Hacker News: el_sinchi

New comment by el_sinchi in "Just the Browser"

el_sinchi — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:50:52 +0000

I still use Firefox but I, frankly, feel it's stagnated. On mobile I'm in the process of changing habits to something else (auto reflex sometimes still opens Ffox, but lately I'm circling back to opera, which I stopped using on desktop what... 20 years ago?)

All this to say, I don't think Mozilla is doing much with all the telemetry data it's gathered all these years

New comment by el_sinchi in "Why we’re dropping Basecamp"

el_sinchi — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 01:44:09 +0000

Yep. Free market and all.

It's just that your feelings are so fragile that you can't stand having different points of view. And this react childishly

New comment by el_sinchi in "Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0"

el_sinchi — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:34:28 +0000

you can use an opensource tool for scanning, like NAPS2, which will let you rotate before you mail it to paperless-ngx

New comment by el_sinchi in "Argentina's Milei backs away from dollarisation"

el_sinchi — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:26:44 +0000

Mwahahahaha

I guess all the miles voters will start doing weird explanations like magaqs in USA , to justify it

New comment by el_sinchi in "Show HN: Launching QRGen, a Self-Hosted Bulk QR Code Generation Service"

el_sinchi — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:39:07 +0000

Demo confused me. So you add one by one text/url and then the codes are generated add images on a zip?

New comment by el_sinchi in "Show HN: Launching QRGen, a Self-Hosted Bulk QR Code Generation Service"

el_sinchi — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:36:57 +0000

Bulk as in.. Sequentially generated urls?

Foo.com/path/doc001.htm 02 003 etc?

New comment by el_sinchi in "Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk (2015)"

el_sinchi — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 02:14:55 +0000

Got a box now. They're good but nowhere the hype, I've seen brands costing a tenth writing almost as good

New comment by el_sinchi in "What tool do you use for bookmarking?"

el_sinchi — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:57:17 +0000

I?ve tried linkace, linkding, roughly the same, I use linkding as my main "save a link to check out later"

also tried benotes, which I find better designed visually, but is a bit buggy atm

New comment by el_sinchi in "Show HN: Forte, an open-source self-hosted music platform with lots of features"

el_sinchi — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:10:31 +0000

Well.. do you have a comparison to navidrome for example? I appreciate your enthusiasm but before I migrate my library from navidrome , what are the benefits?

New comment by el_sinchi in "Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers"

el_sinchi — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:43:53 +0000

are you me?

I've been using my navidrome instance for the past 6 months (on those free oracle machines), and I can't be more happy about it, specially with android app thing. Seedbox provides fresh stream heh of new music I'm actually interestd on

New comment by el_sinchi in "A math problem generator"

el_sinchi — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:03:03 +0000

yet, he's right.

these are "exercises", not "problems" they don't involve creative thinking. look up the difference on any text about "problem solving"

New comment by el_sinchi in "Jack Dorsey donates to develop decentralized social network protocol [pdf]"

el_sinchi — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:46:31 +0000

14 Bitcoin?

What's that nowadays? Like 50 USD?

New comment by el_sinchi in "Show HN: Explore Useful Things on Internet"

el_sinchi — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:23:48 +0000

I ain't blindly subscribing to any webpage. show some samples

Elon Musk Today

el_sinchi — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://elonmusk.today/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622555

Points: 47

# Comments: 45

New comment by el_sinchi in "Ask HN: What are your thoughts on students replacing their notebooks with iPads?"

el_sinchi — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 03:56:46 +0000

a tablet can also be used on other contexts.

the fallacy here is that they spend the money ONLY for taking notes

New comment by el_sinchi in "Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica"

el_sinchi — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 04:32:59 +0000

unlikely, they seem to be separate efforts

New comment by el_sinchi in "Why has Elon Musk terminated his agreement to purchase Twitter?"

el_sinchi — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:29:19 +0000

Looks like written by some Chinese/Indian Musk fanboy

Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity

el_sinchi — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:56:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2022/06/28/bitcoin-is-the-only-coin-the-sec-chair-will-call-a-commodity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31921968

Points: 159

# Comments: 192

New comment by el_sinchi in "Chicken and the Egg, for 5-year-olds"

el_sinchi — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:43:36 +0000

it's not a "sudden" change there's no "first chicken", no "first human", no "last ape", no "first human that mated with last ape" either

just gradual diverging changes , and then at some point one branch is different enough from other branch that we call them separate species

so the answer to your connundrum is explaining your kid this, not explainign that a human mated with an ape

(ELI5)

New comment by el_sinchi in "Chicken and the Egg, for 5-year-olds"

el_sinchi — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:28:59 +0000

species A becomes subdivided into 2 variants Ax, Ay those being the same species, can mate (think for instance, citrus variants)

but somehow they get separated, and start evolving slowly different, and here's the crux, at some point the genetic changes no longer allow viable reproduction should they mix again, at that point they have evolved into separate species

it's not that Humans (Ax) came from ape (Ay) but rather they evolved out from some common ancestor (that may or may not still exists today)

when they say "humans descend from apes" does not necessarily mean from actual current modern apes

and the flaw in the child's reasoning is that presupposes a linear change "from this point on, we have humans, before, we have apes)

that's enough simplification for a 5 year old?