Hacker News: squidsoup

New comment by squidsoup in "An Uncomplicated Man"

squidsoup — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:09:51 +0000

Greek mythology is full of sex, and the Odyssey is no exception.

New comment by squidsoup in "An Uncomplicated Man"

squidsoup — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:46:54 +0000

> "The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality".

A pretty succinct summation of Nolan as a filmmaker.

New comment by squidsoup in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

squidsoup — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:04:46 +0000

It's a pity that Apple neglects its creative apps. I've been working on a video project using Motion recently, and while not as capable as After Effects, it's pretty serviceable and with some love could be excellent.

New comment by squidsoup in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

squidsoup — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:38:48 +0000

Very impressive. How are you managing to produce such a clean model without artifacts?

New comment by squidsoup in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

squidsoup — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:39:43 +0000

Nonsense. Ray Harryhausen's work today is still incredible, by any standard.

New comment by squidsoup in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

squidsoup — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:35:41 +0000

Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.

New comment by squidsoup in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

squidsoup — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:03:11 +0000

> That's because sandboxing is quite hard

colima makes it pretty easy, on macOS and linux at any rate.

https://colima.run

New comment by squidsoup in "GPT‑Live"

squidsoup — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:35:11 +0000

> Dammit! I live in Europe and the cyber truck isn't even available here..

Europeans are notorious for their good taste.

New comment by squidsoup in "Programmers need to start meditating"

squidsoup — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:01:44 +0000

The thing about meditation is, if you're doing it, there is no "you" that it is either good or bad for.

New comment by squidsoup in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

squidsoup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:58:03 +0000

> Optimism in general is out of fashion, and pessimism is pervasive.

Hardly surprising given we are not collectively making sufficient change to avert climate disaster. There’s no negative bias or spin there - the majority of climate scientists agree that we’ve passed the tipping point.

New comment by squidsoup in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

squidsoup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:23:02 +0000

> It's actually not so hard for me to just not take part in social media

Unfortunately that’s not quite as easy for people in creative professions that must now use social media to promote themselves and their work.

New comment by squidsoup in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

squidsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:13:07 +0000

OpenStack already exists

New comment by squidsoup in "Travel Locally, Where You Are"

squidsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:27:47 +0000

Photography also works, or hell you can even photograph birds.

New comment by squidsoup in "Travel locally, where you are"

squidsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:24:30 +0000

What you're describing is really why the Backrooms is resonating with the kids today - the homogeneity of an environment and culture devoured by capitalism.

New comment by squidsoup in "Why are there so many canines in fine art?"

squidsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:43:56 +0000

> That the dogs are just about always subordinates and subservient makes the relationship easier to work

You've clearly never lived with a border collie.

New comment by squidsoup in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

squidsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:39:31 +0000

It is much more than that, egalitarianism is fundamental to French culture.

New comment by squidsoup in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

squidsoup — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:06:10 +0000

I guess software licenses are meaningless now since anyone can decide their llm clone is not derivative.

New comment by squidsoup in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

squidsoup — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:57:17 +0000

Yes, there’s a huge market in the UK, Australia and New Zealand for low quality tea.

New comment by squidsoup in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

squidsoup — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:32:33 +0000

India, China and Japan are the largest markets for quality whole leaf tea. Tea bags contain fannings and dust, the lowest quality byproducts of tea production. Try a single estate TGFOP and you’ll never want to drink tea from a bag again.

Chinese tea is again a whole different world from Indian tea, and has a much broader spectrum of complexity. You could spend a lifetime learning about Chinese tea.

New comment by squidsoup in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

squidsoup — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:25:23 +0000

People still use tea bags even though what they contain is a byproduct of tea production and barely counts as tea.