maurits
Re:Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:46AM (#50017374)
I self-host my blog on a VPS, because I like having my own little corner on the internet.
Re:The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:53AM (#48831298)
I have a blog because I like having a blog. It has made me neither rich nor famous.
Most prolific visitor is probably my mom and some bot out of Singapore.
Re:The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?
on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:57AM (#48802639)
This isn't about blogging per se. Its about commercial product-to-market fit. That market now favors short centralized video content.
Re:Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:38AM (#48658788)
Does anybody know a tool for making a 32 page A5 zine like Bumb books [1] for people with little to no layout tool knowledge?
Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:37AM (#48501498)
I have publicly stated that if you can't be bothered to write, I can't be bothered to read.
Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US t...
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:39AM (#46961229)
"the bliss curve" [1]
Re:After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:06AM (#46767356)
I tell my students that they can watch sports on tv, but it will not make them fit.
On a personal note, vibe coding leaves me with that same empty hollow sort of tiredness, as a day filled with meetings.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:56AM (#46631244)
https://www.maurits.ch
Photo-blog, everyday slice of life pictures, walking about on the street, since 2006.
Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:23AM (#46243885)
"We, and our 226 partners use cookies and similar methods to recognize visitors"
Re:Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:38AM (#46159016)
I like this a lot, simple, elegant, unpretentious, walking down memory lane.
Re:Meta Segment Anything Model 3
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:27AM (#45990754)
I would try to take DINO v3 [1] for a spin, for that specific use-case. Or, don't laugh, the Nano Banana [2]
[1]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3 [2]: https://imgeditor.co/
Re:Roc Camera
on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:50AM (#45692024)
I'm cynical and don't fear a world in which people can't verify photos for their authenticity.
I fear (channeling a brave new world) that they simply will not care.
Re:Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
on Monday September 29, 2025 @05:01AM (#45411679)
>I'm sure people were saying that about commercial airline speeds in the 1970's too.
Also elegantly formulated by: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
Re:Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:21AM (#44836164)
For statistical mechanics, I really liked [1]. Comes with loads of python programs.
To see what might peak you interest, the videos in [2] could be a good starting point.
[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics
[2]: https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/i...
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:21AM (#44669041)
(forgot what type of flour you need for bread in supermarket)
innocently googles 'flour bread'
half the screen, CONTINUE WITH GOOGLE - stay in browser, click
COOKIES We and our 917 partners CARE ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY, click, click,
NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, click, rotate screen because the overlay is to big, click Im sad person who's doesn't want daily bread in his mailbox.
APP APP APP, install APP, click click, can't hit the x, let it be
LOG IN WITH YOUR FOOFLE ACCOUNT, click
5 pages with autoplay video and SEO slop
I'm enjoying AI, while it lasts.
Re:How to post when no one is reading
on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:40AM (#44157141)
I've had a self-hosted blog with slice of life pictures, for almost 20 years. Its my own little corner of the internet, not beholden to any social app or company. Something to look through when i'am 80.
Learn to code, go to law school
The Terror of War - An Associated Press Visual Analysis
Re:Bending Spacetime in the Basement
on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @07:55AM (#43331553)
Reminds me a bit of Greg Egans' Incandescence [1]
Re:MacBook Air M4
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:50AM (#43280152)
uhm, hold down option-shift for smaller steps. Same for audio.
Re:Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:07AM (#43114185)
For people interested in the softmax, log sum exp and energy models, have a look at "Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One" [1]
Re:The year I didn't survive
on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:42AM (#43025324)
This vividly remembers me of "The Year of Magical Thinking" [1] It hit hard, and I didn't finish the book.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?...
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:22AM (#43010697)
Slightly tangent: "Web Design: The First 100 Years" [1]
[1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?
on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:05AM (#42998293)
"And there’s another thing. My other passion is street photography. Which is a bit like blogging."
That's me. I've made everyday slice of life pictures, walking about, since 2006. Biggest source of traffic is probably my mom. I don't care, its own little corner of the internet.
Re:Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business
on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:26AM (#42622071)
I'd wager that marketing figured out that people are willing to pay a premium for the added feature of not having alcohol.
Maybe the same segment that also pays more for premium (healthy, biological etc ) food.
Re:Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners
on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:32AM (#42387088)
"We and our 912 partners process your personal data"
A museum. Just why??
Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic statement
on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @08:42AM (#42305934)
> It’s not just aesthetic. The mountains feel more like massive objects on these older cameras than they do on modern iPhone cameras.
Might be due to a combination of sensor size, focal length on the older camera, and the distance to the subject.
Re:James Gleick's Chaos: The Software
on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:12AM (#42162973)
For those who like this domain, the complexity explorer [1] is also a wonderful resource.
Re:WordPress Alternatives
on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:39AM (#41807210)
Any recommendations for a self hosted back-end that is images, photography only? Instagram seems to have taken over this space.