Hacker News: shlip

New comment by shlip in "Alibaba has made 470k AI chips, admits they're inferior and may always be"

shlip — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:50:40 +0000

Well yes, finally, optimizing instead of throwing silicon, water and electricity at it until it works. Thats the way.

New comment by shlip in "Have a fucking website"

shlip — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:53:46 +0000

"lleu.site" might not be the clearest in regards to what the service offers. It reads too nerd. Something like "easyweb.site" or "yourown.site" might better describe it.

New comment by shlip in "My Dinner with AI"

shlip — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:14:15 +0000

Spot on :

> Someone once said that “AI feels amazing when it’s talking about a subject you know nothing about, but is laughably wrong when you do”.

> Someone else also said “I want AI to do my laundry so I can make Art, not make my Art so I can do laundry”.

My Dinner with AI

shlip — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:13:40 +0000

Article URL: https://grumpygamer.com/my_dinner_with_ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424170

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by shlip in "Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work with" Series in RSS"

shlip — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:56:59 +0000

I know articles from Derek Lowe's series pop up on here every now and then. Here is a RSS feed you can pu in your RSS reader, and have all 33 articles available to (re) read. Enjoy !

(Alternatively, you can find all these articles in HTML here : https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...)

Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work with" Series in RSS

shlip — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/action/showFeed?ui=0&mi=eodfiz&type=search&feed=rss&query=%2526ConceptID%253D505053%2526target%253Dtopic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412021

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by shlip in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

shlip — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:26:57 +0000

Well of course a DSLR will be better than a phone camera for most things, since you can control more features. That's also the point of OpenCamera; get as much controls as you can back, compared to the stock app that might be lacking. It wont do miracles if your phone camera is not good to begin with.

I've found OpenCam to be useful because of the various optional features ( onionskin, levelmeter, locking settings ). You can also set the bitrate/size/duration of videos, etc. Lots of useful stuff.

Japanese man arrested for staining a temple in 2015

shlip — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:07:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260304_21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253084

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shlip in "This Page Is Anonymous"

shlip — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:11:42 +0000

Took me far too long to realize this is 13 yo.

Looks like the service is still up.

EDIT: They also offer a service to ssh into various vintage systems, which is cool : https://sdf.org/?ssh

New comment by shlip in "Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent's mistake"

shlip — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:17:37 +0000

That's what reverse-centaurs are for; being an accountability sink.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/

New comment by shlip in "France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django"

shlip — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:43:06 +0000

Well I still think it's something to worry about before you end in front of a "Your account has been suspended" notice. How can you be sure someone has the whole dataset locally backed up ? Plus, you still have to reconfigure the workflows and stuff like that. Not to mention that sometime, project's websites are also hosted on github, so that's something else you have to rebuild.

And also, this means devs/contributors have to give their data to MS.

Since the whole point of the project is sovereignty, it should have started with setting up their own gitea/gitlab/etc. instances and domains.

New comment by shlip in "France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django"

shlip — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:58:56 +0000

And yet, the project is hosted on MS github... So much for sovereignty :facepalm

So what happens to the 500,000+ users when Trump tells MS to nuke the repo/infra ?

New comment by shlip in "France Hits the Demographic Point of No Return [video]"

shlip — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:51:01 +0000

More predictions by the guy who announced China would collapse in 2020...

New comment by shlip in "Show HN: GLinksWWW – A lightweight browser with 9 independent clipboards"

shlip — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:04:04 +0000

IMHO I think you should write a post/readme/gist describing/demonstrating your browser's key features, with screencap if possible, maybe upload it to gitlab/github/other. It will fare better than asking strangers to download random files from a google drive link. (Although I saw your * is not a virus disclaimer, I still don't thin it's the optimal way to share a work you invested a lot of time on.)

New comment by shlip in "Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)"

shlip — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:48:06 +0000

> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy).

> The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

New comment by shlip in "I Will No Longer Contribute to PostmarketOS"

shlip — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:54:00 +0000

Before that, author was banned for 1 month by the PMos team :

  After a short introduction I was told that the reason for the call was:
  1.I used the wrong pronouns.  
  2.The COVID thing.
  3.I promoted AI within the postmarketOS channels.

New comment by shlip in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

shlip — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:51:22 +0000

What tax revenue ? Aren't they all declaring their profits in Ireland (a tax haven) ?

New comment by shlip in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

shlip — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:34:59 +0000

> Because that means we may as well quasi-nationalize [...]

I'm not quite sure how you get from IP law abrogation to 'quasi-nationalization', care to explain your reasoning here ?

New comment by shlip in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

shlip — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:30:37 +0000

Well he's been impeached twice (then acquitted) already, so this one will not really mean the end for him.

New comment by shlip in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

shlip — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:22:12 +0000

popularized, not pioneered.