Hacker News: ghostly_s

New comment by ghostly_s in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

ghostly_s — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:59:22 +0000

I would guess if anyone wants to use this thing it will mostly be for 12" singles, optimal groove packing is not a concern for them.

New comment by ghostly_s in "90210 – running the show without property tax"

ghostly_s — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:40:32 +0000

> This is the most recent thing I put together (sry it's on LinkedIn, haven't posted the series elsewhere yet) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adenta_episode-1-of-midwest-d...

I’m dumbfounded you had the audacity to post this garbage.

New comment by ghostly_s in "90210 – running the show without property tax"

ghostly_s — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:34:24 +0000

TBH as vapid as it is I think the overwhelming majority of people would call the AI video more entertaining. I mean good lord nothing happens in the first 3 minutes of Lumiere's movie except a bunch of academics waving their hands around.

New comment by ghostly_s in "90210 – running the show without property tax"

ghostly_s — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:19:20 +0000

Push whatever crap to your github you want, but don't waste my time by sharing something that's not ready to share.

New comment by ghostly_s in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

ghostly_s — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:17:18 +0000

Why would users care if you're using the same type checker as them? Surely they're not expecting all their imports to be instrumented for running redundant types checks?

New comment by ghostly_s in "90210 – running the show without property tax"

ghostly_s — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:25:19 +0000

idk why people even post stuff like this without a sample. i also don't get why you would call something like this a "local app" when all the work is done thru commercial apis?

New comment by ghostly_s in "Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant"

ghostly_s — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:39:13 +0000

So it's a dictation tool? Then why does "voice to text" barely appear on the page? Why are you describing it here as an AI assistant but the page doesn't say anything about that? "Understands my screen"? Why does my dictation software need to understand my screen? I don't know what "text generation", "AI editing" or "AI writing" even mean.

New comment by ghostly_s in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

ghostly_s — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:45:04 +0000

1. I think this is exactly the wrong venue to get valuable answers to this question.

2. Nonetheless, I'll give you mine as a counterpoint to the consensus:

A CS degree has never been a strict requirement for entering its field; we could debate how the value of one will change in the near future, but: nearly every other Engineering degree is a prerequisite for practice, and imho all of those other career paths are much less likely to be affected by AI than Computer 'Science' is. If you're selecting for job security, I would strongly consider one of those other avenues. And take a couple CS classes for good measure so you be well positioned to engage with AI in whatever form it does come to your field.

New comment by ghostly_s in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

ghostly_s — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:55:20 +0000

The "you" in the title's reference to "your push notifications" is not the user, it is the marketer. That tells you everything you need to know about the value of this piece.

New comment by ghostly_s in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

ghostly_s — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:33:00 +0000

> "what is the best tool for doing x" and I can't trust that the answer is going to be the truth according to all available information, You think AI has some way of assessing the truthiness of "all available information?"

New comment by ghostly_s in "Flipper One – we need your help"

ghostly_s — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:22:30 +0000

Same, but the content on the page they linked for it and the design choices made in the hardware don't give me the impression that they are seriously interested in developing this aspect of the project (unless someone shows up who's willing to do all the work for free without pushing back on any of the preconditions they've set in stone with the hardware design, of course!).

New comment by ghostly_s in "Flipper One – we need your help"

ghostly_s — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:18:33 +0000

If you're trying to convince people to contribute free labor to your for-profit product, you at least need to disclose what kind of MSRP you're shooting for -- why would someone help you build something that ends up being nowhere near a reasonable price point for the use-case that attracted them to it?

New comment by ghostly_s in "Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data"

ghostly_s — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:58:32 +0000

If this is something meant for a general audience why are you using "edge-tech?" If this is for industry professionals why are you posting it here?

I couldn't even get it to do anything indicating it was functional on my laptop.

New comment by ghostly_s in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

ghostly_s — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:53:35 +0000

*people associated with counterculture and anarchists who also have thousands of dollars of discretionary income.

New comment by ghostly_s in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

ghostly_s — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:47:20 +0000

infamous: adjective

    1. Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious.
    "an infamous outlaw."
    2. Causing or deserving severe public condemnation; heinous.

New comment by ghostly_s in "Knitting bullshit"

ghostly_s — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:21:59 +0000

As I understand Spotify et al may do something a bit more sophisticated, but the traditional model for podcast analytics purely tracks downloads, which could very well be your client auto-downloading a subscribed episode you never play. I don't think anyone actually has visibility of "listens". And the traditional model for ad sales is a creator (or an agent on their behalf) emailing a brand "Hey, we make this podcast which gets X monthly downloads, want to buy an ad read?" I think they usually point to iTunes store rankings to somewhat support these claims but again, iTunes just tracks downloads. (Obviously, this is all rife for fraud.)

New comment by ghostly_s in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"

ghostly_s — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:48:57 +0000

nothing remotely like the described demo in the video you linked.

New comment by ghostly_s in "Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack""

ghostly_s — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:02:12 +0000

the blog post linked from there with remediation instructions, however, does not.

1. https://ubuntu.com/blog/copy-fail-vulnerability-fixes-availa...

New comment by ghostly_s in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

ghostly_s — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:32:29 +0000

"Privacy's Defender" eh? Rather grandiose title considering that defense has been an abject historical failure.

(Not to suggest the EFF has not waged a valiant effort regardless.)

New comment by ghostly_s in "Claude for Creative Work"

ghostly_s — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:07:17 +0000

Dunno what you're quoting but it's not the linked issue.