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kruffalon··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
I'm just trying to understand what it is you do...

Do you make some sort of map and/or list of clues that you hide between the pages of books

Or

Do you write books that have maps and/or clues in the text?

kruffalon··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Impeccable timing!

About 2: Gluten free sourdoughs.

Do you have any good starting points or resources to share?

I admit I haven't gotten around to search very deeply for them yet as I just started thinking about this again yesterday but previous attempts have not given me any good information just one off recipes rather than creating a new bubbly family member to store in your fridge ;)

kruffalon··on FairPhone: Industry First Nature Report
I found this initiative quite interesting.

I think it's important to think more holistically about the environment than just CO2, or the Ozon-layer (that we actually managed to fix!). Full report: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-imp...

kruffalon··on Leviathan (1651)
I'm confused.

Did you understand the comment you replied to as me being negative or did you reply to the wrong comment?

I'm well aware that I'm a cunt at times, but I'm having a hard time seeing that in this instance.

My intention was to be celebratory towards something I found truly elegant.

(Maybe it is common to use "&" to write "etc" or anywhere where you'd normally use "et" but afaik I have never seen it before.)

kruffalon··on Leviathan (1651)
Nothing wrong at all, quite the opposite.

I like it a lot, and it makes me happy to see someone using the ligature of "e t"[0] ("&") not only as "and" but also as it's original "et" in the abbreviation "etc".

To me it reads like someone playing with words in a fun way, which is not that common in my parts of the internet

I was trying to express appreciation.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)

kruffalon··on Leviathan (1651)
> I cannot for the life of me imagine how this ended up on the HN front page, but it's cool.

But then again you're riffraff how could you imagine that :)

kruffalon··on Leviathan (1651)
Such elegance, or snobbery or at least some kind of beauty...

Using "&" literally in 2026 smells of wonder, well done, thanks!

Do you do it sometimes in regular English words too or just in &c? Please give more examples (if you have any).

This will be a great day, starting of like this: a written play with words; i like it!

kruffalon··on Node.js needs a virtual file system
What a wonderful world we would have, or possibly at least better than the current shit show :)
kruffalon··on Kniterate Notes
This is quite fascinating...

I understand hand knitting as craft (that can also or exclusively be art).

I also understand some programming as craft (that can also or exclusively be art).

But when you combine the two and add some kind of machinery it is much harder for me to see it as craft and not as production. This has me thinking, I like to think!

The work you do expands my understanding of the world, thanks!

kruffalon·
Very good point!

I agree, you're absolutely right.

I'm just kind of old, tired, grumpy and sad about the state of the world and my low capacity to influence the general direction or even small local things.

kruffalon··on Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn
It would be nice if this meant anything.

My old cynic, grumpy mind can't see this as anything but virtue signaling. I would be overjoyed to be wrong.

One corner stone of the EU is the 4 freedoms[0] that among other things denies public institutions the ability to look at anything besides the monetary cost when deciding who to contract for anything.

And as JIT[1] no longer only applies to goods but also to people noone has people working for them anymore, but contract everything out.

Obviously I haven't read the report/document so maybe there are some political steps that the signees are binding themselves to take towards a non-growth-at-all-cost system but I really doubt it.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

kruffalon··on Kniterate Notes
If it is subtle humour it's too subtle for me ;)
kruffalon··on Kniterate Notes
This is a programming article, just not in your subfield.

If you have any programming background and some time to aquiantence yourself with the specific words and aspects of this kind of programming I'm sure it will make sense to you too :)

kruffalon··on “This is not the computer for you”
> He is going to make a folder called “Projects” with nothing in it.

I'm still this person today :)

kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Thank you for correcting me. <3
kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Nice, that's good to hear and from the Zeitgeist that I get kind of new if I understand it correctly.
kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
What a great resource, thank you <3

The comment by Joseph Greenpie[0] is just marvellous, what a gem!

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[0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/204558

kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Thank you!

The capital M had meaning that I didnt grasp since I hadn't heard of Mode in that way before.

Today's learning!

kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
I wonder if you have asked the same LLMs to explain or summarize a paper in one of your fields and see if it still makes sense.

It could be that the LLMs are good at stringing words together in a way that seems reasonable when you are not an expert yourself, much like people from other fields seem very knowledgeable until you compare many of them or hear/see them talk with each other.

kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
I don't understand what you mean by "intellectual mode".

I mean that it's a kind of lowest common denominator average where it's more important to seem reasonable and to not upset anyone rather than be really good in some ways and bad in others.

kruffalon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
But it's a weird kind of average... Not the 3 from 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 but rather like the bland tv-dinner which tastes non-upsetting for most people.
kruffalon··on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
The discussion in question starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/msg00000.html

What a banger sub-thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/msg00020.html

kruffalon··on A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
No idea really, but if it is speed related I would have thought that OP would have used faster rather than importance to try and make their point.
kruffalon··on A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
Could you explain why that is?
kruffalon··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
Did they stutter?!
kruffalon··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
Truer words have never been said!

It is not easy understanding the current times in a /s way (or not)

kruffalon··on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported
Why not both?

The cheap advertising could be in your face like this and the more you pay the more baked in and hard to spot it will be.

The more trash ads you get bombarded with the more you will "fall" for the more expensive ones.

Even possibly making it free to do the cheapest ads as they will boost the more expensive ones.

kruffalon··on F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Thank you!

I kind of jumped at the "biometric" part of your original comment.

Now I understand what you mean better and I'm not worried about my setup (although I question how it complies, but that is another matter).

kruffalon··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
I really don't follow USA-politics besides the occasional hn-thread, random yt videos, and comments from friends...

With that said: what are the chances, in your opinion, that Donald wrote that himself?

To me it reads too coherent for there to be any chance he wrote or even dictated that.

kruffalon··on ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study
You're thinking about nursing. This is a different field that I think doctors should study and practice too.

Doctors, from what I can tell, receive no formal education in nursing.

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