Hacker News: itomato

New comment by itomato in "Doory – Open-Source Canva"

itomato — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:54:50 +0000

Self-critique is absent today.

I have recently thought and written about the things shipped today that my grade 7 clique would have ground into powder and cast into the wind like so many ashes.

Where there is a lack of artistic critique and application of the scientific method, there is slop for slop's sake.

It's making me suffer, and my art is improving for it.

New comment by itomato in "Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts"

itomato — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:44:55 +0000

Is it a legit summary? Does it derail you?

New comment by itomato in "Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts"

itomato — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:27:24 +0000

0:04 for the first , 0:02 for the second. I'm personally all done with that.

New comment by itomato in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"

itomato — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:16:01 +0000

Cool. I did something like that so agents and people could communicate with a Jira instance using Websocket-aware IRC and a browser-based client based on superchat.

Put the issue context in a #channel and invite external parties/entities, bring the results back to the work.

I have tested it but the complexity didn't justify the results in my experiment. I couldn't get it accepted into Atlassian Marketplace, either.

New comment by itomato in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

itomato — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:35:20 +0000

You're telling me all those laptops with the keyboard, trackpad and screen askew are tainted in another way?

Who is buying these?

What forecast suggests these BOMs are profitable?

New comment by itomato in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

itomato — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:46:36 +0000

I bring this up every decade because I haven't been able to find (many) supporting studies.

Chilis. Nibble a Thai bird chili instead of facing a nicotine fit. Sip some Tabasco if you must.

I quit this way, and the point is not burning your mouth or the heat. It’s the endorphin complement.

Tobacco products out. Capsaicin products in.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10742298/

New comment by itomato in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

itomato — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:25:55 +0000

Notes - It’s got what clankers crave.

New comment by itomato in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

itomato — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:33:41 +0000

Cool - now do Lotus Approach

New comment by itomato in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

itomato — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:54:32 +0000

If you have ever looked at a kite and said to yourself, "that is as good as a hang-glider. maybe better.", you might be subject to the perils of one-shot AISDLC

New comment by itomato in "Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser"

itomato — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:49:02 +0000

DingusPPC fork: https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc

New comment by itomato in "Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion"

itomato — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:43:44 +0000

You can delete this now.

New comment by itomato in "Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion"

itomato — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:42:33 +0000

Yes, and then delete or edit the comment.

New comment by itomato in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

itomato — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:42:53 +0000

"It's only a problem if your definition of done makes it one".

New comment by itomato in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

itomato — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:13:08 +0000

Lowered the barrier to entry, but also raised the stakes. My money is on dedication to the high-stakes problem.

How old was this bug? How much energy has been devoted to RE of this proprietary console? Not enough, apparently.

New comment by itomato in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

itomato — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:09:27 +0000

Yes it was a speedrun. Fresh kicks, more clicks.

New comment by itomato in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

itomato — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:36:49 +0000

When the counterfeiters came, that's what they chose to put in the box.

They have been reduced to pleather collectibles.

New comment by itomato in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

itomato — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:31:20 +0000

Yes, for running mountain centuries and ultras.

Karl "Speedgoat" Meltzer broke the Appalachian Trail record in them, and whoever was doing marketing then really blew a big bubble with that result.

Trad brands didn't stand a chance against that sole and backstory.

https://thewalkahead.com/2016/09/21/karl-meltzer-crushes-at-...

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/run/clown-shoe-th...

New comment by itomato in "Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)"

itomato — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:44:07 +0000

Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”

New comment by itomato in "Coyote v. Acme (1990)"

itomato — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:38:23 +0000

TIHI

New comment by itomato in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

itomato — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:07:14 +0000

I've been working on PCB generation projects with MCPs, mostly with KiCAD because of the ROI.

- Flexible rp2040-based instrument tuner

- Stratocaster-style PCB art pickguards

- NeXTBus experimentation board (not that I'll ever use it, but I'll be darned if I don't understand the nuances between NeXT and Apple's NuBUS implementations better now)

This extends to firmware and emulation projects like Doom and the Quake trilogy running in Jira Cloud (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/3372062249/doom-for-j...) and a fork of 86box dedicated to NeXTstep systems (i want an emulated object.station, darnit)