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New comment by prox in "Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers"

prox — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:56:45 +0000

I did, but I would prefer a more local first program.

New comment by prox in "Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers"

prox — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:06:41 +0000

I like Obsidian for note taking and it does have an infinite canvas, but it feels bolted on. I would love to have a more canvas first note taking app, maybe with folders for visual declutter.

Navigation in default Obsidian is one of the weakest points imo

New comment by prox in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

prox — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:51:13 +0000

Reminds me of the old saying “everyone has a pen, but not everyone is a writer.”

New comment by prox in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

prox — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:06:27 +0000

Honestly I am not sure, it’s an interesting theory that matches our evolved right handedness as the “right” way to do something, and the other as left. Maybe left handed people were seen as different? And it seeped into language. There is a lot of ifs with and assumptions with this theory.

New comment by prox in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

prox — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:18:03 +0000

Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that people always been predominantly right handed, so the way you use tools is the “right” (correct) hand, and the one you don’t, well it’s the hand that is “left”. It’s how the word also became the word for directions as well.

New comment by prox in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"

prox — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:59:02 +0000

And we learned nothing of previous hype cycles.

Enshitification in this area will be shift. And there will be grand articles here on HN “nobody could possibly have seen this coming.” Yes we did.

New comment by prox in "When the Internet Was a Place (2025)"

prox — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:56:11 +0000

Hear hear.

It seems so innocent. “Just an ad” but the whole influencing industry is kind of a nice word for “manipulation”

When the cost of manipulation is so low, and the repercussions for lying and cheating are not there, everything gets skewed.

New comment by prox in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

prox — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:01:36 +0000

That looks really interesting! Ty for that link.

New comment by prox in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

prox — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:00:52 +0000

It also sounds like people with little ability can use this argument as a way to say “look how difficult this is for humans”

While it’s just a “you” problem. Some folks have better skills, knowledge and comfort with difficult subjects. And that’s fine.

New comment by prox in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

prox — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:06:31 +0000

I have been going back some times to flickr and dropped insta, since it’s a crap place these days (like most of the big socials)

The elegance of flickr is just nice and browsing is fun.

I wonder if there are more sites like it.

New comment by prox in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

prox — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:55:46 +0000

Welcome to the aesthetic world! In the western philosophical and certainly scientific discourse there has since centuries been this drive for objectivity and universals. This has led to great discoveries and thinking. But it’s not the only world, the aesthetic is all about the senses and your place as a subject. It usually invites relativism, sometimes nihilism if you can’t find your ground as an individual in a larger universe.

The world of beauty, art, peace, feeling states is worthy of discovery and like you say, it has a timeless quality.

New comment by prox in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

prox — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:26:41 +0000

They try to make it feel like an “us” browser, but it just comes off as a corp trying to talk cool.

You have to walk the walk too Mozilla! Saying that as a FF for years.

New comment by prox in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

prox — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:06:03 +0000

The post yesterday about the teacher who gave students an Apple II and taught assembly was very enlightening and example of how to go forward.

New comment by prox in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

prox — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000

I worked in a creative shop, so we sold a lot of colors of ink, paint, crayons etc.

It’s interesting to watch people trying to pick “red” when there is like a whole gamut of red. Not only that, but it depends on the lighting around as well. (Is it evening, day, what kind of lighting fixtures are there?)

Creatives usually have 10 kelvin white boxes for a neutral color experience. A bit like audio folks have calibrated monitor speakers.

New comment by prox in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

prox — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:32:52 +0000

Don’t know if this is an annoying response… but how about just going through the code and check and grade the quality yourself?

New comment by prox in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

prox — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:21:41 +0000

Fascinating

New comment by prox in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

prox — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:15:50 +0000

Well, on the 2nd paragraph, I have no illusion they’ll figure out more as they are being trained. I am more thinking of the custodians (as coders turn into that)

Say you are a good coder now, but you are becoming a custodian, checking the llm work will slowly erode your skills. Maybe if you got a good memory or an amazing skillset it might be some time, but if you don’t use it, you lose it.

New comment by prox in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

prox — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:40:49 +0000

I also can’t wait for the time when few know how to code. Just like how many folks don’t know html from css when the homebrew website went away.

Their might always be llms, but the dependence is an interesting topic.

New comment by prox in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"

prox — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:15:06 +0000

Something I was thinking about was a simple tip jar system. You can add credits to a tipjar system, and if you like a post, site, or whatever you can gift credits.

Completely gets rid of ads that nobody likes anyway.

You could maybe automate it say “if I spend more than 30 seconds on page, pay x credits”

New comment by prox in "Write less code, be more responsible"

prox — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:42:31 +0000

It always seemed to me like its lootbox behavior. Highly addictive for the dopamine hit you get.