Hacker News: mimischi

New comment by mimischi in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

mimischi — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:57:23 +0000

Except it wasn’t for all users. IIRC it either didn’t show for all, or it was the WinRAR equivalent of you being able to say “maybe later” and it left you alone for a long while.

New comment by mimischi in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

mimischi — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:24:24 +0000

At the rate that people claim AWS us-east to go down, folks will argue that OVH has a tendency to go up in flames!

New comment by mimischi in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

mimischi — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:52:32 +0000

Can you describe your setup on how you use LLMs within Emacs?

New comment by mimischi in "Bet on German Train Delays"

mimischi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:10:31 +0000

For context, David Kriesel gave the infamous talk called “BahnMining” at 36C3 highlighting this. IIUC it’s only available in German: https://youtu.be/0rb9CfOvojk

New comment by mimischi in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

mimischi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:03:03 +0000

What makes you think that? Genuine question, as I’ve not flagged it as such in my mind.

New comment by mimischi in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

mimischi — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Ok I’ll bite. Was it worth it? What have people missed that haven’t used it.

New comment by mimischi in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

mimischi — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:17:37 +0000

I like https://lookscanned.io/

New comment by mimischi in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

mimischi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:20:55 +0000

As an aside: have you thought about using agent-shell?

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

New comment by mimischi in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

mimischi — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:30:52 +0000

Come to think of it, maybe they had a play on 4o being “40”, and o4-mini being “04”, and having to append the “mini” to bring home the message of 04<40

New comment by mimischi in "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"

mimischi — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:56:30 +0000

Mind sharing your DAW app?

New comment by mimischi in "Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent"

mimischi — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:11:54 +0000

A classic issue of AI generated READMEs. Never to the point, always repetitive and verbose

New comment by mimischi in "Using Emacs as a TUI"

mimischi — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:14:04 +0000

Using it in GUI mode, you’ll end up using the terminal inside Emacs!

New comment by mimischi in "Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)"

mimischi — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:24:41 +0000

My biggest revelation was when I realized how to use Emacs to learn about Emacs. Knowing where to look up function, variable definitions etc was an eye opener in my understanding of how things work and are piped together

New comment by mimischi in "Signal Secure Backups"

mimischi — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:28:26 +0000

Why do you think our should not? Sincerely asking.

And while I’m here, if you’re implying that Signal is Blut trustworthy, you should step out of the HN bubble and have a look around what everyone and their dog shares through less secure means

New comment by mimischi in "Cognitive load is what matters"

mimischi — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:24:07 +0000

I don’t think there’s a correct answer here. Whatever floats your boat. Do you want to scribble things by hand into a physical notebook? Great! Want to use Notepad on Windows for .txt? Or create a .docx using Word?

Don’t follow trends and seek the “next best way to hack your productivity”. Most of those things are snake oil and a waste of time. Just use whatever you have available and build a process yourself. That’s what most people have done that are successful in applying this. They just use the tool they are comfortable with, and don’t over engineer for the sake of it

New comment by mimischi in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

mimischi — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:54:45 +0000

Their point was that (i) React becoming the defacto standard played into the hands of Meta, who are interested in tracking people. (ii) Tracking is made easier by running arbitrary JavaScript in the browser. And (iii) before SPAs were big (pre-React), more people used to completely disable JS in their browser.

Not saying I buy this theory. Just trying to explain what I think they were alluding to, as I had the impression you missed it and went in a different direction.

New comment by mimischi in "Emacs dired-mode as a file manager"

mimischi — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:24:12 +0000

Just that it’s all done from the comfort of the editor one knows and loves, with the same key binding and semantics that at there, whether you edit files in fired, write code, a commit message or an email.

Not to get too deep into this, but there’s this warm fuzzy feeling of not having to use /yet another different app/ that’s ever so slightly different to the optimal workflow you have otherwise

New comment by mimischi in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

mimischi — Wed, 14 May 2025 06:30:39 +0000

What routes are those? I thought you can only be picked up/dropped off at designated stops

New comment by mimischi in "Try Switching to Kagi"

mimischi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:39:12 +0000

Not OP, but I heavily rely on Google Maps reviews. Haven’t found another platform that replaces them.

New comment by mimischi in "Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp"

mimischi — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:58:04 +0000

The embedded video in the README is working just fine in Safari on iOS