Hacker News: igmn

New comment by igmn in "Keygen.music"

igmn — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:15:02 +0000

> Preserving the digital underground's musical legacy

The entire page has clearly been completely AI-generated in one shot and serves no value. I doubt the author even read much of the code before hitting publish - look at the comments in the HTML:

lol.

It struggles to even run on my laptop with the amount of crap Gemini has put into it - 30KB of minified JS and another 30 of the horrible CSS. This is a snot-filled spit in the face of musicians whose TLD is being polluted with this, and whose music this vibecoder stole. The gall to have a copyright sign at the bottom is despicable.

New comment by igmn in "Dopamine Fracking"

igmn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:51:43 +0000

I agree. I’m the author, and I think freeing up my time is the core of making myself feel better. And I think it could help others.

Because I don’t scroll nearly as much anymore, I have less things to immediately and effortlessly distract myself with. This inadvertently forces me into creativity, mindfulness or rekindling hobbies, which are healthier and more fulfilling activities than TikTok. It also promotes experimentation and trying new things. For example: I don’t write often, but having more time and boredom allows me to actually try instead of wishing I had. And now we’re having this conversation as a result.

YouTube and Discord are as much of a distraction as anything else, but their nature (or I guess how I use them) makes them feel more finite, and I can often “run out” of content to consume in a short amount of time. Previously, I couldn’t run out, and it was ruining my life and personality.

I can finally feel my life’s sort of global content feed becoming finite and manageable.

New comment by igmn in "Dopamine Fracking"

igmn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:28:15 +0000

Sorry about that. I have some stuff set up to wane off AI and bots, I was getting hit with a lot of recursive traffic from Perplexity and OAI-SearchBot.

New comment by igmn in "Dopamine Fracking"

igmn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:22:54 +0000

I went into my text editor, then used a find-replace tool to replace “--“ and “---“ with the appropriate dashes I copied from a character map website. Manually: with my good ‘ole hands mouse and keyboard. I realise that some grammar can just seem like LLM slop, that’s kind of what they have been designed to output. This is why I went out of my way to add that disclaimer at the end.

I enjoy using em and en dashes for punctuation. They provide a nice break that’s not quite a comma, of which I already have way too many, because I tend to overthink grammar.

I’m sorry my writing style is not appealing to you, but don’t accuse me of publishing AI slop, that’s a shitty thing to do.

Dopamine Fracking

igmn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://igerman.cc/blog/dopamine-fracking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440792

Points: 822

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New comment by igmn in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

igmn — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:48:07 +0000

It feels like no one in this thread has actually clicked the link or watched the video demo. Do you people only read titles? Purely from a conceptual point of view, sure, it's a cool project, but the actual UI and UX are abysmal compared to what Windows 8 was. Take one look at the lock screen.

Not to crap on the dev, but ignoring it is also counter-productive: it feels a bit like seeing one of those iPhone 4 clones that ran on J2ME trying to parody iOS - impressive attempt at making a dumb phone look less like a dumb phone, but it was miserable to use or even look at. I see this all the time around Linux UIs, no one has standards and no one wants to point the lack of them out.