Hacker News: florians

New comment by florians in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

florians — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:38:31 +0000

“> Claude: Semble surfaced things grep missed — here are the additions to the earlier answer.”

Nice!

New comment by florians in "Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale"

florians — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:12:33 +0000

What I want are precise and tight bounding boxes. Why is this so difficult?

New comment by florians in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

florians — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:46:31 +0000

Same

New comment by florians in "Meta Segment Anything Model 3"

florians — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:15:48 +0000

Curious about background removal with BiRefNet. Would you consider it the best model currently available? What other options exist that are popular but not as good?

New comment by florians in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

florians — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:28:58 +0000

Love the vibe!

New comment by florians in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

florians — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:28:33 +0000

The problem is that most sites implement dark mode wrong with too much contrast. It doesn’t work if you make it “black”. It’s more about dimming the lights.

Reading dark pages will never be as good as reading in a well lit room. But there are ways to make it work.

New comment by florians in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

florians — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:26:33 +0000

This. Thanks for illustrating how little is required for a basic dark mode support.

New comment by florians in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

florians — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:25:11 +0000

It depends on the environment. Of course, reading HN in a dark room will never be pleasant. But looking into a bright white flashlight can really hurt. Good dark modes are not simply black/white but make use of the right font weight and color to reduce glare.

New comment by florians in "Needy Programs"

florians — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:01:40 +0000

And soon even your oven will require an account with subscription so that the built-in camera can notify you when the bread is browning and it asks for permission to lower the temperature

Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue

florians — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:36:26 +0000

It’s 2025. HN lights up a dark room like a flashlight. Can we add a few lines of CSS to support dark mode? 5 years ago and I believe the alligator needs to move https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45911105

Points: 51

# Comments: 49

New comment by florians in "Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals"

florians — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:55:09 +0000

I enjoyed reading the article and found it interesting. Had no prior interest in the topic but it was an entertaining read. Last time I used binary and calculated with it was in high school. Didn’t know about UNIX signals and now I understand how processes are terminating.

New comment by florians in "Create a Custom Interactive dashboard using SVG"

florians — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:08:39 +0000

This is quite genius. Instead of wasting time with responsive design, grid and flex layout complexities, this solutions gets the job done.

That’s how I would have approached it in Flash back in the days when 800x600 was all you had to worry about.

New comment by florians in "JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in"

florians — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:50:18 +0000

Noteworthy: Contributions by Claude

New comment by florians in "Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously"

florians — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:43:10 +0000

I find it amusing, yet sad, that some here expect a podcast to exclusively be a source of information where every second delivers bite sized facts. What about entertainment? What about engaging with a topic for hours and eventually learn something that‘s not a fact, but a new perspective?

New comment by florians in "Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS"

florians — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:37:40 +0000

This is entertaining. I learned Turbo Pascal in high school.

What I like from watching it again: the aspect of structured programming.

It’s quite refreshing to see a language that doesn’t rely so much on brackets.

It even got away without syntax highlighting by using all uppercase REPEAT, BEGIN, END or capitalising function calls.

Thanks for sharing!

Design engineering 101: Typeahead like Spotlight and Omnibox

florians — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.florianschulz.info/2025/10/typeahead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482111

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by florians in "Tidy text: Sloppy notes that auto-correct, one line at a time"

florians — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:15:44 +0000

Ah, I can imagine why the illustration weren’t as clear. Especially if you don’t speak German it might be difficult to catch mistakes. I added new examples.

But as you mention: starting by observing one’s own habits and preferences and then coming up with small instructions is all it takes. Feels like piping in Unix where each process is a prompt.

Tidy text: Sloppy notes that auto-correct, one line at a time

florians — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:16:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.florianschulz.info/2025/10/tidy-text/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475874

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Lazy text capitalization with low latency large language models

florians — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:39:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.florianschulz.info/2025/10/lazy-text-capitalization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473636

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by florians in "Tldraw SDK 4.0"

florians — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:33:04 +0000

Peanuts if you build a business on top of the SDK.