Hacker News: have_faith

New comment by have_faith in "Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3"

have_faith — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:53:27 +0000

It’s always irked me that light and dark are given privileged positions in the namespace. They’re just themes (or schemes if you like), like all the other possible themes.

New comment by have_faith in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

have_faith — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:15:22 +0000

You can replace psychologist with any form of living or non-living derived stimulus but it's only a trigger. Whether you actually engage with introspection, or just react, is still within your control and up to you to guide.

But it gets into the weeds of whether or not we're operating on a shared understanding of what introspection means.

New comment by have_faith in "Picard 3.0"

have_faith — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:47:39 +0000

I'm personally a fan of the tagging being a separate explicit action, it suits my flows at least: Download to staging folder -> Picard (tags, grabs artwork, normalises file names, I intervene where needed) -> automatic transfer to streaming server when it's finished.

New comment by have_faith in "Picard 3.0"

have_faith — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:23:58 +0000

I am. As the other commenter mentioned the workflow is very odd, and the UX of the app could do with massive improvements (haven't checked V3 yet), but it does a good job and I'm grateful to the devs for it.

New comment by have_faith in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

have_faith — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:14:54 +0000

When I moved a couple years ago and got fiber with Virgin they came and pulled fiber from the cabinet down the road to the house, with no extra charge.

New comment by have_faith in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

have_faith — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:53:21 +0000

Then it's a bad solution to a real problem. A better solution would be exposing a hook that apps can call when a screenshot is initiated that tells the OS to warn the user before saving the screenshot. This way the user is actually educated on the risk while still respecting their right to control the outcome.

New comment by have_faith in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

have_faith — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:55:40 +0000

Article says one of the terminals is within walking distance

New comment by have_faith in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

have_faith — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:01:05 +0000

Does anyone within the system genuinely feel threatened by the idea that something like "crime" can be "solved" to the point that they're avoiding solving too much crime? Same logic for the others.

New comment by have_faith in "The lost joy of music piracy"

have_faith — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:14:20 +0000

It's a bit "bright" for a lot of techno, but it is very repetitive. Techno is a very broad genre with lot's of fuzzy edges. I'm suddenly reminded of Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music: https://music.ishkur.com/

New comment by have_faith in "Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding"

have_faith — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:25:07 +0000

I did a lot of work with vvvv, Processing, and other creative coding tools at uni and immediately could see the influence. Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet but looks promising. Would it work well for live performance do you think?

New comment by have_faith in "TypeScript 7"

have_faith — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:11:52 +0000

`const` in JS doesn't refer to the array being immutable, only that the variable referencing it stays the same (it can't be reassigned), so this is normal in JS.

New comment by have_faith in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

have_faith — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:05:14 +0000

I’ve got 2017 Yeti (last year they were made) with 80k miles on it, will probably keep it for another decade. I wish I could buy an electric yeti but everything else about it staying the same.

New comment by have_faith in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

have_faith — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:36:19 +0000

Coming across information isn't the same as:

- having the emotional energy reserves left to act on it

- fully understanding the repercussions of the thing

- feeling like your actions in this case will have any affect

- many other reasons you can't stay consistent from an outsiders perspective

You're trying to apply an objective measure of reality to everyone else: if they disagree with X, they must therefore also disagree with Y, otherwise they shouldn't act on X. It's an unreasonable expectation of perfect action.

New comment by have_faith in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

have_faith — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:04:10 +0000

There's nothing wrong with acting on new information as and when it surfaces in your life without obsessively staying up to date with every entity you engage with. That's the reasonable, pragmatic approach to trying to do the right thing without overwhelming yourself with the burden of being perfect.

It's not a gotcha if you're inconsistent from an outsiders perspective, we're all doing the best we can with what little insight we have into reality.

New comment by have_faith in "Tidal AI Policy"

have_faith — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:57:36 +0000

Why would someone doing that voluntarily tag their content as AI? they can make money by hiding it.

New comment by have_faith in "Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?"

have_faith — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:15:44 +0000

And 8 perfect shuffles resets it back to starting order (perfect being cards interlaced 1 by 1)

New comment by have_faith in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

have_faith — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:10:45 +0000

China might produce the most panels at volume but this isn't a hardline monopoly like being able to cut off oil pipelines. We can produce panels ourselves if we _need_ to (as a coalition of friendly countries), it will of course be more expensive, but expensive is better than not possible.

Also, the more panels we already have, the less reliant we are. Energy doesn't stop flowing because deliveries of new panels stop during a conflict. You just pause expansion. A very different scenario to fuel reserves running dry in weeks.

New comment by have_faith in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

have_faith — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:11:34 +0000

> Scalpers are optimizing the market.

This is sort of applying the same logic that justifies high frequency trading except in this particular case, the market overlaps with the arts.

Society at large values "fairness" in a hard to define but culturally important way and "let the free market determine the price" for access runs counter to that I think in many peoples minds.

I think it's generally very easy to come up with various solutions that solve the problem, that all likely reduce the profit made by intermediaries like ticketmaster, it's purely political will and people kicking up enough fuss to implement it.

New comment by have_faith in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

have_faith — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:59:14 +0000

What’s the time horizon do you think for free models matching today’s SOTA on average consumer hardware? I see people building 6k+ machines to run the best of them at the moment, which are behind SOTA by maybe 6 - 12 months or so right now.

New comment by have_faith in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

have_faith — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:59:47 +0000

Are you from the UK and know what the piece is a reference to? It’s topical and unpretentious and comes at a time where the country is splintering. Feels a like a bit of a distant midwit take to take shots at the appeal it has.