HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

mamonoleechi

30 karma · joined January 28, 2025

submissionscomments
mamonoleechi··on PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)
>I think a big reason for this is that PDF editing tools are just pretty terrible.

Inkscape is a pretty good tool to edit .pdfs

when you import a regular .pdf, it needs to convert it once, and once saved, you can edit the pdf and work on it as if it was a regular .svg

if you choose to embed the fonts when saving, .pdf files becomes easy to work on, you don't even need to export them.

mamonoleechi··on Backups Aren't Simple
3 rules of backup (don't remember where i read this)

- do several backups (not using the same hardware brand or host if you do it online)

- check your backup (if something was wrong, you have another backup from the first rule)

- do not store your backups at the same place (if your place get flooded or burn, it will be pretty handy)

mamonoleechi··on Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
linking my favourite sweeper variant: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mamonosweeper&ia=web ;

try this one in html5: https://hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper_h2/html5/en.html

mamonoleechi··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
it shows the plural,

un chapeau, des chapeaux -> one hat, hats

mamonoleechi··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
any recommendation?
mamonoleechi··on 3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend
Are you using a vanilla version of the Papermod Hugo's theme (https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/), or did you modify it? your blog looks really clean!
mamonoleechi··on How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
can you still go online with it? do you have access to security updates?
mamonoleechi··on Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
Somewhat related: Grafx 2 Deluxepaint clone for DOS/Windows http://grafx2.chez.com/
mamonoleechi··on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
vape products does not all contain nicotine, it's an ingredient you choose to add in your blend,

you can choose to either vape a flavour version only, or one containing a certain amount of nicotine

mamonoleechi··on Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication
Racoons are invading the north east of France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ijwZROb6g ; they are exotic invasive species: a female get 10 babies per year, and there is no predator
mamonoleechi··on Helm 4.0
ok this is a different Helm than the one i know: https://tytel.org/helm/ (Synth)
mamonoleechi··on HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike
you can get it here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.roguetemple.hyperroid/
mamonoleechi··on Affinity Studio now free
Color correction has been there for a long time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbU8FqTI-A4 but it was destructive (on the video it is gimp 2.10, but it was there before)

They added non-destructive adjustment layers in gimp version 3.0 that can do the same

mamonoleechi··on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles
I was pretty happy with all the animes produced by Netflix I watched ; they had a good choice of both audio and subs
mamonoleechi··on Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser
thanks to share! I like having examples to see how the stuff actually works :)

quick question, where do strudel load those sounds? snd/bass/build_0.mp3 (line 11) ? are those built in samples?

mamonoleechi··on Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser
If you're new to this, you can check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuSZQnkOB_Y

It will explain the process DJDave uses to create music under strudel

mamonoleechi··on Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser
is it still possible to run the latest version in appimage on linux? only found this version, it's from 2023: https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/strudel-0-8-0-released/4769

i remember seing a .appimage hosted on github in the releases, but they moved to a new host now

oh and if you don't know what inspired the name of the software ; a strudel is really yummy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strudel

mamonoleechi··on Blender 4.5 LTS
CAD modeller are good at producing parametric 3d models. You can make use of spreadsheets and constraints to create a piece, that will later super easily be changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_(computer-aided_des...

mamonoleechi··on Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust
not sure this might help, but when you launch the .appimage in a terminal, it shows you the command to extract the files it contains (to speed the loading) ; this might help you find the files you're searching for, maybe :)
mamonoleechi··on FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
It can sound cool with music too:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(music)

- group: the glitch mob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frfs4tkN-AY

mamonoleechi··on FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch

>Television glitch --> In broadcasting, a corrupted signal may glitch in the form of jagged lines on the screen, misplaced squares, static looking effects, freezing problems, or inverted colors. The glitches may affect the video and/or audio (usually audio dropout) or the transmission. These glitches may be caused by a variety of issues, interference from portable electronics or microwaves, damaged cables at the broadcasting center, or weather.

On computers, those happens when some of the data (video, audio, image) is corrupted or lost.

Glitch art: some of those glitches create cool effects that you can see a sort of photoshop filter ; ffglitch helps you corrupt files/create those effect for artistic purpose.

You can see cool examples of glitch video art there: https://ffglitch.org/gallery/ ; they show the original clip, and then the glitched version

---

You can also have corrupted sounds, you can check 'The Glitch Mob' which is an group creating music, with samples that sounds corrupted.

mamonoleechi··on Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features
If you want to switch to linux but not feeling overwhelmed at first, you can stay on windows and work with something like Virtualbox running your linux distribution of choice alongside.

You keep on testing/experimenting daily, slowly getting the hang of it one software at a time. And once you found how to do everything you have to on linux, you're just ready to switch.

mamonoleechi··on Minesweeper thermodynamics
Similar game: Mamono Sweeper https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mamono+sweeper (mamono is monster in japanese)

it's a RPG variant of Minesweeper, where you have life points, level up and fight against monster (mines) that gives you xp once killed (you loose HP if you fight a monster higher lvl than you).

it's a flash game, that had an android release at some point (it was removed from the store for some reasons)

mamonoleechi··on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen
If you're looking for a super cheap pen, check french BIC pens: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bic+pen&ia=images&iax=image... ; it's less than €0.30 ($0.35)

and don't stop on the price ; this pen is amazing,

it's actually one of the recommended tool, used by the super talented and proefficient korean drawing artist Kim Jung Gi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqFbgKWoao (not sure he uses it in this video) ; Kim is known to be able to draw anything from memory

you can see him drawing with the BIC pen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_IDH1TzFs&t=1231s (video: Kim Jung Gi - What Kind of Pen Do You Use?)

mamonoleechi··on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen
the erasing part is what frightens me ; putting your document near a heating device erases your writings (the heat produced by the friction of the eraser is what remove the ink when you do it manually)
mamonoleechi··on Why English doesn't use accents
Accents in french are pretty irrelevant, you can totally ignore them and master the language. Most french people ignore them while chatting/mailing/texting online.

If you ignore accents, some words can be mistaken for other words (with different accents), but if you check the context, the problem quickly go away.

Accents are just useful to help you pronounce correctly words ; they are also a hint about the word's origin (ex: ^ means the words is greek) ; I don't get why it stopped you from learning the language.

mamonoleechi··on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
you can do it easily with Inkscape which supports the pdf format
mamonoleechi··on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.
mamonoleechi··on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
Scaling Text in Gimp still rasterize the layer in 2025 :) besides that, Gimp 3 is pretty nice.
mamonoleechi··on Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments
It depends where you live, but a lot of countries make you pay glass bottles now ; a fee that you get back once you take the empty bottle back to the supermarket.

It does not prevent people from throwing them, but since you get money from them, homeless people usually gather them to make some money.

Page 1 of 2Next →