Hacker News: unpopularopp

New comment by unpopularopp in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

unpopularopp — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:25:54 +0000

It's a hobby but not for everyone. I mean if I could just throw away 3,000€ on random projects that might work or not I'd do it in a heartbeat. No different than buying a run down Porsche for 5,000€ and spending 40,000€ on restoration to original. Every hobby is like that but with different entry price points. There is a reason knitting is more popular than something like this (and even that has price tiers from 3€ for an acrylic yarn to upwards 100€ for luxury merino wool yarn)

New comment by unpopularopp in "Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files"

unpopularopp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:00:19 +0000

Posting here is rage bait knowing the audience.

I’m not blaming the user but it’s single post from 15 days ago where one single user having problems opening their files. You _know why_ it is posted here

New comment by unpopularopp in "Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files"

unpopularopp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:53:54 +0000

Peak rage bait for HN. [0] It has already more karma than the reddit post itself.

Not that I’m saying what’s happening is good but one single user having problems opening their files not sure warrant a post here unless your goal is the rage bait.

0, And just one more proof that HN is not that different from most social media sites.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Pokémon Team Optimization"

unpopularopp — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:33:35 +0000

Now all we need is a quick vibe coded web GUI front end

New comment by unpopularopp in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

unpopularopp — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:11:58 +0000

I'm sorry but why C#? Isn't the big tech (Microsoft) in this case is a very big downside?

Why not LÖVE (Lua) for example? https://love2d.org/

There is also libGDX (Java) but not sure Oracle is any better than Microsoft. https://libgdx.com/

New comment by unpopularopp in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

unpopularopp — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:00:16 +0000

First of all this the ground 0 for everything piracy (and more, generally free stuff) https://fmhy.net/

Here are the recommended film sites https://fmhy.net/video#torrent-sites

I generally download from https://rutracker.org/ (need an account to search not for downloading). They have pretty much everything that you can imagine (not just films) and in proper quality too (BD Remuxes etc). There will be no scene releases here because they add russian/ukrainian dubs and subs to almost all films but that's a small problem.

The other one is Heartive which lists torrents from the DHT network with Magnet links https://heartiveloves.pages.dev/ You just click on the torrent icon in the middle top of the selected film and all the available releases will be listed in plain text. The only downside that you need to be familiar with the release tags

Last but not least https://nyaa.si/ if you have a slight interest in anything japanese from manga to anime to much more

New comment by unpopularopp in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

unpopularopp — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:54:52 +0000

If you know how to use a CLI tool then you could also know how to download proper high quality releases without much effort. No private tracker and interview shenanigans. YTS is a bottom of the barrel quality. I actually don't even see who is the target audience of this unless you just made as an exercise to build an app on top of an API.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

unpopularopp — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:49:53 +0000

So more lootboxes and illegal underage gambling everywhere? Cool bring it on!

Also I'd imagine a Valve like Apple would only release a new phone or laptop every 5 years or so lol

New comment by unpopularopp in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

unpopularopp — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:10:31 +0000

If they want to capture the console audience its better be priced like one too and not prevent me from playing multiplayer games due to Linux and anti cheat software not playing nice

Anything above $600 is DOA and that's with accepting the fact that the most popular games will be not available on the platform

New comment by unpopularopp in "Steam Machine"

unpopularopp — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:10:22 +0000

If they want to capture the console audience its better be priced like one too and not prevent me from playing multiplayer games due to Linux and anti cheat software not playing nice

Anything above $600 is DOA and that's with accepting the fact that the most popular games will be not available on the platform

New comment by unpopularopp in "Self-help gets philosophical"

unpopularopp — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:24:57 +0000

If you are american you'll probably never notice how off-putting is the american niceness. And it's not natural if you ever traveled and seen the world a little bit.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor"

unpopularopp — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:47:28 +0000

I'm curious what does it do that Libre Office can't do?

I always have this strong preconception about proprietary Mac apps. When a screenshot tool costs for example $30

New comment by unpopularopp in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2025"

unpopularopp — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:26:58 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Nobel_laureat...

New comment by unpopularopp in "Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator"

unpopularopp — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:44:23 +0000

I'm probably the extreme minority on HN (0.00001%) but I pretty much never used any CLI applications. Just never really needed them. But recently at work (we use Macs) I had some tasks which need the Terminal.app so I kinda tried to dig in and learn some stuff but whenever I feel I already know something (more or less) there is always some new stuff entering the picture next day. Shell, console, terminal... now a terminal _emulator_ :insert exploding galaxy brain meme:

New comment by unpopularopp in "Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

unpopularopp — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:33:57 +0000

I will generalize but by my experience most Americans I have met just can't fathom to pay (= taxed) for some common good. Why should I pay for someone's healthcare when I live healthy and all I see that others are smoking? Why should I pay for someone's free train ticket when I only travel by car? This I saw across all genders, age groups, and political affiliation. Americans have this hyper individualist mindset that no other country does in the planet. It's good for some things like innovation (see the HN crowd) but not necessarily a benefit for the society.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Why the Poor Vote for the Right (and Stop Demanding More Equality)"

unpopularopp — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:22:03 +0000

Funnily I know more ultra-religious hispanic and asian people than whites. Somehow the Democratic Party thinks that minority = progressive.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Why the Poor Vote for the Right (and Stop Demanding More Equality)"

unpopularopp — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:21:56 +0000

Funnily I know more ultra-religious hispanic and asian people than whites. Somehow the Democratic Party thinks that minority = progressive.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Let's Quit X"

unpopularopp — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:23:19 +0000

>The problem is that you are creating an echo chamber

Yeah but it's a left wing echo chamber and that's good! /s

Incognito window > bsky > discovery feed > every post is about US politics, Trump bad, rich people bad, Musk bad etc. Same shit just different colors

Bsky is not the answer, the only answer is not to use social media at all. And more or less that applies to HN too.

New comment by unpopularopp in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"

unpopularopp — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:20:54 +0000

I yet to find "utility" accounts on Bluesky. I use Twitter to follow news from games, game studios and publishers, news sites, bands, NASA etc. There is nothing like there yet and I don't care about random people (as I don't care about them on Twitter either)

I check time to time but basically it's 0/50

New comment by unpopularopp in "New Mac Mini with M4"

unpopularopp — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:25:20 +0000

>Delivers up to 13.3x faster gaming performance in World of Warcraft: The War Within

This is such an Apple stat especially for a game. What does "faster gaming performance" even mean? Every zone and city hub loads 13.3x faster so loading screens are quicker? They don't say anything about FPS and no one would use "faster" as a synonym for higher FPS.

An MMO is really not the best benchmark tbh

Edit: notes has the compared spec "Results are compared to previous-generation 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7-based Mac mini systems with Intel Iris UHD Graphics 630, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD."

So they compared the 2024 M4 to a 2018 8th gen Intel i7 (i7-8700B). Take that as you will