Hacker News: marapuru

New comment by marapuru in "Map of Metal"

marapuru — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:35:07 +0000

Very awesome. Thanks for sharing and for making this. Reminds me of the Metal Evolution documentary by BangerTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmiqVYZHTIQ&list=PLgzW3ulw6T...

New comment by marapuru in "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

marapuru — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:43:33 +0000

I'm still sitting here thinking for a few minutes to figure it out. Don't leave me hangin'!

New comment by marapuru in "Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams"

marapuru — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:42:39 +0000

It looks nice at first sight, but which data moves to which point exactly? Every element has blobs with all colours of the rainbow just moving across a line.

Wouldn't it be better if a Red square emits a Red ball that moves to some place? Or at least highlight 'paths' to show how stuff actually moves around?

New comment by marapuru in "AI can turn us into a society of p-zombies"

marapuru — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:08:28 +0000

> it's that it kills mental model diversity

Thanks for this. I’ve been struggling for some time for a proper argument to tell others how I feel about AI. And this is pretty spot on for me (and my mental model)

New comment by marapuru in "Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia"

marapuru — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:29:33 +0000

What a wonderful game. Great animations and simple interactions. Could you share something about how you've built this @jasonsmiles?

I'm guessing it scrapes Wikipedia for a topic and then digests it, converting it into informational cards.

New comment by marapuru in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

marapuru — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:48:12 +0000

I always start with a local first application. And then find that I want to access List X, Design Y, Scribble Z on the road and on my phone. Resulting in a frenzied search for a mobile / desktop alternative that includes syncing. Then finding a solution that requires a subscription and then falling back into fiddling with Google Drive, or something in the Google workspace.

I guess I should bring my devices back to exactly 1 device. Or just take a subscription on one service.

New comment by marapuru in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

marapuru — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:54:30 +0000

You are right on that. I’ll edit my post to reflect that.

Edit: Apologies, I can’t edit it anymore.

New comment by marapuru in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

marapuru — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:17:22 +0000

Apparently it's a common business practice. Spotify (even though I can't find any proof) seems to have build their software and business on pirated music. There is some more in this Article [0].

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...

Funky quote:

> Rumors that early versions of Spotify used ‘pirate’ MP3s have been floating around the Internet for years. People who had access to the service in the beginning later reported downloading tracks that contained ‘Scene’ labeling, tags, and formats, which are the tell-tale signs that content hadn’t been obtained officially.

New comment by marapuru in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

marapuru — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:46:50 +0000

Yep, this got me hooked on pocket as well. I had/have so many articles on there that ar easy to read on a bus / train / plane or in bed before falling asleep.

And the reasons to shutdown are pretty lame. “ But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.”

It worked for me? And probably at least hundreds or thousands others?

New comment by marapuru in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

marapuru — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:45:31 +0000

In the Netherlands, a financial advisory board (NIBUD) advises people to save 10% of their income. The average yearly income being around € 45K comes to a € 4.5K yearly saving. Deduct unexpected costs + that you want to spend part of this on actual savings _and_ realizing that many people don't manage to save that much due to increasing prices + senseless spending (subscriptions, fast fashion, etc.) makes it much less surprising.

Also, Hotels and Airbnb's are incredibly expensive (even for me, working a decent job with a good income) for families. That's why i chose campings over hotels and bought a decent tent.

New comment by marapuru in "Show HN: An AI-powered book software to write a book in hours"

marapuru — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:36:37 +0000

And what happens with you as an author building up a sizeable amount if experience while writing?

Yes it makes you produce a book faster, but I feel you lose a lot of knowledge buildup along the way.

New comment by marapuru in "Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension"

marapuru — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:04:18 +0000

It's a nice hobby project, but why not just use a browsers built-in reader mode? It has all the same features, and works on (almost) any website.

New comment by marapuru in "Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram"

marapuru — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:55:16 +0000

Can you link to where you find more reports? Is that in the Mastodon thread?

New comment by marapuru in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

marapuru — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:26:47 +0000

Cool, hopefully it will be in your top downloads ;-)

New comment by marapuru in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

marapuru — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:27:48 +0000

Great stuff! I tend to generate some colouring pages on the fly but these look great.

Can you add dinosaurs?

New comment by marapuru in "A photographer captures life in America's last remaining old-growth forests"

marapuru — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:57:16 +0000

Thank you for sharing this encounter and for re-foresting the land.

New comment by marapuru in "1M Users"

marapuru — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:06:18 +0000

Currently (12:05AM Dutch time, 6:05 PM New York, US) there are 14 pages of online users. So that’s about 700-ish ‘online users’.

New comment by marapuru in "1M Users"

marapuru — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:22:28 +0000

I did a quick check on the Online Users [0] via the Browse functionality and found there is a filter for online users. Currently it's 9:19 AM in the Netherlands. And there is about 7 pages filled with Online users. 45 users per page. About 7 pages filled with users [1].

So that's around 315 Online users in Europe during the day. My guess is that during US daytime numbers will be higher. Maybe someone in the US can do a check in a few hours? :)

[0] https://spacehey.com/browse?view=online [1] https://spacehey.com/browse?page=7&view=online

New comment by marapuru in "Ask HN: What's a security risk you think people should be more aware of?"

marapuru — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 20:48:26 +0000

People who share their screen over a zoom call and have a desktop cluttered with documents with insightful names, open tabs in browsers, or messenger applications open when switching windows.

I’ve even seen this in screen recordings that are permanently published on Video platforms.

It’s a gold mine for social engineering attacks.

New comment by marapuru in "Ask HN: Figma web/desktop app architecture"

marapuru — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:42:58 +0000

Did you read through some of their engineering blogs? [0] They might not give you direct answers, but could give some hints on how specifics work.

There is also a specific blog about their infrastructure [1], maybe this gives you a better idea? Next to that, you could simply try to get in touch with one of their engineers.

[0] https://www.figma.com/blog/engineering/ [1] https://www.figma.com/blog/under-the-hood-of-figmas-infrastr...