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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 15/09/2026

Me just over the finish line after yet another PB on a 10k, 43:15 this time.

Me running across the finish line on 2026's "10 for Grete". I'm in all black with a caps on backwards with the bib on my stomach. Several other runners in more colourful clothes are behind me, and there are tons of spectators behind fences.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 23/08/2026

Norway has many nice restaurants.

A sign above a restaurant/café door where it says

HOLES
Delikatesse
VELKOMMEN

which translates to

HOLE'S
Delicatessen
WELCOME

A Norwegian flag is left of the sign

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 25/07/2026

Me: I am a pretty big Vintersorg fan, not sure how many fans there will be here tho British lady in front of me:

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 22/07/2026

It's an example of the discourse here on Bluesky, and that's just taken verbatim from the Twitter discourse. Here's the boss of Hugging Face saying the same thing, and news media is reporting it as such: www.bbc.com/news/article... www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/... At best an ignorant response.

Xitter post from Clement Delangue, boss of Hugging Face: We suspected last week's cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent. Turns out it did!

We've spent the past 24 hours working closely with the @OpenAI team (thanks!), and we strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part. It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously!

The investigation is ongoing, and we'll share more learnings from what might be the first incident of its kind!

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 14/07/2026

Og alt er bedre enn ingenting. Jeg putta litt vann på kumlokket i nærheten for spurvene, og det tok ca 2 min før de var der:

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 01/07/2026

Yeah, this is very solid. I don't mind clean vocals but I am very picky with them. So have a listen to "Nothing Left to Deconstruct" by Loneshore if you long for some prog dead/doom. Since I'm a sucker for that this seems to be one of the better albums I've listened to so far this year.

A landscape image with no text on it, showing cooled down lava with smoke from some of its tops. At least that's what it looks like to me.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 01/07/2026

I was promised rain and 20°C two hours ago, now I just get this bs

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 01/07/2026

After sampling both bands for like 10 seconds I realised I needed to update that meme.

The bottom panel of "Holy shit! Two cakes!" edited to say "Holy shit! Four cakes!" (with two crossed over in red), and two additional cakes are on the table.

The top of my Ampwall library, now showing all albums from Wince and Frission and Negative Bliss with their album cover at the top.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 01/07/2026

Me seeing both AIiT? and Eveale are gonna have new albums out in the future (also, I guess I need to look at the other new bands here given I really enjoy what I've heard by Steve et al so far)

Lower part of the "two cakes meme", where a stick figure is looking at two cakes with a fork and knife (... which is certainly a Choice to eat cake with) saying "Holy shit! Two cakes!"

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 16/03/2026

No joke, you know a black metal album's gonna be good when the guest vocals are birds. Also, the song Carniflora is really good.

All songs written by North East Wizard Tyrant (instrumentals) and Monarch of the Hillside (lyrics and vocal arrangements, co-writing of instrumentals on “The Ritual”)

Eurasian Blackbird and Common Wood-Pigeon - guest vocals on “The Beckoning”

Mixed and mastered by Erik Peabody at Viking Guitar Production.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 22/02/2026

It feels like I have made an impossible problem for the LLMs. And it feels like the LLMs are gaslighting me into thinking I've specified the problem statement poorly. It is honestly exhausting to hear from reasoning models that basic logic statements are false. Also, what the fresh hell is this

* Crunched for 12m 0s

> Now make an accepted solution
└ API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum. To configure this behavior, set the
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS environment variable.
└ API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum. To configure this behavior, set the
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS environment variable.
└ API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum. To configure this behavior, set the
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS environment variable.
└ API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum. To configure this behavior, set the
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS environment variable.

* Cogitated for 41m 9s

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 16/12/2025

I know @neastwizardtyrant.bsky.social is the number one fan, but me being #3? I’ve neglected my sacred duties and must recommit to the cause.

An image of the band Vintersorg with the text "You are Vintersorg's 3rd biggest fan" under

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 05/12/2025

Alright, trying to resurrect this one. Today I'm listening to Acheron by Mechina. I really like this narrative concept album for some reason, though obviously you need to play it from start to end. It's sci-fi symphonic metal with a folk choir mixed in. Plus violins.

Cover album for "Acheron" by Mechina. An Earth-like planet in red hue is in the background, and some symbols are in the front. The symbols looks like portals that show a mountainous landscape with pine trees.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 09/11/2025

Running a 10k, but make it metal.

Me crossing the finish line, with both my arms raised with the horns. I am looking angry, straight into the camera, with my tongue out and down.

The others around me just try to cross the finish line without any attempt of shenanigans.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 21/08/2025

Sounds like these developers are living their best lives. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Text that says:

Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios.

“What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application.

“Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 25/07/2025

Another Vintersorg single released this Friday. I'll be shocked if Vattenkrafternas Spel don't end up being one of my fav releases of this year. #metalsky #avantgardemetal

Single cover for the single "Efter dis kommer dimma" by Vintersorg. A painted bleak/winter landscape with a river to the left, some river rocks in the centre/right with a forest in the background.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 21/07/2025

I remember looking back at my 2024 listen list and went like "dang, that's a lot of bands with worm in their names". (Wormhole and Graveworm came out too early with their 2023 releases)

Hunger - Worm Shepherd
Wormwitch - Wormwitch
Omegon - Wormed
The Star - Wormwood

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 18/07/2025

Listen, when it's 33C in Oslo over multiple days and you don't have AC, you just gotta improvise. I knew those computer fans would come in handy one day.

My battle station. It has a big desk mat with a scary foresty vibe, and on top of it is a split keyboard (Halcyon Elora) with two wooden palm rests. There are also 7 fans on top of the desk mat, some 140mm, some 120mm, some black and some with the Noctua caramel/brown combination. At the right of the desk mat is a small black computer case, approximately 25 cm high and 17 cm wide. On top of the case sits an eight fan, which is 200mm and has the Noctua caramel/brown color as well. All the fans are on. The computer screen is put on top of a black monitor stand. The screen is off.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 15/07/2025

Forgot to mention it last Friday, but Impureza's new album Alcázares is so good if you like flamenco. (I like flamenco.) Nobody expects the Spanish Reconquista.

The album cover for Alcázares by Impureza: It depicts a courtyard in an Alcázar, with four stone statues looking towards a sepulchre. The statues look kinda vikingy, though they're probably aimed to depict "hooded" knights. They all hold swords with both their hands right in front of them, tip pointing down.

The lid of the sepulchre/sarcophagus is opened, and a vengeful ghostly conquistador comes out of it.

Above the tower of the Alcázar is some sort of sky vortex, though the rest of the sky seems unaffected by its presence.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 04/07/2025

I must've missed today's releases, or there's nothing that interests me this release Friday. It feels like a @fleshvesseldm.bsky.social day, so "Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed" it is.

Album art with no text on it. An "alien" world where hands with claw-like fingers come up from the ground. In the middle of the cover is a fissure, with teeth on both sides. Some of the hands seem to catch spirits that are falling from the sky, and some of the spirits are connected by a white string.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 02/07/2025

Today's album is Nightfall's Children of Eve. This one doesn't feel doomy, so melodic death/gothic? Also, it's kinda interesting how you can hear it's a Greek growler from time to time. Bc. of accent, or perhaps the early 90s Greek black metal bands have this distinct quality to it? #metalsky

Album cover for "Children of Eve" by Nightfall. It has a painted style. A woman with flowing hair embraces a red-toned/bloodied man with long hair with a fearful look. The man is part of a group of red-toned/bloodied men, the others looking more like they're in a rage or anguished. The image is set against a cloudy sky, the woman's hair looks like it melds with the sky.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 27/06/2025

Really enjoying Shadow of Intent's new release today #metalsky #deathcoresky

Cover art of Shadow of Intent's album Imperium Delirium. A green-tinged necropolis of headless knights, some with their heads in their hand, sword in another. There are stone stairs leading down to a towering "shining" skeletal figure.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 27/06/2025

Another one where Google's AI just can't. "An Insatiable Violence" was released last week, not this week. There's literally nothing in those link sources claiming it came out this week. Like, this is surprisingly bad, I expected AI to do this without any trouble whatsoever.

Image from Google with the following text:

AI-oversikt (Norwegian for AI summary)

Several new metal albums and EPs were released this week, including works from Cryptopsy, Heaven Shall Burn, and Inhuman Condition. Additionally, there are upcoming releases from To The Grave, Aversions Crown, and Grand Cadaver in the coming weeks.
Here's a more detailed look:

This Week's New Releases (June 27, 2025):
Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence
Heaven Shall Burn: Heimat
Inhuman Condition: Mind Trap

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 25/06/2025

I'm gonna be speaking at @hellostavanger.no! It's a talk about what (sometimes) happens when I type in my legal name into a website and click submit, versus what I actually want to happen. (It's probably not what you expect!) www.hellostavanger.no/talks/920261

A website card showing my face and the title "Apostrophe Catastrophe", along with my name "Jean Niklas L'orange" underneath. It is tagged with "product development."

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 25/06/2025

The MRI scan lady: "So you've gotten a priority appointment for an MRI" Me: "oh, yes, that's right" Lady: "But unfortunately our machine is undergoing service the next two days"

The Elmo in Hell meme (Elmo with his hands up, with a face that looks like "oh no, it has come to this", with flames in the background)

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 24/06/2025

Loving all these new AI summaries, they are so good and correct. "Obsidian Ritual" and "Vomit Upon the Altar of God" are also my favourite Witch Club Satan songs, you should really look them up. #metalsky #blackmetalsky

Screenshot of a Google search for `"you wildflower" witch club satan`.

Two videos are the first results, named "Witch Club Satan - You Wildflower (Official Music Video)" and "YOU WILDFLOWER releases on Midsummer, night to the 24th ...".

Then there's an AI summary that says the following:
The song "You Wildflower" is not a known song by the band Witch Club Satan. Witch Club Satan is a feminist black metal band known for songs like "Obsidian Ritual" and "Vomit Upon the Altar of God", but they don't have a song titled "You Wildflower". It's possible there's a misunderstanding or the song is by a different artist.

"Obsidian Ritual" and "Vomit Upon the Altar of God" are not titles of any Witch Club Satan songs.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 24/06/2025

Whoop, there it is: Vintersorg's new album Vattenkrafternas Spel will be out Sep 26. #metalsky #avantagardeblackmetal www.hammerheart.com/vintersorg-a...

Album cover for"Vattenkrafternas Spel" by Vintersorg. A painted frozen river is in focus, with a snow covered pine forest in the background.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 24/06/2025

New Vintersorg single you said? Don't mind if I do.

Single cover for the single "Malströmsbrus" by Vintersorg. A painted winter-looking (bleak) landscape with a river in centre and a forest in the background.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 12/06/2025

Samsung no, that is literally the opposite of what I want.

Picture of my watch with a rainbow watch strap inside the edit image mode on a Galaxy phone, with the option "Straighten" automatically suggested.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 03/05/2025

Listen, if you ask two IT engineers to improve the air circulation in your sauna, don't be surprised if the prototype (aka result/mvp) looks like this:

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 27/04/2025

hi, capacitor expert here! this is not funny, capacitors only do this when they’re in extreme distress. though this explains why one of my old HDDs suddenly didn't work anymore one day

The inside of a computer cabinet, with an exploded capacitor on the cabinet floor. On the right is an array of hot-swappable hard disk connectors, and the one at the bottom has only parts of the innards of a capacitor where one of the capacitors should be.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 25/04/2025

Ready for the first HIIT session of the week 💪

Garmin watch's "Training readiness" indicator, saying 1/100 -> Poor and "Focus on recovery: Your low HRV may indicate excessive fatigue."

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 20/04/2025

Alle Schibsted-sider ser sånn her ut nå (VG, E24, Aftenposten, sikkert en haug andre), og jeg skjønner ikke helt hvorfor de ikke har blitt utfordra på dette..

Cookieinnstillinger-modal med valget "Godta alle" øverst og i en tydelig blå knapp, mens "Tilpass cookies" er under, uten like stor utheving.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 17/04/2025

Easter always means Inferno, and this year we're starting out with Dødheimsgard. Couldn't be a better start on the festival I think.

Cover art for the album Black Medium Current by Dødheimsgard.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 11/04/2025

I'm listening to some slower prog/avant-garde metal this release Friday: Otra by In the Woods... Hard to pinpoint the genre, but if I had to say something succinct, I'd probably say goth rock/black'n roll with Borknagar-infused black metal and chrous. #metalsky

Album cover for "Otra" by In the Woods... The album cover is sepia-toned, showing a weathered, vintage-style scene of a river flowing through a forested landscape. There's an old wooden boat grounded on some rocks, surrounded by scattered wooden planks and debris floating on the water.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 07/04/2025

Anyway, it's pretty and I like it.

A split keyboard with mostly white and grey keycaps, along with a few red ones. The layout is Colemak-DH, and the left side has a rotary encoder. The right side has a small trackpad left of the keys.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 06/04/2025

When does a keyboard hobby turn into an addiction? Asking for a me.

The left half of a partially constructed split keyboard. It is black with a couple of keyswitches inserted. In the background, a couple of screws and risers are stored in a lip cork coaster.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 30/03/2025

went for a jog today. is it good that these lines cross?

A graph with two straight lines: one for heart rate and one for pace. The lines cross, with pace going down and heart rate up.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 26/03/2025

Listen Garmin, you're not helping.

A plot of sleep duration alongside sleep need, where duration shrinks and need rises.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 25/03/2025

I got this watch less than 3 days ago, and it's already started its personal vendetta against me 🤷‍♂️

Notification saying "Sleep History: Pattern of short sleep"

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 22/03/2025

It's been about 18 years since I last had a wristwatch, and this happened 5 minutes after I started to use one again 🤷‍♂️

A black Garmin wristwatch with the text "An error has occurred." on its screen.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 06/03/2025

Istapp broke the release Friday rhythm and gave us a great album today. It's mostly melodic black metal, but some songs contains a bit of folk, and Ragnarök contained A LOT folk. Really enjoyed fiddle and kveding (Scandinavian folk singing style) combined with black metal. #MetalSky #BlackMetalSky

Album cover of Istapp's "Sól Tér Sortna". A skeletal, frost-covered hand is holding a black sun against a starry, cosmic backdrop.

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Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆 @hypirion.com · 02/03/2025

Seems appropriate, given this timeline.

A train information display saying the next stop is Hell (followed by Trondheim Airport right after)

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