Hacker News: tefkah

New comment by tefkah in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

tefkah — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:23:42 +0000

thanks for trying to make the web suck a little less these days xena!

New comment by tefkah in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

tefkah — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:30:41 +0000

seems to respect reduce motion just fine! the animation, while extremely lovely, also does seem to be quite taxing on my GPU (~60% usage on M1 Max with Zen/Firefox, on a 1440p widescreen, which is admittedly quite a lot of space to render animation)

love the website though, i hope i one day will be able to make something that elegant!

New comment by tefkah in "Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care"

tefkah — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:58:08 +0000

i’m surprise by how much i liked that! also: neutrality website, very tasteful

New comment by tefkah in "Automating Immersive Reading"

tefkah — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:55:34 +0000

i think smoores response got flagged for some reason, but there’s a StorytellerSync plugin https://github.com/Sirozha1337/storytellersync.koplugin

New comment by tefkah in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

tefkah — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:42:13 +0000

> Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. These changes resolve Apple’s disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution.

this seems to imply the Commission signed off on this. I really can't imagine that this changes anything meaningfully wrt to the DMA?

New comment by tefkah in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

tefkah — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:31:03 +0000

That sounded so outlandish i needed to look it up, it's true... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/wrongly-convicted-no-long...

Although asterisk: those costs were being deducted from the final compensation. Still disgraceful that even happened.

New comment by tefkah in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

tefkah — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:41:20 +0000

This does indeed seem comically evil. While surely this may provide somewhat interesting insights in how our brain processes things, this seems squarely past the "should" part of "you scientists were so obsessed with whether you could you failed to consider whether you should"

New comment by tefkah in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

tefkah — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:04:30 +0000

ridiculous to call it righteousness when it's allowing the servers to stay functioning

New comment by tefkah in "Show HN: 18 Words"

tefkah — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:49:48 +0000

holy shit this is hard

New comment by tefkah in "Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing metal poisoning"

tefkah — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:01:22 +0000

lmao the reason he finally figured it out was because she didn't understand him sarcasm, so he figured she must have neurological issues? classic

New comment by tefkah in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

tefkah — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:11:05 +0000

The people developing that left NYT and spun it out into a separate (really great!) project https://github.com/handlewithcarecollective/react-prosemirro...

They are also working on a collaborative editing suite for ProseMirror as an alternative to TipTap https://pitter-patter.dev/

New comment by tefkah in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

tefkah — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:09:06 +0000

you are not very good at detecting llm writing.

New comment by tefkah in "Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it"

tefkah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:04:50 +0000

> This isn’t prose. This isn’t creative writing. This is compressible data masquerading as text,” Chopra wrote in a blog post introducing his software.

ofc he would have an llm write his blog posts

New comment by tefkah in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

tefkah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:55:28 +0000

thanks for clarifying, this whole thread was sounding a bit ridiculous

New comment by tefkah in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

tefkah — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:01:30 +0000

i’m glad to hear this is being considered, thank you for your efforts

New comment by tefkah in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

tefkah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:02:26 +0000

shut up bot

New comment by tefkah in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

tefkah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:14:33 +0000

just bc everyone is calling you insane: you are being extremely reasonable.

New comment by tefkah in "Goodbye to Sora"

tefkah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:56:59 +0000

shut up bot

New comment by tefkah in "Goodbye to Sora"

tefkah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:54:21 +0000

"The [AI researchers] have known sin, and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."[0]

which is what I would hope would happen, but they're probably fine not thinking about the consequences of their actions looking at their 7 figure salaries

[0]: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/834918

New comment by tefkah in "Goodbye to Sora"

tefkah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:51:06 +0000

exactly! while there may be some neutral to slightly positive use of this tech (haha funny video) I can only really see the evil uses of it: scams, misinformation, propaganda, easily available to create by anyone at massive scale.

I really don't see the argument for this tech to be any kind of good, unless you think moving into an era where you cannot trust any image or video is somehow a neutral outcome, AND are happy about the people who are in control of this tech. which I guess captures a larger part of the HN crowd than I'd hoped