Hacker News: josmar

New comment by josmar in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

josmar — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:35:30 +0000

Without it, I was a stack overflow lurker, and before that a forum reader

New comment by josmar in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

josmar — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:40:00 +0000

I use a Bigme Hibreak Pro eink phone, nix-on-droid/ssh to home server over tailscale, and a foldable keyboard, to have my coding setup with me and not be tied to where I can carry a laptop.

For foldable keyboards, if they are flimsy or stable matters.

New comment by josmar in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

josmar — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:35:48 +0000

Since using NixOS for my home server, I've found it to Just Work™ flawlessly every time.

If anyone reading this has struggled with servers accumulating cruft, and requiring maintainance, I recommend NixOS.

New comment by josmar in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

josmar — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:01:26 +0000

My best cardio is doubtless stair machine while doing Anki with headphones and a small Bluetooth game pad in hand

New comment by josmar in "Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong"

josmar — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:36:34 +0000

Ultimately I can memorise 12 words representing my private key. And when the dictatorship finally ends, or I manage to flee, no government can ever freeze my money.

No tax man, no dictator, and no other thief can distinguish someone who memorised 12 words from someone who didn't.

New comment by josmar in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

josmar — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:16:36 +0000

If it's Turing Complete, there will be a LISP for it

New comment by josmar in "Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city"

josmar — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:03:27 +0000

Feature request:

delta.chat contact field, the best of the decentralised free software messengers

Easy to have multiple identities for public and private use

New comment by josmar in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

josmar — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:16:34 +0000

> There is even a dual 13.3” tablet that has two 13.3” e-ink displays and folds in half.

Do you have a link?

New comment by josmar in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

josmar — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:59:27 +0000

You may want to check this out. It's a monitor using reflective LCD (RLCD)

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/rE-Monitor

Have not tried myself and have no affiliation. If anyone here used it, lmk how it works

New comment by josmar in "The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van"

josmar — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:47:38 +0000

Hi! I wonder about anyones experience doing full- or part-time van-life, with an electric van (idea sparked by seeing the Tesla car on YouTube) in Europe?

New comment by josmar in "Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages"

josmar — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:48:09 +0000

After being a user of languages for a long time, writing my own LISP was the experience of leaving Platons cave and seeing what the thing I use daily really is made of. What is "if"? What is a boolean, a variable, a function?

It's a beautiful thing. I wish I would never have to climb down into the cave (languages with more advanced parsers) again.

New comment by josmar in "Cutting off white supremacists: Apple Pay, Cloudflare and PayPal join the trend"

josmar — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:33:22 +0000

First, they came[0] for the nazis - but they didn't use bitcoin...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

New comment by josmar in "Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach"

josmar — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:22:28 +0000

The evil weakling Swedish prime minister!

New comment by josmar in "Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach"

josmar — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 23:21:48 +0000

Watching "Kingsmen" last night feels very timely.

New comment by josmar in "Social Media Is the New Smoking"

josmar — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:42:42 +0000

I also found this: https://www.facebook.com/Funkloch-684514891598702/ which is why I was wondering which of the locations it is.

New comment by josmar in "Social Media Is the New Smoking"

josmar — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:49:16 +0000

Where in town is that? I'm getting a few different results when searching. Would love to go and check it out!

New comment by josmar in "Ask HN: What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?"

josmar — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:12:40 +0000

They are a great ladder for when one wishes to climb up the shoulders of giants. Much can be learned in blogs, but long-form text is not that easily replaced.

That said, my books-to-read list is ever growing as well...

New comment by josmar in "Norway, where no salaries are secret"

josmar — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:16:35 +0000

Would it not be more likely that we Scandinavians would have to use the mainstream system? I'm not Norwegian, but my nation Sweden does this similarly.

If we accept giving our internal revenue services to the EU, I very much doubt that we will be able to keep this sort of thing, such as the principle of things being public (sv: offentlighetsprincipen).

For reasons like this (giving up what is unique about our culture for the mainstream continental one) I can't help but be sceptic of further involvement with European political unity, and am anticipating that Brits of 10 years from now will be satisfied with their decision to leave.

New comment by josmar in "China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones"

josmar — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 14:37:37 +0000

What is the simple way for the Chinese government to find the root cause of muslim terrorism and fix it? The only simple fix (as in simple vs easy) would be genocide or giving them their own independent state. The first option is horrible, and the second is not in the interest of the Chinese gov.

New comment by josmar in "Ask HN: What pressing world problems should a graphic designer work on?"

josmar — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:34:55 +0000

City Planning software is something I've been humming over a lot and for a long time. It's a perfect problem for computation with statistics - figure out practical actionable things for cities to do when optimising for things like walkability, public transit available, available storefront-rentals, et cetera. The world is catching up on the western nations, and the millions of cities joining the global middle class can be billions of dollars more efficient. A true way to better the world. The computational parts are doable (I'll be tech cofounder if required - not a visual artist though) but how is it best used?