Hacker News: lvncelot

New comment by lvncelot in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

lvncelot — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:09:31 +0000

I'm honestly more surprised that they could resist the temptation to call it Copilot

New comment by lvncelot in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

lvncelot — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:40:16 +0000

> It's the same class of bug as manually parsing HTML with regex, it works right up until it doesn't

I'm sure you already know this one, but for anyone else reading this I can share my favourite StackOverflow answer of all time: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

New comment by lvncelot in "Use social media mindfully"

lvncelot — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:25:53 +0000

I blocked them from my suggestions page with ublock origin

New comment by lvncelot in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

lvncelot — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:57:45 +0000

Yeah, there's a good reason why I have a lot of criticisms about CSS and only some about, say, QT. It's because I spent the last 15+ years writing CSS in some way or another and one extended summer of hacking a side project in QT, abandoning it, and never looking back.

New comment by lvncelot in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

lvncelot — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:39:53 +0000

Hm. Just a few months back, the KiCad team posted about their woes with Wayland: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...

New comment by lvncelot in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

lvncelot — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:49:39 +0000

Adding https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

New comment by lvncelot in "Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors"

lvncelot — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:37:05 +0000

Completely agree. In uni, I (re)-learned about vectors in linear algebra, and for a good chunk of the course, we didn't write anything in "standard vector notation". We learned about vector axioms first, and then vectors were treated as "anything that satisfies the vector axioms". (When doing more practical examples, we just used the reals instead of something like R^3, but the entire time it was clear that for any proof, anything that can be added and multiplied in the way that the vector axioms describe would fit.) I think adopting this structuralist view really helps with a lot of mathematical studies.

New comment by lvncelot in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

lvncelot — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:14:04 +0000

> cut off ChatGPT in Germany

God I can only hope

New comment by lvncelot in "URLs are state containers"

lvncelot — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:28:05 +0000

You can achieve both a clean history and granular state in the URL with using history.replace() and history.push() where necessary.

New comment by lvncelot in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

lvncelot — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:42:28 +0000

Honourable mention: https://jspaint.app

New comment by lvncelot in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

lvncelot — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:41:30 +0000

Aren't they're used for slightly different things though? GIMP for image manipulation and Krita for digital drawing?

(Krita is pretty awesome though, it's up there with Blender for me)

New comment by lvncelot in "Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)"

lvncelot — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:09:31 +0000

That last one has to be a troll, holy shit.

New comment by lvncelot in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

lvncelot — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:10:09 +0000

I think more often than not, companies are using a single cloud provider, and even when multiple are used, it's either different projects with different legacy decisions or a conscious migration.

True multi-tenancy is not only very rare, it's an absolute pain to manage as soon as people start using any vendor-specific functionality.

New comment by lvncelot in "My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?"

lvncelot — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:38:09 +0000

Same boat, and if anything AI has made the "disentangling spaghetti code" part even more annoying. In the past, badly designed code at least hat the decency to also look bad on first glance.

New comment by lvncelot in "iPhone Air"

lvncelot — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:05:46 +0000

Every time I read an apple press release, I immediately bounce off because of the purposeful omission of the definite article when referring to their products; like "iPhone Air features ..." instead of "The iPhone Air features ...".

It's irrational, but it's like an uncanny valley via text for me.

Good looking phone though.

New comment by lvncelot in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

lvncelot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:58:36 +0000

Ha, I actually thought about getting a Boox when I started spending some time in my garden to work this summer cause of that exact same reason. Good to hear that it's actually feasible.

New comment by lvncelot in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

lvncelot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:56:24 +0000

Two things:

1. The user hostile changes I mentioned were a degradation of the initial experience, i.e. herding people into Remarkable's Cloud offering which, while it allowed for grandfathering, still was very restrictive in what sync features are available. Also, for new customers buying a RM now means a monthly subscription cost, which is why I said can't recommend it.

2. Remarkable itself was using the openness of their tablet in their marketing. If I were to buy an iPhone and then complain about the walled garden, that would be one thing. If I buy a product that prides itself as being hackable, I don't think I'm wrong to expect that.

Lastly, saying "I can't recommend this because of XYZ" is a far cry from "trashing the company".

New comment by lvncelot in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

lvncelot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:52:35 +0000

I have a Remarkable 2 that I used to use religiously, now use sporadically, but cannot recommend because of the user-hostile changes to the subscription and the very restrictive underlying software.

One of the promises that lead me to buy one was the hackability - "It's Linux!" "You can SSH into it!", which, on paper (heh) is still true, but in practice very much isn't.

I think something like a Boox, which runs Android, might be more open to customization, but for now I am back to pencil and paper. That doesn't run Linux, but it also won't change its terms of service anytime soon.

New comment by lvncelot in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

lvncelot — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:09:19 +0000

After hearing them myself, I think I know what you mean. The voices get a bit warbly and sound at times like they are very mp3-compressed.

New comment by lvncelot in "Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math"

lvncelot — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:59:58 +0000

I think current theories break down at less than a Planck length, but they are not constrained to integer multiples of it.