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New comment by edu in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

edu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:15:24 +0000

I’ve recently started making bread, at the moment still with fresh or bakers yeast and planning to grow my own sourdough.

It’s not very niche, but as a hobby it’s pretty fulfilling. It allows for a lot of play, and you end with something tasty. Also, makes for a great small gift for friends and family.

New comment by edu in "People Love to Work Hard"

edu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:30:30 +0000

Agree. Work hard, but also family hard, “friend” hard, play hard, and in general just live hard.

Edit: and no one likes to work hard for peanuts or under threat of being fired

New comment by edu in "White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit"

edu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:22:30 +0000

Obviously your support chatbot with talk to your flavor of clawd that will call Claude Code that will code a solution that will be reviewed by Codex that will merge and release it and then will ping clawd that will send an email to the user announcing that their issue has been fixed. /s just in case

New comment by edu in "AI coding is gambling"

edu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:17:23 +0000

Great analogy, I’m saving it!

New comment by edu in "The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era"

edu — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:48:31 +0000

I’m in the same place and share the same experience with you.

Album art gets my 2.5 y.o. engaged with the music and uses what he remembers to ask for certain albums.

Also, he loves to look at the booklets and ask about it.

In the future, I want to get a DVD/Blue-Ray player to get the same experience for movies.

New comment by edu in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

edu — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:55:21 +0000

New comment by edu in "It's not finance, it's your pensions"

edu — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:02:56 +0000

Hugged to death?

New comment by edu in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

edu — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:08:24 +0000

I think it would be aprópiate if @dang added a (2016) to the title

New comment by edu in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

edu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:10:31 +0000

The also have a nice trimming feature where you can trim the video by editing the transcript

New comment by edu in "South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity"

edu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:56:50 +0000

Same in Barcelona.

New comment by edu in "South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity"

edu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:55:34 +0000

We already have daycare and schools, that take care of kids for 8h. And then there's the thing that usually parents like to spend time with their children.

It would be simply better (probably harder) to improve society so one could have a great work-life balance.

New comment by edu in "Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything"

edu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:43:38 +0000

New comment by edu in "Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything"

edu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:41:06 +0000

This is intriguing, but honestly the first thought that came to my mind reading the home page was “jack of all trades, master of none”.

Take it as constructive criticism, but I didn’t learn why should I try over my current tools of choice.

In any case, best of lucks with it!

New comment by edu in "The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out"

edu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:35:25 +0000

I actually think that AI is a great use case for writing emails, starting from a draft or list of what you want to say and getting it polished to a professional tone. You need to prompt it correctly, review and iterate so it doesn’t become slop, but very useful.

OTOH, I’d never use it to write emails to friends and family, but then I don’t need to sound professional.

New comment by edu in "The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy"

edu — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:44:01 +0000

Code absolutely belongs there. Like any technology (be it printing presses, weapons, or algorithms) code is neutral by design, but not by impact.

It can bolster democracies or undermine them. The real agency lies with those who wield it. And it's rarely the coders. It's the leaders, the platforms, the systems that choose how code is deployed.

New comment by edu in "End of Japanese community"

edu — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:54:43 +0000

As somebody from Spain, I concur.

New comment by edu in "Boring is what we wanted"

edu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:52:19 +0000

iPhone 12 mini here, I replaced the battery last year, and still going strong. Actually, I fear the day I'm forced to upgrade due not having the mini size available anymore...

New comment by edu in "This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]"

edu — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:22:42 +0000

That's a fun take, similar to the classic XKCD 538: Security. https://xkcd.com/538/

New comment by edu in "Show HN: I built an 8-bit CPU simulator in Python from scratch"

edu — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:32:03 +0000

Agree, I was checking the code and the first thing that I notice were the extremely detailed doc comments even for simple methods. i.e. the memory[0] class.

0. https://github.com/sql-hkr/tiny8/blob/main/src/tiny8/memory....

New comment by edu in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

edu — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:13:13 +0000

Yes, it feels scammy. Like you, I've no problem paying for software if it seems worth it. I've payed a few times for Highcharts (different companies) and I did gladly and without hesitation, it also feels that they're being honest about their business model.