Hacker News: ulbu

New comment by ulbu in "Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries"

ulbu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:05:43 +0000

120% agree. it is so, so tasteless

New comment by ulbu in "Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands"

ulbu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:58:24 +0000

so not only does it record what you say, not only does it snapshot what you watch, but it also snapshots what you do and how you look!

New comment by ulbu in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

ulbu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:06:51 +0000

i’m on airpods pro 3, and it’s far from producing noise-cancellation so powerful as to require such measures. perhaps if I’m listening to heavy music at ear-damaging levels. maybe my hearing is too sensitive.

New comment by ulbu in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

ulbu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:43:44 +0000

hehe, belittle (to make smaller)

New comment by ulbu in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

ulbu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:32:33 +0000

why not make it opt-in?

and I wonder if this opt-out applies to data we stored under your umbrella before having opted-out.

New comment by ulbu in "Why I love NixOS"

ulbu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:03:21 +0000

different ui. you can pull in different commits of channels (packages repos) and take packages from them. but it’s opt-in, no lock-file snapshots.

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Inferiors.htm...

New comment by ulbu in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

ulbu — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:02:56 +0000

in this case: a distribution with hardened security for military purposes. for example, completely disabled location services, encrypted communications only, etc. + forbid use of unapproved mobile devices while on a sensitive mission.

New comment by ulbu in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

ulbu — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:06:31 +0000

one more reason for open, adaptible, and secure mobile operating systems.

New comment by ulbu in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

ulbu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:03:02 +0000

is there a reason to downvote this?

New comment by ulbu in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

ulbu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:55:28 +0000

read somewhere that maybe they’re preparing for OLED screens

New comment by ulbu in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

ulbu — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:59:39 +0000

closed source

New comment by ulbu in "Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)"

ulbu — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:49:52 +0000

remap the keys?

New comment by ulbu in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

ulbu — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:30:28 +0000

there is also a figure of speech used soo often, called metonymy.

New comment by ulbu in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

ulbu — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:35:30 +0000

what if ads were displayed only on request? “hi, ad page, I need some shoes, let’s go!”

New comment by ulbu in "Vouch"

ulbu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:58:19 +0000

zig can fix everything

New comment by ulbu in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

ulbu — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:09:19 +0000

what is more damaging, a hammer, a sword, or poison?

i hope i don’t have to go out of my way to explain the analogy.

New comment by ulbu in "Claude is a space to think"

ulbu — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:49:27 +0000

what the heck heck

New comment by ulbu in "TikTok is now collecting more data about its users"

ulbu — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:00:17 +0000

i think you have a very idealised view of social media. have you been to a classroom recently?

it’s also meaningfully different in structure from tv. tv was 7-10 min of content and a couple of ads in between. and you grew annoyed by the ads. only toddlers were captivated. now most content is designed like ads were. and now they grow annoyed when outside it. and toddlers and older people are captivated.

New comment by ulbu in "Bugs Apple loves"

ulbu — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:50:50 +0000

yea, url substring selection is shit.

New comment by ulbu in "Bugs Apple loves"

ulbu — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:50:19 +0000

ah ok, yes, i see. did not notice the nuance in the parent.