Hacker News: gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gnomesteelHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 03 May 2026 10:03:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative"]]>I shouldn't have said never had a film negative. They likely scanned hand-drawn cells to film, then transferred that to tape. At the time they likely saw the NTSC tape as the master.

]]>Tue, 06 May 2025 15:03:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905952gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905952<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative"]]>Shows like The Simpsons that were only made for broadcast never had a film negative. It was likely mastered to analog tape.

]]>Tue, 06 May 2025 13:11:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904696gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904696https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904696<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Hyperspace"]]>I don’t need this,storage is cheap, but I’m glad it exists.

]]>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:02:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173599gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173599https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173599<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"]]>Yes, they're all being hidden. I've yet to see a good reason why.

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:13:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049900gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049900<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "25yr Old with Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System"]]>Trivial auditing? If that’s what you think is happening you clearly aren’t paying attention.

]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:49:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934943gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934943<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "What are people using for email?"]]>Gmail and Mimestream

]]>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:42:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874570gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874570<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Ask HN: Alternatives to WordPress for Personal Blogging"]]>Publii[1] and Cloudflare Pages[2]. Not sure if it can cross-post to Medium, but I'd think it's doable.

[1]https://getpublii.com/ [2]https://pages.cloudflare.com/

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:47:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715229gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715229<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff"]]>Yes

]]>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:34:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105667gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105667<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Rackspace Exchange has been down over 12 hours"]]>Starting to get a little worried. Our clients are only so patient.

]]>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:16:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836275gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836275https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836275<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone else's domain via helpdesk"]]>Not exactly. The Namecheap dashboard has become annoying, and the only thing keeping me there is their customer service.

]]>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:28:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643810gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643810<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone else's domain via helpdesk"]]>Guess I should move elsewhere. What is everyone using for domains and DNS these days?

]]>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:30:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638746gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638746https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638746<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Against Netflix"]]>I wonder if anyone has ever argued that books were too good?

]]>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:46:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277368gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277368https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277368<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account"]]>>Twitter has nothing to lose from admitting that it did happen

Um, what? That would be exceptionally bad press for Twitter.

]]>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:27:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861452gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861452<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable"]]>Photo Mechanic[0] is by far the best photo management software out there.

[0]https://home.camerabits.com/

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:51:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24235364gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24235364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24235364<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "27-inch iMac gets a major update"]]>I'd take that bet. Apple is generally good about keeping old machines working.

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:05:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052723gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052723<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?"]]>Call Vanguard, setup a Personal Advisor account, and let them do their thing.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 18:22:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022703gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022703<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing"]]>Cool, but why? What’s a use case for this?

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:00:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23007023gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23007023https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23007023<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review"]]>>why would you use a phone when you can use your professional camera?

Most don't. Having a great smartphone camera is mostly about convince for pros. It's always there, and sometimes your pro camera isn't.

]]>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:41:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21017239gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21017239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21017239<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "OpenWrt 18.06.4"]]>Ubiquiti. Check out the UniFi Dream Machine for all in one. It’s early access right now.

]]>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 20:04:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357315gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357315<![CDATA[New comment by gnomesteel in "2018 Mac Mini Review"]]>I don't think it's dubbed. Just out of sync.

]]>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:07:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18394462gnomesteelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18394462https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18394462