Hacker News: mxfh

New comment by mxfh in "The hardest way to make a GIF"

mxfh — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:28:53 +0000

No reference to Ulead GIF Animator? Was expecting some time travel step in between.

New comment by mxfh in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

mxfh — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:45:34 +0000

If you submit some map, at least don't have the title contradict the content description:

"the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership."

or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now:

"Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means.

Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being touristically interesting. In the map I count like 9.

Nightborne – A Neill Blomkamp Sci-Fi Film. AI (4K) [video]

mxfh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:45:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbtt2JxP7g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976964

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mxfh in "Decoy Font"

mxfh — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:16:07 +0000

Until robots discover FFT.

New comment by mxfh in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

mxfh — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:31:07 +0000

Just hope this does not get flagged as spam by google and demotes useful sites, so they are not found to begin with, which would make this useful feature a net negative.

Because same methods can also used by bad actors for deceptive and spammy actions and we are not allowed to have nice things ever.

Therefore Google has something against messing with browser navigation state back button behavior and history such actions usually got demoted in rankings.

I think it's also fine for all sort of marginal and ephemeral actions that should not spam the browser history, like panning over a map or how far you scrolled down a page, but want to end up back there on reload and shares possibly.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-butto...

New comment by mxfh in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

mxfh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:12:06 +0000

That obviously stopped to be a useful indicator two years ago latest too:

I’ve never said that just because you’re invoking the Nazis you’re losing the argument. If you’re going to compare somebody to Hitler or the Nazis or raise the specter of the Holocaust, be sure you’ve got your facts right.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-la...

New comment by mxfh in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

mxfh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0000

This whole honesty based approach stopped working a decade ago latest online and in politics, there is no accountability anymore and who is the most persistent wins an argument in the public sphere, those actors exactly bank on that most people will give up eventually.

New comment by mxfh in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

mxfh — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:43:44 +0000

More amazed by the complexity in bundling offers, of decking out your Framework device with 6 flush USB-C port extension ports sets you back 60 bucks already.

That's like a weird hidden tax.

In a network world where 1GB Ethernet randomly can handshake at 100Mbit still, getting reliably more than 3/4 of the advertised Bandwith from the Adapter seems quite harmless.

https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards?search=USB-C

No they dont come free in the base config either, you have to pay a minimum of 10 for every slush port.

New comment by mxfh in "All time best of Split Depth GIFs"

mxfh — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:16:56 +0000

I just tried that again, looks like the urlparam part gets stripped here after submitting by how HN sanitizes URLs https://old.reddit.com/r/SplitDepthGIFS/top/?sort=top&t=all

New comment by mxfh in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

mxfh — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:59:13 +0000

Have to bring back split depth GIFs a decade later too?

Just works with depth hinting no actual stereo information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630210

All time best of Split Depth GIFs

mxfh — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/SplitDepthGIFS/top/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630210

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by mxfh in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

mxfh — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:23:00 +0000

That's the whole point of LLM, connecting all the missing dots no single human could possible keep in working knowledge, even just for a subfield of mathematics alone. The era of polymaths is over for a reason, so we build a new one to tackle that. If LLMs can build on top of that once all remaining ones are found or if this stalls is yet to be proven, but humans stalled out there too.

delta time

mxfh — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.deltatime.life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129953

Points: 91

# Comments: 49

New comment by mxfh in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

mxfh — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:17:28 +0000

With the trend of things, this seems like good timing for the RHCP estates with a not so unlikely collapse of licensing revenue happening in the near future.

New comment by mxfh in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

mxfh — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:15:40 +0000

This is one of the reasons we can't have proper soundtracks in video games or non AAA TV shows anymore or re-releases of old TV-shows anymore.

I just feel bad for all the pension fonds backing this Bain Capital PE joint venture who will have an off chance of making back their investments with the current state of IP and AI trends.

New comment by mxfh in "Killed by Apple"

mxfh — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:59:25 +0000

But killing a service is something completely different then discontinueing hardware or interface standards. A lot here is still well supported.

This page could have used some heavy editing after asking the LLM to compile all stuff from wikipedia.

Lost it at the Lightning listing, which apple still first party even:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/muqw3am/a/lightning-to-us...

New comment by mxfh in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"

mxfh — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:34:03 +0000

We're at 2021 prices, but ok.

New comment by mxfh in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

mxfh — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:22:36 +0000

Nobody is stopping anyone from buying a USB-C powered and connected very portable 2 or 4 slot external NVMe enclosures.

The old SATA SSD form factor is dead and wont come back.

OWC ThunderBlades exist, but 32TB will set you back 9 grand.

You should be able to assemble something with USB-C for under 5k. That's not a mass consumer market thing, but perfectly doable, if your use case warrants it. We are stuck with 2021 pricing, but now with options of 8TB per NVMe drive at way higher speed.

36TB+ HHD external WD drive combos were always around EUR 1000 over last 5 years. With a short low end around EUR 600 in 2023

https://www.owc.com/solutions/thunderblade?sku=OWCTB3TBL8X32

New comment by mxfh in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

mxfh — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:05:04 +0000

You were not are renter in 2021 when NVMe were same price as now by TB, stuff is just becoming more expensive on market shortages.

Last half year ate up three to four years of earlier price regression, that's about it.

As long as this plateaus here, as prices did for last 4 months, that's just the new equilibrium where it has the chance to get better again, would no be all doom and gloom about personal computing yet.

New comment by mxfh in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

mxfh — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:02:02 +0000

Meta ended its contract with Sama

At this scale, this sound like some insider joke contract made up only to make some hustle on the side capitalizing with stock options on the possibility of adhoc news trading bots glitching out on the keyword, here "x.com/sama" signals.