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schmeichelon The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

This is a great post. Also reminded me of a video I saw a few months ago that was equally as entertaining (and somewhat informative): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8y2R6IxI

schmeichelon Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

It is possible to remove the hardware itself that is responsible for this, but depending on the car it can very involved: https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-f...

schmeichelon Keep Our Servers Running

I know I'd love to run something like this!

schmeichelon Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

Ditto. I've started reading recently. The last time I seriously read a book was High School. It's rather enjoyable, and I have a newfound appreciation for public libraries.

schmeichelon Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

This is one of my favorite libraries from the premise alone. Here is an example of Mario in Half-Life 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3qhqkegNw

schmeichelon The death and rebirth of my home server

Zram creates a compressed RAM disk. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

schmeichelon A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there

See "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. (That was even before Facebook became Meta)

schmeichelon Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus

Banger

schmeichelon Making RAM at Home [video]

Subscribed. Genuinely looking forward to what this gent gets up to.

schmeichelon Filing the corners off my MacBooks

Steve Ballmer here, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!

schmeichelon 1D Chess

Finally, a version of Chess I can understand. Thank you.

schmeichelon Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)

Where my Juggalos at??

schmeichelon Malus – Clean Room as a Service

Thank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.

schmeichelon Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts

Out of curiosity, how did you go about doing that? That sounds really nice and I'd be interested to see if it could work with LuLu as well.

schmeichelon Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

As someone who writes academic essays and prose, I can't live without this plugin. I will constantly need to write multiple page paragraphs, and it's incredibility more convient to be able to navigate within a paragraph as if it was multiple lines, as opposed to needing to perform some horizontal motion gymnastics to get the cursor where I need it to be.

Hat's off to everyone who has worked on this plugin!

schmeichelon Gmail is entering the Gemini Era

Does this really deserve to be on the front page of HN?

schmeichelon [dead]

I hope this is satire.

schmeichelon GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

Gemini 2.5 Pro is still my go to LLM of choice. Haven't used any OpenAI product since it released, and I don't see any reason why I should now.

schmeichelon Show HN: Steiner – An open-source reasoning model inspired by OpenAI o1

This seems promising! Great work! Any chance there will be a Ollama Modelfile for the masses?

schmeichelon Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE

It's best to check the LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard to find the model that best suits your needs: https://lmarena.ai/

schmeichelon Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar

- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar

Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation (https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement (https://www.raycast.com/) LuLu Firewall - An amazing FOSS firewall (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)

schmeichelon Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)

I honestly had to do a double take when I saw this make the front page. Never thought I'd see Amon Tobin top HN!

schmeichelon MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?

I'd recommended using llama.cpp and The Bloke's GGUF version of this model!

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/ https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/MonadGPT-GGUF