Hacker News: rambambram

New comment by rambambram in "The Highest Point in the Netherlands"

rambambram — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:56:43 +0000

Mt. Scenery... never heard of it as a Dutchy. I found out that's in the Caribbean.

You just asked your AI God of choice about this, perhaps?

New comment by rambambram in "CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela"

rambambram — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:08:11 +0000

Thanks, I get it now. I was thinking you used it for geolocating webvisitors or something, already wondered how you'd do that with your own GPS receiver.

New comment by rambambram in "CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela"

rambambram — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:18:47 +0000

I'm a little confused. You mean for getting your own location, I guess?

New comment by rambambram in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

rambambram — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:32:06 +0000

There's also no reason for body text spanning the whole width of my 24 inch display.

New comment by rambambram in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

rambambram — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:02:28 +0000

Wow, nice prompting!

New comment by rambambram in "A directory of people who love RSS"

rambambram — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:49:24 +0000

Thanks for RSS, sir.

New comment by rambambram in "A directory of people who love RSS"

rambambram — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:48:29 +0000

Indeed! I have a selfbuilt RSS reader and interesting blogs without a feed are just saved as a bookmark basically.

I care more about the stories (people call it 'content' nowadays) than about the tech, as long as the tech is open.

New comment by rambambram in "Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals"

rambambram — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:41:24 +0000

> commodification of intelligence

Is HN really this fast!? Everybody already skipped the hard questions whether LLMs are intelligent? 'It' can already be commodified?

So how much time and effort it took from these companies? A couple of years and millions spent on PR? And LLMs are "intelligent" all of a sudden, is what everybody says nowadays?

Especially applicable for programmers: naming things is not only hard, it's also important, and can be very insidious. Remember, marketeers also name things. For example, naming the internet 'the cloud', some 15 years ago.

I can't stop thinking about a quote of one of my favorite authors (Theo Kars): "Progress can only be technical in nature, because knowledge is transferable and wisdom is not." [translated from Dutch]

New comment by rambambram in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

rambambram — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:44:05 +0000

Your 'personal' site in your bio is giving me a browser-warning not to visit. Maybe expired certificate?

Btw, nice initiative with Forth! That's why I clicked.

New comment by rambambram in "You need a webring"

rambambram — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:48:08 +0000

I recently added Wander to a website of mine (https://www.heyhomepage.com/wander/). Before that, I became a proud member of the small Tech Makers webring (at the bottom of https://www.theredpanther.org/).

Even before that, I just implemented a blogroll (or list of shared links, as I prefer to call it) at https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&link=1&view=sha... Maybe your blog is also in it!? I manually picked most of the bookmarks/feeds I follow from HN.

The basis of all these rolls, lists and rings are - of course - hyperlinks. RSS and OPML are silently working in the background. I think there's still unfulfilled potential for RSS as a replacement for social media, because the open web is already social media.

New comment by rambambram in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

rambambram — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:46:06 +0000

Very interesting! Looks like nice museums to go to. When I DuckDuckGo these museums, they seem to be related somehow!? https://www.technik-museum.de/

I recently visited Stuttgart to go to the Mercedes Benz Museum. They too have a lot of technical stuff of course, and history. Really recommend it!

New comment by rambambram in "Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks"

rambambram — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:47:17 +0000

If you want a slave, I'm indeed a huge pain to work with.

New comment by rambambram in "Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks"

rambambram — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:25:10 +0000

So, these self-proclaimed seniors... are they the one who signed the employment contract with the juniors? No? Then you're not their boss, you're a colleague. So stop confusing the two. Take some classes in employment law first.

Guys like this are exactly the reason I don't work in big orgs. They might want their ass kissed, I'm not the one who is going to do that.

New comment by rambambram in "Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt"

rambambram — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:14:36 +0000

100% agree. Youtube has been a steady source for my music discovery. Example: I came across a Vietnamese artist with a nice videoclip and not so much views. I really liked the music, so I dropped a comment. I've done this with multiple of these videos from all over the world. Most of the time I get an appreciating comment back and I notice it does something positive to the artist.

Another 'crazy' one was where I stumbled upon some good music. Clicked a little around and it happened the artist was also a show wrestler and had some videos about that. I left a comment about the absurdity of the internet and we had a small conversation in the comment section.

I never installed spotify and it's annoying if people share music from there. Have to make an account, blah blah. Maybe it's the same for Youtube, but I don't notice that because I'm already logged in.

New comment by rambambram in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

rambambram — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:16:36 +0000

I stick with Pluma and gedit on Linux, but the landing page is clear and goodlooking!

New comment by rambambram in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

rambambram — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:15:06 +0000

$289, for everybody who doesn't want to click.

New comment by rambambram in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

rambambram — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:15:43 +0000

I know about that. These situations are logical, if you'd ask me. The OP suggested EU law works where all parties involved are outside EU. Like EU playing world police, or something.

New comment by rambambram in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

rambambram — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:05:38 +0000

I'm not talking about incorporated bodies, I'm talking EU law. EU decides what it wants in EU, not outside EU. Or am I missing something?

New comment by rambambram in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

rambambram — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:41:06 +0000

> While I like a lot of Euro regulations, some of the privacy ones go too far with the whole "we're going to enforce this on the whole world" crap.

Care to explain? EU is also a jurisdiction, so why would EU law be legal in other areas than EU?

New comment by rambambram in "The worst job interview I ever had"

rambambram — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:51:41 +0000

Beautifully spoken, you take the words out of my mouth.