Hacker News: obloid

New comment by obloid in "Tidal AI Policy"

obloid — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:10:09 +0000

I've encountered AI copies of songs from popular artists, hopefully this will stop or at least slow that down. I suspect the only reason those songs are uploaded is because people will accidentally listen to it and then the up loader gets the streaming revenue.

New comment by obloid in "The real cost of owning a home"

obloid — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:21:41 +0000

If you're comfortable doing DIY a lot of equipment can be rented at your local Home Depot or similar store. I had a clogged sewer line and rented a drain snake for the afternoon. Much cheaper than calling the plumber.

The thing I won't do is roof work. Too scary.

New comment by obloid in "Isopods of the world"

obloid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:01:59 +0000

Here's an interesting article by the photographer about fake AI generated macro photos: https://www.nickybay.com/ai-abuse-to-skirt-copyright-law/

New comment by obloid in "Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald – Factually with Adam Conover"

obloid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:13:45 +0000

I got the episode page for the podcast.

New comment by obloid in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

obloid — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:50:41 +0000

That was exactly my first thought. Could I mod this use with boats. I already have some spreadsheets for tracking engine maintenance, etc, but this looks really cool.

New comment by obloid in "This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video]"

obloid — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:30:40 +0000

This is basically the plot of the Bobiverse novels. They're a fun read.

New comment by obloid in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

obloid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:30:13 +0000

I've never seen Hackers. It was War Games for me, too.

New comment by obloid in "The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived"

obloid — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:18:10 +0000

I recently put Endeavour with KDE on an old laptop (c. 2013). It runs great. Much snappier than it ever did with windows. Great distro.

New comment by obloid in "Gastronorm"

obloid — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:45:40 +0000

There's an unexpected optical illusion in the size diagram. The 1/6 block appears narrower than the 1/9 block.

New comment by obloid in "Review of Anti-Aging Drugs"

obloid — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:48:17 +0000

I recently saw a patient with overwhelming MRSA sepsis with multiple foci of infection including epidural abscess (around the spinal cord), and meningitis. This person was taking rapamycin presumably for "life extension" purposes. Almost certainly the immunosuppression from the rapamycin made the infection much worse.

I'd be very wary of taking an immunosuppressive drug as an otherwise healthy person for theoretical life extension properties.

New comment by obloid in "GPT-5"

obloid — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:50:58 +0000

Interesting. Yes, that's basically what I've been going for but none of my prompts ever gave a satisfactory response. Plus I noticed you just copy/pasted from my initial comment and it worked. Weird.

After my last post I was eventually able to get it to work by uploading an example image of Santa pulling the sleigh and telling it to use the image as an example, but I couldn't get it by text prompt alone. I guess I need to work on my prompt skills!

https://chatgpt.com/share/689564d1-90c8-8007-b10c-8058c1491e...

New comment by obloid in "GPT-5"

obloid — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:32:54 +0000

So far GPT-5 has not been able to pass my personal "Turing test" which has been unsuccessful for the past several years starting through various versions of Dall-e up to the latest model. I want it to create an image of Santa Claus pulling the sleigh with a reindeer in the sleigh holding the reins, driving the sleigh. No matter how I modify the prompt it is still unable to create this image that my daughter requested a few years ago. This is an image that is easily imagined and drawn by a small child yet the most advanced AI models still can't produce it. I think this is a good example that these models are unable to "imagine" something that falls outside of the realm of it's training data.

New comment by obloid in "A Visual Guide to Genome Editors"

obloid — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:52:09 +0000

I also misread it as Gnome editors and was briefly very confused when I started reading the article.

New comment by obloid in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

obloid — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:42:39 +0000

I have had tinnitus for years, I suspect partly genetic and exacerbated by spending a lot of my 20s and 30s at loud concerts. But just recently I noticed I now have deafness to certain frequencies in one ear. I had an air leak a tire and realized I could hear the hiss of air escaping with one ear but not the other. Protect your ears, folks.

New comment by obloid in "Visiting Us"

obloid — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:55:20 +0000

I've used multiple hospital EHR systems and, while it's not great, of the systems I've used Epic is the best of the bunch.

New comment by obloid in "A Reddit bot drove me insane"

obloid — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:40:00 +0000

A tortoise? What's that?

New comment by obloid in "Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator"

obloid — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:15:45 +0000

I also use it in cooking, add a spoonful to a soup or a stew and it really adds some great umami flavor. Marmite roasted potatoes are delicious, too.

New comment by obloid in "Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator"

obloid — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:25 +0000

As someone who both loves marmite and is currently learning Rust I was unable to resist clicking.

New comment by obloid in "Dead Internet (2023)"

obloid — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:40:52 +0000

I doubt simply mentioning a forum on HN is going to lead to an influx of "noobs" who will descend upon them en masse. Those people are too wrapped up in their world of tiktok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

New comment by obloid in "Dead Internet (2023)"

obloid — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:53:36 +0000

Any in particular that you recommend?