Hacker News: qmmmur

New comment by qmmmur in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

qmmmur — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:16:25 +0000

Boo. AI Slop. Be critical of what you’re making please.

New comment by qmmmur in "NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data"

qmmmur — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:34:32 +0000

Oh well, at least they apologised.

New comment by qmmmur in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

qmmmur — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:13:55 +0000

Asking the right question presumes you have domain expertise, which if you did, you wouldn't be asking an AI.

New comment by qmmmur in "KOReader"

qmmmur — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:11:39 +0000

Love koreader and Plato. Great free software

New comment by qmmmur in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

qmmmur — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:05:02 +0000

And yet, a new argument surfaces about whether or not the linking should take place. Some people just like to argue :)

New comment by qmmmur in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

qmmmur — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:35:35 +0000

Just because you can think through writing doesn't mean language is the essence of thought itself.

New comment by qmmmur in "Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style"

qmmmur — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:30:46 +0000

A planetwide hallucination – sounds awful.

New comment by qmmmur in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

qmmmur — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:19:00 +0000

Doesn’t feel nice, does it, Anthropic?

New comment by qmmmur in "Show HN: I made email signatures less boring"

qmmmur — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:40:35 +0000

I’m reaching my limit for crap AI visuals. Seriously, how is this not laughed out of town, metaphorically with how lame it is?

New comment by qmmmur in "Telegram Serverless"

qmmmur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:50:31 +0000

Same. I used to use telegram for everything and then stopped after I realised it wasn’t really and to end encrypted. The bots were super useful. I used to have one I could ask different bus times for. Was so much better than the app the local bus company had made.

New comment by qmmmur in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

qmmmur — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:25:37 +0000

I used to live in Berlin and the summers there were unbearably muggy. Everyone seemed okay with it and it made me feel crazy!

New comment by qmmmur in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

qmmmur — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:09:02 +0000

I’m not going to personally donate a little under 0.1% of my net worth, and I may seem a hypocrite, but at some point you have to acknowledge that it’s a maddening, life changing amount of money that in no way would have a noticeable effect on his life. On the other hand, it could hurt most people’s ability to pay rent to give away that money.

Survival is mostly a fixed cost that is unmet by many people, while other people donate those who are less off’s life earnings to their fancies they vibe with. It’s gross. Unfortunately humans are not brave or imaginative enough to realise another system (99% tax on billionaires would be a start), but most people also hate the idea that someone in need would get something for free or at a low cost.

New comment by qmmmur in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

qmmmur — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:23:08 +0000

This isn't the gotcha you think it is. Every time I try Vivaldi I am right back at Firefox and I am surely not alone. I have never understood the obsession with tree style tabs or vertical tabs. I don't need to customise my browser at all and I like supporting engine diversity.

New comment by qmmmur in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

qmmmur — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:04:39 +0000

Western Australia also has a VPP program that is pretty successful.

New comment by qmmmur in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

qmmmur — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:43 +0000

I would be interested to understand more about what you think unions and organisation have done for working rights over the last 100 years.

New comment by qmmmur in "The bull case for graph DBs in law"

qmmmur — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:43:46 +0000

Do people find these incredibly throwaway and short form posts that interesting to discuss? It comes off as lazy to me.

New comment by qmmmur in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

qmmmur — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:49:39 +0000

Totally. You didn’t “read” an audiobook

New comment by qmmmur in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

qmmmur — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:46:30 +0000

This is very good, because billing the EU is quite strict, and having someone get the format right for me is super useful :)

I just made my own invoice generator using a json spec and a HTML -> PDF pipeline that wasn't so simple to get going. I might use this!

New comment by qmmmur in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

qmmmur — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:48:36 +0000

I totally agree

New comment by qmmmur in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

qmmmur — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:40:53 +0000

The sentences are all roughly the same length too