Hacker News: ubercow13

New comment by ubercow13 in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

ubercow13 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:21:57 +0000

Would 192khz audio result in less sizzle and distortion? Or more audible band IMD from the sound >22khz

New comment by ubercow13 in "The AirPods Effect"

ubercow13 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:20:19 +0000

What types of social interaction should be permitted in society?

New comment by ubercow13 in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

ubercow13 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:33:11 +0000

Not really because the latency of, say, clicking a web link and the website showing on screen depends on throughput, not just ping latency.

New comment by ubercow13 in "Stop Ruining It"

ubercow13 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:34:06 +0000

Tabs and breadcrumbs are both useful features though, that almost every other OS/DE file manager has supported since forever

New comment by ubercow13 in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

ubercow13 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:19:52 +0000

You could use Mos, which also has the advantage that smooth scrolling works the same in every app (speed, acceleration etc)

https://mos.caldis.me/

New comment by ubercow13 in "What async promised and what it delivered"

ubercow13 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:50:41 +0000

It is mentioned

New comment by ubercow13 in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

ubercow13 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:36:57 +0000

What artificial sweetener is in regular Coke?

New comment by ubercow13 in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

ubercow13 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:04:47 +0000

Apart from just running Linux apps, you can use this to run graphical applications remotely on a Linux server, like X11 forwarding.

New comment by ubercow13 in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

ubercow13 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:01:14 +0000

Maybe try this: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#pc_shortcuts

New comment by ubercow13 in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

ubercow13 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:46:04 +0000

New comment by ubercow13 in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

ubercow13 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:40:13 +0000

The "Email Image..." one is infuriating. Who right clicks an image to email it to someone in 2026? And if it's you, could you help me understand why??

New comment by ubercow13 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

ubercow13 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:01:42 +0000

Or the manual, which describes the features for automatically handling it.

What does the formation of a black hole look like? [video]

ubercow13 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:57:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSmMDH11Ss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020359

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubercow13 in "My AI Adoption Journey"

ubercow13 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:55:53 +0000

>Sure, if you think calculators or bicycles are "superhuman technology".

Uh, yes they are? That's why they were revolutionary technologies!

It's hard to see why a bike that isn't superhuman would even make sense? Being superhuman in at least some aspect really seems like the bare minimum for a technology to be worth adopting.

UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

ubercow13 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:35:31 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763548

Points: 160

# Comments: 202

Imgur Is the Last True Internet Culture Remaining – But Can It Survive? (2015)

ubercow13 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:30:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mic.com/articles/123956/imgur-s-alan-and-sarah-schaaf-look-to-the-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668577

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubercow13 in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

ubercow13 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:00:01 +0000

Those icons were incredibly visually distinct, despite being meaningless. I still know exactly what they are for instantly, in my peripheral vision, years after using many of them.

Modern icons are not only not comprehensible but not visually distinct (Tahoe making everything the same shape, many apps removing all colour from toolbar icons, various distinct if anachronistic symbolic icons like Save being replaced with slighly different orientations and arrangements of arrows and rounded rectangles...).

This severely impacts the efficiency of user interaction, especially after the first time you use something, at least for me. It's not a knee jerk reaction, it's a reaction to actually feeling it becoming harder to use my computer.

New comment by ubercow13 in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

ubercow13 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:37:58 +0000

It seems like just such a weird and rigid way to evaluate it? I am a somewhat reasonable human coder, but I can't copy and paste a bunch of code without alterations from memory either. Can someone still find a use for me?

New comment by ubercow13 in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

ubercow13 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:58:08 +0000

>feature that was essentially text manipulation

That seems like the kind of feature where the LLM would already have the domain knowledge needed to write reasonable tests, though. Similar to how it can vibe code a surprisingly complicated website or video game without much help, but probably not create a single component of a complex distributed system that will fit into an existing architecture, with exactly the correct behaviour based on some obscure domain knowledge that pretty much exists only in your company.

New comment by ubercow13 in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

ubercow13 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:52:50 +0000

Sure if you just leave all the code there. But if it's churning out iterations, incrementally improving stuff, it seems ok? That's pretty much what we do as humans, at least IME.