Hacker News: iamphilrae

New comment by iamphilrae in "CSSQuake"

iamphilrae — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:03:35 +0000

If you had a 3dfx card it would run silky smooth on a Pentium-120 (what I had at the time)! Quake 2 ran pretty well too if I recall.

Crucial is shutting down because Micron wants to sell its RAM to AI companies

iamphilrae — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:41:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144836

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by iamphilrae in "Affinity Studio now free"

iamphilrae — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:56:05 +0000

And so the enshittification begins. Such a shame to lose another set of solid, non-subscription-based desktop apps.

Trump to Rebrand Pentagon as Department of War

iamphilrae — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45135526

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Amouage makes blockchain debut as Aura's first beauty brand

iamphilrae — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:26:05 +0000

Article URL: https://beautynewsdaily.com/amouage-makes-blockchain-debut-as-auras-first-beauty-brand/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721494

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Haut.ai Launches the SPF Truth Booth

iamphilrae — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:25:34 +0000

Article URL: https://beautynewsdaily.com/haut-ai-launches-spf-truth-booth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572853

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch

iamphilrae — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6256wpn97ro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44384597

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Sun-Screener, decode ingredients in SPF

iamphilrae — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:01:36 +0000

Article URL: https://beautynewsdaily.com/dieux-introduces-sun-screener/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44380778

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

Haut.ai introduces skincare recommendation system

iamphilrae — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://beautynewsdaily.com/haut-ai-introduces-deep-c-a-r-e/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844612

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

First AI-Powered Fragrance House Launches

iamphilrae — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:31:20 +0000

Article URL: https://beautynewsdaily.com/worlds-first-ai-powered-fragrance-house-launches/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290948

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by iamphilrae in "Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers"

iamphilrae — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:48:21 +0000

As the article says...

> That means you can power the Mini dish for two to three hours from something like an Anker Prime 27,650mAh (99.54Wh) power bank, or a little over an hour with smaller 10,000mAh (40Wh) portable batteries you probably already have laying about. It requires a USB-C PD power source with a minimum rating of 100W (20V/5A).

Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers

iamphilrae — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24182970/starlink-mini-usb-power-specs-price

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747869

Points: 54

# Comments: 70

New comment by iamphilrae in "How a Car Salesman Became a Community Banking Pioneer"

iamphilrae — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:32:56 +0000

There’s a pretty entertaining movie about this from 2023

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14308636/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

New comment by iamphilrae in "The true cost of Japan's bullet train: costs and environmental degradation"

iamphilrae — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:46:38 +0000

Who’s to say there wouldn’t be more flights per day if the airlines didn’t need to compete with 33 bullet trains per day?

New comment by iamphilrae in "GPSJam: Daily maps of possible GPS interference"

iamphilrae — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:52:37 +0000

https://maplibre.org/ is a free fork of Mapbox v1.x before they brought in their licensing model.

New comment by iamphilrae in "We’re all just temporarily abled"

iamphilrae — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:56:15 +0000

I 100% agree. You mention some pretty scary KG numbers there though (but we’ll done)! I just wanted to mention to readers that even squatting a ‘measly’ 50KG or deadlifting 30KG can immensely help with back pain and the physical challenges everyday life throws at you.

New comment by iamphilrae in "Orb is a free and open source web desktop"

iamphilrae — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:51:32 +0000

Beauty of that though is that you can CMD+click on each one and open all 50 into separate tabs, then work on each one whilst the others load in the background. Want to cross-reference? Easy, just shift a tab to a new window. All likely not possible in an SPA, either because links don’t work like links, or because it’ll muck up state.

New comment by iamphilrae in "Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt"

iamphilrae — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 07:45:10 +0000

Perhaps they’re intending on a means to say whether your content can be used within an AI training model or not.

New comment by iamphilrae in "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney"

iamphilrae — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:34:10 +0000

100% truthfully, I wrote it all myself, but tweaked the opening paragraph with ChatGPT to improve my grammar slightly. It’s a great tool, and one that should not be dismissed, just like spell checkers and the grammar checkers of old in the likes on MS Word. Maybe it does come across a bit ChatGPT-like which is unfortunate I suppose.

As for the suggestions of me asking it to write the comment from prompts, then I’m afraid that’s 100% wrong.

New comment by iamphilrae in "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney"

iamphilrae — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:26:59 +0000

All I was really getting at was that it sapped the love (and money) out of the job, like the OP was suggesting for them and Midjourney. Once your art/talent has become something that either the common person or a machine can do, your only option as a career is to move on and diversify. It’s unfortunate, but has been happening for decades in all industries. Anyway, just sharing my experience of it happening to me.