Hacker News: qubex

New comment by qubex in "Ask HN: Is there any data on whether users prefer voice/chatbot experiences?"

qubex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Personally I hate chatbots and natural language interfaces. Give me a well-structured window with widgets or better still a command line. Case in point: that now when you double click on a time in Apple’s iCal it brings up a free-entry text box to “describe” the engagement rather than a structured window with title, location, beginning and ending times drives me insane.

New comment by qubex in "Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet"

qubex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:05:28 +0000

The nostalgia welled up within me from depths I didn’t know I possessed.

New comment by qubex in "Plans to stop children taking nude images"

qubex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:56:59 +0000

I’m a nudist and I know FKK families with kids. This is going herd them into discrimination for their own good. To Most people we’re the punchline of a joke but we exist and we have our social lives and our norms and there’s evidence that children raised in FKK environments have fewer body image issues and better mental outcomes.

New comment by qubex in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

qubex — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:54:02 +0000

That’s all fine and well until somebody says “okay that’s great for the letterhead, but give me a half tone for the business card divider”.

New comment by qubex in "Space travel under constant acceleration"

qubex — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:53:10 +0000

Implications of this made me so utterly furiously angry I actually hate-calculated the fundamental physics flaw in the premise of Ascension and wrote a Medium post about it: https://medium.com/@jamesjunghanns/more-astonishingly-stupid...

New comment by qubex in "There Is No Sound of the 2020s. Yet"

qubex — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:36:32 +0000

Personally, I consider Ethel Cain’s American Teenager (2022) to be the most definitively “2020s sound” yet, but that’s probably just an elder millennial who doesn’t get modern culture’s ignorant hot take.

New comment by qubex in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

qubex — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:44:42 +0000

There’s certainly a Baudrillard reference to be made here, but I’m not awake enough to exactly phrase it (yet).

New comment by qubex in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

qubex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:39:03 +0000

I present you the Interior Designer’s weapon of mass disruption: NCS.

Worse still: European urban development projects have adopted it. I never knew there could be so many varieties of ‘ochre’.

New comment by qubex in "Ask HN: What was your best experience with a VC?"

qubex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:04:03 +0000

None.

New comment by qubex in "Symbolica 2.0: programmable symbols for Python and Rust"

qubex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:00:53 +0000

This is truly a huge leap forward but I’m addicted to Mathematica like a starlet to heroin.

New comment by qubex in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

qubex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:02:41 +0000

Ah so let’s avoid analysis paralysis by having only black, as Ford famously ruled for the Model T.

Of course that’s a reductio ad absurdum, but it’s also completely arbitrary to maintain that fewer options is better. The opposite is also equally arbitrary.

New comment by qubex in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

qubex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:00:53 +0000

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New comment by qubex in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

qubex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:59:48 +0000

As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.

New comment by qubex in "I Built a Thing"

qubex — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:03:08 +0000

Once upon a time, before the horizon of the Wayback Machine, there was a company called Starburst Computers that Faggin of Z80 that proposed what they called a “Hypercomputer” which was an agglomeration of FPGAs that were reconfigured on the fly as software was compiled to hardware.

New comment by qubex in "OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'"

qubex — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:00:29 +0000

Gosh it’s almost like a crack of common sense has appeared in his natural stupidity and brought him to realise that without jobs that provide wages his artificial intelligence will have no market.

New comment by qubex in "Security and Protection of Data in the IBM System/38"

qubex — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:48:20 +0000

Oh what memories! When I was a really young kid (under ten, in the 1980s) my family’s firm had a System/38 running a rudimentary ERP system and my first experiences with corporate computing were shaped by that,,, QSECOFR and QSYS and DASD…

New comment by qubex in "We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo"

qubex — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:54:07 +0000

To the extent that soiling your underwear is a ‘response’, yes, we are.

New comment by qubex in "My IP Address – MyIPNow"

qubex — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:50:58 +0000

How the hell is this on a subscription model?? Does anybody even think about buyers’ utility anymore? I can go to FindMyIP for free but you’re planning to repeatedly charge me for basic IP utilities built into UNIX since the early eighties?? Are you serious?!

New comment by qubex in "Automated scientific paper/book generation"

qubex — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:44:42 +0000

Thanks for the slopmaker. Now let’s build Auto-Reviewer-2 to stymie the deluge of sludge that will surge forth.

New comment by qubex in "Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully"

qubex — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:08:28 +0000

As an Italian, this infuriates me. The availability of drinking water is provided for by the Geneva Convention; I don’t see what kind of legal reasoning can lead one to conclude that a commercial establishment has fewer duties than an occupying army.