Hacker News: torunar

New comment by torunar in "Bank of Estonia recommends keeping cash reserve at home"

torunar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:12:14 +0000

It is not uncommon in Europe, I believe. Swedish government had put a lot of effort into making Sweden a cashless country: it’s rare to see businesses accepting cash aside from grocery stores. But even here occasionally you get a yellow pamphlet called ”If crisis or war comes” that advises you to have a small surplus of cash in case hackers manage to take down banking infrastructure.

New comment by torunar in "Show HN: I run a vision model on every screenshot, locally, on a 4GB GPU"

torunar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:46:03 +0000

> Microsoft showed the world wants screen-aware AI with Recall.

Considering the massive backlash it caused, it showed the exact opposite.

New comment by torunar in "macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon"

torunar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:23:41 +0000

> The advice for Asahi Linux users is not to upgrade to macOS 27 until the issue is resolved.

> until the issue is resolved.

Does Apple see it as an issue? This can be easily framed as an advantage: see, we hardened our bootloader, security goes brrrrrr.

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: Make AI Filter for Hacker News"

torunar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:04:18 +0000

I shared my solution here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672767

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: Make AI Filter for Hacker News"

torunar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:49:04 +0000

I've built an extension for TamperMonkey for this exact purpose: https://gist.github.com/torunar/efdadd8ae50e9e40237f7aa555bf...

You can always modify the lists on lines 16-17 to add/remove topics.

New comment by torunar in "Stop Calling Every AI Miss a Hallucination"

torunar — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:39:47 +0000

Don’t call it a hallucination. Call it slop!

New comment by torunar in "Mozilla and Mila announce strategic research partnership"

torunar — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:07:56 +0000

See Mozilla announcing a partnership with something. ”I bet it is AI”. Look inside. It is AI.

New comment by torunar in "There's no dark mode on your dollar"

torunar — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:22:17 +0000

Paragraph, what a concept!

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?"

torunar — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:10:19 +0000

> Now, with the advent of Agentic AI

Why having an easy way to organise a data feed that will work even on cheapest clients and servers, when you can simply boil a tank of water to get a half-assed hallucination loosely based on the source, right?

I have seen people trying to bury RSS for the past 15 years — didn’t happen yet. It is still widely used by blog enthusiasts — that’s basically how I get information about new posts from my favourite old-tech authors.

New comment by torunar in "The Algorithm Failed Music"

torunar — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:28:29 +0000

Without paywall: https://archive.is/XZvWL

New comment by torunar in "It's Cool to Have No Followers Now"

torunar — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:14:40 +0000

Un-paywalled link: https://archive.is/A7Utd

New comment by torunar in "iOS 26 Liquid Glass is awful in many ways"

torunar — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:57:13 +0000

I didn’t update to iOS 26 yet specifically because of the horrendous glass UI with its zero contrast everywhere. Just wondering if enabling high contrast and disabling gradients in the accessibility settings help.

New comment by torunar in "Music-Map – Find Similar Music"

torunar — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:49:37 +0000

It really needs an option to stop the words spinning around.

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: Examples of software where the new version is worse than the old?"

torunar — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:30:09 +0000

Guitar Pro went downhill after version 5.

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?"

torunar — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:09:27 +0000

I found an Android version of your game on 4pda, Russian forum about devices and apps: https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=290300#entry102680...

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: What old or outdated software have you never found a replacement for?"

torunar — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:11:38 +0000

X11

New comment by torunar in "EU plans crackdown on Signal and Telegram"

torunar — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:48:09 +0000

Any source to this?

Reverse engineering Bandcamp downloads for love and piece

torunar — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:31:04 +0000

Article URL: https://torunar.github.io/en/2024/06/24/bandcamp-downloads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108977

Points: 2

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New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: What's your terminal and shell setup?"

torunar — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:48:57 +0000

xfce4-terminal + bash. The only tweak for the terminal is a custom light theme, the only tweak for the shell is a custom PS1 to show current git branch and time.

New comment by torunar in "Ask HN: What difftools and mergetools do you use on Mac?"

torunar — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:11:41 +0000

vimdiff, same as on Linux and Windows.