Hacker News: maurits

New comment by maurits in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

maurits — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:39:19 +0000

"the bliss curve" [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)

New comment by maurits in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

maurits — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:06:21 +0000

I tell my students that they can watch sports on tv, but it will not make them fit.

On a personal note, vibe coding leaves me with that same empty hollow sort of tiredness, as a day filled with meetings.

New comment by maurits in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

maurits — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:56:57 +0000

https://www.maurits.ch

Photo-blog, everyday slice of life pictures, walking about on the street, since 2006.

New comment by maurits in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

maurits — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:23:47 +0000

"We, and our 226 partners use cookies and similar methods to recognize visitors"

New comment by maurits in "Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void"

maurits — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:38:16 +0000

I like this a lot, simple, elegant, unpretentious, walking down memory lane.

New comment by maurits in "Meta Segment Anything Model 3"

maurits — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:27:07 +0000

I would try to take DINO v3 [1] for a spin, for that specific use-case. Or, don't laugh, the Nano Banana [2]

[1]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3 [2]: https://imgeditor.co/

New comment by maurits in "Roc Camera"

maurits — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:50:51 +0000

I'm cynical and don't fear a world in which people can't verify photos for their authenticity.

I fear (channeling a brave new world) that they simply will not care.

New comment by maurits in "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again"

maurits — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:01:52 +0000

>I'm sure people were saying that about commercial airline speeds in the 1970's too.

Also elegantly formulated by: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

New comment by maurits in "Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation"

maurits — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:21:21 +0000

For statistical mechanics, I really liked [1]. Comes with loads of python programs.

To see what might peak you interest, the videos in [2] could be a good starting point.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics

[2]: https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/i...

New comment by maurits in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

maurits — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:21:58 +0000

(forgot what type of flour you need for bread in supermarket)

innocently googles 'flour bread'

half the screen, CONTINUE WITH GOOGLE - stay in browser, click

COOKIES We and our 917 partners CARE ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY, click, click,

NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, click, rotate screen because the overlay is to big, click Im sad person who's doesn't want daily bread in his mailbox.

APP APP APP, install APP, click click, can't hit the x, let it be

5 pages with autoplay video and SEO slop

I'm enjoying AI, while it lasts.

New comment by maurits in "How to post when no one is reading"

maurits — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:40:57 +0000

I've had a self-hosted blog with slice of life pictures, for almost 20 years. Its my own little corner of the internet, not beholden to any social app or company. Something to look through when i'am 80.

Learn to code, go to law school

maurits — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.symmetrybroken.com/learn-to-code-go-to-law-school/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039401

Points: 2

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The Terror of War - An Associated Press Visual Analysis

maurits — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:16:09 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/project/terror-of-war/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43920635

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by maurits in "Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997)"

maurits — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:55:51 +0000

Reminds me a bit of Greg Egans' Incandescence [1]

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel)

New comment by maurits in "MacBook Air M4"

maurits — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:50:21 +0000

uhm, hold down option-shift for smaller steps. Same for audio.

New comment by maurits in "Softmax forever, or why I like softmax"

maurits — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:07:15 +0000

For people interested in the softmax, log sum exp and energy models, have a look at "Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One" [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03263

New comment by maurits in "The year I didn't survive"

maurits — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:42:48 +0000

This vividly remembers me of "The Year of Magical Thinking" [1] It hit hard, and I didn't finish the book.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking

New comment by maurits in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

maurits — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:22:46 +0000

Slightly tangent: "Web Design: The First 100 Years" [1]

[1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

New comment by maurits in "Why blog if nobody reads it?"

maurits — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:05:49 +0000

"And there’s another thing. My other passion is street photography. Which is a bit like blogging."

That's me. I've made everyday slice of life pictures, walking about, since 2006. Biggest source of traffic is probably my mom. I don't care, its my own little corner of the internet.

New comment by maurits in "Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business"

maurits — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:26:30 +0000

I'd wager that marketing figured out that people are willing to pay a premium for the added feature of not having alcohol.

Maybe the same segment that also pays more for premium (healthy, biological etc ) food.