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gala8y··on Making Hundreds of Mugs by Hand
He sounds rather satisfied. It also probably brings good money. Plus repetition, if approached correctly, can be a positive thing to the mind, me thinks.
gala8y··on Is There a Simple Solution to the Fermi Paradox? [video]
PBS, 2025
gala8y··on Honest Government Ad – AI Data Centres [video]
I cant decide on laughing or crying...

re 2:06 https://youtu.be/kON2ZI2BNj8?si=xc5i1hkTFZROovt_&t=126

This is genuine news report covering remarks made in July 2026 by Robyn Cahill, the Northern Territory (NT) Minister for Trade and Business in Australia.

Statement Background Cahill made the comments leading into the NT Investment Summit in Darwin while pitching an economic plan to make the Northern Territory the "data centre capital of the globe". Addressing the significant water requirements for proposed projects—such as Energy North's Project Ares data center—she argued that extracting subterranean water was necessary for planetary stability:

"There’s scientific evidence to suggest that we have so much water underground in the Northern Territory that it actually impacts the axis of the Earth when we have a really bad wet season. So we need to use some of it, otherwise we might find ourselves flipping the poles again."

https://ntindependent.com.au/scientist-says-ministers-pole-f...

gala8y··on Y Combinator joins the army [video]
yeah... "remember, a hacker is not a cracker" and "shit" like this...

"and the times, they are a-changin'"...

gala8y··on EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
When I meditated a lot, I was able to sit in a cafe and listen to 3 conversations without switching and be able to understand them and remember them all. It happened to me few times. Also, once, sleeping in a tent, a voice from a dream interfered with sound of raindrops and became distorted and I woke up scared only to quickly get what just happened.
gala8y··on AI Investors Buying Accounting Companies and Force Them to Use OpenAI [video]
03:45 'what appears to be happening'

Doesn't seem like solid reporting on the facts.

gala8y··on Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message
I once fell for three mini docs at the beginning of Magnolia movie. Only years later did I discover they were made up instead of being real. One must be careful with those artsy people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIa77tZaHJA

gala8y··on Whistleblower David Grusch on "Non-Human" Biologics and Craft [video]
> I think one danger with cosmologies like this is there’s an aspect to them where people could become mistakenly convinced of their own powerlessness as a way to explain in grand terms personal failings.

This is crucial point.

gala8y··on Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager
I recently switched to almost exclusively using vifm with some zoxide/fzf extra commands + some custom previewers/openers.
gala8y··on Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene
Also, once you _had_ to run them. Lost my collection years ago and never found some of my favourites again after that.
gala8y··on Music Discovery
Compare, for example, to (beloved and useful) Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast (https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/) and Ambience for the Masses (https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/).
gala8y··on Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
Absolutely. This brings nostalgia and pushes for heads up at the same time.
gala8y··on The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
Bitly does that, just add '+' to Bitly URL (probably other shorteners, too).
gala8y··on Only working copy of 50 year old computer program found when cleaning out office [video]
From HN guidelines: Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

You're not exactly new here, afaict...

gala8y··on Richard Feynman Explains Time Like You've Never Seen Before [video]
Strange things happen when you sit without moving.

Existence-Time by Dogen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uji_(Being-Time)

http://thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Uji.htm

gala8y··on Ken Thompson on How a Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix [video]
Thx for posting this. `It was fun, but worthless. IDK, that's my life, that's my whole Being.` What a fantastic person, Ken Thompson. The way he is shows so strong in this short clip. Gonna look up some biography of him or sth.
gala8y··on Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need
I understand first example. That's one of many, tiny, little things in the area of automation, say like 'advanced scripting'. Your second example is indeed advanced.

What I can see myself trying to do is some new ways of working with body of text notes. Local RAG for chatting with documents is also interesting.

And yes, with 'subscription based computing' shreds of privacy we had are gone.

gala8y··on Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need
Can you list some useful things you can do with such models which are beyond 'fancy' use, like image generation, or standard chat (which is subpar compared to frontier)? I use my RTX4070 (12VRAM/64RAM) mostly for STT, though I am having real trouble to set up working environment for any Whisper derivatives after migrating to Fedora.
gala8y··on Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian
I would really rather read his guide to learning English.
gala8y··on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
Two days ago I created HN new comments highlighter with hiding of old comments - took me 2 prompts and ~ 10 mins + some clean up. https://github.com/gala8y/hn-comments-highlighting-and-hidin...
gala8y··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
So, not bad in terms of 'manual' update, but still needs some of your time, right? Anyway, interesting to be able to see these posts in this way. Nice work with tagging - will check/explore how these work.
gala8y··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Cool. What do you mean by 'manually' and 'some' delay?

If you have a list of posts you pull data from, it would be nice to have a simple clickable list of them all on a separate page. Also, (month year) could go next to neat 'View on HN' on each item.

Do you parse all 'What Are You Working On?' posts (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266893)?

gala8y··on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
You might want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
gala8y··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
Did you know that a not jailbroken smart TV would spy on your HDMI, if connected to the network? I did not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737312

gala8y··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
1. on A9 near nurnberg we caught a ride with a musician from munich (he played trumpet and showed us his music when i asked if he had any recordings in the car). it was heavily raining and it was late in the night. as we were approaching munich, he got off the highway and i was worried how we were supposed to get back on the highway in the middle of a effing night, but he just drove home and we stayed overnight. we ate breakfast together with the whole family (wife, kids) and he drove us off to the nearest autobahn entry on his way to the conservatory (he used to teach there) - we were going south, to italy. that's first top of my head, surely there is more. good times. we connected, big time.
gala8y··on Ask HN: What Are You Building?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

hth

gala8y··on Show HN: Trott – search,sort,extract social media videos(ig,yt,tiktok)
There is a lot of quality content on these platforms, no doubt. I would much prefer to be able to download a reel or a whole account easily (using, say, Instaloader), without needing to climb their gardens' walls (obviously something which gets harder and harder), instead of their UIs.
gala8y··on Find SF parking cops
Yeah, slowly going through https://walzr.com/. Definitely not his first rodeo.
gala8y··on Adventures in State Space [video]
Thanks for posting. So much knowledge and skill required to create such a video.
gala8y··on O3 Turns Pro
Actually, it does not.
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