Hacker News: pixelbro

New comment by pixelbro in "Obsidian Bases"

pixelbro — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:02:10 +0000

I really enjoy Obsidian Copilot (by Logan Yang) https://github.com/logancyang/obsidian-copilot

New comment by pixelbro in "Being full of value‑added shit"

pixelbro — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:51:27 +0000

I hope you're joking. You can spend years developing ground-breaking shit in the dark and no one will ever know you exist. You might attract a miniscule following of people who recognize the value of what you're creating, but they won't evangelize for you.

New comment by pixelbro in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

pixelbro — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:53:47 +0000

> try as best as you can to aim it into your anus to wash as best as you can

This seems like a great way to spray shit everywhere and is not at all how I learned to use those. What I do is soap one hand, aim the jet into the toilet past the anus with the other hand (jet vector orthogonal to the anus's normal vector), then go to town on it with soap and water. It's foolproof and you get very clean.

How has nobody mentioned this? I feel like I'm on crazy pills, is everyone seriously blasting a jet directly at their chocolate starfish?

New comment by pixelbro in "Evolving OpenAI's Structure"

pixelbro — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:45:19 +0000

Wait, wait, wait. Our society's gonna fall apart due to a lack of Darwinian selection pressure? What do you think we're selecting for right now?

Seems to me like our culture treats both survival and reproduction as an inalienable right. Most people would go so far as to say everyone deserves love, "there's a lid for every pot".

New comment by pixelbro in "EU regulations to look out for in 2025"

pixelbro — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:41:13 +0000

Well, he sure wasn't a billionaire when he did it.

New comment by pixelbro in "Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory"

pixelbro — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:39:10 +0000

Not all change is progress. Make America Great Again is a fundamentally reactionary platform, and nothing about the goals of Project 2025 is "progressive". Cute wordplay, though, good job using denotation to oppose connotation.

New comment by pixelbro in "Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it"

pixelbro — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:33:15 +0000

I can't speak for anyone else, but the offer of a free trial made me bounce right off, despite my curiosity and the value such a product could potentially offer me. I want to know up front whether this is going to be useful to me before I sign up for anything. To that end, offering even a single no-strings-attached identification, even if the details are redacted, would go a long way towards conversion.

New comment by pixelbro in "OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought"

pixelbro — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:03:29 +0000

Competition is important for maintaining a healthy marketplace. Any behavior that makes it harder for others to compete, reducing the amount of competition, is therefore bad. That's what anticompetitive means.

I don't think protecting trade secrets is sabotaging the competition though.

New comment by pixelbro in "The Merge"

pixelbro — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:04:30 +0000

> Obviously not. That message is expressing strong disagreement, not further agreement.

Not obvious to me. But sure, I'm confused all right. Confused at how lottin's comment could be interpreted as contesting Josde's, when it reads as a reinforcing restatement to me. Confused at your hostility and accusations of misinformation.

Perhaps you're confused about how online conversations work? Sometimes people reply with a restatement when they feel the original doesn't go quite far enough. I mean, lottin's comment was arguably ineloquent, but he wasn't "muddying the waters". Do you perhaps have some expectation that the act of replying implies disagreement? Is it the strongly negative tone that gave you that impression? It certainly isn't the content, since you correctly interpreted my own restatement of lottin's comment as agreement.

I'm not trying to confuse others, I'm trying to enlighten you, specifically, about what happened here so that you might reconsider next time before jumping on someone for something they didn't say.

New comment by pixelbro in "The Merge"

pixelbro — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:58:23 +0000

It's not nit-picking. A layman presented with this explanation might get the impression that a "problem" is being "solved", which implies there is some utility to the PoW algorithm, rather than energy being wasted for the sole purpose of proving that energy has been wasted. In fact, even the word "Work" in "Proof of Work" implies the same. Proof of Waste would be a much more apt description of what is actually happening.

New comment by pixelbro in "The Merge"

pixelbro — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:28:05 +0000

Oh, get off it. He's not "pretending to disagree", merely providing further context for the anti-utility of the PoW algorithm. The point is that the colloquial understanding of "solving a problem" implies more utility than what is actually happening, which is equivalent to guessing a random number. The mere statement that a problem is being solved at all implies that useful work is being done, which is not the case and the parent comment is right to point that out.

New comment by pixelbro in "The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic"

pixelbro — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:07:53 +0000

Such a famous 'berg, and yet it never received a name? I propose "The Anti-tanic"

New comment by pixelbro in "Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts"

pixelbro — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:28:29 +0000

> I'm paying $37/yr for 600GB LFS storage on top of my existing GitHub Pro subscription.

I'd love to know how you managed this! I'm paying $60/yr for 50GB, which feels exorbitant.

New comment by pixelbro in "Where did the long tail go?"

pixelbro — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:15:20 +0000

Why are none of the examples you mention remotely close to being indie games? Those are clearly not what a Long Tail business model looks like in video games. That Infinity Blade novella was written by Brandon Sanderson.

New comment by pixelbro in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

pixelbro — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:14:00 +0000

SyncThing comes with a built-in feature to keep the last n versions of files around[1], for added peace of mind.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html

New comment by pixelbro in "Blender 3.2"

pixelbro — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:27:28 +0000

Bit late to the party, but I can shed some light on this. Since a real camera has the shutter open for some duration, any moving light will smear across the sensor. If you similarly "smear" a path traced object by stochastically randomizing the position of the object while the path tracer is gathering samples for the frame, you get exact physically plausible motion blur without having discrete "ghosts" corresponding to sampled subframes.

New comment by pixelbro in "Ray-optics: a web app to simulate the reflection and refraction of light"

pixelbro — Sun, 29 May 2022 21:38:18 +0000

Was it Tantalum, by any chance? https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/

New comment by pixelbro in "A soft, wearable brain–machine interface"

pixelbro — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:46:31 +0000

You're looking at one electrode. There's ten of those things (though they want to add more). The point is to make good contact with the scalp through the hair without needing to shave and/or apply contact gel.

New comment by pixelbro in "Drug users use a lot of drugs"

pixelbro — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:45:27 +0000

I presume he's referring to repeatedly exhaling and inhaling a tiny amount to keep circulating smoke in the lungs without losing any to the air. Can't speak for its effectiveness.

New comment by pixelbro in "Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua"

pixelbro — Sun, 23 May 2021 13:03:52 +0000

From the Love2D documentation [1]:

> Compiling Mac apps requires a Mac running macOS with XCode installed

Same for iOS.

[1] https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution