

Idealism. Optimistic responses are based on a strong dose of positive idealism.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "FFmpeg 8.1"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:53:55 +0000

One of the best open-source tools out there. I'm a frequent user of Plex, Jellyfin, Tunarr, local music files, etc. I use it weekly to extract subtitles, trim videos, convert music formats, and remove audio tracks. After writing the previous paragraph, I realized I've never donated to the project; it's time to change that.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:43:07 +0000

As a non-American, I find it interesting that so many comments in the thread insist that "No, American healthcare is not that expensive compared to that of other countries; no, the costs of the American healthcare system are not high due to greed and capitalism; and no, the American healthcare system cannot be cheaper or better, it is not perfect, but it works as it is."

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:21:14 +0000

For me, the best solution is a mixed one. My Plex has a curated list of tv shows and movies. Then I have Tunarr for "live" channels from own my selection. Best of both worlds.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:42:52 +0000

It's a good test, no doubt. Many engineers are convinced that SaaS is practically dead, since all companies can vibecode their way to a lesser dependence on external (and paid!) software.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:55:51 +0000

Is this a solved problem using the right tools?

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

edgarvaldes — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:46:47 +0000

You might lose context of a specific project over time, but not of the language itself. When you're no longer involved with the project's implementation or the programming language itself, what remains?