Hacker News: xandrius

New comment by xandrius in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

xandrius — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:40:52 +0000

The price you pay should definitely be higher then.

New comment by xandrius in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

xandrius — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:33:56 +0000

It's "to make an apple pie from scratch".

You can make a sandwich with two slices of bread and whatever filling.

New comment by xandrius in "In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace"

xandrius — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:03:02 +0000

This comment is clearly not in good faith but one can clearly understand that the current generation is out outdated.

New comment by xandrius in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

xandrius — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:24:19 +0000

Replaced sounds, not with silence but with a different type of sound?

New comment by xandrius in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

xandrius — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:01:23 +0000

I also woke up around that time, just because it took 30-40 min to go to school + breakfast and preparation.

So why dismiss other people's lives just because they are different than yours? What's the point of lying about waking up early?

New comment by xandrius in "Pixel Watch 5"

xandrius — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:27:17 +0000

Apple watch, even with most things disabled barely makes it to the next day. Pretty but etrash.

New comment by xandrius in "Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?"

xandrius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:33:09 +0000

I wish it worked with a Kobo Clara too!

New comment by xandrius in "Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook"

xandrius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:03:27 +0000

ご馳走 (gochisou) means feast. 様 (sama) is a highly honorific suffix. でした (deshita) it was.

Basically literally saying "that was a great feast", as it is said after eating the meal and leaving the establishment. Not sure why the Japanese friend would say that.

New comment by xandrius in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

xandrius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:06:13 +0000

Enough good? You are joking, right?

They also kick off a ton of other nefarious things we are still paying for.

New comment by xandrius in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

xandrius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:15:04 +0000

Have you actually tried? I refreshed a ton of arguments which I had studied or briefly encountered before, so it's less likely to fool me than if I knew 0. And the fact that I can frame a question precisely and as deep as I like is truly unique and incredible.

For some things you still need videos and practice but cmon, I don't get this generalised hate on LLMs, they are based on what us human wrote anyway.

New comment by xandrius in "Meta Muse Glimmer – Open weights 30B local coding model"

xandrius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:10:34 +0000

If there is anything meta can do to regain hearts other than owning up their evil deeds, radically change their business model and paying up for taxes and damages, then the world is truly fucked and corporations will continue to win.

New comment by xandrius in "From your doorbell to your home network"

xandrius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:09:32 +0000

Yeah but you lose some capabilities of the product.

It's hard to get the convenience of remote access and network isolation.

New comment by xandrius in "From your doorbell to your home network"

xandrius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:08:48 +0000

I just started zigbeeing and making my own zigbee devices, I wouldn't say they are rare.

There some glaring holes in products (wall-pluggable lights, eink displays, scales, pressure gauges, etc.) but buying an esp32-c6 and you can fill the gaps

New comment by xandrius in "RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB"

xandrius — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:47:18 +0000

I'd take it for free then

New comment by xandrius in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

xandrius — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:46:59 +0000

Used extra virgin oil from Italy.

New comment by xandrius in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

xandrius — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:46:42 +0000

We literally held stuff together with duct tape as the project also turned the Oculus into a VR + AR system. Taped 2 webcams to act as eyes as then you could toggle VR and AR.

Shipping it was stressful (renderer was in Ogre3D) and product fit well my face thanks to all the tape.

New comment by xandrius in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

xandrius — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:51:21 +0000

Yep, we did hackathons with old Oculus Rift DK1 around this concept over 15 years ago or so.

New comment by xandrius in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

xandrius — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:44:21 +0000

I can sell you a nice spoonful of old vegetable oil for less than $1 and topping the chart calorie-wise :D

New comment by xandrius in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

xandrius — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:58:08 +0000

$10/panel to go on top of a roof with the possibility of braking s leg or worse? I'll keep my coding job from my couch :O

New comment by xandrius in "RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB"

xandrius — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:43:40 +0000

I still would trust you if you had too many on your hands. I wouldn't reject a 2080 super.