Hacker News: longtimelistnr

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback"

longtimelistnr — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:55:38 +0000

a false scarcity? sometimes this site makes me feel like i'm talking to aliens

New comment by longtimelistnr in "iPhone Pocket"

longtimelistnr — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:35:23 +0000

Steve was a noted fan of Issey Miyake

New comment by longtimelistnr in "The New York Times Mini Crossword Is No Longer Free to Play"

longtimelistnr — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:16:28 +0000

Yes, each day the game maker creates a timely and relevant crossword. So in this case the person behind it is the loss

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Investors lose billions on US penny stocks as 'pump and dump' scams multiply"

longtimelistnr — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:29:18 +0000

1-800-522-4700 for anyone humoring these kinds of "investments"

New comment by longtimelistnr in "95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report"

longtimelistnr — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:51:01 +0000

Because for the typical office - documents are strewn about on random network drives and are not formatted similarly. This combined with the inability to nail down 100% accuracy on even just internal doc search is just too much to overcome for non-tech industry offices. My office is mind blown if i use Gemini to extract data from a PDF and convert it to an .xlsx or .csv

As a technically minded person but not a comp sci guy, refining document search is like staring into a void and every option uses different (confusing) terminology. This makes it extra difficult for me to both do my regular job AND learn the multiple names/ways to do the exact same thing between platforms.

The only solution that has any reliability for me so far are Gemini instances where i upload only the files i wish to search and just keep it locked to a few questions per instance before it starts to hallucinate.

My attempt at RAG search implementation was a disaster that left me more confused than anything.

New comment by longtimelistnr in "A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)"

longtimelistnr — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:09:12 +0000

I notice this as well, i think it is because the autocorrect is turned off and we may just be so used to it learning our typing habits that our "raw" typing is really that bad

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Jules, our asynchronous coding agent"

longtimelistnr — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:17:28 +0000

dont shoot the messenger, but it's supposed to be like a "butler sounding name"

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Designing a flatpack bed"

longtimelistnr — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:50:11 +0000

Yes we've had this discussion with management before when discussing CV short comings. Pathetic offering of a program, and simply would not pass even the most basic usability tests in other fields. Microvellum afaik is only a better program "in theory." I have not heard much positivity from actual users.

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Designing a flatpack bed"

longtimelistnr — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:11 +0000

I am in the same boat, daily user of Cabinet Vision. Did you know the same founder made both and sold them off within a few years of one another?

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Drafting Software Recommendation"

longtimelistnr — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:57:43 +0000

As someone who uses such software for a living, i concur. Hand drawings work just fine. Not to mention, any fabricator worth their salt will have no problem interpreting it.

New comment by longtimelistnr in "The death of partying in the USA"

longtimelistnr — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:01:57 +0000

at least in my parents neighborhood, the open garage or the pool with a non-privacy fence, or the front/side porch are all hangout spots where other neighbors will walk by and join you for conversation

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Printegrated Circuits: Merging 3D Printing and Electronics"

longtimelistnr — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:59:51 +0000

assumedly much much easier to buy a cheap vinyl cutter, but interesting idea

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Touching the back wall of the Apple store"

longtimelistnr — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:59:08 +0000

i remember it very well, i bought a Sony at F.Y.E. at the mall. as a child, my mother insisted on Sony as it was reputable brand (thank god because they truly were better devices). But the non-Zune/Sony/iPod selections were all duplicates of the same garbage, this was ~2007.

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator"

longtimelistnr — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:49:37 +0000

I have a large collection of vintage Mac's and peripherals, with the largest quantity being the Apple Keyboard II [1]. Archive forums all suggest the Belkin ADB Adapter [2] but that has long since been retired. I would like to make my own, i know instructions exist for a raw passthrough.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Keyboard_II.jpg

[2]https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/hack-your-old-macs-adb-k...

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator"

longtimelistnr — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:23:27 +0000

https://macintoshgarden.org/ has always been the gold standard source for me!

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

longtimelistnr — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:05:16 +0000

Well i know this is sarcastic but have you seen the preferred design language of the Oakley founder? Exposed circuitry is righttt up his alley.

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?"

longtimelistnr — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:56:20 +0000

As a beginner, I also haven't had much luck with embedded vector queries either. Firstly, setting it up was a major pain in the ass and I couldn't even get it to ingest anything beyond .txt files. Second, maybe it was my AI system prompt or the lack of outside search capabilities but unless i was very specific with my query the response was essentially "can't find what youre looking for"

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Google’s unfinished DeX-like desktop mode for Android"

longtimelistnr — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:43:53 +0000

Funny you mention stage manager, i remember the absolute online letdown/meltdown that happened when it didn't ship with the iPadOS version it was scheduled to. The other day i encountered the button for it and completely forgot it existed, but after launching it, I remembered how useless it is.

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

longtimelistnr — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:59:45 +0000

shout out to mixxx, a truly excellent piece of free software

New comment by longtimelistnr in "Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)"

longtimelistnr — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:21:30 +0000

Never saw a CAD app boot fast... Shapr3D is the best but something as advanced as Fusion or Solidworks has always been slow to open