Hacker News: strofocles

New comment by strofocles in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

strofocles — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:11:29 +0000

I'm building an iOS app (with plan user-base of 1) to help me structure my (I wish they were) weekly drumming sessions. My idea is to have "lessons" that have more "patterns" and I choose a lesson and practice those patterns logging the bpm's i can do (that 186bpm from your example is just wild for me). I am a beginner-intermediate so lots to learn for me. I use musical notation. If anybody interested in it let me know.

New comment by strofocles in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

strofocles — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:01:15 +0000

thank you

New comment by strofocles in "Bet on German Train Delays"

strofocles — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:34:43 +0000

best comment this week, including the username

New comment by strofocles in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

strofocles — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:48:05 +0000

"EUROPA" kind of gives it away

New comment by strofocles in "Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011"

strofocles — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:40:42 +0000

one way to go around this is to use apps like Toshl which connect to banks (it is far from perfect but usable) and then if you are unhappy with the app you can use their API to sync with your own system

New comment by strofocles in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

strofocles — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:57:11 +0000

It looks like you have to do a lot of data entry when you buy things, no?

New comment by strofocles in "Internet in a Box"

strofocles — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:33:08 +0000

May I suggest somebody out of your company reviews the website. It is not clear to me what you do, what the apps do and so on. The copy is also kind of abstract "we make the world a better place" type of copy. From your comment I understand you do good work and would be a shame for people new to your products to struggle understanding what are you doing.

New comment by strofocles in "I stopped using AI code editors"

strofocles — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:40:29 +0000

I think the conclusions and the advice for new programmers is valid. The comparison with the FSD is not very relevant in my opinion but it may be, I just don't see it, as it is a very different kind of skill. I would separate the preference from the "objective truth" and your goals. I think as a technologist you need to keep using AI if not for any other reason then only to keep up with the progress of the technology and have a first hand experience. For projects that I mainly do to learn, I disable autocompletion (Cursor) and type every single character by hand. For some other projects where I am more interested in the end result I am allowing autocompletion and most of the time I read and make sure I understand the generated code.

New comment by strofocles in "Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read"

strofocles — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:20:20 +0000

I wonder how much "well written" is a matter of taste (I thought it wasn't that much). I found "We Are Legion" very poorly written although I loved the premise and really wanted to read it but couldn't go any further then maybe a quarter of it. It also happened to me with Murakami's Kafka On The Shore but I blame that on the translation or some cultural impedance mismatch.

New comment by strofocles in "I Taught My 8yo Subduction Zones with NotebookLM"

strofocles — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:12:06 +0000

I am really impressed by the podcast it generates and I hope they will introduce other voices/styles because this style can be too much for some people (including me). Not so impressed about the chat experience though. Sometimes it sounds the bot is annoyed at my questions :) Which is a refreshing change from the pathological politeness of ChatGPT.

New comment by strofocles in "Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams"

strofocles — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:48:57 +0000

I am working on an app like that. Far from being complete, at this point is syncing with live data from the banks (well, almost live, a few hours behind). My idea is to have the app do as much as possible for you and just tell you how you're doing: if you're saving enough, if you're spending more than usual on something, show you charts, project future savings at the current rate of saving accounting for interest/capital-gains etc. The app would incorporate sound financial planning principles (prioritise paying dept, invest some of the money, live below your means, etc). I'd love to hear from people who would be interested in this.

New comment by strofocles in "Most subscription mobile apps don't make money, new report shows"

strofocles — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:19:22 +0000

I found the original RevenueCat report, which this article is based on, to be more informative. My main complaint is the clumping of 'EMEA', which is economically diverse (I'm not sure why Japan and South Korea were given their own spots in the chart). Still, it was informative.

New comment by strofocles in "SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields"

strofocles — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:54:58 +0000

Is there a significant advantage for capturing using DSLRs vs using the phone camera of a decent phone?

New comment by strofocles in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

strofocles — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:24:14 +0000

Got it. Makes sense. Gonna try this although another thing we were planning to solve was balancing the chores between us to fix the paradox where both of us think they do more than the other. So this would be an iPad fixed on a wall or in a very visible position?

New comment by strofocles in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

strofocles — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:47:31 +0000

Honest question: I was looking at Wednesday and it said: Cook dinner, Dishes, Trash out. What is the usefulness of tracking this in the app since just entering the kitchen gives you instant status to each of them?