Hacker News: totallygeeky

New comment by totallygeeky in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

totallygeeky — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:54:50 +0000

I've used Gonic[1] for music server purposes and Symfonium[2] for streaming said music for a while now, nothing but good things to say about both. The only downside is it does not do automatic media tagging like Plex, but if you ingest with something like MusicBrainz Picard[3] then it'll never be a problem.

[1] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic [2] https://www.symfonium.app/ [3] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

New comment by totallygeeky in "Elon Musk vows to give a share of SpaceX stock to every US child"

totallygeeky — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:54:44 +0000

Would be significantly more helpful if he instead funded some of the many projects/programs he cut via DOGE or paid off medical debt, but that wouldn't pay immediate dividends to him.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon"

totallygeeky — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:15:48 +0000

Super cool to see what goes into this, all the design and planning. Very fun to be able to play around with the device virtually and see all the stuff that was managed to be packed in there too!

New comment by totallygeeky in "Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June"

totallygeeky — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:37:33 +0000

Crazy to come back and go "well i asked the lying machine and it actually said these things are wrong"

New comment by totallygeeky in "Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read"

totallygeeky — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:14:48 +0000

I'm glad you're excited about what you "built" but it's wildly overproduced as is, and inconsistent in how the animations work. No rhyme or reason to what you've decided to put on the site either, other than "these are some big names that hopefully people will recognize". It reeks of slop.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux"

totallygeeky — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:09:54 +0000

Why let things like "this thing already exists" get in the way of reinventing the wheel with AI?

New comment by totallygeeky in "Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed"

totallygeeky — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:19:28 +0000

I sincerely hope this is foiled by technical problems and treated as snuff content. A sickening thing to try and encourage people to watch.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

totallygeeky — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:45:07 +0000

Gosh, there simply weren't enough options to make a completely uninspired and lackluster game, glad Google made theirs!

New comment by totallygeeky in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

totallygeeky — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:47:53 +0000

This seems like a nightmare for standardization and accessibility, no?

New comment by totallygeeky in "Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging"

totallygeeky — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:01:16 +0000

Great post, I am definitely guilty of overreliance on links. I need to get better about summarizing what I'm linking to to avoid a forest of homework to understand what I'm talking about.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

totallygeeky — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:26:43 +0000

Really well done, can think of a few times this would have been useful in the recent past. Would be great for conferences in particular!

New comment by totallygeeky in "Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?"

totallygeeky — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:58:17 +0000

I don't have much to offer unfortunately, but I will say I've had an uptick on spam/unusual emails to my fastmail as well, including to some aliases. I'm wondering if there's not some way actors are searching out masked aliases, or are able to bruteforce combinations?

Just throwing shit at the wall however, no definitive proof one way or another.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Amazon's delivery driver smart glasses will take photos 'almost constantly'"

totallygeeky — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:48:23 +0000

Love the candor of "haven't thought about" giving people an opt out. Not really worth considering for them, kind of moved beyond giving a shit what the consumer thinks about what they're doing at Amazon's size.

Anyway, these should be banned, as should any other smart glasses not for disability assistance tech.

New comment by totallygeeky in "MailDeskt v1.4.0 – A simple, fast desktop inbox for Resend, Gmail, Outlook, more"

totallygeeky — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:28:16 +0000

AI slopware, with inbuilt ads to your other AI slopware.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Dots: Always-on agents"

totallygeeky — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:56:37 +0000

Ah, the continued pursuit of normalizing surveillance/becoming wholly reliant on a single service by making it cute with big eyes. Very tired of this already.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts"

totallygeeky — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:52:41 +0000

Clicked on the demo "What caused the fall of the Roman Empire?" and immediately saw the same inadequacies I've seen in every other system like this: any attempt at visualizing a point ends up being absolute nonsense. Graphics and charts that confuse more than help, or even contradict what is being said.

It ends up being a hurdle I don't think these services can surpass, given these systems understand nothing, and have no spatial reasoning. Any of these systems that claim to help explain things visually end up being a huge liability for the learner and I would never recommend them to someone.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Show HN: I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes"

totallygeeky — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:43:42 +0000

The framing is a bit deceptive, saying that these roads are "named after" these things, despite the clarification in the about that they may have no relation. This whole thing is a bit busted, the about on each "chapter" only sort of describes what a category entails. Obscure shares the same about as famous.

This feels like a project that was done without much care for the details, considering how many themes are pure nonsense. No acknowledgement of AI in how this was done but it sure smells of it.

Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire

totallygeeky — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:37:39 +0000

Article URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745516

Points: 6

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New comment by totallygeeky in "The DeepMind Institute"

totallygeeky — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:47:23 +0000

Crazy that these labs keep throwing around entirely unsubstantiated claims like "AGI is right around the corner". Given the enormity of the problem I'd argue we're not really any closer than a decade ago, especially given LLM shortcomings.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

totallygeeky — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:11:28 +0000

Woof, that page is hard to read. I don't understand what they've done to the way text is rendering but it's not great for my eyes.