Hacker News: pimlottc

New comment by pimlottc in "Most Americans Say AI Is Bad for Society, Oppose More Data Centers"

pimlottc — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:12:12 +0000

When AI is jammed into every product and inserted at the top of ever TV search result, adoption isn’t really a choice

New comment by pimlottc in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

pimlottc — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:10:11 +0000

Kleptocracy

New comment by pimlottc in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font"

pimlottc — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:48:15 +0000

I had thought that was an intentional animation to show the different weights and variants

New comment by pimlottc in "The Lightbulb Computer"

pimlottc — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:16:35 +0000

It’s just a design concept, the lightbulb projector doesn’t exist. The demo videos were made with a normal projector.

New comment by pimlottc in "Programming Isn't Special"

pimlottc — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:11:40 +0000

as of yet, there’s still no such thing as a print created entirely by a machine. Someone made the scan, prepared the print file, chose the paper stock, proofed the prints. Or at least some of those steps, depending on the print.

The point is, there’s no print that is 1:1 equivalent to an original painting. There are artistic choices embedded throughout the process that influence the result and make one print different than another, which people might consider more or less accurate, or faithful, or beautiful, or artistic.

It’s easy to assume an image is just an image, a bunch of pixels with defined numerical values. But the real world has so much more detail than that.

New comment by pimlottc in "Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

pimlottc — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:23:29 +0000

Even the example arrows in the first screenshot are wonky and unnaturally weird.

New comment by pimlottc in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

pimlottc — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:14:41 +0000

Not getting sucked into YouTube on mobile is a feature, not a bug

New comment by pimlottc in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

pimlottc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:30:17 +0000

That’s one big arugula!

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer"

pimlottc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:35:20 +0000

Sorry, I just meant that the example images /on the website/ should be easier to read, not that the screens in the app themselves should be changed.

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer"

pimlottc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:44:45 +0000

I’m talking about the promotional website, not the app

New comment by pimlottc in "Mallet Head Angle (2011)"

pimlottc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:35:54 +0000

I thought it was going to be about drums

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

pimlottc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:31:21 +0000

The URL is the state but clearly there is an actual app here

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer"

pimlottc — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:22:59 +0000

That's fine, just make the versions on the website readable for people who aren't in a darkroom.

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer"

pimlottc — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:28:54 +0000

I get that red-on-black color scheme is a nod to the red lighting of a dark room, but the contrast is so low I can hardly read the example screenshots.

New comment by pimlottc in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

pimlottc — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:06:08 +0000

I understand that “acoustic” is generally the term now but it’s too cutesy and doesn’t make any sense. The difference between e-bikes and normal bikes have nothing to do with how they sound — if anything, a traditional bike is quieter.

I always thought “analog” made more sense and it’s commonly used in other areas.

(Okay, technically you could make an e-bike with completely analog electronics, but I highly doubt anyone does commercially)

There’s even “pushbike” if you want to go way back, though admittedly it sounds rather archaic.

“Acoustic” just sounds like a Portlandia joke.

New comment by pimlottc in "After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi"

pimlottc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:03:55 +0000

I misread the title and thought it said he /founded/ Kalshi, which would have been a hell of a story. The actual title says "discovered", but I guess that doesn't quite fit for HN.

New comment by pimlottc in "Multi-connectivity for real-time streaming over Wi-Fi"

pimlottc — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:45:06 +0000

This is a great result and a very nice visualization. One thing I’d suggest is making it clearer upfront that this requires a computer with multiple WiFi adapters; it’s not mentioned until more than halfway through the article.

New comment by pimlottc in "Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny"

pimlottc — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:41:57 +0000

For context, the trip taken by the poster is the longest possible rail journey within Europe:

> In August 2026 a new cross border passenger rail connection opened between Tornio in Finland and Haparanda in Sweden. This then allows an uninterrupted rail journey from Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland to Lagos in Portugal, the two places furthest apart in the EU that can be connected by train. I, Jon Worth, the person who worked this out, aim to be the first person to complete the whole trip, and set the first record time for this journey.

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman"

pimlottc — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:24:46 +0000

Nice, this previous one works on mobile

New comment by pimlottc in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

pimlottc — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:18:37 +0000

It’s not just drawing inferences, though; it’s saying you can determine exactly what’s happening in the box. But the pigeonhole principle would suggest there’s far more possible states in the 3-dimension volume than can be unique expressed on the 2-dimensional surface. That’s the part that defies common sense.