Hacker News: ku1ik

New comment by ku1ik in "Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest"

ku1ik — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:36:37 +0000

This winning photo looks like a modern demoscene production!

New comment by ku1ik in "Nine-Inch Snails"

ku1ik — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:54:36 +0000

Upvoted because of the title :)

New comment by ku1ik in "Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum"

ku1ik — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:08:42 +0000

Speaking of AY, check out „200%” by Otomata Labs, (compo winning) prod made for ZX with 2 AY chips:

https://youtu.be/eEwv6SvmQmU?si=hahzEddfiqJFnEkt

New comment by ku1ik in "Jellyfin 12.0"

ku1ik — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:17:35 +0000

Infuse is the magic ingredient that avoids the codec/transcoding issues other people sometimes experience. It supports direct play of pretty much every possible video thx to its built-in codecs. I’ve been using it for 2 years and I don’t think I had a single case of transcoding. It is paid, but worth it IMO.

New comment by ku1ik in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

ku1ik — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:56:53 +0000

Same here. I keep jjui open the whole day, rarely reaching for jj itself. It really changed the way I work with repos.

New comment by ku1ik in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

ku1ik — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:08:27 +0000

No it’s not.

https://www.vt100.net/emu/dec_ansi_parser

Paul Williams made this years (if not decades) ago, and it has been widely used by terminal emulator implementers.

New comment by ku1ik in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

ku1ik — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:49:33 +0000

From the screenshots MaSzyna looks much better than I’d expect from a game released in 2001!

New comment by ku1ik in "Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit"

ku1ik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:14:56 +0000

Too bad there’s no single „this is what this project is” anywhere in the repo description, readme or docs. There’s „X is next generation of Y”, and even the whitepaper goes straight into weeds instead of explaining what the thing is. I tried hard but I still don’t fully understand.

New comment by ku1ik in "Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine"

ku1ik — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:38:51 +0000

Yeah, asking the same question.

New comment by ku1ik in "Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine"

ku1ik — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:37:31 +0000

Peter Brittain? https://asciinema.org/~peterbrittain

New comment by ku1ik in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

ku1ik — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:18:29 +0000

Never thought about it, but makes quite a lot of sense.

New comment by ku1ik in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

ku1ik — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:11:24 +0000

„Built on Windows”. That’s like anti-ad these days. Maybe, maybe worth looking at if you can run other OS than Windows on it, but that will probably take some time.

New comment by ku1ik in "A Love Letter to Neovim"

ku1ik — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:56:34 +0000

Similar story here. Before vim I used Kate, Gedit, Eclipse, JEdit and NetBeans IDE. Got into vim in 2009 and since then it's the editor I always come back to.

Neovim really gave it a new life - LSPs, Treesitter, scripting with Lua (which I suck at) and many more. Over last 15 years I had shorter and longer periods where I tried/used something else (VS Code, Emacs/Spacemacs, helix) but it's always been vim/neovim. I don't really enjoy vim config maintenance though, but it doesn't happen too often to look elsewhere.

Giving evil-helix a try is on my editors-to-try-when-i-have-mental-capacity-for-switch list :)

New comment by ku1ik in "Prepare your "no" and keep it handy"

ku1ik — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:36:42 +0000

I've been in such situations so many times and it never crossed my mind to actually prepare something generic that could fit many of those situations. This is neat idea. I don't think I'd just copy-paste-send though, I'd likely do small tweaks to adapt it to the current case, which would turn it from 3 sec to more like 60 sec, which could still be a win. Will try!

New comment by ku1ik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

ku1ik — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:05:39 +0000

I have totally opposite experience.

New comment by ku1ik in "Human Proof for FOSS Contributions: asciinema as proof you're not an LLM"

ku1ik — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:42:01 +0000

As the author of asciinema I'm flattered that Rodrigo considers asciinema as a potentially useful tool for this problem.

This solution would likely apply to a small subset of contributors, unless most Dillo hackers are terminal editor users, and would probably help only partially (which he acknowledges in the post). I guess partially is still better than not at all. Setting aside the technical aspect, I wonder how practical it would be to review long asciinema sessions when reviewing a patch.

If you're reading this Rodrigo: is your recording verification idea to just quickly eyeball / skim through a recording to catch human behavior in those sessions? Or maybe something more elaborate?

Btw, I'm not taking sides here, just happy to see asciinema in the wild :)

New comment by ku1ik in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

ku1ik — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:11:12 +0000

This is a good news. I moved my domains from DNSimple to Infomaniak last year, as part of my rely-less-on-US-infra-and-services strategy. I chose them for their dedication to privacy, ethics and transparency. This change reassures me this was a good choice.

For those who are/were considering Infomaniak and are wondering about the quality of service: I use it for DNS only. Their UI is less than ideal but not bad once you get used to it. The service is solid, never had any issues.

New comment by ku1ik in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

ku1ik — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:08:56 +0000

I made this ASCII visualization for the radio play of “They’re Made Out of Meat”: https://asciinema.org/a/746358

New comment by ku1ik in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

ku1ik — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:36:17 +0000

But without the intermediate encoding step the compression would give a better result.

New comment by ku1ik in "An ode to houseplant programming (2025)"

ku1ik — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:13:35 +0000

This is such a lovely article. It’s one of the few things posted to HN these days that actually feels human.