Hacker News: lorenzohess

New comment by lorenzohess in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

lorenzohess — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:58 +0000

Whoops, totally missed that. Maybe Localsend could include some "discover" mode where Wi-Fi hotspot connection happens automatically?

New comment by lorenzohess in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

lorenzohess — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:10:32 +0000

If you're on a hike you can get on the same network by joining your friend's phone WiFi hotspot.

Kapton Tape

lorenzohess — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:45:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898163

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lorenzohess in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

lorenzohess — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:01:41 +0000

Indeed, I'm responsible for suggesting https://github.com/ProfessionalGriefer/terminal-villager/pul...

New comment by lorenzohess in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

lorenzohess — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:58:13 +0000

Please add Minecraft hurt sound effects for when my project fails to build, linter fails, segfault, etc

New comment by lorenzohess in "Python Package Compiler:Package Matlab Programs for Deployment as Python Package"

lorenzohess — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:32:56 +0000

I quite like Simulink, and the automotive simulation industry at least doesn't seem to be trying to run away from it.

I'm curious what you perceive as Matlab's "hold it does" on the engineering industries?

New comment by lorenzohess in "State of Homelab 2026"

lorenzohess — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:53:47 +0000

How do you feel about the privacy implications of Cloudflare theoretically being able to read all your data? I guess this theoretical downside is outweighed by the practical upsides?

New comment by lorenzohess in "State of Homelab 2026"

lorenzohess — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:53:38 +0000

How do you feel about the privacy implications of Cloudflare theoretically being able to read all your data? I guess this theoretical downside is outweighed by the practical upsides?

New comment by lorenzohess in "One neat trick to end extreme poverty"

lorenzohess — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:35:10 +0000

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New comment by lorenzohess in "Agent Reading Test"

lorenzohess — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:17:07 +0000

Ideally the website would emphasize self hosting the code and analyzing it before running

New comment by lorenzohess in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"

lorenzohess — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:59:56 +0000

I see, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the UI should reflect this? Have one button for True or False or Uncertain, and then the slider for confidence in the answer?

New comment by lorenzohess in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"

lorenzohess — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:54:00 +0000

Maybe I don't know enough about "calibration" in a technical sense, but it seems like this quiz cant really distinguish between factual knowledge and calibration skill?

Is this type of quiz reproducible for individuals and across various cross-sections of the population?

Are there studies on this? Is the quiz based on these studies?

New comment by lorenzohess in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"

lorenzohess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:40:43 +0000

50-100 years default, 25-50 with Plan Mode, and down to ~10 if you use Opus 4.6 Max

New comment by lorenzohess in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

lorenzohess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:56:57 +0000

Perhaps, but if it's gotten to the point where millions of people download the unsigned code, signing should probably become required. Even reproducible builds.

New comment by lorenzohess in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

lorenzohess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:25:42 +0000

And people say there's no innovation in the Artemis stack

New comment by lorenzohess in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

lorenzohess — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:33:33 +0000

Agreed.

We should also consider whether the rise of AI for any type of implementation task will reduce the number of new Emacs and Vim users, thereby limiting and ultimately killing the communities' growth.

I came to Vim, and then Emacs, because I wanted a tool for coding that I could configure exactly how I liked. If AI does my coding for me, my need for a custom editor will decrease. More generally speaking, if AI can do any type of implementation task -- coding, task management, email, etc -- my need for software customized for those things will decrease.

If people don't need custom software, many fewer people may seek out and find Emacs and Vim.

Who will maintain them and evangelize once today's generation cannot?

New comment by lorenzohess in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

lorenzohess — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:21:28 +0000

This is like slurp, barf, splice, raise, kill, cut, yank for lisps.

New comment by lorenzohess in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

lorenzohess — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:55:53 +0000

Have you tried Emacs' Extensible Vi Layer ("Evil" mode)? My muscle memory switched almost seamlessly from Vim to Emacs with Evil mode

New comment by lorenzohess in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

lorenzohess — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:16:17 +0000

Out of curiosity, how much slower is this than an actual CPU?

New comment by lorenzohess in "OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)"

lorenzohess — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:17:08 +0000

What happened to Organic Maps?