Hacker News: uncircle

New comment by uncircle in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

uncircle — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:14:12 +0000

Appeal to authority and sweeping generalisation in a cynical dismissal package.

You’re not talking to bilionaires on this site, only a portion of bilionaires know about making money, which has no relation whatsoever to having a good grasp about political philosophy, large-scale economic principles and statesmanship.

New comment by uncircle in "Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received"

uncircle — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:32:50 +0000

I’ve seen some receipts whose paper it was printed on proudly stated to be BPA free, but for all we know it might use chemicals that are even worse for our health than BPA.

New comment by uncircle in "Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?"

uncircle — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:23:11 +0000

Not me personally, but I just finished playing a retro FPS set in 1980s Czechoslovakia whose game engine is written in Pascal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/

New comment by uncircle in "Ask HN: What do you use for focus without coffee jitters?"

uncircle — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:27:32 +0000

Please, how long does the lack of motivation and anhedonia last? I have been trying to quit during a particularly stressful time in my life, works great for anxiety, but after 5 days I couldn’t spare to stare at the wall any longer instead of being a productive member of society.

This week I am drinking only one cup of tea in the morning and I’m still not very productive, but I would like to quit caffeine for good.

(FWIW I used to only drink a double espresso in the morning and no more, but I am a very sensitive, and anxious, person)

New comment by uncircle in "Sora 2"

uncircle — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:01:15 +0000

I’ve been in an existential crisis after reading Postman and I’ve since reframed the whole dilemma thusly: one of the highest aspirations for a person is the act of creation, and the result one can often call art.

What is wrong is instead the routine consumption of art created by others in a stupor to rest from the drudgery of daily work.

Create art, don’t waste your life consuming.

New comment by uncircle in "The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy"

uncircle — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:27:15 +0000

I buy ebooks outside Amazon with my non-jailbroken Kindle. They’re usually DRM’d EPUB files, which I unDRM with Calibre and transfer to my device, which I have kept in airplane mode for the better part of a year.

The bonus part is Calibre keeps a local copy on your PC, so now all my book purchases are backupped and without DRM.

New comment by uncircle in "My Ed(1) Toolbox"

uncircle — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:13:48 +0000

Shorter than I would have imagined.

New comment by uncircle in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

uncircle — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:01:52 +0000

Mine looks slightly similar: my top result is the Wikipedia page for Midjourney.

I've pinned all results from wikipedia.org, which is a killer feature and why I'm paying for Kagi, instead of giving away my data for free to Google.

noclip

uncircle — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:51:42 +0000

Article URL: https://noclip.website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369666

Points: 3

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New comment by uncircle in "I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years"

uncircle — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:50:23 +0000

1. Design hardware.

2. Build hardware.

3. Oh, no! The hardware has a bug! We'll somehow fix it in software.

And fixes come only if there is an economic reason for doing so. As soon as the company starts developing the next product line, you're on your own.

New comment by uncircle in "Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?"

uncircle — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:29:15 +0000

I've been told on this forum, when I was having a hard-time landing a job in 2022, that it's a tough hiring market. Since then, the sentiment is exactly the same, if not worse due to long-term economic uncertainty and LLM job/resume spam. In my experience, this is the worst it's been in 20+ years, and we haven't seen the bottom yet.

The only thing that saved me was asking everybody in my network until I got a job from a friend of a friend, which I'm holding on to for dear life. Do that and prepare a plan B (self-employment/career switch/move to a lower cost-of-living area)

New comment by uncircle in "How modern life makes us sick"

uncircle — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:14:08 +0000

You can be empathetic about life and still recognise your biology and your place in the ecosystem. Usually cultures around the world celebrated this fact by being thankful and mindful of the food in front of them, especially if you yourself have slaughtered the animal.

One should be free to avoid eating the meat of sentient life; but one should also be free to accept that their body functions best by eating like the apex predator they are. Seeing the world in black-and-white is what causes all the ills in the world: being human is accepting that we are a walking bag of paradoxes, and perfection is unattainable.

The lack of judgement is why I personally admire self-described vegetarians much more than militant vegans, always trying to convert the world to their righteous image. Live and let live.

New comment by uncircle in "Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99"

uncircle — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:03:37 +0000

You don't get Hacker News karma if you quietly fix a bug instead of complaining about it, though.

New comment by uncircle in "Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?"

uncircle — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:25:22 +0000

Economically brave. Imagine building the most advanced and expensive piece of technology your society ever created, with small margins of success and the knowledge it'll last less than an hour before imploding upon itself.

And then trying again 16 times.

(I've just learned there are plans to try one more time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera-17)

New comment by uncircle in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

uncircle — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:17:32 +0000

Does recognising a state stop people from being blown to bits? Not in my experience.

New comment by uncircle in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

uncircle — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:25:10 +0000

Serious question: how is declaring “oh wait, Palestine actually exists!” help the plight of the Palestinian people? I really doubt Bibi and his cronies will lose any sleep over a timid declaration in a climate that is increasingly critical of Israel’s actions.

In UK’s case, it seems to me more of the classic Starmer flailing about to recapture the votes of whatever group fared worst in his opinion polls. After appeasing Reform and the Tory voters, he probably feels it’s time to throw a bone to the Corbynites now.

New comment by uncircle in "LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks"

uncircle — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:50:10 +0000

And, in most cases, they tend to learn from their mistakes.

New comment by uncircle in "IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025"

uncircle — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:18:10 +0000

Not only you, but also makes people of the opposite sex around you more attractive

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_goggles

New comment by uncircle in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

uncircle — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:45:07 +0000

Either you are a good, innocent soul or you’re an economist. Mind you, they are mutually exclusive.

New comment by uncircle in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

uncircle — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:42:14 +0000

> This video is no longer available.

This is why I recommend everybody to stay AWAY from Youtube Music. I migrated my curated playlists from Spotify a few years ago, and to my surprise now I have dozens of songs that are no longer available and Youtube doesn’t offer a way to at least let me know which song it was. Indeed, I was a paying user and Youtube caused intentional and irretrievable data loss.

After a decade of paying for Youtube Premium I have unsubscribed and have vowed never to give them any more money whatsoever.