Hacker News: vivid242

New comment by vivid242 in "Design Engineering Magazine"

vivid242 — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:29:42 +0000

Reminds me of the Unsung blog, very nice!

unsung.aresluna.org

(Not sure if I‘d be willing to pay for it, though.)

New comment by vivid242 in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

vivid242 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:16:11 +0000

A Swiss army knife of the day - after all, Swiss Army knives also serve a psychological purpose. And they do it well!

New comment by vivid242 in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

vivid242 — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:17:04 +0000

Thanks for the great question! I think they used to be so much fun because they were an unexplored frontier.

Perhaps we need a new frontier?

New comment by vivid242 in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

vivid242 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:34:23 +0000

With AI, we‘re cargo-culting understanding. We‘re reproducing the surface of having understood something, but we‘re robbing ourselves the time and effort to truly do it.

New comment by vivid242 in "Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations"

vivid242 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:36:34 +0000

Hadn’t heard of it either - very smart, could open lots of other privacy-friendliness-improved „client-based web“ apps

New comment by vivid242 in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

vivid242 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:12:27 +0000

In a culture that likes things neat and orderly lined up!

New comment by vivid242 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

vivid242 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:55:33 +0000

I‘d be happy to pay for an upgrade if future macOS changes break the functionality of this - cool - app, which would require the creator to update it. More work, which I would pay for. But not a subscription, sorry!

Plus, I‘d prefer to (but that’s impossible?) install via the App Store, to avoid a black box.

New comment by vivid242 in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

vivid242 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:20:15 +0000

Can I also post a question that is actually answering itself?

New comment by vivid242 in "Talk like caveman"

vivid242 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:54:07 +0000

Great idea- if the person who made it is reading: Is this based on the board game „poetry for cavemen“? (Explain things using only single-syllable words, comes even with an inflatable log of wood for hitting each other!)

New comment by vivid242 in "The AI Marketing BS Index"

vivid242 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:00:27 +0000

-10 points if you actually read your marketing yourself before copy and pasting it on the website

New comment by vivid242 in "Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

vivid242 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:45:31 +0000

Lovely! Would appreciate a release via the App Store / notarization or so… is there a newsletter so I could get notified?

New comment by vivid242 in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

vivid242 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:04:52 +0000

Thank you for this helpful differentiation. I agree - and if it‘s undermining our trust into ‚effort‘ (we start to be suspicious about how much some piece of work is really ‚worth‘), it undermines also our relationships.

A good example is ‚birthday wishes‘:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IYqhdJuRfU&t=5m47s

(AutoCorrect, AutoComplete - generate? AutoCongratulate? How much is ‚okay‘?)

New comment by vivid242 in "Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News"

vivid242 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:33:42 +0000

After attention, are we now in the trust economy… a brilliant idea for a plugin - thank you!

New comment by vivid242 in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

vivid242 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:51:44 +0000

It was on the radio here (I live on its route)- the ‚receiving’ physicist said it would be way less than what we catch anyway from daily cosmic radiation.

New comment by vivid242 in "A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf]"

vivid242 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:01:05 +0000

It’s so amazing that the same man invented all these amazing things (including the machine that switches itself off) AND the ‚bit‘ (in his Master’s thesis).

New comment by vivid242 in "Anchor: Hardware-based authentication using SanDisk USB devices"

vivid242 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:54:17 +0000

If you can restrict the software, this would be a good way for controlling physical user ‚presence‘ - like in the supermarket, when a supervisor needs to scan their card for a cash register to take out a wrongly scanned item. I like it!

New comment by vivid242 in "AI Risks "Hypernormal" Science"

vivid242 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:51:41 +0000

I wasn’t aware of the map empire, thank you!

Taking away some complexity comes at a price, and for some people, it’s hard to see that it outweighs the practicality.

New comment by vivid242 in "Have a fucking website"

vivid242 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:12:25 +0000

I disagree. It is not an attack on the developers, but the platforms‘ mechanics.

New comment by vivid242 in "Have a Fucking Website"

vivid242 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:09:40 +0000

You‘re absolutely right. (I‘m not an LLM ;-)) And the fact that (I‘m looking at you, LinkedIn!) platforms actively block people from using external links is a good warning sign.

Connection with people- this is what I want from the internet, too.

New comment by vivid242 in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

vivid242 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:07:44 +0000

In nature, sometimes death is the prerequisite of life: Think of the dead leaves on the forest ground.

I think the age of algorithmic curation is dead - but it may, through a „RenaiSSance“, bring back true human connection.