Hacker News: gman83

New comment by gman83 in "Googlebook"

gman83 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:35:04 +0000

I presume since they're going to be actually showing off the details of the Aluminium OS at Google IO, they probably want to keep it surprising, so that should hopefully explain the sparse details. HN is a bubble... this sentiment about Google really isn't widely shared. Personally, I'm pretty happy that Android is coming to desktop, I really feel like Windows and macOS need more competition. Unless Valve does something spectacular with Linux desktop adoption, Android is probably the best bet.

New comment by gman83 in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

gman83 — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:01:28 +0000

What's the advantage of using cpal over something like libmpv?

New comment by gman83 in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

gman83 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:39:12 +0000

Yeah, crippling Europe in the long term for short term gain might not be the best idea - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical...

New comment by gman83 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

gman83 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:28 +0000

The issue is that the rhetorical game being played is that by saying the risk is all due to the buildup of combustible materials, it shifts the blame to California's Democratic politicians and away from Republican fossil fuel donors. Clearly in a good faith discussion we'd suggest better forest management, as well as doing everything possible to combat fossil fuel emissions. The problem is that it's not a good faith discussion.

New comment by gman83 in "The CMS is dead, long live the CMS"

gman83 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:46:43 +0000

I never really understood the argument, you can design the frontend with AI anyway and then use WordPress as the CMS for clients. Clients want to be able to log in, update CPTs, edit a calendar, post pictures, things like that. Surely the idea isn't to vibe-code an admin panel/cms from scratch for every project?

New comment by gman83 in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

gman83 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:20:54 +0000

Gmail was also launched on April 1st. The fact that it came with 1GB of storage instead of Hotmail, which limited you to something like 20MB, made people think it was an April Fool's joke.

New comment by gman83 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

gman83 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:06:02 +0000

Gemini CLI and Codex are open source anyway. I doubt there was much of a moat there anyway. The cool kids are using things like https://pi.dev/ anyway.

New comment by gman83 in "EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime"

gman83 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:25:36 +0000

The EU will fight you? If Texas tried to secede from the US, the government would send in the military. The EU "fought" them by not giving them a sweetheart trade deal on their way out the door?

New comment by gman83 in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

gman83 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:21:45 +0000

Read books & audiobooks. Find a meetup club for books near you.

New comment by gman83 in "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly"

gman83 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:44:04 +0000

I think it'll start hurting sooner than that. We're already seeing property insurance rates spiking, and in some places it's even impossible to get property insurance. We could well be up for a 2008-level real estate crash. That should get Americans' attention.

New comment by gman83 in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

gman83 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:04:12 +0000

This wasn't due to some random Gemini request. Users were using sketchy antigravity auth plugins to use their antigravity tokens on things like OpenClaw, clearly against ToS. It's great that Google is giving these users a second chance.

New comment by gman83 in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

gman83 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:08:59 +0000

You need to stick Gemini in a straightjacket; I've been using https://github.com/ClavixDev/Clavix. When using something like that, even something like Gemini 3 Flash becomes usable. If not, it more often than not just loses the plot.

New comment by gman83 in "Italy Railways Sabotaged"

gman83 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:01:30 +0000

There was also a spree of migrants attacks in Germany, just before the election, which greatly swung public opionion to the AfD.

New comment by gman83 in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

gman83 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:16:21 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if Meta turned WhatsApp into a TikTok clone just to get around the restrictions. They know that banning WhatsApp for teenagers in Europe is almost impossible. I look at my kids, all their sports clubs and other extracurricular activities are organized through WhatsApp. I already had to block Youtube on their devices. I was alright with them watching a couple of long-form youtube videos every day, but now if I unblock Youtube all they do is watch Shorts, with no way to disable it.

New comment by gman83 in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

gman83 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:11:50 +0000

I feel like the market for this product is definitely out there, but manufacturers don't want to cannibalize their own laptop margins.

New comment by gman83 in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

gman83 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:32:55 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Jm8IiwURQ

That's 14 years old. Kind of crazy this concept hasn't developed more in the meantime.

New comment by gman83 in "Television is 100 years old today"

gman83 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:01:39 +0000

This is a cool little project you might be interested in - https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass

New comment by gman83 in "TikTok is now collecting more data about its users"

gman83 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:06:13 +0000

Anecdotally I noticed a big uptick in pro-Trump content in Europe recently. Was flooded with anti-Jack Smith clips in the last couple of days, for example. Also seeing a lot of anti-immigration, far-right content.

New comment by gman83 in "Skip is now free and open source"

gman83 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:49:38 +0000

Flutter is undergoing a major refactor where they're decoupling Material and Cupertino into separate packages. This is the reason why they're not implementing those new conventions right away. The way you've framed it is pretty disingenuous.

New comment by gman83 in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

gman83 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:02:28 +0000

I got one of those Google TV Streamer boxes, put a different launcher on it (Projectivy Launcher), and it's been great, no ads or anything.