Hacker News: ivm

New comment by ivm in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

ivm — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:24:14 +0000

México is because of the old orthography, before it was Don Quixote too.

New comment by ivm in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

ivm — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:55:02 +0000

FWIW I easily moved from ActionScript game development for Facebook to Objective-C game development for iPhone, riding both hype waves as a result. So, it was a decent tech pick in 2007-2009.

New comment by ivm in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

ivm — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:49:49 +0000

Spanish would be great, there's a serious lack of Spanish TTS on Android compared to iOS and the quality is not the best.

New comment by ivm in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

ivm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:25:56 +0000

Same here. It makes indies a one-man army again, like in the good old days before the complexity explosion of the 2010s.

New comment by ivm in "Marketing for Founders"

ivm — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:14:24 +0000

It did not work even before AI. The rise of "indie hacking" in the late 2010s brought in thousands of hustlers creating similar lists, and many of them were simply selling shovels to other indie hackers (including the lists themselves). By the time of the pandemic, the "submit to every directory & community" strategy was already useless.

New comment by ivm in "Digg is gone again"

ivm — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:12:37 +0000

Because there's no real discussion in such broad communities. Only jokes, generic replies, and silly fights. They're equivalent to comment sections on news sites.

New comment by ivm in "Digg is gone again"

ivm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:22:12 +0000

There strategy did not make any sense: only a few pre-approved broad-and-shallow forums about everything instead of trying to attract niche communities from Reddit or even FB Groups.

New comment by ivm in "Adobe Animate will be discontinued"

ivm — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:23:42 +0000

Yes, Rive launched scripting last year

The Claude Constitution as Techgnostic Scripture

ivm — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:21:14 +0000

Article URL: https://turbulence.substack.com/p/the-claude-constitution-as-techgnostic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828688

Points: 1

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New comment by ivm in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

ivm — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:51:55 +0000

Quick search shows various infographics: green tea at 20–35 mg, black tea at 45–50 mg, espresso at 45–75 mg, and instant at 60-80 mg on average. The day I feel anything close from a cup of black tea to what I get from an instant coffee or a quarter of a pure caffeine pill, I might start trusting those numbers, but for now I see them as nonsense that tries to present as science.

New comment by ivm in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

ivm — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:34:56 +0000

> There is nothing special about tea that breaks the rules of caffeine.

There's definitely something special, just poorly studied: typical "how much caffeine is in X?" tables show tea having caffeine levels similar to coffee, but I never feel the same effects.

> Caffeine pills generally have really high dosages, FYI.

I use 200 mg tablets split into quarters for doses of 50–100 mg. Yet, they produce a much milder curve than coffee (which I no longer drink) and, as a side effect, cause no gastrointestinal side effects!

New comment by ivm in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

ivm — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:03:23 +0000

Yes, I have the same app on iOS and Android, and for a long time it brought in half the revenue on Android for twice the effort (really messy SDK combined with too many OS versions and devices). Lately the gap has been closing, but it's still roughly 40% Android and 60% iOS, though I have slightly more installs on iOS.

New comment by ivm in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

ivm — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:45:43 +0000

Tea, especially green tea, doesn’t have the same caffeine bioavailability as coffee – otherwise people would abuse it just as much as coffee.

I’m quite sensitive to caffeine, yet I can drink green tea all day without noticing much effect, while even a light coffee or a caffeine pill is clearly noticeable. I can also drink tea before going to sleep without any problems.

New comment by ivm in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

ivm — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:56:37 +0000

I bet nobody joins Telegram because of its perceived security, it's a content platform.

New comment by ivm in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

ivm — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:04:02 +0000

Yeah, and to overcome the network effect, you need something compelling enough to justify the effort in the first place. I have hundreds of local contacts on WhatsApp, many of whom have joined Telegram on their own because of its benefits (for example, a local firefighter feed is shared through a channel there). But I only have about 20 contacts on Signal, even IT guys aren’t there. It simply doesn’t offer anything appealing to at least 95% of the people around me.

New comment by ivm in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

ivm — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:34:41 +0000

But we're talking about mass adoption, not Hacker News users' preferences. Signal simply doesn't offer anything attractive to most people.

As someone who spends a dozen hours on WhatsApp and Telegram each week, I don't see any real benefits either.

New comment by ivm in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

ivm — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:21:10 +0000

Various group features like communities and group voice chats, public channels, voice message transcription, only three sticker packs and no obvious way to add my own, backup is still marked as beta in 2026, no business features while all business here use WhatsApp in one way or another…

New comment by ivm in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

ivm — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:25:17 +0000

Signal's UX is years behind even modern WhatsApp, let alone Telegram, which is closer to a blogging or social platform. We can't expect mass adoption of such a clunky app simply because it's more private – it has never worked that way.

New comment by ivm in "Can you slim macOS down?"

ivm — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:04:35 +0000

I'm a power user who's past configuring things, instead I want them to just work on their own. I also hate to memorize commands but like using the mouse and click buttons.

New comment by ivm in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

ivm — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:43:17 +0000

Wool poncho for cold seasons is also amazing, it's like wearing a duvet.