Hacker News: opminion

New comment by opminion in "I'm addicted to being useful"

opminion — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:22:23 +0000

I'm probably your wife.

It could be related to the personality trait of how much of our world model is "in our mind" vs "out there":

If I speak with you while working on the world model in my mind, it looks like I just "want to be heard". But your feedback is actually very important, it's just that it should only feed my mental world model.

I am then surprised that my math coprocessor reaches for the GPIO.

New comment by opminion in "Ask HN: Would you want a direct, permission-based connection with brands?"

opminion — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:13:08 +0000

Not as described. But I would appreciate a connection with certain brands that have helped me solve a problem in the past. I wish I could go to the same shop and tell them "this was the solution back then, give me the latest iteration". For example: Moto G phone, Brother laser printer, Gap jeans, Geox cordless shoes. Don't waste any money trying to sell to me, just tell me what you have when I need to replace the previous one.

New comment by opminion in "Programming languages used for music"

opminion — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:39:41 +0000

No Sonic Pi, which is a Ruby dialect?

New comment by opminion in "No Graphics API"

opminion — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:08:51 +0000

The article is missing this motivation paragraph, taken from the blog index:

> Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve performance, and prepare for future GPU workloads.

New comment by opminion in "This is not the future"

opminion — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:34:56 +0000

For any pleasurable activity, there's always somebody taking it too far.

New comment by opminion in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

opminion — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:33:19 +0000

It is all about Christmas and New Year: cooking good healthy food for the extended family, and new year's resolutions.

New comment by opminion in "Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)"

opminion — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:58:26 +0000

Note that the first image is an interactive demo. Click or touch it. (It's not obvious from the text at the time of writing)

New comment by opminion in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

opminion — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:03:31 +0000

I was surprised that the podcast Stuff You Should Know now advertises a short firm video provider, but I couldn't explain exactly why. Maybe this sheds some light on my concerns.

New comment by opminion in "Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK"

opminion — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:50:21 +0000

As a player: What's the lag? Does it depend on the game and the gesture?

As a developer: I'd like to implement a "game" which would be ideal for Dynamicland (tens of cards with ID stickers on the corners), but this might be a simpler platform to set up and use. Would that be possible with the board as sold?

New comment by opminion in "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died"

opminion — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:12:05 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

New comment by opminion in "The Counterclockwise Experiment"

opminion — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:07:07 +0000

Reminds me of the recent Hacker News post about playing 90s TV just to relive the experience of sitting down in front of it and watch whatever was on.

New comment by opminion in "CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)"

opminion — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:04:57 +0000

Mice/mouses and fish/fishes are distinguished by whether they are homogeneous sets or not.

New comment by opminion in "CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)"

opminion — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:17:06 +0000

Isn't it similar to fish vs fishes?

New comment by opminion in "Show HN: Veena Chromatic Tuner"

opminion — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:16:03 +0000

This is a great answer. If I understood correctly: The feedback you give the user is different than a usual tuner in two ways: it is framed by the reference note, and is two-dimensional.

Setting up shop as self employed in the US

opminion — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:11:28 +0000

Moving to the US from Europe as software developer, with an ongoing contract with a customer abroad.

What kind of professional help should I look for? I've seen that I need a CPA (Accountant) and I'm reading up on tax resources in Freelancer's Union web site.

Should I try to use a web app such as TaxAct or should I make sure I speak with a human accountant, even if my set up, once ongoing, should be quite straightforward?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899046

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New comment by opminion in "The worlds weirdest musical instrument"

opminion — Tue, 06 May 2025 10:23:01 +0000

I recently watched her live, introducing to the Theremin "for families", with a pianist. It was ok but too verbose and dumbed down (probably not by her, by her hosts). I'd try to attend her shows for grown ups instead, even with kids.

This was a case where the novelty of the instrument stood in the way of the performance.

New comment by opminion in "Cwtch – Privacy Preserving Messaging"

opminion — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:33:31 +0000

cwm the n3logic interpreter

New comment by opminion in "Show HN: Term-Lisp – A Lisp, based on pattern matching and term rewriting"

opminion — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:58:20 +0000

The foundations of Wolfram Language (Mathematica) are about transformations on symbolic expressions, at least conceptually.

New comment by opminion in "Introducing Our New Name"

opminion — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:15:26 +0000

Name change solves a problem I was having just yesterday. And it is easy to use and spell in the tongue I was using it.

New comment by opminion in "Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio"

opminion — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:14:48 +0000

Thank you. I had missed that the grey icons are hyperlinks with interesting stories.