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New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: How many AI agents do you actively use?"

0xCE0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:24:03 +0000

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library"

0xCE0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:05:18 +0000

It seems that the "open access" is more marketing than something reality based they actually want to do.

https://dl.acm.org/openaccess ---> So how to access the content? Do I have to register or what? It the "open access" only for academic org's people or for everyone in the world?

https://dl.acm.org/ ---> Okay, nice simple search field without loggin in, but when you try to search something, you get thousands of results, even if you search specific author and the exact name of paper, you will get hundreds of results and the thing you want is buried somewhere on page 247. Filters of authors, years etc. are for Premium subscription. But just googling the thing finds the link to ACM... And want to get the actual PDF? Hope it says "free access"...

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?"

0xCE0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:32:25 +0000

Maybe thinking in terms of your "obsession(s)" will lead to more clear and long-term answer. Obsession is something you love and hate at the same time, but still continue with it and in the end don't want to quit. Obsession also protects more strongly from loss of motivation and loss of "passion", because it tend to return you back to it again and again. It's like true love, which survives all the hardships.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)"

0xCE0 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:23:29 +0000

The payment system is so critical to businesses that it should be forbidden to use AI for support issues. Besides payment systems are so niche/special, that there shouldn't be any "unnecessary" questions by customers (same kind criticality of function/communication as with accountant). Hope you get answer.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

0xCE0 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:24:07 +0000

If the answers in this thread reflects the state of the art what "the advent of AI" as of 2026/6 has brought, I have to say that I am not amused. If we have this all-potential tool that can create anything, the potential is clearly capped by either people's ambition/imagination or the capabilities of coding agents... And please do not understand me wrong, I am just stating that I feel/think that the real-world examples of achievements should be something "next-level" stuff...

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?"

0xCE0 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:43:41 +0000

Anthropic user account system seems dangerous to begin with. Login only with email, which cannot be changed ("make new account if your email changes"). I have have monthly Pro plan which I cancelled immediately to avoid situation where banning leaves billing. Now they have changed so that I can't resubscribe monthly plan anymore (I have ~10 days left of previous subscription), only yearly billing is option for resubscription at this moment (and yearly commitment is a long time with AI models). When the subscription ends, we'll see what it is shows then... You can't trust these kind of businesses...

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

0xCE0 — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:58:02 +0000

Trying to get my product (desktop application) to the state of minimal sellable version (according to my quality level expectations). I tend to be perfectionist, thinking it is never even good enough. Hopefully I can show it to you/world in the summer, and hear what people think of it. But for now (or the past 5 years), I have nothing to show and tell.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Zed 1.0"

0xCE0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:52:26 +0000

I actually downloaded and tried Zed first time about a week ago, because I needed a text editor that looks and behaves almost identically with Windows/macOS/Linux, so there is minimal switching hassle between developing for all these three OSs. And vims/emacs are no-choice for me, because if I don't use them for a while, I have to google how to exit/save etc. Not a choice for CEO.

I have now one week experience, and I like it very much. Some settings take a bit time to get right for my taste, and themes doesn't look polished, but otherwise it is excellent choice (even when thinking Sublime, which I considered the best of all). AI-things can be disabled for now, so let's hope it stays that way.

I also tried VSCode, and omg, I can't understand who want to use that... It is almost Visual Studio grade bad. At least by default settings. It couldn't even open 900 kb text file without freezing (Zed/Sublime had no problem, like 2026 computers/software shouldn't have with 1 mb file).

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget"

0xCE0 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:24:29 +0000

The job of hyperscalers is to scale and accelerate bills.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?"

0xCE0 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:38:13 +0000

The answer is of course obvious, and applies to any business domain over time and hypes: how to sell, that is, being a real old-fashioned salesman, who has ability to make deals, who can bring money in.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?"

0xCE0 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:45:01 +0000

I feel you. Booting selling is the most mysterious thing I know.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

0xCE0 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:53:43 +0000

Unicode standard doesn't define any visual shapes for code points (except conceptual examples for some emoji-like symbols), so this is more some specific font's (that is not even mentioned/cannot be changed) glyph similarity visualization than anything to do with Unicode code point "visual exploration".

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

0xCE0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:45:32 +0000

Linux is the only hope at this point for the future of computing.

Windows and macOS are just too risky to do any business with. Waste of all resources.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035"

0xCE0 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:54:49 +0000

What you described is true, I also experienced this same:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258982

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

0xCE0 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:46:02 +0000

Electron is business-friendly choice, because users do not refuse using it. It is users' fault. Users support and accept it by using it. Nagging doesn't change anything. As with every bad business, it is users who buy/use and therefore supports continuing its existence.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

0xCE0 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:15:27 +0000

"Chaos isn't a pit, chaos is a ladder."

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?"

0xCE0 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:36:03 +0000

It will expand like JavaScript from its origins. It is now in its early period, like JS was before its standardization. It will become some sort of natural language source file format with fuzzy typing (vs HTML≈XML/JSON for structured document file format, JS for formal executable language source file).

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

0xCE0 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:07:55 +0000

Amazing, highly recommended. I have watched all seasons ~4 times. It has just some magical feeling, because tech is in the end about people and their interactions/dynamics.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI"

0xCE0 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:50:25 +0000

And it shows. Desktop app gets laggier and buggier on every update.

And recently like 1 of every 10 consecutive songs just doesn't play. When clicking on the song, it feels like the app tries to redirect original song link (the "app" is a website) to some other link and it doesn't find it. As an example, Madonna - Frozen (from 1998 Ray of Light album) just doesn't play, just tried.

I have been paying Spotify customer since 2008 or something, I have playlists that are so old that it doesn't show dates added. Last week I cancelled my subscription, and switched to YouTube Premium (no ads + YT Music). YT music is even more horrible especially with playlists. Maybe I just buy somewhere (Amazon MP3?) my the 10 most listened albums and call it my music listening for the future.

New comment by 0xCE0 in "Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?"

0xCE0 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:48:10 +0000

Print to PDF + throw it to /TOREAD, which you will never open, but at least the content is there. Maybe add some relevant keywords in the filename (keep the original name also), so you can quickly grep/find what you need.