Hacker News: nevster

New comment by nevster in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

nevster — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:05:21 +0000

When I quit the app, why is it still running in the background?

New comment by nevster in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

nevster — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:24:20 +0000

I spent way too much time doing fancy infographic-style stuff for a video about the 4th book in the Wheel of Time : https://youtu.be/ONs2inKELR0

Meanwhile, Daniel Greene's dodgy whiteboard video has a million views. Don't mind me as I eat these sour grapes...

New comment by nevster in "Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]"

nevster — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:12:06 +0000

The term Page-Turner is often misapplied. I rarely find any books genuine page-turners.

The Cuckoo's Egg is the exception. Such a fantastically well-written book! Thanks Cliff!

New comment by nevster in "The Economic Benefit of Refactoring"

nevster — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:22:51 +0000

Probably it's just the same dopamine hits that make things like watching the Windows 98 Defragger soothing.

New comment by nevster in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

nevster — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:28:42 +0000

"This post is an XBOX"

New comment by nevster in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

nevster — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:31:57 +0000

The Apple IIGS version was great!

New comment by nevster in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

nevster — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:08:13 +0000

Another idea for you - search for "booktube" on youtube. Plenty of recommendations!

New comment by nevster in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

nevster — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:49:23 +0000

https://app.auctionsieve.com/

I've converted my 23 year old Java desktop app to a website.

It's an app to make searching eBay an actual joy. Perform a search, then highlight text to trash or group that term. Then perform the search again tomorrow and it will hide all the stuff you've already seen.

New comment by nevster in "The Last Quiet Thing"

nevster — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:18:39 +0000

I hate that fade-in stuff. Basically just close any page that does it.

New comment by nevster in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

nevster — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:35:17 +0000

There must be some law about articles proclaiming X is dead. Does anyone know of one? Something along the lines of "Any article declaring X is dead is always wrong and just trying to sell you something"

Dumbest article I've read in a while.

New comment by nevster in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

nevster — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:58:34 +0000

I think the main thing is, these are all green fields projects. (Note original author talking about executing ideas for projects.)

New comment by nevster in "Scott Adams has died"

nevster — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:32:14 +0000

I mean no disrespect by this but when I saw the headline on HN I immediately thought it was about Scott Adams the text adventure guy. And then I started watching the video and was a bit confused at first before it all clicked.

New comment by nevster in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

nevster — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:25:05 +0000

Here's how AI coding has helped me : to beat procrastination.

Often while trying to fall asleep, I'll be thinking something like "I need my app to do such and such".

The next day, instead of forcing myself to start coding, I can literally say to Intelij Junie (using Claude), exactly that: "I need my app to do such and such". I'm often pleasantly surprised by the outcome. And if there's anything that needs to be tweaked, I'm now in the mode of critiquing and editing.

New comment by nevster in "Happy Public Domain Day 2026"

nevster — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:30:08 +0000

The Swallows and Amazons series is wonderful! Highly recommended.

New comment by nevster in "Quake's Player Speed (2017)"

nevster — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:01:29 +0000

Watch hours are literally how long someone watches. So if you watch a 2 hour video at 2x, it counts as 1 hour.

New comment by nevster in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

nevster — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:38:34 +0000

Fun!

New comment by nevster in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

nevster — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:32:26 +0000

Thanks!

Fair warning to any others: It's mostly fantasy and sci-fi with the occasional tech book thrown in

New comment by nevster in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

nevster — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:48:24 +0000

My booktube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@NevsBookChannel

Of relevance - my review of Code Complete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlY0EGWp7rw

New comment by nevster in "Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery"

nevster — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:45:21 +0000

I'm probably in a minority here. When I read Skyfall-GS, I immediately thought it was some new Apple IIGS game!

New comment by nevster in "The Rise and Fall of the Powdered Wig (2020)"

nevster — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:10:13 +0000

Ven vill you vear vigs?