Hacker News: mxmilkiib

New comment by mxmilkiib in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

mxmilkiib — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:54:13 +0000

isn't that more what a skill or mpc are?

New comment by mxmilkiib in "I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers"

mxmilkiib — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:07:35 +0000

where exactly is it featured in/on the three sites the above the fold info says?

did you prompt it to create an engineering post for HN? because there's an internal link that says "HN Engineering Post"

best wishes

New comment by mxmilkiib in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

mxmilkiib — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:01:54 +0000

"The police service in England and Wales is "not good enough" and its leadership needs an "ethical reset", Lord Blunkett has said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0429yx1k9o 4 July 2026

"Speaking exclusively to the BBC ahead of the publication of a major report he co-authored on police leadership, the former Labour home secretary said its findings point to weaknesses in leadership, morale and culture across the service.

The report, to be published on Monday, will conclude there are "significant causes for concern" and that police leadership requires a "fundamental overhaul".

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

mxmilkiib — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:11:12 +0000

it's not as dead-pan with an /s

imhho, I prefer the ambiguity, the increased hilarity, the increased mental work of considering whether a statement is in good faith or being sarcastic/sardonic, the opportunity to understand how people can be hurt and the motives of barbs and lashes and how to discern the distress and deeper needs of "violent" people, and eventually the remembered insights on how to better generate boundaries and equanimity

in the way of Buddhist psychology, phenomenological bracketing, non-violent/compassionate communication, Brechtian principles, deconstruction, clowning, DBT, etc

lol

though I know this doesn't scale to situations without a boundary, where you can get abuse just for existing. I would use /s in a commons that expects a higher standard of good faith/well-being interactions

(does thoroughly confusing or disrespecting people for a jape equate to an abuse? how much of memeing is not just legal but moral? these are rhetorical questions, you are allowed to save your mental labour on this for yourself, self-care is prime, though I hope you all have a appropriate levels of support)

Stuart Lee is my favourite comedian, they are masterful in playing with this

https://youtu.be/5S9QJXa5YP8 - Stewart Lee deals with audience latecomers (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/EclpMn-mK5E - Stewart Lee HITS OUT At Audience Behaviour (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/NtFJ1HT3gto - Stewart Lee on Stewart Lee fans (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/TrkPNwSRxtM - Stewart Lee on his Audience (Content Provider)

shout out to the somewhat similar subtitles use of: (!)

p.s. as an alternative to Windows, I always recommend folk use KDE, and a distro based on Arch btw

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

mxmilkiib — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:01:08 +0000

you sound sarcastic

New comment by mxmilkiib in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

mxmilkiib — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:58:42 +0000

DUCK DUCK GO MURRAY BOOKCHIN!!

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-... (1965)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post... (1971)

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/06/15/how-my-fathers-ide...

Towards a Liberatory Technology, Murray Bookchin (1965)

mxmilkiib — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-towards-a-liberatory-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233615

Points: 1

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New comment by mxmilkiib in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"

mxmilkiib — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:49:25 +0000

is not "very" different. to me, many of these read as hedged insinuations

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

mxmilkiib — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:53:22 +0000

WALK to school?! back when I were a lad, we had to CRAWL to school! what a great workout it was! and, for our packed lunches, we'd have a hard-boiled potato with a dod of ketchup, and some breadcrumbs if we were lucky, and we enjoyed it!!

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe"

mxmilkiib — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:10:41 +0000

I was wrong, the average cost is 348,000 gbp

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe"

mxmilkiib — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:46:49 +0000

what are you on? Farage resigned their seat because they got 5 million they didn't declare and wished to avoid parliamentary procedure, instead saying "the voters should decide", and the other parties knew it was only a PR stunt so declined to take place, because there will be a by-election (yet another £200,000) that will happen anyway once the undeclared gift gets him booted.

Dataportability.org – Share and remix data using open standards (2008-)

mxmilkiib — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:40:56 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20090723171111/http://www.dataportability.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862285

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Fable Built Thomas Jefferson's Rotating Bookstand"

mxmilkiib — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:27:12 +0000

can one read this without signing-in with google?

An Inside Look at the UK's Largest Illegal Rave – UK TEK 2026 [video]

mxmilkiib — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:31:10 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835578

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Programmers need to start meditating"

mxmilkiib — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:00:05 +0000

"'A Course on Early Buddhist Meditation' is a series of ten long-format talks on meditation by Bhante Sujato. The curriculum derives from the early suttas, particularly from the Theravada tradition.

"The video trailer for the original course from which this series has been derived/edited can be found here - https://youtu.be/EEOykTO5754

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMC0iGGyFk&list=PL70fWqztn7...

"Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta - Bh. Sujato", the main breath mindfulness/meditation sutta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMC0iGGyFk&list=PL70fWqztn7...

https://suttacentral.net/dn22/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain...

A_History_of_Mindfulness_Bhikkhu_Sujato.pdf;

https://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_H...

"This series of 10 Dhamma Talks by Bhante Sujato, given during the rains retreat in Santi Forest Monastery in NSW, Australia in 2007 is the most detailed description of Ajahn Mahachatchai's Metta Meditation technique I have ever come across on the internet."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HREe6phLMpU&list=PLTcGMzIEhl...

Cūḷavedallasutta/The Shorter Elaboration, a socratic discource between a nun and, iirc, their former partner, who later became a monk/mendicant ("begger")

"10.2 “The noble eightfold path is conditioned.” (grasping for good things is good, until you finish crossing the river with that raft)

https://suttacentral.net/mn44/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain...

https://suttacentral.net/snp1.8/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=pla...

https://youtu.be/maBmEU4YUi8 - Metta Sutta/The Discourse on Love, recital/chant in English by Sujato

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Show HN: Material Hack – Reboot of the Hacker News Client Materialistic"

mxmilkiib — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:38:18 +0000

I started off with Opus 4.8, but fairly quickly switched to GLM-5.2 for the vast majority of work. just a couple of days of "effort"

Show HN: Material Hack – Reboot of the Hacker News Client Materialistic

mxmilkiib — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mxmilkiib/material-hack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609131

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Wiki Spy"

mxmilkiib — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:54:31 +0000

what a curious way to explore media! very artsy

I liked that navigating through spaces of images of items, none of which I quite knew the name, purpose, cultural references regarding or social significances of -thing

what an ocean of oceans of oceans this world has been and is

endless fun, a lovely bit of play, and the sound; satisfies! ty

New comment by mxmilkiib in "KDE Plasma 6.7 Released"

mxmilkiib — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:56:26 +0000

per-screen virtual desktops!!

fiinally, the most frustrating thing about KDE, wot lead me to learn so much about other WM systems over the last couple of decades, is gone

(the issue was a few days over 21 years old, though closed several weeks back now)

I came to find I prefer tag-based systems, where apps can have multiple tags (I came back to AwesomeWM for a number of years twice)

but the way KDE didn't handle the "classical" pager behaviour made any kind of workflow a hair pulling experience that necessitated the constant dragging of pager window representations been desktops for one of the screens

the new issue for adding a "switch the screen the virtual desktop hotkeys affect" or "switch the virtual desktop somehow on only screen X" system (afaiu, at first brief scan) is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519009

New comment by mxmilkiib in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

mxmilkiib — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:52:53 +0000

https://github.com/mxmilkiib/dotfiles/blob/main/xdg/.config/...