Hacker News: omnimus

New comment by omnimus in "Anthropic S-1"

omnimus — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:50:23 +0000

People are using Adobe for completely different reasons. They are so established in creative industry that everything rotates around their software including it's bugs and quirks. Schools teach only Adobe. When you go to high end printers they have processes prepared for output from Adobe software. There is whole market of specialized software plugins for Adobe. For the industry professionals it's just shared ground and cost of doing business.

The AI clones won't easily change that unless they were exact 1to1. If it was that easy to get rid of Adobe the monopoly won't be there anymore as things like Affinity have existed for a while and are free. Affinity is in many ways even better version of Adobe suite, faster, more stable, allowing to be more creative. But the friction is extreme, because if you need to collaborate or be in any way part of the industry then Adobe is expected so you need it anyway.

New comment by omnimus in "Developing Taste"

omnimus — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:56:43 +0000

Yeah the worst software i know was developed by programmers

New comment by omnimus in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

omnimus — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:41:24 +0000

Which is where gov software is heading.

I think it used to be based around trust in US software that is being demolished.

New comment by omnimus in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

omnimus — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:38:04 +0000

It is actually not unrealistic to imagine laws for eu gov software only to allow Mistral or Aleph alpha models. They are pretty good - on par with deepseek atleast. There are all kinds of similar requirements already from software stacks to databases.

What I would see even more likely are requirements of no agent commits, use of only human written/vetted code under their name.

New comment by omnimus in "Butlerian Jihad"

omnimus — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:48:56 +0000

Thank you for correction.

New comment by omnimus in "Butlerian Jihad"

omnimus — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:37:13 +0000

I am not sure if you are joking but HBO has series Dune: Prophecy which is exactly from that era and is most likely leading towards butlerian jihad.

New comment by omnimus in "Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination"

omnimus — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:35:10 +0000

AI is not gonna destroy it's creators in Skynet, Battlestar Galactica kind of way. It's going to destroy it's creators in Dune, Wall-e kind of way. Butlerian jihad happened because it was destroying humanity, by not allowing humans to grow. It made them weak and careless.

AI will alienate and depress us all to the point of not wanting to live.

New comment by omnimus in "Open-Source Rust Alternatives to Adobe Apps"

omnimus — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:36:11 +0000

It's "free" since Canva bought it. They basically use it as funnel for people to buy Canva subscription (online sharing, ai features).

They keep adding features and recently added scripting which was one of the last things that kept professionals from using Affinity. And you can see it in industry (atleast graphic design) even big names are testing how to switch.

New comment by omnimus in "Open-Source Rust Alternatives to Adobe Apps"

omnimus — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:04:46 +0000

Ehm, Affinity...

New comment by omnimus in "Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore"

omnimus — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:13:36 +0000

It's not surgery is it. It's programming language and their maintainers like it.

New comment by omnimus in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

omnimus — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:44:38 +0000

Portuguese wine and also olive oil are super high quality. In my country price wise it's on par with Italy/Spain/France. But make no mistake it's also on par quality wise.

Some of the olive oils have their own unique profiles and i also really like the lighter wines from portugal.

New comment by omnimus in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

omnimus — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:42:48 +0000

There is whole genre of authors (Ernst Nolte, Viktor Suvorov, David Irving) who argue WW2 was all preemptive strike, that middle classes felt under threat and that soviets were preparing wide actions to take over europe.

It's revisionist history. Constructed arguments that quickly fall apart - like Yes Hitler was afraid of Bolsheviks but that doesn't explain why he invaded all the other countries France, Poland, Denmark, Norway... many more.

The repeat of the same trick on current events with Iran/Venezuela/Cuba is very telling. I doubt anybody believes that US attacks Iran because of communism. But yes all the US conflicts are because of communism.

More likely explanation is that big business backs fascism to crush social causes. Fascism exists to save capitalism from the people.

New comment by omnimus in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

omnimus — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:00:50 +0000

Yeah that archives your current site. But how does it replace Wordpress? You need CMS when you need to update your site.

New comment by omnimus in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

omnimus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:50:59 +0000

I wonder where you think where all these people would left to? I can think of project or two but it's very short list.

New comment by omnimus in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

omnimus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:57:26 +0000

Read some of his latest blog posts. Like https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

New comment by omnimus in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

omnimus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:23:54 +0000

I also don't think they are non existent. But there is also another factor of timezones. I have the impression that there are big differences between the continents. Like depending on time the most top comments might be leaning much more left or right.

New comment by omnimus in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

omnimus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:21:12 +0000

Let's not have perfect to be enemy of good (or ok, or better than nothing).

In case of Mullvad it's a niche product with many alternatives. Using something else is viable and it is interesting to many in the niche because their ties to far right was secret up until recently.

It might be harder with something like Basecamp or Figma if your job requires it.

It is almost impossible with things like Google.

Yes we should have these comments in every thread about big tech. It doesn't mean we shouldn't do something about Mullvad.

New comment by omnimus in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

omnimus — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:44:28 +0000

That indeed can be a problem for many.

New comment by omnimus in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

omnimus — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:18:15 +0000

That's why it's fashion... I wouldn't say these are comparatively turds at all. I mean some Hoka are OK (except the terrible blue logo) but I don't think you would find single ON shoe thats nicer than the Nikes you linked to.

New comment by omnimus in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

omnimus — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:12:42 +0000

This is actually not at all style of On shoes. The New Balance / Adidas / Nike 90s "dad shoes" have been cool for almost a decade now (Balenciaga released their "dad" sneaker in 2016).

On shoes look like shoes for retirees right now. Teenagers don't wear On shoes.