Hacker News: 3stacks

New comment by 3stacks in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

3stacks — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:31:34 +0000

What I find strange is that it uses different prose in different contexts. It's absolutely insufferable in a general claude-code session, but then I got Opus to annotate a non-disclosure agreement and it uses very clear legal language. I was wondering how I could get it to speak like that all the time

New comment by 3stacks in "Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex"

3stacks — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:41:12 +0000

Oh awesome, I just started building something like this but nice to use something off the shelf for once.

I used a project called toolgate to autoapprove "safe" tool calls but request permission on riskier calls declaratively. But there's so many unnecessary tool permission requests

New comment by 3stacks in "Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill"

3stacks — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:11:42 +0000

That's my mistake, and here's the honest take:

A genuinely simple codebase is table stakes for a project like this.

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That's enough Claude speak for one day

New comment by 3stacks in "GOP issues stark warning to AI companies"

3stacks — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:06:29 +0000

"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

TBF I think most people in power are very comfortable with the profitable arrangement they have, so I don't see many/any of them going along with a revolutionary plan (unless they would end up in prison otherwise). Is it really worth the hassle if you can just stay in office and end up a multi-millionaire via inside trading? Let the populous deal with the real world

New comment by 3stacks in "I launched on Product Hunt and all I got was spam email"

3stacks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:04:28 +0000

That's interesting, when I was preparing to launch I saw an app with the same concept where startups "buy" their country on a world map. Some of the countries like Norway were "premium countries" so they cost extra for placement. I doubt anyone will think of that site in a couple of weeks. I thought it was kind of novel but I've now seen a couple more that are just blatant cash grabs like that.

How is your Chrome extension going these days?

New comment by 3stacks in "I launched on Product Hunt and all I got was spam email"

3stacks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:55:27 +0000

It does kind of feel "dead internet" to me

I launched on Product Hunt and all I got was spam email

3stacks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:51:16 +0000

Article URL: https://lukeboyle.com/blog/i-launched-on-product-hunt-and-all-i-got-was-spam-email/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522019

Points: 3

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New comment by 3stacks in "git git git git git"

3stacks — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:07:26 +0000

Its a weird feeling to see something posted on here and remembering it being posted nearly 10 years ago

I think of this every time I write git git status

New comment by 3stacks in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

3stacks — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:35:17 +0000

Purely anecdotal, but I experimented with getting rid of my phone entirely for 6 months (using VoIP on my laptop for calls and text), which meant I had to plan my route ahead of time using online maps (OsmAnd). I found that my short-term memory improved noticeably and I could easily recall 10 digit numbers I just saw briefly.

Show HN: Lector, a FOSS self-hosted language reader (with a cloud option)

3stacks — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:32:33 +0000

I started building this to learn Afrikaans which has sparse support on language learning apps. It was costing me roughly $50 per month to do my preferred learning routine. The LLM chat and journal corrections are excellent learning tools.

It has grown to support 12 modern languages with more on the way.

There's some excellent apps in this space (Lingq, Readlang) but they don't integrate well with Anki, which is just the best flashcard app one can choose, and they own your data. Self-hosting and data sovereignty was also an important concern for me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239997

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 3stacks in "I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union"

3stacks — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:25:36 +0000

"make it secure, make no mistake"

New comment by 3stacks in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"

3stacks — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:37:45 +0000

uThermal has been documenting in shorts the myriad game breaking bugs introduced into StarCraft 2 in recent patches. The game was super stable for 15 years and now you can load 8 sieged tanks into a medivac at a time. Anyway I am seeing the same thing as you in many different arenas

New comment by 3stacks in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

3stacks — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:59:14 +0000

They've already burned at least $15bn on that disastrous Snowy Hydro "battery" project... Could've just rolled out consumer batteries on a large scale instead.

New comment by 3stacks in "Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash"

3stacks — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:31:29 +0000

How does it compare cost-wise for you?

New comment by 3stacks in "Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years"

3stacks — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:58:02 +0000

Good point. Age and obesity are the strongest correlates with low testosterone. Increases in sedentary lifestyles probably aren't helpful either, but not clear if that is anything other than a proxy for obesity

New comment by 3stacks in "Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor"

3stacks — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:38:14 +0000

My little hamlet is 40km (~25 miles) from the nearest established town and it’s nothing but state forest between so it will never be economical to run fibre.

The typical solution is called Fixed Wireless which is essentially the same as 5G or traditional satellite internet.

I’ve used Starlink for years and aside from the exorbitant price I wouldn’t consider switching. The dish is very low voltage so I have a failover system for during power outages to keep my server and work connection going.

Space junk aside I’m glad to see Space X being challenged because some downward pressure on price would be nice

New comment by 3stacks in "I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers – This One Survived"

3stacks — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:31:16 +0000

My Ducky Zero keyboard has outlived several laptops in the last 10 years of abuse and it’s nice and portable. You can swap the switches when they die. I see this as a far better solution

New comment by 3stacks in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

3stacks — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:01:32 +0000

It’s the food equivalent of declaring bankruptcy. If you don’t fix the behaviours you’ll just end up in debt again.

New comment by 3stacks in "Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice"

3stacks — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:56:41 +0000

This is awesome! I’ll be lurking for new data sources. I’m working on a self-hosted language app more focused around cloze and sentence mining into Anki. I love seeing more stuff happening in this space

New comment by 3stacks in "Bible as RAG Database"

3stacks — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:48:49 +0000

It’s great to see more stuff like this. Thank you for your contribution