Hacker News: nullgeo

New comment by nullgeo in "Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard"

nullgeo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:55:57 +0000

I like the version where it throws the error. That way I will realize I might not have copied the right JSON (or forgotten to copy)

New comment by nullgeo in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

nullgeo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:12:39 +0000

Hard disagree. I love a little bit of whimsy (which I feel the world is lacking more and more everyday) from Simon everytime a new model is announced.

New comment by nullgeo in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

nullgeo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:41:07 +0000

> Did mass processed food production stop people from cooking or enjoying human made food?

Yeah but what if I'm getting pitted against my coworkers who are vibe coding and getting things done faster than I am. Some people write code with pride because it's their brainchild. AI completely ruins the fun for those people when they have to compete against their coworkers for productivity.

I'm not in disagreement with you or the GP comment, but this it is super hard to make nuanced comments about GenAI.

New comment by nullgeo in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

nullgeo — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:19:47 +0000

What is React runtime? I looked it up and the closest thing I came across is the newly announced React compiler. I have a vested interest in this because currently working on a micro-SaaS that uses React heavily and still suffering bundle bloat even after performing all the usual optimizations.

New comment by nullgeo in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

nullgeo — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:07:53 +0000

One I use a lot is kp, it kills a process listening to a particular TCP port.

  kp () {
           if [ -z "$1" ] then
                   echo "Usage: kp "
                   return 1
           fi
           lsof -nP -iTCP:"$1" -sTCP:LISTEN | awk 'NR>1 {print $2}' | xargs kill -9
   }

New comment by nullgeo in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

nullgeo — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:58:23 +0000

Not a fork of thunderbird. It's custom CSS that renders the thunderbird "chrome".

Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example

nullgeo — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:59:34 +0000

Article URL: http://sscce.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39350425

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nullgeo in "Microsoft's Fast"

nullgeo — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:16:15 +0000

Also clicking on the checkbox label does not check or uncheck it. Me thinks they jumped the gun on this

Ask HN: Web app for building family tree

nullgeo — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:08:18 +0000

Hi HN, I’m looking for a good web app for building family tree. Preferably one that’s almost free or with one time payment. Features should include ability to upload photos. Don’t care about fancy bells and whistles but ability to export image of the entire tree in high quality would be super. Thanks in advance!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757600

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by nullgeo in "Firefox address bar"

nullgeo — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:04:00 +0000

The opposite is true in Chrome-- the address bar a little more than completely useless. I use it mostly for web development but this feature along with manifest v3 introduced by Chrome might make me switch to Firefox for good.

New comment by nullgeo in "Substack Notes Launched"

nullgeo — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:28:07 +0000

The sign in flow is completely broken for me. I am signing up with an email, after I click the verification link it takes me to a page where I need to enter my email yet again. Here it says I already might have an account and sends another verification email which does the same thing again. Also found other issues the site after going to the home page. Multiple modals overlapping with the sign in flow.

New comment by nullgeo in "W3.css – A minimal alternative to Bootstrap"

nullgeo — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:18:28 +0000

w3schools has gotten better over the years[1]. I use MDN for almost everything, but I do mistakenly click the first result on Google Search which is usually w3schools. You can use this handy site to have the "I am feeling lucky" Google experience while searching for any web related queries. Example: mdn.io/flexbox

[1]: https://www.w3fools.com/

New comment by nullgeo in "LaMDA is not sentient"

nullgeo — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:47:11 +0000

I am squarely in the camp that believes real sentience is not possible anytime soon given the current limits of computation and tech.

My biggest takeaway from this is that emotion gets the best of us when we’re dealing with anything that remotely resemblance sentience. It’s not unlike me thanking Alexa for helping me with small things like turning on my lights, because I would feel bad otherwise.

New comment by nullgeo in "Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore"

nullgeo — Wed, 18 May 2022 19:21:56 +0000

Yeah exactly, if I `require important.rb` in this file, and `important.rb` wasn't committed how did that project even build and get deployed. Any sane build system will instantly fail for this situations. Looks like an issue with dev ops/engineering culture rather than .gitignore

New comment by nullgeo in "Cities with Nice Weather"

nullgeo — Fri, 13 May 2022 18:04:33 +0000

Bob, are you using the same data as the OP?

New comment by nullgeo in "Ask HN: Does anyone care anymore what Google demos in IO?"

nullgeo — Thu, 12 May 2022 05:29:05 +0000

Every year I scan through their Google I/O website to see if anything catches my eyes, not many things they're presenting catch my eyes. I did look at Flutter 3, but probably won't try it out.

And the Google hardware ecosystem just does not appeal to me.

New comment by nullgeo in "Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, intervals, backing tracks"

nullgeo — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:19:04 +0000

I noticed that the strings do not actually sound close to a natural guitar. For the next set of enhancements perhaps you could incorporate Karplus-Strong[1] in your audio generation routine.

[1]: http://amid.fish/karplus-strong

New comment by nullgeo in "Valve Steam Deck"

nullgeo — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:30:03 +0000

I am excited about this because it finally seems like there will be one more worthy competitor in the portable gaming arena. I was getting really tired of Nintendo's majority market share, with no one to compete against them they have been reigning free with their ridiculous "no sale on 4 year old games" policy.

New comment by nullgeo in "Erlang/OTP 24 highlights"

nullgeo — Wed, 12 May 2021 16:07:09 +0000

Recently I read somewhere that writing long prose is easy but writing something succinct takes way longer. I think that translates to writing code as well.

New comment by nullgeo in "Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads"

nullgeo — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:25:55 +0000

My Samsung TV auto-updates. It's infuriating as I cannot disable it.