Hacker News: thisOtterBeGood

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

thisOtterBeGood — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:09:35 +0000

Yes. I'm a a software developer, but as a father of three I just don't have the time to maintain self-hosting.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Goodbye to Sora"

thisOtterBeGood — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:42:29 +0000

Yes, Sam Altman was talking about how he lost you on his blog and how it lead to Sora's downfall :D But honestly... I believe this too. There's just no value.

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

thisOtterBeGood — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:19:32 +0000

If a responsible person is reading: The confirmation link of the email-verification doesn't work (at least for me)

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

thisOtterBeGood — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:04:48 +0000

Whats the problem with that diagram? It's fine for me. I've been morging all morning now, so many conflucts in my brinches, but I've managed it with this diagram.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

thisOtterBeGood — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:37:27 +0000

Thinking back, there really should be some lessions that send students off to solve user problems after having learned a programming language, where there is a much easier solution without having to program something. Some refinement sessions that teach them how to understand the problems.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "The fuck off contact page"

thisOtterBeGood — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:32:29 +0000

Great post! And I must admit that this must be the best website I've encountered in ages. The mix of oldschool OS with the pixelated font.. Perfect!

Communicating process is a top-notch hint. Getting everyone involved in meetings to the have the same context and expectations about the common goals is never easy.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

thisOtterBeGood — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:30:58 +0000

It IS a skill. And most often it is disregarded by those who did not yet conquer it ...

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips [pdf]"

thisOtterBeGood — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:06:16 +0000

Interesting. What I would like to see is a single core comparison of the compared renderers, since that would indicate the efficiency of the code. I would assume the popular renderer are not as fast but also need less cpu-time overall?

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

thisOtterBeGood — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:59:45 +0000

In Germany many stores still accept cash and some even only accept cash and we are ridiculed for this... Seems like one of the rare instances where this is useful :D

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Find SF parking cops"

thisOtterBeGood — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:53:47 +0000

You could imagine that it won't work for long after publishing this. I would've either used it for myself and my friends or messaged the city about this straight away, so they can avoid things like that.

I don't like these kind of apps that allow people to be smart around regulations that should apply for everyone.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Nano Banana image examples"

thisOtterBeGood — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:03:23 +0000

Wow. GPT-4o is exceptionally biased towards pop culture. Harry Potter, Aragon, a sith lord, Elon Musk...

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

thisOtterBeGood — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:42:02 +0000

Not over here. As far as I understand Op's solution does not utilize a gpu.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

thisOtterBeGood — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:07:22 +0000

You could use that to display some kind of billboard affect, so that an image is always in a correct aspect ration to the observer in front :D Please could someone with a macbook do this and post a video here? :D

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Rasterizer: A GPU-accelerated 2D vector graphics engine in ~4k LOC"

thisOtterBeGood — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:00:42 +0000

How would you break down the problem with rendering 2D to someone who has no rendering background? Is there a single large issue or is it a complex multi-issue endeavour?

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

thisOtterBeGood — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:51:10 +0000

This perfectly describes one of the biggest dillema with AI. Where does an AI company stop to utilize human knowledge it does not actually own. Where do they draw the line. Apparently it's possible there aren't any lines drawn at all.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

thisOtterBeGood — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:10:45 +0000

Poor poor... I always felt that too many people in hr decision making underestimate the role of talent. Many awesome software products stem from teams with extraordinary talent. Average people create average software.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

thisOtterBeGood — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:01:41 +0000

Pretty sure you can build a "robot" that just copies from an image source.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Telo MT1"

thisOtterBeGood — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:54:36 +0000

I'm not sure this thing would fare well in a crash test.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry"

thisOtterBeGood — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:34:03 +0000

Marley and me, just did it for me.. I don't think I've ever cried like this since I was a kid.

New comment by thisOtterBeGood in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

thisOtterBeGood — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:27:58 +0000

Excellent :D