Hacker News: kaboomshebang

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests"

kaboomshebang — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:19:20 +0000

I didn't know AI can already take care of my grandma, cook meals, wash, clean-up, fix my car... ;) ;)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Be wary of Bluesky"

kaboomshebang — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:07:45 +0000

Reading some of the comments here. Perhaps the key to solid decentralization is solving the self-hosting problem. If self-hosting digital tools will always be a hassle to manage/update/maintain/upgrade/etc, then we will always rely on third parties. Almost every human owns a powerful device, but almost none have the know-how to run their own services. (That's why we rely on others, which has it's tradeoffs; honestly BlueSky seems a better tradeoff then Twitter, at least for now ;)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification"

kaboomshebang — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:04:56 +0000

Same here, tried a couple of years ago. I was drawn to it because of the protocol concept. The experience was not bad, everything worked. But I remember the signup/domain/keys/backups/etc UX was a bit confusing. Happy to see there is more attention going to Matrix lately. Time to give it another go perhaps

New comment by kaboomshebang in "The Influentists: AI hype without proof"

kaboomshebang — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:41:21 +0000

Good article. "hype first and context later". Loads of online content has become highly sentational. I notice this on Youtube (especially thumnails and titles) Seems to be a trend. I wonder if -- collectively -- we'll develop a "shield" for this: (more critical thinking?)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Chat Control is close to being adopted, and its worse"

kaboomshebang — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:14:59 +0000

This makes me feel pissed off. I used to be Pro EU, now I'm not so sure. (Suddenly I understand Trump voters.)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

kaboomshebang — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:14:55 +0000

This makes me feel pissed off. I used to be Pro EU, now I'm not so sure. (Suddenly I understand Trump voters.)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

kaboomshebang — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:01:37 +0000

Found that yearly payment option :)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea"

kaboomshebang — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:47:23 +0000

Very cool and useful!! Thanks for OSS this :)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

kaboomshebang — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:29:18 +0000

On-topic: Seems like a good feature.

Off-topic: I've been reading some of the comments and I notice a bunch of HN-members are unhappy about their product. My experience: things never broke for me, never needed to contact support, ads are blocked, etc (But I also use uBlock, etc)

(P.s. - My only complaint is that -- like so many other SaaS offerings -- administrating payments is not easy enough. - No option to pay by year - So every month you have to go the website, login, go the admin, click download invoice - Instead of: click download PDF from monthly invoice email)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index"

kaboomshebang — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:37:44 +0000

I guess it's what excites a lot of people nowadays. Although I also feel it's way overused. Having said that, personally, my search behavior in the last years shifted from Google to LLMs almost completely, so it feels relatable.

(Furthermore: I welcome developments in new search initiatives. Even if advertised using the same AI-hyped-copy as all other companies ;) ;)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "No Hello"

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:35:51 +0000

If someone grabs my Slack attention by starting with "Hello" or "Hey ", and he/she doesn't immediately continues typing, a "Permission to speak" is always fun :)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Working on databases from prison"

kaboomshebang — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:18:19 +0000

Inspirational story. Thanks for sharing :)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Malware Attack and Counterattack"

kaboomshebang — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:11:22 +0000

Horrific scenario :0 Enjoyable read ;-)

New comment by kaboomshebang in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

kaboomshebang — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:41:49 +0000

"Hungry for the Power"

New comment by kaboomshebang in "[dead]"

kaboomshebang — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:15:23 +0000

As a European onlooker I'm very happy to see people push back against this idiocracy. Thanks

(https://www.oed.com/dictionary/idiocracy_n2)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

kaboomshebang — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:45:29 +0000

Love it

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations"

kaboomshebang — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:42:31 +0000

What happens when I would stop my subscription? The scripton lib is open source and the lyra orion plot functions can output image files without refactoring? (Or do I have to reactivate my subscription?) (Congrats on your product launch btw :)

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)"

kaboomshebang — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:18:20 +0000

Is it weird to want to see a time-lapse video of this phenomenon???

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Postgres WASM"

kaboomshebang — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:22:42 +0000

The more I read about WASM the more magical it becomes...

New comment by kaboomshebang in "Integrating with Fastmail"

kaboomshebang — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:04:24 +0000

Totally agree on this, love the full-featured -- but still very clean and fast -- interface. Been happily giving them some of my money for almost 10-years.