Hacker News: tmerse

New comment by tmerse in "How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

tmerse — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:07:14 +0000

Try the book: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

New comment by tmerse in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

tmerse — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:54:15 +0000

I'd like to make the point that private and public are coupled, in a way that if you dismantle everything public/tax funded, there is effectively nothing left except private by definition (with all it's upsides and downsides where the latter will be amplified in the absence of public oversight bodies funded by public money based on public law).

Now I (as a non US citizen, but one of a country that has it's fair share of needless bureaucracy) wholeheartedly agree that there is waste, a lack of oversight/transparency and probably a need for more say of the common taxpayer on how their money is spent.

But as someone who learnt the meaning of the Terms "Gleichschaltung" and "Ermächtigungsgesetz" in school, I wholeheartedly disagree with the current measures and how they unfold right in front of our eyes.

New comment by tmerse in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

tmerse — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:53:55 +0000

Luckily those things never happen in the private sector. Theranos?

New comment by tmerse in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

tmerse — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:33:04 +0000

Trump won his first term in 2016 because Americans were fed up with the Bush+Obama status quo of endless wars and wast

Does this include threatening Greenland with military action or does it not count as war if there is little resistance to be expected?

New comment by tmerse in "Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative"

tmerse — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:35:42 +0000

- https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim

- https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

Did not have the time to test them yet and there are probably more.

New comment by tmerse in "Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment"

tmerse — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:32:39 +0000

Can I also get the security/isolation benefits that a duly configured docker/podman can provide (container can only act on mounted volume, non-root user, other seccomp settings?).

I feel better doing my "npm install"s in such an environment (of course it's still not a VM – but that's another topic).

When I read about nix, reproducibility is a goal, but security/isolation is a non-goal.

New comment by tmerse in "Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support"

tmerse — Thu, 23 May 2024 05:48:53 +0000

https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium

This certainly looks interesting. Cannot comment on it's current state, as I still use bismuth on x11

New comment by tmerse in "Phytomining – Extracting Minerals via Plants"

tmerse — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:39:49 +0000

And then there is nano bionic, explosives detecting spinach.

https://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-e...

New comment by tmerse in "Neorg – organize your life in Neovim"

tmerse — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:29:09 +0000

There also is obsidian.nvim [1] if you want to mix and match obsidian and neovim for using/editing obsidian vaults.

1: https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim

New comment by tmerse in "TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop"

tmerse — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:48:16 +0000

Ah just saw rjzzleep posted an updated version here. Happy to steal this one again :)

New comment by tmerse in "TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop"

tmerse — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:43:21 +0000

I also used the very same script until I stumbled upon this on hn [0].

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    langs=(eng ara fas chi_sim chi_tra deu ell fin heb hun jpn kor nld rus tur)
    lang=$(printf '%s\n' "${langs[@]}" | dmenu "$@")
    maim -us | tesseract --dpi 145 -l eng+${lang} - - | xsel -bi

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704483#33705272

New comment by tmerse in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

tmerse — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:06:03 +0000

I like how easy zellij was to set up and it's capabilities to define new layouts as well as the default way of displaying contextual shortcuts that one can disable after one memorized the most important shortcuts.

What I would still like to see is support for kitty image protocol [1] so I could use e.g. image.nvim [2] which currently works in tmux (which I migrated away from in favor of zellij).

[1] https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/2814

[2] https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim

New comment by tmerse in "Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)"

tmerse — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:02:28 +0000

Love that someone signed up for this comment :). Seeing them performing the polymer album at a small venue (where some instrumental parts where performed live) right after Nils Frahm is a fond memory of mine, and I agree that there is not really much out there that compares to their unique sound.

Next to their usual stuff/albums there is a plethora of remixes out there. Can recommend this fan-driven youtube channel for an overview:

https://www.youtube.com/@ThePlaided

New comment by tmerse in "ChatGPT for Teams"

tmerse — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:08:52 +0000

Are you sure about that? Parent was not referring to the "APP -> Data controls -> Chat History & Training" Radio Button which would delete your history older than 30 days, but rather to a specific form you can use to opt out.

Coincidentally I just used this form yesterday and got the confirmation about opting out.

New comment by tmerse in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

tmerse — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:43:17 +0000

You mean the GNU Linux Foundation?

New comment by tmerse in "Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts"

tmerse — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:49:42 +0000

It is, but the selector issues are the same

I disagree. Playwright's locators are pretty powerful compared to standard css/xpath selectors.

For example it includes layout based selectors.

https://playwright.dev/docs/other-locators#css-matching-elem...

New comment by tmerse in "Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions"

tmerse — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:01:02 +0000

Looks like the extension uses idb which is a wrapper around IndexedDB.

Did not check if there is any sync to the outside world though.

1: https://github.com/navorite/sessionic/blob/main/src/lib/util...

2: https://www.npmjs.com/package/idb

New comment by tmerse in "Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system"

tmerse — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:23:56 +0000

The project would be much more approachable if there was a simple native installer

Actually the very first example on https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup lists an interactive installer which asks the user some question and eventually arrives at a working docker-compose setup.

    $ bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/install-paperless-ngx.sh)"

If you ask me, this is already pretty user friendly. Although I agree that if your needs are more involved, there is some reading you'll have to do.

I am currently in the process of migrating from mayan-edms to paperless-ngx and it feels pretty approachable to me if you know your way around docker (compose).

New comment by tmerse in "Automate Your Network"

tmerse — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:37:20 +0000

This sounds interesting, but I am not sure I fully understand. Could an analogy be the object model to loosely correspond to sth like Amazon cdk and the Ansible part being the derived Cloudformation (any other analogy should do, but those are things I understand a bit more although I use quite a bit of ansible, but I am no network Person)? I still don't fully understand the database part. Is it a better way to manage env variables/allows for more flexible input?

Thank you

New comment by tmerse in "Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities"

tmerse — Thu, 04 May 2023 10:53:17 +0000

Already in existence:

https://www.pepperonihugspot.pizza/