Hacker News: ramenbytes

New comment by ramenbytes in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

ramenbytes — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:33:28 +0000

> Imagine an AI reminding you that you've been on HN too long and offering to save off the comment your working on for later and then moving they browser window to a different tab.

> Having idle thoughts in the car of things you need to do and being able to just say them out loud and know important topics won't be forgotten about.

> I understand for people who aren't neurodiverse that the idea of just forgetting to do something that is incredibly critical to ones health and well-being isn't something that happens (often) but for plenty of other people a device that just helps people remember important things can be dramatically life changing.

Those don't sound like things that you need AI for.

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

ramenbytes — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:39:26 +0000

Article URL: https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922567

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ramenbytes in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

ramenbytes — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:43:59 +0000

With the recent work done enabling the use of Common Lisp in the browser on WASM, I've been thinking about spinning up a really simple static site that's just a CL REPL for people to play with.

New comment by ramenbytes in "OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened"

ramenbytes — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:47:05 +0000

The exact stuff I now use Kagi for. Finding obscure relevant PDFs that Google didn't is literally one of the things that made me switch.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Noise cancelling a fan"

ramenbytes — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:42:32 +0000

New comment by ramenbytes in "Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam"

ramenbytes — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:10:23 +0000

And I used them in a graduate physics course last fall.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

ramenbytes — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:23:04 +0000

Deep Space 9 had an episode dealing with something similar. Superintelligent beings determine that a situation is hopeless and act accordingly. The normal beings take issue with the actions of the Superintelligents. The normal beings turn out to be right.

New comment by ramenbytes in "I dumped Google for Kagi"

ramenbytes — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:04:55 +0000

I had to use Google in a library while printing datasheets and clicked the first relevant looking result out of habit, only to be taken to the wrong part page. Closer inspection of the search results showed the small faint print of "Sponsored". I had forgotten about that since moving to Kagi.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Lisp project of the day"

ramenbytes — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:38:07 +0000

An inelegant weapon, for a less civilized age. And yet, it works.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"

ramenbytes — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:41:25 +0000

The wife says the chain and lock were for weight training.

New comment by ramenbytes in "How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants"

ramenbytes — Sat, 17 May 2025 06:21:50 +0000

Probably too recent, but any chance it was this? https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/14186/red-dwarf-diversity-in-sp...

New comment by ramenbytes in "'End of an era': The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing its doors"

ramenbytes — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:36:31 +0000

Urban Ore in Berkeley. It's a salvage shop with an electronics area. Scored some vintage Tek scopes there.

New comment by ramenbytes in "YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients"

ramenbytes — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:42:20 +0000

I don't have it on hand at the moment, but I think I saw something about how the victims of those lawsuits didn't actually end up paying. Might have been related to bankruptcy, and certain things being non-enforceable. Basically the RIAA cottoned on to it not being worth their time and money to ruin their public image for little to no return.

Edit: Still can't find it, but did find this EFF article covering a bunch of people who apparently settled for some amount. Haven't followed up on the people who took things to court yet. https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later

Edit 1: I think it might have just been a high-profile case or two that escaped paying, it seems there were oodles of people who did pay based on the EFF article.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)"

ramenbytes — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:51:56 +0000

I love engineering paper too! My weapon of choice is this pad: https://www.rspaperproducts.com/products/95182/ I have not tried the Tops yet, I think because I saw somewhere it was thinner? I like the slightly thicker paper the buff pads come with, and it plays nice with my fountain pens.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain"

ramenbytes — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:52:13 +0000

Could use the electronics convention and save a character: 2k6

New comment by ramenbytes in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

ramenbytes — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:05:36 +0000

AdBlocker, yes. UBlock Origin, no. Maybe it's since reached feature parity, last time I checked it hadn't from what I could tell.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

ramenbytes — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:04:05 +0000

> When I press F12, does an inspector open? Where does it open? When I select some words, how do I send them to a new tab in YouTube, Amazon, Google or Stack Overflow? How do I open all the links which are within a selected rectangle in new background tabs? Or use uBlock Origin's element picker?

What did you think of the demos? The sorts of things you mentioned seem like things doable in NYXT based on the demos, possibly even the exact sort of stuff they are trying to make possible. It looks like it's basically Common Lisp with a web browser attached, which suggests it should be fairly moldable too. I have not seriously used it myself though, so I can't say for sure what the limits are.

New comment by ramenbytes in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

ramenbytes — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:38:39 +0000

The one thing holding me back from this is not being able to run UBlock origin on it yet. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll have the spare time to change that myself....

Introducing the UHK 80

ramenbytes — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:18:18 +0000

Article URL: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077985

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by ramenbytes in "Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)"

ramenbytes — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:51:47 +0000

- Digikey

- Mouser

- SparkFun

- Adafruit

- Antique Electronic Supply

- Sphere Research Corporation

-Ebay, occasionally, if the seller is trusted and known by your corner of the electronics community.

There are several mailing lists where you can get equipment and parts as well over on groups.io.

- test-equipment-buy-sell-exchange

- tekscopes

- hp-agilent-keysight-equipment

and other sources that I'm not remembering off the top of my head. Check out the EEVBlog forums, they probably have a list somewhere, or can tell you where they shop. Same with the various mailing lists. If they don't have it, they might be able to point you towards who does.