Hacker News: ohlookcake

New comment by ohlookcake in "Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer"

ohlookcake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:12:21 +0000

Can it run DOOM?

New comment by ohlookcake in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

ohlookcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:07:17 +0000

That graph seems odd. It looks like Gemini 3.5 Flash is not actually on the convex hull, and they forced the 'frontier' to bend inwards to include it

New comment by ohlookcake in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

ohlookcake — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:49:22 +0000

I've never played this, but this move has made me curious. Is there a way I can still play this on Android? An apk or fdroid or a mobile web version?

New comment by ohlookcake in "[dead]"

ohlookcake — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:46:03 +0000

I can't tell if this is intended to be read straightforwardly or as satire. The general summary seems to be Labour bad because I dislike Labour decisions

Labour flaws are presented with hyperbole like [demolishing foundations] While Tory flaws are accompanied with commentary like [it's not perfect, but nothing is]

New comment by ohlookcake in "Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook"

ohlookcake — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:35:04 +0000

"I'm getting Facebook ads for something we were just talking about verbally so it must be listening in" has been debunked time and again. Any combination of other browsing based inference, baader meinhof, and pure coincidence would be at play

New comment by ohlookcake in "A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words"

ohlookcake — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:06:24 +0000

I think that by "can guess fake words" in the title OP means that the tool can come up with a plausible guess for the etymology, even for fake words. Unfortunately, the more common reading of that phrase is that it can tell fake words from real ones

New comment by ohlookcake in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

ohlookcake — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:07:55 +0000

> They are a net positive by a large margin Maybe initially. The 'large' margin is getting smaller every day. Pricing is opaque and ever increasing. A subscription is slowly becoming a requirement rather than a ln add on. Most of the price increases are not passed on to the driver. Drivers in most markets are 'independent contractors', which they're realising is a bad deal. They've only recently moved from market-capture mode to tighten-the-screw mode. Expect the enshittification to accelerate

New comment by ohlookcake in "One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch"

ohlookcake — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:35:40 +0000

As a UK resident who's recently given up alcohol, the pub culture part is the thing I miss the most. The quick pseudo-answer is non-alcoholic drinks, but it creates a weird dynamic when most of the group gets slowly inebriated over the evening, and you sip lemonade

New comment by ohlookcake in "Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation"

ohlookcake — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:17:24 +0000

I've been looking for something like this (Not for Korean though) and I'd even be happy to pay - though I'd prefer to pay by usage rather than a standing subscription fee. So far, no luck, but watching this thread!

New comment by ohlookcake in "Open source AI is the path forward"

ohlookcake — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:58:25 +0000

I just tried making one after reading your comment, and it was... pretty straightforward? I'm curious what blockers you encountered

New comment by ohlookcake in "Axiomatic by Greg Egan"

ohlookcake — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:23:43 +0000

The Netflix show _Altered Carbon_ was adapted from the book _Altered Carbon_ by Richard K. Morgan

New comment by ohlookcake in "Permutation City (1994)"

ohlookcake — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 07:59:26 +0000

Children of Memory is my favourite in the series! If you liked the first two (#1 was significantly better imo), you should 100% go for the third

New comment by ohlookcake in "Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts"

ohlookcake — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:08:50 +0000

This looks great. What's the closest/best Mac equivalent?

New comment by ohlookcake in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

ohlookcake — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:24:04 +0000

> the average book should have a 2.5 Disagree on this. This assumes that people read books completely at random. In reality, people read blurbs/summaries or get a recommendation and the typical book you read is likely to be better than the midpoint between the worst book you've read and the best book you've read (I'm assuming a linear scale mental model).

New comment by ohlookcake in "ChatGPT app for iOS"

ohlookcake — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:10:46 +0000

The top four here are pretty much the biggest reasons I use an Android rather than an iPhone

New comment by ohlookcake in "Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality"

ohlookcake — Wed, 10 May 2023 09:39:07 +0000

Using it 4 times a week with fitness apps for cardio. I prefer running but VR fitness is fantastic for when it's too cold to go out running

New comment by ohlookcake in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

ohlookcake — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 22:03:21 +0000

The trivia contest sounds awesome! What are some example questions?

New comment by ohlookcake in "Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers"

ohlookcake — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 05:55:17 +0000

> find out what wall would give me the best alternative path

This, specifically, and the question as a whole are hard to parse as a human. Before clicking through to the SO link (where there seems to be a lot more context), I wouldn't have guessed the problem you were trying to solve.

I'm curious why you changed the prompt at all? Was it to get the model to avoid your question's SO page?

New comment by ohlookcake in "Fuzzy Substring Matching: On-Device Fuzzy Friend Search at Snapchat"

ohlookcake — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:19:46 +0000

Lol, possibly not!

New comment by ohlookcake in "Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang"

ohlookcake — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:55:31 +0000

That's NumberZhang!