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New comment by highmastdon in "Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call"

highmastdon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:46:19 +0000

I’m using MacParakeet these days. If your language is supported, definitely give it a try. It’s much faster and lower footprint

New comment by highmastdon in "Migrating to the EU"

highmastdon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:27:44 +0000

Fyi, your bottom bar with links isn't responsive causing annoying behaviour with horizontal scroll on mobile phone

New comment by highmastdon in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

highmastdon — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:23:40 +0000

Still to this day I don't understand how people manage to do software development on a Windows PC. I started with my first secondhand MacBook which was one before the unibody, and then upgraded to unibody and never have left ever. The only reason I was forced to use Windows was for clients that didn't have support for MacOS or Linux. The only thing I need Windows for is rootkit enabled games... which pains me, otherwise I'd have Linux on my desktop

New comment by highmastdon in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

highmastdon — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:47:43 +0000

I had the feeling that Cerebras only supports smaller modes. Maybe something to do with their hardware arch? I never dove into it. I wanted to use Kimi K2 fast for coding and Groq was the only fast provider at the time

New comment by highmastdon in "AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please"

highmastdon — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:52:33 +0000

The nice thing is that adding this to the basic prompt that cursor uses will advance all those users and directly do away with this problem only to discover the next one. However, all these little things add up to a very powerful prompt where the LLM will make it only easier for anyone to build real stuff that on the surface looks very good

New comment by highmastdon in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

highmastdon — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:02:27 +0000

Don't underestimate the amount of knowledge you don't have to perfect things. I remember building scheduling software in PHP in high school, because I just fixed problem after problem, and I was not limited by any form of knowledge. If I'd have to do it again, I'd be perfecting the architecture, refactoring everything every other week...

New comment by highmastdon in "Show HN: Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now"

highmastdon — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:07:35 +0000

I’ve used something similar quite a long time ago called Jade. Seems to be renamed to Pug. Here’s a nice writeup with some examples (not mine, found the webpage missing examples): https://www.sitepoint.com/jade-tutorial-for-beginners/

New comment by highmastdon in "Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously"

highmastdon — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:17:10 +0000

Why wouldn't they redistribute to other maintainers of the plugins/clients. They have much more knowlegde of where money is needed or where resources are lacking.

Or pay devs, not in their circle to build the features the community wants but they can't (lack of expertise, or otherwise) implement?

New comment by highmastdon in "Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button"

highmastdon — Fri, 24 May 2024 06:24:46 +0000

Would this be something to use over Docker containers when running a single host homelab server? What would be the cons/benefits?

New comment by highmastdon in "Bun 1.1"

highmastdon — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:27:39 +0000

Didn’t Google’s closure compiler so something similar way before we had imports?

New comment by highmastdon in "Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum"

highmastdon — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:19:47 +0000

So hypocritical to say this and not resign yourself. Leave Google it’s choice and leave the company, don’t start destroying it from the inside, or stay and don’t speak your individual opinion

New comment by highmastdon in "Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers"

highmastdon — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:00:40 +0000

How is this different from Pothos, type-graphql or typegql? This announcement post doesn’t really have much to show for. I’d expect some comparison with other products that are on the market already

New comment by highmastdon in "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war"

highmastdon — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:37:40 +0000

Really? I think they’re terrorists AND stupid. Why else would they use funds from charity to build tunnels? Why else wouldn’t they build a local economy instead of investing in the daily rain of rockets on their neighbours? Why else would they launch a horrific attack against civilians at a “love and peace” festival next to the Gaza Strip in a country that’s a military powerhouse?

Other than complete delusion, it’s because they’re stupid… OR they don’t care about the well-being of their citizens and value the death of their opponents more than the live of their own

New comment by highmastdon in "Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine"

highmastdon — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:15:17 +0000

Great stuff!

Just want to mention, when I search for “ExpressLRS use uart on older f4 fcs” it gives me about 15 results, but only the first two are unique. The other 13 are a literal copy of the first, both in content and in URL. Probably best to filter for uniqueness

New comment by highmastdon in "Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent?"

highmastdon — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:05:07 +0000

From your response I assume you have no children or maybe one.

There’s a vast array of character traits in children that require different parenting in a way that your parents haven’t treated you or your siblings or you’ve been unaware of the way they’ve treated you differently from your siblings.

I had on child, a girl, and I though the same way as you. Everything went well and was reasonable. Until my second was born. A boy with a “do-then-maybe-think” character trait. He’s awesome and loving and his emotions are like valleys and mountains. Totally different kid. Radically different way to communicate and raise him.

I’ve been reading “Good Inside” and this resonated with me. It’s a radically different way of looking and caring for your kids than I used to be treated. Can recommend

Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

highmastdon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:09:15 +0000

Article URL: https://starship.rs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133612

Points: 174

# Comments: 155

New comment by highmastdon in "Oh My Zsh"

highmastdon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:02:45 +0000

Do yourself a favour and install fish-shell with starship.rs and call it a day. Make sure to put everything prompt related in a `if status --is-interactive` block. Blazing fast versatile fancy prompt and interactive human friendly shell. What does a man need more?

New comment by highmastdon in "Wireflow – free, online, open source tool for creating user-flow prototypes"

highmastdon — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:12:17 +0000

I’m a heavy user of excalidraw. I wonder if it would be possible to extend something like that to add “flow” design. It could be as simple as defining the dotted arrow as the view direction, ie. when an element is clicked, show this bounding box, where the dotted bounding box is used to zoom to that level.

New comment by highmastdon in "Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union"

highmastdon — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:44:47 +0000

Interesting perspective. I'd like to use that and say that we should have solar noon in the middle of our "awake" hours instead of in the middle of our work hours. This would benefit even more. We're not in a society where your activities are from dawn to dusk, more so, it's usually from dawn to dusk+evening time.

So, let's take the assumption that the average awake time is 7:00 - 22:00. Gives us 15 hours of awake time.

Solar noon should be at 7:00 + half of the awake time: 7 + 15/2 = 14.5 = 14:30

To calculate sunrise on the longest day and shortest day we use: 14.5 - half of light time

To calculate sunset on the longest day and shortest day we use: 14.5 + half of light time

This means sunrise and sunset in Amsterdam:

summer, longest day, 16:48, 16,8 hours:

- sunrise: 14.5 - 16.8/2 = 6.1 = 6:06

- sunset: 14.5 + 16.8/2 = 22.9 = 22:54

winter, shortest day, 7:41, 7.683 hours:

- sunrise: 14.5 - 7.683/2 = 10.6585 = 10:40

- sunset: 14.5 + 7.683/2 = 18.3415 = 18:20

Given this reasoning, instead of being GMT+1, Amsterdam should be GMT+3 all year round

New comment by highmastdon in "Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union"

highmastdon — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:29:41 +0000

We (Europe) shouldn't fragment time zones that much. We (NL) should stay on permanent summer time.

Reasons

- criminality is lower when there's longer light

- earlier darkness leads to more accidents. It's better to have longer darkness after the masses are RESTED (in the morning), opposed to when they're TIRED (in the evening)

- longer day-time for office workers, is more productive

- shorter time of year that has long after noon darkness. As humans are using artificial light to stay up longer, it's better to align the time of day with that