Hacker News: grafelic

New comment by grafelic in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

grafelic — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:48:34 +0000

"He shipped a product, but he didn't learn a trade." I think is the key quote from this article, and encapsulates the core problem with AI agents in any skill-based field.

New comment by grafelic in "Laptops with Stickers"

grafelic — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:27:34 +0000

My laptop hasn't had stickers since a CTO asked why mine didn't have any stickers like the ones on the laptops of his cool cloud team. Personally I've found laptop stickers bad taste since then.

New comment by grafelic in "I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now"

grafelic — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:43:00 +0000

For me the problem with GenAI is that it erodes away what I enjoy in my job and in my free time. I enjoy learning and eventually understanding methods to solve problems. I enjoy applying these methods in my mind, before trying them on the computer. I am not interested in getting the solutions to problems served to me without understanding why it works. I feel, yes it is an emotion, that GenAI is unhealthy for the progress of mankind, since it encourages a lazy mind, stifles curiosity and will lead to inbred information filling our digital spaces.

I am looking forward to my future career as a gardener (although with a smidge of sadness) when AI has sucked out all creativity, ingeniuity and enjoyment from my field of work.

New comment by grafelic in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

grafelic — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:15:29 +0000

I donate to XMonad because it is finest of wms and the one I use.

New comment by grafelic in "Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment"

grafelic — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:47:31 +0000

Something like dvtm?

https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

New comment by grafelic in "I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet"

grafelic — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:58:11 +0000

I am hoping and waiting for the 80s punk equivalent anti-SoMe counterculture to appear.

New comment by grafelic in "NordArt"

grafelic — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:21:55 +0000

The best modern art museum I have ever visited.

NordArt

grafelic — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nordart.de/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41508236

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by grafelic in "Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?"

grafelic — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:34:21 +0000

The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski), which I have seen perhaps 5 times. I think it is the hidden meaning in old books which draws me to this movie. Videodrome (David Cronenberg) and recently Midsommar (Ari Aster) plus many of the already mentioned.

Upcoming changes to AWX Operator installation methods

grafelic — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:27:51 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.ansible.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-awx-operator-installation-methods/7598

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178741

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grafelic in "Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game"

grafelic — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:49:18 +0000

Very interesting and in depth article. I really appreciate the amount of detail and knowledge shared about how to go about reverse enginnering and patching abandonware like this. Thank you. Saw the game in a local thrift store, but left it be, since I only played Dune II rts. I will pick it up for sure now.

New comment by grafelic in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

grafelic — Sat, 11 May 2024 10:28:45 +0000

Here are some quality photos from Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/saa-vildt-ser-det-ud-se-nat...

New comment by grafelic in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

grafelic — Sat, 11 May 2024 00:54:10 +0000

I took one semi successful photo using my crappy beat-down a20e Samsung phone.

It doesn't do what we saw justice at all.

https://imgur.com/5mlD22W

New comment by grafelic in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

grafelic — Sat, 11 May 2024 00:03:11 +0000

I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland.

It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, morphing and shifting continuously.

We went around the house and we could purple streaks at the top and orange to red patches at the bottom of the sky.

Colors observed: Whitish blue, Green, Purple, Red, and Orange

An absolutely a beautiful experience.

New comment by grafelic in "Why the world stopped having sex"

grafelic — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:20:33 +0000

A possible contributing factor is that people, and especially young people, are drinking less alcohol than the generations prior, which is leading to stronger inhibitions, a lower frequency of one-night stands and no hangover sex.

No, I have no sources for this assumption at hand.

New comment by grafelic in "Ask HN: What are your favorite tools?"

grafelic — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 12:25:04 +0000

Linux, bash, awk, sed, curl and jq.

New comment by grafelic in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?"

grafelic — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:37:03 +0000

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. This book somehow stayed with me for a long time after having finished it. For me it encapsulates how we sometimes get stuck in systems which are unhealthy, but safe and feels better than an uncertain alternative. Also how pain and suffering binds people together in interesting, and in other circumstances, unlikely relationships. I enjoyed the humour as well.

New comment by grafelic in "OpenTF is now OpenTofu"

grafelic — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:31:51 +0000

New comment by grafelic in "The persistence of prog rock (2017)"

grafelic — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 05:27:55 +0000

Zazu is a prime and obscure example of what I consider to be progrock (disclaimer: I am no proghead).

Especially, "Ittsanottasonatta, But It's Close" is a hidden gem of genre.

https://youtu.be/zBpPY1uheHs

New comment by grafelic in "Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?"

grafelic — Mon, 29 May 2023 07:31:57 +0000

Yes.

Intermittently, since yesterday.