Hacker News: zimmund

New comment by zimmund in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

zimmund — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:22:02 +0000

Considering I have most of my friends living abroad and how little I get to see other people (especially the ones that would use this app), I won't even bother downloading it. I don't need an app to feel lonely...

New comment by zimmund in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

zimmund — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:56:13 +0000

Honestly, it feels like McDonald's commiting to food quality. At the end of the day it's still a bland burger.

New comment by zimmund in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

zimmund — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:06:28 +0000

Given that a lot of things happen in the browser, I think it wouldn't be too crazy. There are even distros that look like Windows if you're after that. What part of it do you think isn't ready for this scenario? (honestly curious)

New comment by zimmund in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

zimmund — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:38:18 +0000

They've been crippling the free tier for a long time. And a few years ago they were about to restrict it completely (they've backed out last moment), to a point where many of us migrated to other platforms and never looked back.

New comment by zimmund in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

zimmund — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:17:02 +0000

> As long as an app is easy to use, people prefer a single look

No, people are used to an UI language, which in the case of iOS is quite consistent across applications. You expect certain things to work (e.g. flicking in from the left edge means "go back"). There are platform-specific patterns and I'd rather have the app behave accordingly rather than being consistent with other OS' version. The real 0.1% here are probably the users of your app with active devices in both Android and iOS!

New comment by zimmund in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

zimmund — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:22:13 +0000

> Institute a government agency that is tasked with enforcement.

You're forgetting about the first W in WWW...

New comment by zimmund in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

zimmund — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:50:58 +0000

I hope GitHub keeps autonomy somehow and stays away from the dumpster fire that is Azure.

New comment by zimmund in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

zimmund — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:24:40 +0000

so... VoIP?

New comment by zimmund in "Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?""

zimmund — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:14:30 +0000

It got 80% of the problem solved for OP, and the remaining 20% can be fixed by humans afterwards. Prompt early, prompt often (?)

New comment by zimmund in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

zimmund — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:11:47 +0000

Well, in that case could we call them Statians or Unitians?

New comment by zimmund in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

zimmund — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:57:19 +0000

And before this: self-playing pianos using perforated rolls, reducing the cost of hiring live pianists in saloons.

New comment by zimmund in "Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch"

zimmund — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 13:59:04 +0000

Joining these courses may be enriching for everyone though. You may learn something new or a different approach to a problem you've solved. Other students will appreciate your actual experience with the subject. And the professor may learn a thing or two (and appreciate your contributions) if you can add to the subject. That said, I'm not good managing my time and I don't have the guts to code an OS from scratch, so what do I know?

New comment by zimmund in "GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?"

zimmund — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:49:30 +0000

The site seems to use gradio (which from what I've experienced in the past is quite slow).

All those domains can be avoided just using an ad blocker, I suggest ublock origin.

New comment by zimmund in "Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator"

zimmund — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:37:17 +0000

Well, it's a starting point for songwriters. We won't get amazing solos and clever mind-bending lyrics (yet?). One thing I love about these AI music generators is that you can take the exact same lyrics and hear them in a lot of different styles and melodies. That's something that I'd struggle with. Can you easily imagine the happy birthday song with different melodies and rythms? These tools won't create the next bop, but they can seed back ideas to musicians, while people without music skills can have fun creating songs about the things they like.

New comment by zimmund in "Show HN: Online database diagram editor"

zimmund — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:16 +0000

Looks very nice! A few things I'd like to see to make it more useful:

- Let me pick a database when I start so the data types are restricted to that particular database. This can help down the line with other quirks and particularities of each db.

- I'd love to be able to use this and convert it to a model for my ORM (I'm currently using Prisma, but depending on your vision this could expand to other languages and ORMs such as, for example, Django). This would be helpful because I'd be able to jump from design to implementation without rewriting everything as models in my ORM.

- The nodes to establish relationships are difficult to click, and several times I ended up dragging the table instead. Consider making them easier to grab.

- If I delete a property from the table (in the grid) there's no quick way to undo. A toast message with an undo link would be helpful.

- The "delete diagram" option didn't ask me for confirmation and even if I saved my diagram before, it's gone. And this option is dangerously close to "Rename"!

New comment by zimmund in "IrfanView"

zimmund — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:00:36 +0000

For Linux users looking for something similar to IrfanView, nomacs is the closest I found to IrfanView since I moved away from Windows:

https://nomacs.org/

New comment by zimmund in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

zimmund — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:49:19 +0000

Using VS Code: select whatever you want to match, then Ctrl+Shift+L

New comment by zimmund in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

zimmund — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:06:59 +0000

The diff itself is impressive, but in terms of styling I still prefer diff-so-fancy[1]. It's easier to read at a glance.

[1]: https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy/

New comment by zimmund in "Google to remove Location History, use device-based timelines"

zimmund — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:04:05 +0000

Since the data shown on your Timeline will come directly from your device, it won’t be available on Maps on your computer after your data is moved to your phone.

You can request a backup of your data from https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

Google to remove Location History, use device-based timelines

zimmund — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:04:05 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/14169818?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39755834

Points: 3

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