Hacker News: schmeichel

New comment by schmeichel in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

schmeichel — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:36:20 +0000

It is possible to remove the hardware itself that is responsible for this, but depending on the car it can very involved: https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-f...

New comment by schmeichel in "Keep Our Servers Running"

schmeichel — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:44:00 +0000

I know I'd love to run something like this!

New comment by schmeichel in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

schmeichel — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:09:49 +0000

Ditto. I've started reading recently. The last time I seriously read a book was High School. It's rather enjoyable, and I have a newfound appreciation for public libraries.

New comment by schmeichel in "Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines"

schmeichel — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:31:21 +0000

This is one of my favorite libraries from the premise alone. Here is an example of Mario in Half-Life 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3qhqkegNw

New comment by schmeichel in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

schmeichel — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:01:25 +0000

Zram creates a compressed RAM disk. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

New comment by schmeichel in "A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there"

schmeichel — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:20:39 +0000

See "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. (That was even before Facebook became Meta)

New comment by schmeichel in "Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus"

schmeichel — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:26:18 +0000

Banger

New comment by schmeichel in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

schmeichel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:42:19 +0000

Subscribed. Genuinely looking forward to what this gent gets up to.

New comment by schmeichel in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

schmeichel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:14:46 +0000

Steve Ballmer here, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!

New comment by schmeichel in "1D Chess"

schmeichel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:15:11 +0000

Finally, a version of Chess I can understand. Thank you.

New comment by schmeichel in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

schmeichel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:32:27 +0000

Where my Juggalos at??

New comment by schmeichel in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

schmeichel — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:02:58 +0000

Thank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.

New comment by schmeichel in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

schmeichel — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:59:06 +0000

Out of curiosity, how did you go about doing that? That sounds really nice and I'd be interested to see if it could work with LuLu as well.

New comment by schmeichel in "Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing"

schmeichel — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:53:44 +0000

As someone who writes academic essays and prose, I can't live without this plugin. I will constantly need to write multiple page paragraphs, and it's incredibility more convient to be able to navigate within a paragraph as if it was multiple lines, as opposed to needing to perform some horizontal motion gymnastics to get the cursor where I need it to be.

Hat's off to everyone who has worked on this plugin!

New comment by schmeichel in "Gmail is entering the Gemini Era"

schmeichel — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:18:23 +0000

Does this really deserve to be on the front page of HN?

New comment by schmeichel in "[dead]"

schmeichel — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:30:36 +0000

I hope this is satire.

New comment by schmeichel in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

schmeichel — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:13:25 +0000

Gemini 2.5 Pro is still my go to LLM of choice. Haven't used any OpenAI product since it released, and I don't see any reason why I should now.

New comment by schmeichel in "Show HN: Steiner – An open-source reasoning model inspired by OpenAI o1"

schmeichel — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:14:46 +0000

This seems promising! Great work! Any chance there will be a Ollama Modelfile for the masses?

New comment by schmeichel in "Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE"

schmeichel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:37:15 +0000

It's best to check the LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard to find the model that best suits your needs: https://lmarena.ai/

New comment by schmeichel in "Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?"

schmeichel — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:03:47 +0000

If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar

- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar

Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation (https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement (https://www.raycast.com/) LuLu Firewall - An amazing FOSS firewall (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)