Hacker News: f055

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds"

f055 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:23:36 +0000

You could probably make your infra cheaper if you sent the generated slides to the web client and use some js ffmpeg wasm to compile the video in the browser. This way you could probably use the cheapest VPS to handle this.

New comment by f055 in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

f055 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:14:04 +0000

"option shift -" like so —, or if you want an en-dash, just "option -" like –. The funny bit is that I like em-dashes too as they indicate a pause or an interruption in thinking that just looks better than parenthesis, however I sometimes like to use en-dashes as well, which can be a pain since some fonts, especially monospaced ones, render exactly the same, for example in this HN edit box: - – —

New comment by f055 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

f055 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:39:32 +0000

I used to get 2-3 shady crypto offers per week on LinkedIn. It stopped when I started replying with AI generated responses demanding multiple verification steps: official email, official offer link, terms and scope etc. And a note with a firm refusal to run any code or install any package on my machine for "recruitment tasks".

New comment by f055 in "Claude Fable 5"

f055 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:29:12 +0000

That’s a big lol compared to what I get out of ChatGPT Pro… running 5.5 on xhigh.

New comment by f055 in "Claude Fable 5"

f055 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:43:12 +0000

The PR buzz convinced me so I subscribed today to Pro. Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning, analysing a single smart contract file used all my 7h usage within 20mins and didn’t produce any results. Pretty useless. I think Anthropic has plenty of room to optimise the interactions and token use but that would cut their income quite a lot, I doubt there’s any will to do it pre-IPO.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:07:19 +0000

Interestingly, wine works on Apple Silicon via Rosetta2 so I guess it won't work by macOS 28, and we will be only left with arm64 DOSBox-X.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:03:39 +0000

Dosbox has its emulator to run DOS, but afaik dosbox binary that starts up dosbox on Mac uses Rosetta on M-series Macs, and without Rosetta it simply won’t start and emulate DOS.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:56:07 +0000

But I wonder if Heroic can install HoMM2 on a Mac if no Mac binary is available on GOG.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:49:17 +0000

Hmm i guess this would require figuring out how to extract game data from an .exe installer GOG distributes. I guess AI would figure it out in like 3 minutes ;) I’ll check later.

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://f055.net/technology/windows-gog-dos-games-on-m-series-macs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356603

Points: 168

# Comments: 86

New comment by f055 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

f055 — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:59:56 +0000

So I guess sci-fi movies were right all along. Nobody in Star Wars knows how hyperspace travel works, it just works. The little robots know everything but almost no human bothers to care. People just carry on with their bickering lives while the bots whiz in the background, and these robots are astonished at human inefficiency every single time, but rarely do anything about it. And people are still people.

New comment by f055 in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

f055 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:53:25 +0000

So I guess that yesterday's questions "Where is vibecoded Photoshop?" just got answered with a vibecoded Gimp UI that looks like Photoshop ;) but seriously, nice work!

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: I asked AI to write Sci-Fi for eternity"

f055 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:29:19 +0000

Well my idea was that when I said that the overall story arch is interesting, one would read a paragraph or two and see themselves if it's worth reading further or not, so I didn't think mentioning anything else is necessary ;)

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: I asked AI to write Sci-Fi for eternity"

f055 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:27:00 +0000

You're correct these text are much better called short stories, but I chose the word "novel" anyway. And despite the slop, I still find this experiment interesting for one: because it intrigues me how AI ponders on the subject of sovereignty, and for two: because when I tried other, human novels I also encountered slop (albeit human): pages of meaningless descriptions, deliberations and dead-end side-plots.

Show HN: I asked AI to write Sci-Fi for eternity

f055 — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:26:35 +0000

Article URL: https://f055.net/thattimei/that-time-i-asked-ai-to-write-sci-fi-for-eternity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120081

Points: 4

# Comments: 8

New comment by f055 in "AI Product Graveyard"

f055 — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:38:24 +0000

Seems like every bubble has the same thing going on. I guess during tulip mania everyone was a florist.

New comment by f055 in "My phone replaced a brass plug"

f055 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:55:32 +0000

This read is amazing and the development work is very impressive, great job and congrats! That said, my 20-30yo self would end at that. However, my 40yo+ self has a piece of wisdom here: the brass plugs are there for a reason: they slow things down. Technocracy (screens, apps, automation) is not good for our mental health. Human minds need small, calm, slow, manual processes. Like plugging the brass plugs.

New comment by f055 in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

f055 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:18:36 +0000

This is genius! Now I hope to run all my childhood games on a modern Ubuntu.

New comment by f055 in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

f055 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:12:53 +0000

As a kid behind the Iron Curtain I had a radio & cassette tape player with a single large speaker built-in. The cassette player had a record button that when pressed together with play used the speaker and I could actually record my voice, and play it back, from the tape. After enough re-recording on a single tape the fade of the old recordings broke through the new ones creating a truly amazing sound experience. Too bad I lost the tapes and the device.

New comment by f055 in "“This is not the computer for you”"

f055 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:59:57 +0000

You learn the most from failure and the least from success. Likewise, you grow the most from pushing through the limits and the least from living in abundance. You can do pretty much anything on a full spec Mac Studio, but so can anyone else with a lot of money. But if you push through the limit of a MacBook Neo, you just did something no one else was able to do. And that is awesome.