Hacker News: omk

New comment by omk in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

omk — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:44:28 +0000

After seeing a synthetic version that mimics the tone well enough, the real HN once back here felt slightly less distinct. When every information style gets a believable AI twin, our usual cues for judging what’s credible start to wobble.

To be clear, the strange part wasn’t that it fooled me, it didn’t. The issue was some form of “signal contamination” that my brain experienced.

New comment by omk in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

omk — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:48:03 +0000

I think metro trains in countries like The Netherlands and Singapore use this approach where in you tap your cards and entry and exit and you are billed usually somewhere at the end of the day.

New comment by omk in "Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer"

omk — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:12:03 +0000

I'm not well versed with CURL design, but curious - is your first connection handling TLS while second relying on the previously established handshake?

New comment by omk in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

omk — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:30:50 +0000

This why I love reddit. Oh wait!

New comment by omk in "Dave Täht has died"

omk — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:02:30 +0000

Inspired by his work on buffer bloat like so many others. Rest in peace.

Energy Security Scenarios

omk — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shell.com/news-and-insights/scenarios/the-2025-energy-security-scenarios.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493622

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by omk in "Open Heart Protocol"

omk — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:31:27 +0000

I like the way this being proposed in a decentralised manner. Kudos to the author for the effort and thought put in.

However, I am curious what the incentive for publishers is to adopt this standard if those emojis are only relevant for the websites own silo? Use cases like these call for customized deep integrated implementations.

My question is a curious one. I might be missing the big picture and would like to get educated.

New comment by omk in "Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data"

omk — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:56:59 +0000

This is also using OpenAI's GPT model. So the same hallucinations are probable here for PDFs.

The Illusion of Information Adequacy

omk — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41811045

Points: 29

# Comments: 7

New comment by omk in "Drawing.garden"

omk — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:00:30 +0000

As relaxing as this experience was, I thought of resolving the itch to write trivial code to control the emojis and creatures with left/right clicks.

    let clickCount = 0;
    document.addEventListener('contextmenu', event => { (clickCount == 0) ? clickCount : clickCount--; event.preventDefault() }, false);
    window.onclick = function (e) {
        return clickCount++;
    }
    function random(i) {
        let emojis = 20;
        let creatures = 14;
        if (i == 1) {
            return (clickCount % (creatures + emojis) < creatures) ? 0.02 : 0.03;
        }
        else if (i == creatures)
        {
            return index = clickCount % (creatures + emojis) ;
        }
        else if (i == emojis)
        {
            return (clickCount % (creatures + emojis)) - creatures;
        }
    }

New comment by omk in "Drawing.garden"

omk — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:13:10 +0000

No lion in the code. Snake yes. https://drawing.garden/sketch.js

New comment by omk in "Sell your micro startup for less than 25k dollars"

omk — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:53:35 +0000

There are ample developers who can build but not sell. You want to look for SaaS in this list that you understand and can scale/extend and sell.

From Intent to Action: 9 Critical Factors That Improve Automation Value

omk — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://0x8.in/blog/2023/09/07/automation-factors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431587

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by omk in "Entropy in Engineering Processes"

omk — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 06:17:51 +0000

In my opinion, the author aims to introduce entropy as a metric to evaluate the stability of processes. Creating room for advocacy against process changes when new additions/changes are likely to increase entropy by introducing new outcomes.

Example - engineering teams can be obsessed with introducing new variables to a sufficiently stable system with the intention to improve stability. But in turn, reduce stability due to inaccurate impressions of stability of the new variables.

This approach generates a bias against change, but in many situations this bias is helpful. This allows engineering teams time to observe process outcome distribution over a longer duration, improving the data backing any process change decisions.

Edit: added explanation

KrisFix-Germany Drilled This MSI RX 6900XT and It Works – Rare Problem [video]

omk — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:34:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVbcD3VLF4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120851

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by omk in "Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365"

omk — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:57:10 +0000

Interop compliance should be a thing. Enterprise customers are missing the plot here. Please ask your software vendors to support interoperability. Example - Outlook should support/declare standard interfaces for video calling meeting links from other products. I see the need for a body for enterprise integration standards. Please help me such a body if there already is one.

I look specifically for something of the likes for Enterprise Integration Act of 2002 for software vendors.

Evading Copyright Through XOR

omk — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:34:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/monolith.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35586725

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by omk in "Tell HN: Instagram's API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green"

omk — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:39:32 +0000

True. The Twitpic story comes to mind.

New comment by omk in "Web Design Museum 1991-2006"

omk — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:41:43 +0000

Funny how most websites between 2008-2012 where filled with bevel styling faking a sense of depth. Then 2012 onwards almost everyone started appreciating flat design.

I wonder if the pixel density on displays played a role here. Flat design wouldn't look great on low pixel density but work brilliantly on retina displays. The opposite is probably true for beveled styling?

New comment by omk in "Web Design Museum 1991-2006"

omk — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:37:54 +0000

Excellent example of how colors have remained a tool for sales funnels. Red is used through out the site to make the user complete a purchase.

2002 was more about Nintendo expressing itself to users. 2023 is a deceitful salesman.