Hacker News: scientism

New comment by scientism in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

scientism — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:45:57 +0000

Indeed. The joke is that the website itself is vibe coded.

New comment by scientism in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

scientism — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:14:39 +0000

That's really great news. For anyone looking for the astrophotography equipment, this is from one of his posts:

Telescope: William Optics UltraCat 76 Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro

New comment by scientism in "More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware"

scientism — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:39:25 +0000

Not commenting on the content itself (others have done it better) but anybody getting tired of seeing the same vibe coded websites over and over again?

New comment by scientism in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

scientism — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:41:27 +0000

Then came DVD±RW which used the magic pen technology. Each time you write, it changed both the color of the disc and the data. Surprisingly enough if you did it long enough it ended in color/data corruption...

New comment by scientism in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

scientism — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:45:48 +0000

The EU Commission had an open consultation about "Open Source and Digital Ecosystems" recently and is planing to (more) heavily invest in OSS in the future as a matter of sovereignty. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-ope...

New comment by scientism in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

scientism — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:31:38 +0000

https://nocodb.com/ is an open source alternative.

Muscle memory friendly keyboard mods

scientism — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:05:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.getreu.net/20250826-muscle-memory-friendly-home-row-mods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733343

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by scientism in "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"

scientism — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:15:42 +0000

Same reason here. It didn't like Florisboard.

Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling

scientism — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-builds-location-verification-tech-that-could-help-fight-chip-smuggling-2025-12-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254298

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by scientism in "Show HN: Tusk Drift – Open-source tool for automating API tests"

scientism — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:59:46 +0000

Cool work, thanks. A bit like https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy in python, if you weren't aware OP.

New comment by scientism in "./watch"

scientism — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:44:40 +0000

imgur makes me sad these days :( https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...

New comment by scientism in "Moving away from US cloud services"

scientism — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:20:36 +0000

Hetzner might get a lot of love here but it's another service that treats protonmail users as second class citizens since they ask for ID. I would avoid them just because of this.

New comment by scientism in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

scientism — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:08:40 +0000

A theory I've heard of why this happens is that Europeans are generally suspicious because there is a lot of international trauma considering Europe was the center of two World Wars, both relatively recently. The US on the other hand didn't have that imprinted in its collective memory.

Is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling?

scientism — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:31:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/17/not-second-screen-enough-is-netflix-deliberately-dumbing-down-tv-so-people-can-watch-while-scrolling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42741683

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by scientism in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

scientism — Sat, 11 May 2024 08:10:10 +0000

I've read another theory: It's because of the sun damage to their eye from using a sextant for navigation. Haven't been able to confirm it though.

Police catch 300 drivers breaking law in three days using AI

scientism — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:19:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/devon-cornwall-police-drivers-artificial-intelligence-b2394118.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37159151

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Baldur's Gate 3: New Standard for the RPG Genre?

scientism — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:53:16 +0000

Article URL: https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/07/12/baldurs-gate-3-new-standard-for-rpg-genre-opinions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36784886

Points: 31

# Comments: 98

New comment by scientism in "Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data"

scientism — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:27:22 +0000

I see wildcard imports. I'll pass. Also if you want to use R in python why not use the rpy2 library?

New comment by scientism in "Ask HN: Code review as part of the peer review process?"

scientism — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:06:08 +0000

The Journal Of Open Source Software addresses this problem. Reviewers test the code, submit Reviews as GH issues and PRs are corrections. Code review and coding in the open is what the academic review process should be. - https://joss.theoj.org/

New comment by scientism in "Amazon’s quiet open source revolution"

scientism — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:25:06 +0000

It's Azure but, Apache Atlas : MS Purview