Hacker News: qmmmur

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

New comment by qmmmur in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

qmmmur — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:21:20 +0000

Because historically appeal systems are well crafted and efficient? Please... at least read your comment out loud to yourself.

New comment by qmmmur in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

qmmmur — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:33:34 +0000

I would hedge most businesses don’t need the full offering of 365. You could get away with an email provider, a way to author documents and some file storage which are abundantly offered on other platforms like infomaniak.

New comment by qmmmur in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

qmmmur — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:07:58 +0000

That's not generative AI, just source separation which has existed way before large language models and transformer architecture were big.

New comment by qmmmur in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

qmmmur — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:06:36 +0000

You can already do this, but the platformised generative AI is sloppy by comparison and not that interesting.

https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE

New comment by qmmmur in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

qmmmur — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:52:57 +0000

> My friend bought me lunch. I used that energy at my job. Do I owe them part of my paycheck?

No but you owe him lunch next time. Wait till you find out that you have to share your birthday cake on your birthday.

New comment by qmmmur in "Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level"

qmmmur — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:05:21 +0000

So deeply unscientific. All tanning is evidence of damage.

New comment by qmmmur in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

qmmmur — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:59:36 +0000

How does this compare to using Plato or KOreader? I currently use Plato for its simplicity.

New comment by qmmmur in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

qmmmur — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:28:00 +0000

I was riding my bike home from REWE (supermarket in Germany) with two big bags of shopping. As I crossed the road I mounted a small bump that caused both bags to split. In that moment I sort of gave up as all my food rolled across the asphalt.

A Turkish lady got out of her car, went to the boot and got three heavy duty plastic bags out. She helped pick up the groceries, pack it into the bags, all the while ignoring traffic and halting cars. I said my most profuse thank you in German and all she said was: no problem. I still remember it often.

New comment by qmmmur in "1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)"

qmmmur — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:53:18 +0000

I'm so glad that this is available so some cretin with TPUs can train the next culturally and morally compromised generative model.

New comment by qmmmur in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

qmmmur — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:19:14 +0000

Language changes. Keep up. It’s important so you don’t become isolated and suffer cognitive decline.

New comment by qmmmur in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

qmmmur — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:57:06 +0000

If anything, the ubiquity of AI has just revealed how many people have 0 taste. It also highlights the important role that these human-centred jobs were doing to keep these people from contributing to the surface of any artistic endeavour in "culture".

New comment by qmmmur in "My Truck Desk"

qmmmur — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:06:53 +0000

I suspect it is this book.

https://www.booktopia.com.au/truck-john-jerome/book/97808745...

New comment by qmmmur in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

qmmmur — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:40:53 +0000

As will Typescript, at least using Biome to lint it does.

New comment by qmmmur in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

qmmmur — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:18:25 +0000

We don’t even have a general definition that anyone can agree on for AGI.

New comment by qmmmur in "I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance"

qmmmur — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:35:36 +0000

What do you mean? Vue is perfectly capable and mature

New comment by qmmmur in "Cheap DIY solar fence design"

qmmmur — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:16:53 +0000

Insurances too.