Hacker News: kmoser

New comment by kmoser in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

kmoser — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:23:41 +0000

I hear you, but for everybody who wants to export filters, there's somebody who wants to export just something else (address book, messages, settings, etc.). There really is no end to it, and it's a PITA to cover all those cases. I'm pretty sure that's what plugins are for: if there's enough demand for a filter exporter, somebody could write a plugin.

Most people just want to export everything (e.g. to transfer their acct to another computer), and for that they can use the build-in full export (Tools -> Export).

New comment by kmoser in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

kmoser — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:51:52 +0000

Thank you. Seems to be down, though; web dev tools indicate unable to open websocket to wss://progressbackend.minefact.de/socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=websocket&sid=...

New comment by kmoser in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

kmoser — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:11:24 +0000

Filters are stored in a file which you can easily copy between computers: https://kb.mozillazine.org/Message_Filters#Export.2FImport

New comment by kmoser in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

kmoser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:33:33 +0000

Is there a way to visit this online, without having to download and install software locally?

New comment by kmoser in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"

kmoser — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:35:58 +0000

> No ones going to use your product because he saw some crap on TikTok. It's cheap engagement

If your product is a wellness product or app, that's like catnip for a TikTok influencer. If it's a B2B SaaS, probably the opposite.

New comment by kmoser in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"

kmoser — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:30:16 +0000

This might work to some degree if you can run your project by many eyeballs, but only if they aren't immediately made gun shy by interacting with a low quality product. A focus group environment would be good for this, but setting that up costs money.

New comment by kmoser in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

kmoser — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:05:49 +0000

It's still a bit wonky. When I visit https://www.govauctions.app/feed?zip=10003&distance=50 I see items in AL and AZ, which are many hundreds of miles away from 10003 (NYC).

New comment by kmoser in "The Last Quiet Thing"

kmoser — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:31:09 +0000

> You have fifteen years of it.

For some of us it has been much longer than fifteen years.

New comment by kmoser in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

kmoser — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:37:15 +0000

I noticed the barcodes on the reporter's printed tickets in that video. I hope a nefarious actor doesn't freeze-frame it and reprint them.

New comment by kmoser in "Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown"

kmoser — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:11:51 +0000

Mouse scroll wheel works, too

New comment by kmoser in "Isseven"

kmoser — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:09:03 +0000

I would have expected something other than false for "se7en".

New comment by kmoser in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

kmoser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:56:41 +0000

I don't mind getting a welcome email. It also tells me when somebody has attempted to sign up for a service using my email address.

What I find annoying is services that only send the welcome email once, and don't let you resend it if you never receive it.

New comment by kmoser in "Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer"

kmoser — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:52:15 +0000

> I don't have an actual paper tape reader, so the object code is directly deposited in memory through the console.

So, really, a Turing Machine is all you need?

New comment by kmoser in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

kmoser — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:38:28 +0000

Disastrous decisions like ads, phoning home, and AI integration? I'm pretty sure MS brass considers those smart business decisions; even if those features fail, they will attempt to pivot them to something more successful rather than roll them back and admit defeat.

New comment by kmoser in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

kmoser — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:24:03 +0000

The irony is that if they taught COBOL today, those grads could likely get a good job working on legacy code.

New comment by kmoser in "A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988"

kmoser — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:40:22 +0000

It does:

> At the risk of getting a bit esoteric, I want to spend a moment with the actual source code to Dialector [...]

New comment by kmoser in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

kmoser — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:14:11 +0000

Clicking any of the videos/channels doesn't cause the videos to play. What am I missing?

New comment by kmoser in "“This is not the computer for you”"

kmoser — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:18:29 +0000

> Working within constraints teaches you something, I think.

It absolutely does. But every system has constraints; even when provided with massive resources, humans tend to try things that exceed those resources, as evidenced by Parkinson's Law of data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

New comment by kmoser in "Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas"

kmoser — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:56:53 +0000

I read "AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas" and I thought it was a shared canvas (as in an image) that virtual agents could contribute to, sort of like an image-only Moltbook.

New comment by kmoser in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

kmoser — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:19:38 +0000

Among the many takeaways from this case is that if you don't own a car at all, you will likely be summarily denied, therefore you "must" own a car.