Hacker News: regnull

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...

Show HN: I couldn't find any BS-free QR code generator, so I built one

regnull — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:15:09 +0000

I wanted to create a QR code to allow guests to connect to my wifi. Easy task, you think. Apparently not - all the QR generators out there are full of unnecessary features, and they are privacy nightmare - scanning QR codes actually pings their servers. So my friend Claude Code and I created a free, privacy-first alternative - everything runs in the browser so no data gets exchanged with any servers. Oh, and it's pirate-themed, enjoy!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826799

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by regnull in "Claudshi – political events on Kalshi prediction plugin"

regnull — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:05:33 +0000

A plugin for Claude Code and Claude Desktop that predicts political events using Kalshi prediction markets.

Claudshi connects to Kalshi via the kalshi-mcp MCP server to scan markets, analyze political events, estimate probabilities, place bets on mispriced markets, and monitor open positions.

Claudshi – political events on Kalshi prediction plugin

regnull — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:05:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/regnull/claudshi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758491

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by regnull in "Observer Patch Holography (OPH)"

regnull — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:13:08 +0000

OPH is a reconstruction program for fundamental physics. Spacetime, gauge structure, particles, records, and observer synchronization are treated as consequences of the OPH package rooted in overlap consistency on a finite holographic screen, together with the explicit branch premises stated in the papers.

Observer Patch Holography (OPH)

regnull — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/FloatingPragma/observer-patch-holography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752282

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by regnull in "France pulls last gold held in US"

regnull — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:59:02 +0000

Ok, bear with me for a moment - what if the US would use actual physical gold coins instead of dollars? Then your argument of "gold would flow out" would not hold - so the only reason for it to flow out was that the gold standard was fake - the lax money policy of the US was the issue, not the gold standard itself.

New comment by regnull in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

regnull — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:01:54 +0000

It’s a good start