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New comment by lokimedes in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

lokimedes — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:52:11 +0000

I attend “The Party” in Aars, Denmark for a few years around 2000. It was at the crossroads of broadband, but got to taste the demoscene vs gamer experience. It was magnificent. There were a real festival atmosphere, and afterwards you’d declare never to attend again - that was, until the tickets were released and you somehow couldn’t help yourself.

Good times.

New comment by lokimedes in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lokimedes — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:49:26 +0000

Thank you, great spotted. I did make a CLI tool for it, but it was a bit too cumbersome to distributed it via the App Store for the first release, so I dropped it from the release but forgot to update the help.

New comment by lokimedes in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lokimedes — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:18:43 +0000

We did https://markant.md with TextKit 1, flies through multi-megabytes markdown files with latex rendering etc. took some scaffolding (like only rendering attachments when they are close to the viewport) to make it smooth, but it wasn’t really a big problem.

New comment by lokimedes in "England Runestones"

lokimedes — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:28:02 +0000

Maybe it was good weather [1] on the isles for once?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

New comment by lokimedes in "The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)"

lokimedes — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:53:55 +0000

Uncool or not, working at a place with a confluence of technical problems to solve, sounds wonderful.

New comment by lokimedes in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

lokimedes — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:02:57 +0000

I have a feeling this goes waaaay back, but was covered by claims of authority, in a time where merit and authority were intertwined. My pet peeve is that management is a transferable skill that supersedes industry expertise. It is such a convenient lie that offers MBAs, management consultants, burned out business executives and “retired” generals alike a new career without actually knowing anything about what they are doing. Bullshittery of the finest quality.

New comment by lokimedes in "What's a Mathematician to Do?"

lokimedes — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:49:05 +0000

If we see our contributions as brownian motion rather than preconceived trajectories, then, rather than focusing on the Gausses, Einsteins, Patons as providing singular progress, they become the the dominant least energy paths to what we recognize as truth. Without negating the individual’s contribution, the ones we see as truly important are the ones that supported by every other’s attempt, finds the path forward. This should provide hope, if we can leave aside our egos and focus on humanity, we can, and do, all contribute even though a few seems to get all the credit.

This also goes for AI, it may be an accelerant in research, but the probability distribution of reality is large, large enough for humans to wonder, ask questions and stumble upon a new path forward, that computers alone don’t find.

New comment by lokimedes in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

lokimedes — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:36:53 +0000

I built a Markdown viewer https://markant.md to go with the flow rather than against it. I also cooked up a mew format, which basically bundles markdown and images into “Markbooks” https://markbooks.org. LLMs don’t even need an Agent Skill to understand the format, as it is just a zip with and index.md plus assets. I’d love for people here to consider the idea.

New comment by lokimedes in "[dead]"

lokimedes — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:25:22 +0000

By now I wish people just published their prompts, preferably with their motivations. At least tat part may be original.

New comment by lokimedes in "Show HN: Markant – A Dedicated Markdown Reader"

lokimedes — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:03:12 +0000

It is at least Apple only for now, as it is a native app. I'm working on an iOS and iPad version.

What would you like it to work on?

New comment by lokimedes in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

lokimedes — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:08:23 +0000

The concept of “absorptive capacity” our ability to gain from the information presented to us, is a key factor in education. If we humans remain agents of our own lives (which I find axiomatic) we still need education to interact with AI, to ask the right questions and to make sense of the results.

Show HN: Markant – A Dedicated Markdown Reader

lokimedes — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:55:32 +0000

With Markdown being the standard output for many LLMs I needed a way to view them outside the usual code editors. Markant is a no nonsense viewer, that also prepares markdown for print and PDF. It supports very large documents, like books, without any speed penalty. Along the way I realized that it would be nice with a Markdown version of ePub, where multiple markdown files along with images could be bundled. That is now a new format called Markbook - https://markbooks.org that is easy for anyone, including AI to write.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893644

Points: 6

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New comment by lokimedes in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

lokimedes — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:17:18 +0000

Oh the days when these scenarios just lead to a slowdown of the database server, felt by everyone, not just accounting.

New comment by lokimedes in "How Passive Radar Works"

lokimedes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:59:22 +0000

(Not so) funny enough - I just did the same thing for https://gunsight.com complete with Claude generated interactive simulations for ballistics. We are actually building radars, and are likely going to use the domain in the future, but with zero effort I transformed an otherwise parked domain into something with a minimal amount of utility. So I do recognize the pattern.

New comment by lokimedes in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

lokimedes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:27:48 +0000

To my great dismay, I discovered the physical incompatibility of two Apple products recently: The sharp edge of my MBP and my Apple Watch’s magnetic strap. It seems that the magnets are an effective abrasive, resulting in a ruined strap and a rounded edge.

Thank you Apple, you have taken designed obsolescence to a new level.

New comment by lokimedes in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

lokimedes — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:32:56 +0000

Goodbye customers.

Machina Mirabilis

lokimedes — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://michaelhla.com/blog/machina-mirabilis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627294

Points: 3

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New comment by lokimedes in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

lokimedes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:12:58 +0000

I know it’s easy to sit at home being indignant at the internet, but how on earth does an ISP with 10M subscribers and the most expensive infrastructure in the solar system ever come out to be worth $300B? They even have to routinely replenish their “cell towers” as their orbits decay.

Any mid-sized country would have multiple cellphone and Internet providers with larger customer bases and less upkeep.

New comment by lokimedes in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""

lokimedes — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:30:34 +0000

I just submitted my first Claude authored application to Github and noticed this. I actually like it, although anthropomorphizing my coding tools seems a bit weird, it also provides a transparent way for others to weigh the quality of the code. It didn’t even strike me as relevant to hide it, so I’d not exactly call it lazy, rather ask why bother pretending in first place?

New comment by lokimedes in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

lokimedes — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:21:21 +0000

Even Alex Karp openly recommends European countries to roll their own alternatives. If anyone in Europe insists on Palantir it’s by their own volition.

The hard work is integration and data workflows, that is hard work regardless of the chosen “exploitation interface”.