Hacker News: marbartolome

Discouraging "the voice from nowhere" (~LLMs) in documentation

marbartolome — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:56:55 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/discouraging-the-voice-from-nowhere-llms-in-documentation/44699

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887084

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How are we preparing for the Long Web?

marbartolome — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://brennan.day/how-are-we-preparing-for-the-long-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244723

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

"Elon just revealed how the X algorithm works"

marbartolome — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:14:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/AlexFinn/status/1965438865789071438

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944410

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New Game Plus

marbartolome — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:18:54 +0000

Article URL: https://mar.coconauts.net/blog/posts/2025-01-29-new-game-plus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811347

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Last year I eliminated our PTO policy. I called it "unlimited."

marbartolome — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:53:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/gothburz/status/2011421898161144192

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676974

Points: 31

# Comments: 25

Rectal oxygenation could save your life one day

marbartolome — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:35:38 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/rectal-oxygenation-could-save-your-life-one-day/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459437

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

Building the Impossible Lightsaber [video]

marbartolome — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QArAMtBGx8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45886116

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?

marbartolome — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718665

Points: 433

# Comments: 296

New comment by marbartolome in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

marbartolome — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:59:18 +0000

Yeah, I was very surprised by that. Article says:

> “younger generations are seeking information on social video platforms rather than the open web.”

YouTube I'll buy it, but the search function in Instagram and tiktok is beyond useless!

New comment by marbartolome in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

marbartolome — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:08:15 +0000

Like many others, I also built my own version: a raspberry pi with an NFC tag reader would map the ID to a spotify url to play the album on my google voice assistant.

The fun part about mine is that I slapped the tags to mini vynil coasters, and made a casing that looked like a mini vynil player, so it looks pretty cute. And you can browse your minivynils physically like you would with real records, which was the experience I was after.

See on github: https://github.com/coconauts/minilos

A similar project project I made is a floppy disk drive that loads retro games from floppy disks: https://coconauts.net/blog/2025/07/25/nfc-floppy-disks/

New comment by marbartolome in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

marbartolome — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:47:16 +0000

Been unemployed since 2018.

It started with a maternity leave. Then after a year, I tried going back to my old job and it was a disaster, so I decided to delay it for a bit longer. Then COVID hit. Then I had another child. Then one day you realize, "has it really been 5 years since I stopped working?"

Coming back at that point felt impossible: I wanted a part time job, my skills were outdated and rusty - I didn't even bother applying anywhere, I wouldn't stand a chance. I started searching for alternatives: small freelance gigs, bounties, personal projects... None were a success.

This year I mustered the courage to start applying to jobs again, only to realize that my most pessimistic fears were totally falling short.

I haven't burned all my rope yet, but It's not looking great.

If you're wondering: the way I'm surviving financially is because my spouse does have a full-time job, so we adapted to live with that.

New comment by marbartolome in "Why language models hallucinate"

marbartolome — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:35:37 +0000

Anyone else getting an annoying auto-translation of the article? Browsing from Spain and it seems impossible to toggle to the original English writeup. Hating this trend.

New comment by marbartolome in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

marbartolome — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:03:07 +0000

I did something like this a while ago. What I did is upon reading the NFC tag with a raspberry pi, I'd call the spotify API to play an album in my google home.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/coconauts/minilos

New comment by marbartolome in "Margin debt surges to record high"

marbartolome — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:41:18 +0000

What's it called?

New comment by marbartolome in "Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon"

marbartolome — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:13:20 +0000

Not gonna defend Apple here, but I think it's also kinda sucky that Pateon is simply pushing the problem downward to the end users. They should have made a decision to either take the hit themselves or leave the apple store altogether. But of course this is too much to ask from a company who also has a dominant position in the market of creator revenue, so more enshitificacion for everyone.

New comment by marbartolome in "Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study"

marbartolome — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:22:40 +0000

Recent take of science is that co-sleeping is actually safer (reduces SIDS) if taking a couple of precautions.

Parent under drugs/medications (including smoking) is mainly what drove the death statistics in cosleeping.

Don't have links to studies but is what is teached in official parental education courses in spain atm.

New comment by marbartolome in "A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings"

marbartolome — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:08:21 +0000

> 4chan will probably be around long after the death of every other social media website

4chan: the roaches of the Internet :)

New comment by marbartolome in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

marbartolome — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:50:50 +0000

> I like Bill Gate's book on the topic.

So what's the book?

New comment by marbartolome in "I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]"

marbartolome — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:19:31 +0000

I live in the south of spain, and AC is already a necessity in the summer. Days with 40° and nights with 30° are becoming increasingly common.

Also the water comes out of the tap at like 35-38°, unheated. I've had plants die when watering them with this. At this rate I'm going to have to install some sort of water cooler too.

New comment by marbartolome in "How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off"

marbartolome — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:45:44 +0000

This!!! Kids (where i live) go to school 9-2, and it is a true nightmare to extend those hours to fit with parents longer work schedule. Let's just make both the same!

Also free afternoons every day, better than a longer weekend.