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New comment by regnull in "Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs"

regnull — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:35:12 +0000

Great idea, but buggy. My lecture started mid-sentence and ended abruptly (Kalman filter). Looking forward to when you guys get it working well. Also, I'm curious if the lecture description language is public.

New comment by regnull in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

regnull — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:04:43 +0000

You can also use GPS as time source

New comment by regnull in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

regnull — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:36:49 +0000

How is it different from smashing your phone on the floor and destroying it when asked to unlock? Just because it's a code that wipes it makes no difference. I'm not saying the agents were right to ask for it, but it seems like if you feel that your rights are violated you should refuse to unlock the phone, not destroy the content in front of them.

New comment by regnull in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

regnull — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:01:31 +0000

The source for this is "I've heard it from some guy". Before we freak out, perhaps make sure it's actually happening?

New comment by regnull in "[dead]"

regnull — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:06:06 +0000

"This is an app the land thieves of the Zionist entity force Palestinians to install on their phones as part of their illegal apartheid permit system."

The article seems to be a little one-sided, perhaps?

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

regnull — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:56:10 +0000

It's either terrible planning or the most persuasive presentation they’ve ever given.

New comment by regnull in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

regnull — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:15:33 +0000

If you don't have a full time job for a year, why don't you start a software business on your own? It's hard to succeed, but, successful or now, you will have something to show people and something that you are passionate to talk about. It will give you a new way to connect to people, and quite likely will help you to get hired. And who knows, maybe you will succeed.

New comment by regnull in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

regnull — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:30:59 +0000

> When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled.

I don't want to be that guy, but the title is misleading. The number of users completing the form doubled.

New comment by regnull in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

regnull — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:14:56 +0000

After I tried and failed to find any decent QR code generators online, I made one: https://www.cutearr.com/

Runs entirely in the browser, no tracking, no analytics, no ads.

New comment by regnull in "The desperation of NYTimes"

regnull — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:50:11 +0000

Unsubscribe? And then miss out on all that excellent "There is another thing you should be worried about" content?

New comment by regnull in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

regnull — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:39:07 +0000

So three quarters are on the way up? Doesn't sound too bad.

New comment by regnull in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

regnull — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:02:57 +0000

Googling "disregard" (in quotes) also works.

New comment by regnull in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

regnull — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:00:59 +0000

You can easily Google "disregard definition", actually this is the first auto-prompted item. I do realize it doesn't make the same catchy headline.

New comment by regnull in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

regnull — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:54:51 +0000

It's not just AI. It's AI on top of society discontent that existed for a long time, but accelerated recently. The big underlying problem is, since at least 1970s every subsequent generation had to work harder to afford the same lifestyle as their parents. For a few decades it was balanced by the increasing women's participation in the workforce. But then, since 2008, we got banking crisis, both political parties focusing on outrage, pandemic, great resignation, generation of workers lost due to the lack of in-person contact, and now AI.

New comment by regnull in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

regnull — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:38:09 +0000

You know, AI could help you to produce better-looking charts.

New comment by regnull in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

regnull — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:16:40 +0000

What?

New comment by regnull in "In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1"

regnull — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:15:03 +0000

People can still behave honorably despite all this. It's easy (and wrong) to justify someone's dishonorable behavior by pointing to the leaders.

New comment by regnull in "Palette Masters: 46 Zed themes derived from master painter color palettes"

regnull — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:51:50 +0000

I was looking at Palette Inspiration (https://paletteinspiration.com/), featured on HN a few days ago. It has master palettes for 3,000+ painters — statistical color analyses across each artist's entire body of work.

So I had this idea: what if those palettes became code editor themes? I built 46 Zed themes (dark + light) from the color data of 23 master painters.

Each theme uses the artist's actual palette colors for syntax highlighting, UI chrome, and terminal colors. The dark themes use the palette's darkest tones as backgrounds; the light themes blend the lightest palette color toward white, so every artist has a distinctly tinted background.

The artists:

    Monet — Water Lilies
    Van Gogh — Starry Night
    Matisse — The Dance
    Renoir — Luncheon of the Boating Party
    Pissarro — Boulevard Montmartre
    Roerich — Himalayas
    Sargent — Madame X
    Aivazovsky — The Ninth Wave
    Cezanne — Mont Sainte-Victoire
    Degas — The Ballet Class
    Da Vinci — Mona Lisa
    Rembrandt — The Night Watch
    Picasso — Guernica
    Vermeer — Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Turner — The Fighting Temeraire
    Klimt — The Kiss
    Kandinsky — Composition VIII
    Gauguin — Where Do We Come From?
    Caravaggio — Judith Beheading Holofernes
    Raphael — The School of Athens
    Munch — The Scream
    Velazquez — Las Meninas
    Hokusai — The Great Wave

Install:

    git clone https://github.com/regnull/palette-masters-zed.git
    cd palette-masters-zed
    make install

MIT licensed. Contributions welcome.

Palette Masters: 46 Zed themes derived from master painter color palettes

regnull — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/regnull/palette-masters-zed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080214

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by regnull in "Ukraine Has Given Up on Trump"

regnull — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:09:26 +0000

Is anyone surprised? There is this inexplicable affinity between Trump and Putin. It's genuinely baffling, since it serves him very poorly (there is strong support for Ukraine in the US). What do you make of it is up to you, whether it's just his general admiration for dictators or something else. Ukraine is absolutely right to go its own way, with or without American support. Fortunately, the EU appears to stand firm, at least for now.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/majority-americans...