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New comment by rmnclmnt in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:29:43 +0000

Is this using the youtube per-channel RSS feeds?

For people already using RSS feed readers, this is another way to achieve the same result (i do that with miniflux)

New comment by rmnclmnt in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:35:34 +0000

For the past few months, many times i’ve tried this workflow: 1. Ask a coding agent to think and implement a feature that is non trivial 2. This leads to really understand pros and cons for many possible solutions and see it happen end to end 3. Revert all changes and implement it myself when i’m settled on a solution i’m satisfied with 4. At this point the agent is just an iterative reviewer

I’ve felt that any non trivial amount of code not written myself tends to be hard to own. And like the author said, need to keep skills sharp also

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

rmnclmnt — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:41:44 +0000

Wow thanks TIL about the « add-bounds » config! Especially useful for project where pinning to exact dependencies is crucial and easily missed by less experienced devs (end products, not libs)

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

rmnclmnt — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:04:54 +0000

Because a coding agent (when instructed well) will try to make a piece of code work in a loop. Static typing and compilation help in the process (no more undefined variables discovered at runtime for instance). But that’s not bullet proof at all as most of us know

New comment by rmnclmnt in "How does Shazam work?"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:21:43 +0000

Might be the best visual explainer of Shazam original audio fingerprinting algorithm from the 2003 paper (I guess they´ve switched to ML models at some point?)

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:10:18 +0000

Agreed. Not saying there are no ways to ease the process but someone has to put some effort

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:51:03 +0000

Agreed. But would mean having to educate people on security, privacy and computing in general… Pretty sure most government like having most people uneducated on such things

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:43:25 +0000

> … said the company “does not use algorithmic wage-setting tools to make compensation decisions for our employees or to set new-hire salaries.”

When the HR/CRM/ERP/whatever internal software has the plan to compute these metrics and they display it as metadata next to the people’s names, it’s hard not to curious « just to check ». Maybe it’s not in the company policy but you can never be sure of individuals actions (especially big corps as mentioned in the article)

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

rmnclmnt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:36:39 +0000

Loved this book when I was a student! This is for DSP enclined audience with a focus on musical applications. Not very in-depth if you want to develop your own plugins or DAW but still very informative

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:40:10 +0000

Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?

New comment by rmnclmnt in "The case for becoming a manager"

rmnclmnt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:17:02 +0000

Is this still a debate? It all depends on personal goal/wishes and constraints from your working contrxt (e.g company size, country of residence).

Take France with medium to large size companies: ICs (whatever the seniority) are usually paid less and have a hard time evolving so they are naturally encouraged to take on management roles by their hierarchy. In some other contexts, ICs may have more leverage thus not wanting to go the management route and that’s okay.

Anyway, in the next 5 to 10 years this all might change for better or worse so…

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:00:24 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! I have been out of this loop for quite a while, glad to see it's still there!

Yes Monome was this initial inspiration then followed by many, but it was way more expensive and niche IIRC

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:34:46 +0000

Novation Launchpad used to be exactly that: you send MIDI CC messages with proper values and you can light up the grid (with different colors).

Did that a few years back, i guess this might still be possible

New comment by rmnclmnt in "1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:43:15 +0000

Unrelated to the story but TIL AOL is still a thing in 2026!

New comment by rmnclmnt in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

rmnclmnt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:03:54 +0000

And maybe writing an article or a keynote slides is one of the few places we can still exerce some human creativity, especially when the core skills (programming) is almost completely in the hands of LLMs already

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

rmnclmnt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:05:27 +0000

And that makes total sense. Honestly working since a few days with Opus 4.6, it really feels like a competent coworker, but need some explicit conventions to follow … exactly when onboarding a new IC! So i think there is a bright light to be seen: this will force having proper and explicit contribution rules and conventions, both for humans and robots

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

rmnclmnt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:25:35 +0000

Yesterday while i was adding some nitpicks to a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md file, I thought « this file could be renamed CONTRIBUTING.md and be done with it ».

Maybe I’m wrong but sure feels like we might soon drop all of this extra cruft for more rationale practices

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

rmnclmnt — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:01:04 +0000

Yeah I got that but more often than not now the growl vocal technique is associated with extreme metal genre

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

rmnclmnt — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:11:55 +0000

Yeah but at least that was funny!

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

rmnclmnt — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:57:31 +0000

> Growl > > Famous examples: > Christina Aguilera, James Brown, Tina Turner

I was not expecting these names!