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New comment by mickelsen in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mickelsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:19:59 +0000

Nice, Noisetable is so relaxing. Reminds me a bit of those generative music apps from Brian Eno.

New comment by mickelsen in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

mickelsen — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:12:06 +0000

x86 only tho

New comment by mickelsen in "Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?"

mickelsen — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:51:35 +0000

When you have a flow well defined, like transactions going on, it simply doesn't scale. But AI can then be used for analysis, alerts and investigating failures of such processes very nicely. Agents can also be used to prepare a transaction package that needs more human input, like a customer service case, but again with clearly defined outcomes. At least that's what I've seen in my limited experience consulting for a local online retailer.

New comment by mickelsen in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

mickelsen — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:51:22 +0000

I'd be a bit more humble rather than terrified, because I enjoy some AI slop too, especially funny animals that remind me of my old pets' antics. There are levels of slop. But tasteless stuff with crap graphics plastered all over, loud edits or badly calibrated tts voices were already all over reels/tiktok long before AI, and people still liked that.

The unsettling thing on social media is the mind hijacking with the recommendation algo and scrolling motion that resembles a slot machine, more than the content itself.

New comment by mickelsen in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

mickelsen — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:58:28 +0000

I still use the Little Rat extension, it shows a little notification when an extension does a network request, and lets you see quickly what type and where. It can also block requests (doesn't seem to work all the time in Brave now, even with the flag on), activate and deactivate extensions:

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

There's also this site that I've used from time to time to audit extensions quickly:

https://chrome-stats.com/

New comment by mickelsen in "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"

mickelsen — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:49:43 +0000

Also didn’t these guys buy Zetaoffice?

New comment by mickelsen in "Ask HN: Where have all the humans gone?"

mickelsen — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:45:10 +0000

Where are we? Probably talking to AI instead of posting, of course, getting our dopamine kick out of an autotelic dialogue, then moving on to the next thing.

But seriously, I haven't seen actual back and forth exchanges between bots, maybe those don't make it to the front page or get downvoted to death quickly? Some people do proofread their comments with AI before posting though.

New comment by mickelsen in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

mickelsen — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:42:17 +0000

Deleted my previous comment, but as they say on X/Twitter right after a banger drops: “I am never deleting this app.”

New comment by mickelsen in "What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting"

mickelsen — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:53:56 +0000

Well, at least I learned a thing or two from this, or more like, to keep in mind for my next time messing with lights.

On diffusing them, I've had lamp shades that were adequate on paper but still didn't feel right; one eye would hurt and a headache would start (it has its own cause, after getting lasik a decade ago, I still see great but uneven light triggers a migraine) couldn't pinpoint until I started playing around this, rather than just limiting myself to intensity, temperature and the standard diffusion.

EU Council introduces a €3 customs duty on every parcel. Starting July 1, 2026

mickelsen — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:25:07 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/EUCouncil/status/1999509838083010621

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46251423

Points: 7

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New comment by mickelsen in "Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers"

mickelsen — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:49:05 +0000

The Berlin airport fiasco was absolutely on the left-wing government.

New comment by mickelsen in "Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers"

mickelsen — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:31:11 +0000

Yup, they love their rules and procedures.

And it's funny, because the first thought they have if you get fined (say you didn't include the impressum in your personal website, or nosy neighbor found you mowing the lawn on sunday), it's that you must have done something wrong, not that the law is unfair.

It’s a Rechtsstaat with hardcore legal-positivist brain. Rules aren’t guidelines, intent doesn’t matter, context doesn’t matter, fun definitely doesn’t matter.

New comment by mickelsen in "Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users?"

mickelsen — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:58:57 +0000

Yeah, pretty much.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022905

And it's still strange that after a year, it only sometimes picks it up, depending on how relevant it thinks your location is.

For me it's a coin toss whether the answer tailored to my location is useful or not; I'm often following up with something like "do not show local results, I'm shopping in the US".

But this also happens with other features: the other day it was telling me it won't access a link I pasted. Next message, I ask why. Chat answers that it can't, it has no way to browse the web. I see Web Search wasn't explicitly turned on in the conversation (not that it has mattered before anyway). Turn on for the next message and tell it to try again, voilà. Didn't try just regenerating the answer, but that also works sometimes.

New comment by mickelsen in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

mickelsen — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:11:15 +0000

This one was nice, pity it was never updated: https://github.com/dwarvesf/blurred

New comment by mickelsen in "He Chunhui's Tiny386 Turns an ESP32-S3 into a Fully-Functional 386-Powered PC"

mickelsen — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:20:12 +0000

I’ve picked up a few boards from the Waveshare and Spotpear storefronts on AliExpress:

https://wvshare.aliexpress.com/

https://spotpear.aliexpress.com/

There you can find the latest launches and different versions depending on your use case. Also, checkout the Luckfox Pico.

OneNote's Genesis (2004)

mickelsen — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080319/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chris_pratley/2004/01/30/onenote-genesis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45819297

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mickelsen in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

mickelsen — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:02:06 +0000

Yup, I had massive success with a theragun around the traps, and gentle massage around the SCM area for the ocassional flare up. Also caffeine use, vigorous exercise, loud fans, teeth clenching and sleeping on the side with the neck bent almost reliably triggers it back. But interestingly, after the initial flare during the pandemic and allergy season, the noise subsided with oral steroids. Now it's the occasional reminder maybe a few times a month, always the right ear, then it goes away.

New comment by mickelsen in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

mickelsen — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:16:28 +0000

Nice! Bookmarked. I know this one, it's been useful to me before: https://serverhunter.com/

Complexity – Perplexity with Custom Plugins and Themes. Chrome and FF Extension

mickelsen — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:14:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pnd280/complexity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523113

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mickelsen in "Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech"

mickelsen — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:23:11 +0000

For anything serious I'd still double check, but my go-to strategy of googling expressions in quotes isn't that useful anymore. Here in HN (or any other forum), I've only done it very few times, because the thing rewrites it in a voice that doesn't sound like me, which I don't like. Plus I don't aim to keep a polished identity here, so I'm fine with the occasional mistake. Also I've been like 10+ years with this account, but lurking since 2011 or so... I guess what would offend me the most is someone treating me like a bot because I end up sounding like AI-slop in the future.