Hacker News: mlok

New comment by mlok in "Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought"

mlok — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:04:12 +0000

It seems to me that the indie games scene has shown quite a lot of creativity.

New comment by mlok in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

mlok — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:18:41 +0000

Wild guess : It might be to make it harder to steal a pair from the factory if you can only get half of it ?

New comment by mlok in "Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It"

mlok — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:47:39 +0000

"A/I" = "Austistici/Inventati" Collective

"Autistici/Inventati is a Tuscan collective that develops independent IT services and provides email addresses, websites, blogs, and newsletters to other activists and collectives."

New comment by mlok in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

mlok — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:46:04 +0000

Why not simply go to DDG settings and disable AI if you dislike it ? (There they will also tell you about https://noai.duckduckgo.com )

New comment by mlok in "Stolen Buttons"

mlok — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:32:59 +0000

Funny, it reminds me of War Of The Buttons, a famous French movie from 1962, where kids would cut out buttons from their enemies as a war trophy, and stash them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Buttons_(1962_film)

The buttons (at 2:25) : https://youtu.be/O5StEEzpT04?t=145

New comment by mlok in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

mlok — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:47:16 +0000

OpenAI vs. Open AIs

I knew this would happen someday.

New comment by mlok in "Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)"

mlok — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:36:05 +0000

Maybe it starts when some people start to apply some power on other people ? But all your examples are people talking about themselves : their own lives, their own choices, their own specifics, their own struggles. I would say people can have all this and mention it as long as it stays on the fringe and does not become a topic to debate. This would be outside the scope of the group.

Maybe other people should avoid commenting on peoples life / choices / specifics / struggles, and the atmosphere may stay nice.

New comment by mlok in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

mlok — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:24:08 +0000

"Written in ghost font" is the decoy message. Your filters got those words.

The real message is "only a human can read this" and your filters didn't get these words.

(But I think there should be a way to catch them)

New comment by mlok in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

mlok — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:26:27 +0000

I like this one, too : https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

New comment by mlok in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

mlok — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:22:37 +0000

I love the small web, and this is a nice project. But I won't remember to come back to it. It would be nice to have it pop up in my Mastodon or Lemmy (or Insta, or FB...) for each new addition.

Use the new web to bring people back to the old web :)

(Or a newsletter ? RSS ?)

Thank you for the "dark mode", like the old days. 2 annoyances though :

- the flashing bright yellow banner is painful to the eyes

- and the fonts are very small on a phone screen — although a 300x zoom "fixed" this.

New comment by mlok in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

mlok — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:11:37 +0000

I agree. Painful. (Especially on a "dark mode" website)

New comment by mlok in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"

mlok — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:42:56 +0000

I was wondering also. If it can help, there is an overview on Kitty's website : https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

New comment by mlok in "Building a Web Page That Edits Itself"

mlok — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:47:23 +0000

Some Javascript can generate this on such a local single-html file.

New comment by mlok in "Goodbye to Sora"

mlok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:37:25 +0000

On TV, content changes all the time. It is "always new". In your examples, content is the same over and over. They would not be fascinating for too long because the novelty would wear off. Very different.

New comment by mlok in "Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map"

mlok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:20:51 +0000

First impression : interesting concept, but half baked result.

Some Feedback :

- A few times, while using the automatic translation of Firefox (I don't speak portuguese) I ran into critical bug while hovering the map, that "deletes" the whole page and leaves me with an error message : "Erreur d'application: une application client a une exception lors du chargement de saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud (voir la console du navigateur pour plus d'informations)." in the console I get : "Uncaught DOMException: Node.removeChild: The node to be removed is not a child of this node > NextJS"

- I use Firefox with zoom on by default, and its not dealt with properly : the floating window on the map is right above what I am pointing at and hiding it. Really annoying.

- Clicking on "commençar gratis" I get to "Error Loading Deployments - HTTP 401: Unauthorized"

Good luck with this project. I like the idea of a micro-SaaS map, but it needs some more work, at this stage.

Goup-utils: Write HTML/Htmx once, deploy everywhere: Web, iOS, Android, Desktop

mlok — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:32:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/joeblew999/goup-util

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878955

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mlok in "How I estimate work"

mlok — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:17:12 +0000

Usually less than 2 days, with a 90% confidence.

New comment by mlok in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

mlok — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:41:51 +0000

Unfortunately, no. CORS will block this on Chrome and Firefox.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/COR...

The security risk : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-2...

You need a local webserver. Or bundle everything in one html file.

New comment by mlok in "How Markdown took over the world"

mlok — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:33:57 +0000

They are not reserved characters. They only express a special format when used in that way : a space on its left, and a character stuck to its right AND somewhere down the road : its twin with a character stuck to its left and a space on its right. I built an editor doing just that more than two decades ago, and it works fine.

So *this* and /that/ express formatting, but not 4 * 5 nor 4*5 nor 4/5 nor m/s.

New comment by mlok in "How Markdown took over the world"

mlok — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:47:06 +0000

A more intuitive norm, used in other formats, would have been :

*bold*

/italics/

_underline_