Hacker News: smilbandit

New comment by smilbandit in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

smilbandit — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:29:24 +0000

I dabbled with AI music for a bit with Suno. Worked out well for the most part, only way I'm ever going to hear music with themes for some of niche things I like, like Shadowrun. I threw a bunch of music genres at it and some were good enough that I added them to my normal playlist but after about 30 completed songs I had a hard time coming up with new stuff. As someone who has never tried to create music myself it was fun to play with.

New comment by smilbandit in "Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player"

smilbandit — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:07:02 +0000

was looking at this a few days ago. my son got into cassettes last summer. even bought a dual deck off facebook market place to record mix tapes, worked great tape to tape.

New comment by smilbandit in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

smilbandit — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:24:55 +0000

I got to get me some new surge protectors and not the cheapies. maybe a small ups.

New comment by smilbandit in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

smilbandit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:18:40 +0000

setup a desktop with n8n, ollama, open webui, comfyui, and aider. work is dragging it's feet on AI orchestration and workflow tooling so figured I learn it a bit to get ahead of things. just need some personal projects that are interesting enough that I'll pour time into them.

New comment by smilbandit in "Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026"

smilbandit — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:29:55 +0000

Wonder if android will scale up to a windowing interface for larger screens or will it be like samsung dex.

New comment by smilbandit in "Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk"

smilbandit — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:43:14 +0000

The cynic in me thinks that this is a way for bigger farms to gobble up smaller farms by calling in ice but knowing that they will be able to keep ice from raiding them unless a bigger farm pays to have them raided.

New comment by smilbandit in "FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors"

smilbandit — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:37:34 +0000

Phrasing matters. using "didn't" puts a bad light on FEMA but if they used "couldn't" it changes things. no idea which it is but i'd bet it should read "couldn't"

New comment by smilbandit in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

smilbandit — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:27:48 +0000

From my limited experience, former coder now management but I still get to code now and then. I've found them helpful but also intrusive. Sometimes when it guesses the code for the rest of the line and next few lines it's going down a path I don't want to go but I have to take time to scan it. Maybe it's a configuration issue, but i'd prefer it didn't put code directly in my way or be off by default and only show when I hit a key combo.

One thing I know is that I wouldn't ask an LLM to write an entire section of code or even a function without going in and reviewing.

New comment by smilbandit in "Nestflix"

smilbandit — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:34:56 +0000

Just want to say thank you for having a link for "as seen in" showing all the fake movies/tv where they are from.

New comment by smilbandit in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

smilbandit — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:40:40 +0000

My depth of stock trading stops at the buy low sell high level. Can someone explain a little more if you have time? What would have happened to those trades if splunk had went down 20%?

New comment by smilbandit in "Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments"

smilbandit — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:35:04 +0000

i don't use apps other then a broswer for the most part, so not that broken up about these api issues. i also don't use reddit as much after they removed the .compact templates.

New comment by smilbandit in "Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami"

smilbandit — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:42:00 +0000

ah the hours spent building the perfect computer on paper using arbitrarily decided limit of money I was never going to have.

New comment by smilbandit in "The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park"

smilbandit — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:06:50 +0000

In this day and age I feel that things like this should have an in person registration for a few days or week before the online registration.

New comment by smilbandit in "Clowns Without Borders"

smilbandit — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:38:28 +0000

for me it was a hobo clown painting in the family room whose eyes always followed me as a child. told my parents it was scary but it never came down, i just assumed it had a lock on my parents souls or something.

New comment by smilbandit in "Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?"

smilbandit — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:38:28 +0000

raspberry pi on your own network that updates an RSS feed that is hosted on an S3 bucket. get the RSS updates via reader, outlook or slack.

New comment by smilbandit in "The struggles of building a feed reader"

smilbandit — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:14:49 +0000

Feed readers are my learning project, I use it to learn new languages. I've built and rebuilt readers in vbscript, vb.net, c#, php and python. php and python have been the easiest since they have good parser libraries. Also I've used SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite and just JSON flat files. I think I've built something like 10 or so variations. In the last few I've expanded to not only pull from RSS and included Hacker News, Twitter and an enhanced pull for Reddit feeds. Though I'm not pulling Twitter currently because of some API changes that I've haven't bothered to spend time on.

Helpful hint if you need favicons for your reader you can use Google.

https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=techmeme.com

The above is a load balancer for this url where the t1 subdomain may change to t[1-9] but this URL allows you to change the image size.

https://t1.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&...

I use it to grab and store sizes 16,32,48,64 of the icons with a monthly update ping.

My current iteration is built in python with a mysql backend. It's setup in a river of news style with an everything river and one for each feed and I generate topic bundles also. The feed engine is running every 15 minutes grabbing 40 feeds at a time but the static site generator is only running every 6 hours to keep me from spending all my time reading news. Since I pull in Reddit feeds I found that it's great for feed discovery.

New comment by smilbandit in "The enzyme that puts branches of glucose on stevia (2019)"

smilbandit — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:38:57 +0000

on taste. I find all sugar substitutes to taste like poison. Wondering if there's reason for that?

New comment by smilbandit in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

smilbandit — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:02:03 +0000

https://sixdaemonbag.com It's personal

New comment by smilbandit in "I Miss RSS"

smilbandit — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:47:24 +0000

I missed getting everything from RSS. A couple years ago I built my own engine that could bring in twitter, reddit, here and a few other services that didn't have RSS feeds and published the results to river of news style flow with a few topic specific tributaries. Haven't used it in years but have been thinking about restarting it.

New comment by smilbandit in "Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done"

smilbandit — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:45:40 +0000

Death of the author and spouse. No need for it to transfer any farther then that.