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mlukaszek··on Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
TIL there are people who throw knives away instead of sharpening them.
mlukaszek··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
Yep. No one else would shove bing search down your throat. https://learn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/answers/questions/5658359/...
mlukaszek··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
Meanwhile, in 2026 I suddenly cannot type capital Ś in Edge on Mac. I feel like I moved back in time 25 years or so.
mlukaszek··on Conway's Game of Life, in real life
Or, in Krakow, Poland in 2012 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KitN5HFGWc
mlukaszek··on Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
Terrible idea for color-blind people. And I don't even mean severely color-blind, like when you can't distiguish red from green at all, but something more common and less severe, like deuteranomaly - where it's shades of these colors that are hard to distinguish.
mlukaszek··on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?
Same. New to printing but haven't had a single failed print yet (only used PLA and PETG so far though), and the print quality is generally excellent. That said, it does not meet all the requirements of the OP.
mlukaszek··on Ollama's new app
I may be too picky, and on reflection I probably shouldn't be - it was just my first thought when I saw what the project actually is for the first time.

What I meant is the "Py" prefix is typically used for Python APIs/libraries, or Python bindings to libraries in other languages. Sometimes as a prefix for dev tool names like PyInstaller or PyEnv. It's just less often used for standalone apps, only to indicate the project was developed in Python.

mlukaszek··on Ollama's new app
Have you seen https://pygpt.net/ ? Overloaded interface and little unfortunate name aside, this seems to be the best one I tried.
mlukaszek··on Different Clocks
If you're into interesting clocks, here one that is obviously not digital but fun to watch (pun intended)

Corpus Clock - Wikipedia https://share.google/aAjMb15aeaVvHLJFa

mlukaszek··on Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
Have a look at https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi and (shameless plug, toy project, be gentle) https://github.com/mlukaszek/evdipp
mlukaszek··on No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect
Surprised to see (not that funny at all) "I will slaughter you" email on the list.
mlukaszek··on Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question
Haha I did not even register that as I expected 1.5 as the answer...
mlukaszek··on Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question
It's pretty good! It did quite well when asked a variant of "when do the trains meet" problem, although it used different values for speed than what I told it to use (and what it actually used in textual response: 120km/h and 20km/h in video vs 80km/h and 60km/h in the prompt and textual response).

https://math-gpt.org/?video_id=a7489ec5-b06e-480a-96c4-27765...

If it did the animations in 3Blue1Brown style, that would be cherry on the top! ;-)

Edit: I did notice it uses Manim, it just doesn't have the same feeling

mlukaszek··on We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
There was also Bada OS, Samsung's attempt to cut the dependency on Android. I was actually running a device with 1.0, and it was surprisingly usable. The investment in building a development community was also there. They released lots of documentation and the SDK. Sadly, they followed with a 2.0 that really wanted to feel like Android (but wasn't).

They obviously didn't want to put all their eggs into one basket and kept releasing Android phones in parallel. Eventually, Bada died a silent death, although some of it probably found its way to Tizen.

mlukaszek··on Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
Missed the trick to detect lost window focus, which is easy to do when you are using multiple monitors and very much NOT doing nothing ;-)
mlukaszek··on Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022)
Any significant differences from Meshtastic other than a console PC app?
mlukaszek··on Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life
Congratulations on the launch! Not sure if anyone mentioned it already - huge kudos for publishing insights of your journey in the detailed posts on your blog. I learned so much! Loved the details, photos, clips demonstrating problems you encountered. Thanks and good luck!
mlukaszek··on My speed cubing page
Came here to also recommend J Perm videos. His way of explaining the solve clicked with me, and it was easy enough for my 11yo daughter to pick it up super quickly!
mlukaszek··on Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu
Isn't that project mostly dead? Last release years ago, tons of people having trouble on Reddit... Also, https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/631
mlukaszek··on Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu
Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering if alternatives aren't safer. Does anyone have any experience with Brunch Framework https://github.com/sebanc/brunch and its compatibility with actual chromebooks? Context: I own a Samsung Chromebook Pro (codename Caroline), which goes out of support in June...
mlukaszek··on Bubbles
And move the spike!
mlukaszek··on Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Fast-Charging Batteries
[2017]
mlukaszek··on Microsoft Clipchamp
I swear a god, when I read the name I though MS have released a game featuring Clippy as the main character. Must be getting old, I guess. :-)
mlukaszek··on Python App in the Browser
Slightly off topic, but in the live demo it looks like model model wasn't really trained with images of a shovel that is diagonal in the frame, with the tip in top right and the base bottom left. The model detects all kinds of things but not the shovel - a spoon, a rifle, baseball bat etc
mlukaszek··on Commodore 64 Guides
Very impressive. What's the estimate cost of a print?
mlukaszek··on Pixel prevented me from calling 911
I thought an email only works if there is a fire, exclamation mark, fire, exclamation mark...
mlukaszek··on Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
Yes, materialistic is what I settled down on so far!
mlukaszek··on Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
Like it! Some suggestions to consider:

- I'm missing a "jump back up" shortcut, something I'd recommend using capital "G" for, like in Vim.

- It seems it hits some hardcoded limit for paging? i.e. it does not allow me to open more stories once I reach the "bottom" one.

- Two things I'm used to that exist in the Android app I'm using: * stories are numbered, so I see how far from the top I am. It's a dimmed down grey number, but it's there and I like it. * depending on the number of comments, an article can be marked as hot with a "fire" emoji. I got used to that to immediately spot things which are trending.

Overall, well done! I am definitely subscribing, and I'll test if I can switch to it on Android.

(edit: typos)

mlukaszek··on IMGZ – Paid image sharing
Same. You can say I'm easily influenced, I don't care :-)
mlukaszek··on Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
Sorry this may be an obvious thing but I am genuinely curious (and I don't live in the US): why would one be afraid of sharing those? It's not like they're your credit card details or something. What am I missing?
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