Hacker News: gala8y

New comment by gala8y in "Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager"

gala8y — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:14:31 +0000

I recently switched to almost exclusively using vifm with some zoxide/fzf extra commands + some custom previewers/openers.

New comment by gala8y in "Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene"

gala8y — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:39:55 +0000

Also, once you _had_ to run them. Lost my collection years ago and never found some of my favourites again after that.

The Internet After Search (Matthew Prince from Cloudflare at SXSW) [video]

gala8y — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:10:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQL_97LxAPE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385304

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gala8y in "Music Discovery"

gala8y — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:24:17 +0000

Compare, for example, to (beloved and useful) Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast (https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/) and Ambience for the Masses (https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/).

New comment by gala8y in "Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript"

gala8y — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:15:14 +0000

Absolutely. This brings nostalgia and pushes for heads up at the same time.

New comment by gala8y in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

gala8y — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:42:35 +0000

Bitly does that, just add '+' to Bitly URL (probably other shorteners, too).

New comment by gala8y in "Only working copy of 50 year old computer program found when cleaning out office [video]"

gala8y — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:12:03 +0000

From HN guidelines: Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

You're not exactly new here, afaict...

New comment by gala8y in "Richard Feynman Explains Time Like You've Never Seen Before [video]"

gala8y — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:55:48 +0000

Strange things happen when you sit without moving.

Existence-Time by Dogen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uji_(Being-Time)

http://thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Uji.htm

New comment by gala8y in "Ken Thompson on How a Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix [video]"

gala8y — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:43:07 +0000

Thx for posting this. `It was fun, but worthless. IDK, that's my life, that's my whole Being.` What a fantastic person, Ken Thompson. The way he is shows so strong in this short clip. Gonna look up some biography of him or sth.

New comment by gala8y in "Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need"

gala8y — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:37:32 +0000

I understand first example. That's one of many, tiny, little things in the area of automation, say like 'advanced scripting'. Your second example is indeed advanced.

What I can see myself trying to do is some new ways of working with body of text notes. Local RAG for chatting with documents is also interesting.

And yes, with 'subscription based computing' shreds of privacy we had are gone.

New comment by gala8y in "Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need"

gala8y — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:36:12 +0000

Can you list some useful things you can do with such models which are beyond 'fancy' use, like image generation, or standard chat (which is subpar compared to frontier)? I use my RTX4070 (12VRAM/64RAM) mostly for STT, though I am having real trouble to set up working environment for any Whisper derivatives after migrating to Fedora.

New comment by gala8y in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

gala8y — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:43:15 +0000

I would really rather read his guide to learning English.

New comment by gala8y in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

gala8y — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:18:29 +0000

Two days ago I created HN new comments highlighter with hiding of old comments - took me 2 prompts and ~ 10 mins + some clean up. https://github.com/gala8y/hn-comments-highlighting-and-hidin...

New comment by gala8y in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

gala8y — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:10:43 +0000

So, not bad in terms of 'manual' update, but still needs some of your time, right? Anyway, interesting to be able to see these posts in this way. Nice work with tagging - will check/explore how these work.

New comment by gala8y in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

gala8y — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:26:17 +0000

Cool. What do you mean by 'manually' and 'some' delay?

If you have a list of posts you pull data from, it would be nice to have a simple clickable list of them all on a separate page. Also, (month year) could go next to neat 'View on HN' on each item.

Do you parse all 'What Are You Working On?' posts (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266893)?

New comment by gala8y in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

gala8y — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:16:14 +0000

You might want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

New comment by gala8y in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

gala8y — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:42:56 +0000

Did you know that a not jailbroken smart TV would spy on your HDMI, if connected to the network? I did not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737312

New comment by gala8y in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

gala8y — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:14:58 +0000

1. on A9 near nurnberg we caught a ride with a musician from munich (he played trumpet and showed us his music when i asked if he had any recordings in the car). it was heavily raining and it was late in the night. as we were approaching munich, he got off the highway and i was worried how we were supposed to get back on the highway in the middle of a effing night, but he just drove home and we stayed overnight. we ate breakfast together with the whole family (wife, kids) and he drove us off to the nearest autobahn entry on his way to the conservatory (he used to teach there) - we were going south, to italy. that's first top of my head, surely there is more. good times. we connected, big time.

Smart TV's HDMI Port Is Spying on You [video]

gala8y — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:00:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPV9yQvcIQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737312

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gala8y in "Ask HN: What Are You Building?"

gala8y — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:05:30 +0000

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

hth