Hacker News: koalacola

New comment by koalacola in "Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

koalacola — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:18:48 +0000

Oh dear, they were making a joke.

New comment by koalacola in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

koalacola — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:45:17 +0000

Is this your article OP?

New comment by koalacola in "I canceled my book deal"

koalacola — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:10:00 +0000

AI slop

New comment by koalacola in "Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020)"

koalacola — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:34:32 +0000

It's all in the article.

New comment by koalacola in "Screen Apnea"

koalacola — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:59:42 +0000

Thanks so much for this recommendation, I've wanted something similar to this on Windows after falling in love with Spotlight on Mac, and the built-in Windows search function is just awful.

New comment by koalacola in "1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’"

koalacola — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:16:56 +0000

That bell is frightening the old mite!

New comment by koalacola in "How the iMac Saved Apple"

koalacola — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:48:29 +0000

The fuck is an IRQ?

New comment by koalacola in "Negative developer comments about Agile and Scrum on social media"

koalacola — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:58:10 +0000

Forgive my ignorance, but is this a blog post on Github?

New comment by koalacola in "LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT"

koalacola — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:54:42 +0000

If it's trained by humans is it safe to assume that we'll get it so something crazy like 99% agreeable?

New comment by koalacola in "No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers"

koalacola — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 23:22:58 +0000

It says I need Qt5 LTS to install that, is that a paid application?

New comment by koalacola in "PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator"

koalacola — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:17:26 +0000

So is this discontinued?

New comment by koalacola in "A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]"

koalacola — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:04:35 +0000

What do you do with them?

New comment by koalacola in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

koalacola — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:46:54 +0000

sheer

New comment by koalacola in "Ed Fredkin has died"

koalacola — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:26:42 +0000

yeah thats how I remember it

New comment by koalacola in "JMAP – a modern email open standard"

koalacola — Tue, 30 May 2023 22:12:16 +0000

To be fair no one is forcing you to switch, just recommending options per your request.

I'd recommend trying them out for a bit and just keeping Gmail in your back pocket. May as well decide for yourself than listening to randoms on HN.

New comment by koalacola in "Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in some juices and soft drinks"

koalacola — Tue, 09 May 2023 19:03:37 +0000

Why not both?

New comment by koalacola in "Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in some juices and soft drinks"

koalacola — Tue, 09 May 2023 17:47:56 +0000

Well that's horrifying

New comment by koalacola in "The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever"

koalacola — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:24:32 +0000

Lol what? Because they're Czech?

New comment by koalacola in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

koalacola — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:34:24 +0000

forgot to change accounts

New comment by koalacola in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

koalacola — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:33:40 +0000

I'm fairly certain they did.