Hacker News: mkarliner

New comment by mkarliner in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

mkarliner — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:28:39 +0000

A celebration that wit and good humour still exists on HN.

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves"

mkarliner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:17:47 +0000

You may want to look at Karakeep which is what I use.

https://karakeep.app/

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion"

mkarliner — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:35:49 +0000

In movies, English accents, are usually villains...

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion"

mkarliner — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:34:23 +0000

Magnetic Man is unmistakably American, and annoying with it.

New comment by mkarliner in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

mkarliner — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:29:41 +0000

QRPLabs sell even lighter trackers https://www.qrp-labs.com/u4b.html

and AFAIK are the goto supplier for HAB (High Altitude Ballooning) enthusiasts.

New comment by mkarliner in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

mkarliner — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:28:03 +0000

regardless of if this text was written by an LLM or a human, it is still slop,with a human behind it just trying to wind people up . If there is a valid point to be made , it should be made, briefly.

New comment by mkarliner in "Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)"

mkarliner — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:34:17 +0000

Babies and LLMs

mkarliner — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.karliner.net/posts/babies-and-llms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224357

Points: 4

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New comment by mkarliner in "The rise of AI cults and the false prophets of revelation"

mkarliner — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:03:04 +0000

if you think it's satire, look at https://www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/sir-robert-edward-gran...

New comment by mkarliner in "Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole"

mkarliner — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:12:01 +0000

Meteor was/is a very similar technology. And I did some fairly major projects with it.

New comment by mkarliner in "The Roman Roads Research Association"

mkarliner — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 08:20:17 +0000

Very nice to see, given I live within a couple of hundred metres of Watling St. (Cricklewood Broadway)

New comment by mkarliner in "Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace"

mkarliner — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:12:57 +0000

..?mmjnnm mmmmmm

New comment by mkarliner in "How Servo Motors Work"

mkarliner — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:57:27 +0000

hmm. this looks suspiciously AI generated to me.

New comment by mkarliner in "A drill bit that can also drive screws"

mkarliner — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:57:35 +0000

At last!

A useful comment on HN!

Great idea!

New comment by mkarliner in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

mkarliner — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:25:19 +0000

I wish I'd written this. Excellent. Everyone should read this

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent"

mkarliner — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:08:07 +0000

"The user is on a Linux armv81 platform but using Chrome on an Android device—that's odd because Android usually runs on Linux-based kernels, but the specific armv81 might be a typo or uncommon."

Unimpressive, it's a current Samsung. And I'm in London not Leistershire

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock"

mkarliner — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:50:06 +0000

Very interesting challenge. May need a slightly different tech. Stay tuned :-)

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock"

mkarliner — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:17:22 +0000

Another interesting suggestion to think about. Thanks.

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock"

mkarliner — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:44:16 +0000

Thanks, I'm in the UK, and US-UK shipping is horrendous, but I may give them a try.

Right now I'm try to find a longer persistence photochromic for the daylight version.

New comment by mkarliner in "Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock"

mkarliner — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:21:56 +0000

Interesting, I'll have to think about that. Actually, with rare earth paints, the big issue is persistence, which is rather too long. In the current script, I only turn the drum 1/4 turn, so it takes roughly 4 minutes to illuminate the same patch again. Otherwise the lowest digit tends to be blurred because it is a combination of the last two values.