Hacker News: 4k93n2

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

4k93n2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:37:13 +0000

if all that happens is the car beeping at them then i would imagine that number will stay at 50%

New comment by 4k93n2 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

4k93n2 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:37:01 +0000

no point really. if someone was forcing them to take this off the front page then they would probably just tell them to add that explanation to the thread as well

New comment by 4k93n2 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

4k93n2 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:37:05 +0000

or just use a 4pt font and find a tattoo artist with a steady hand

New comment by 4k93n2 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

4k93n2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:02:09 +0000

im using pretty much the same setup myself

just to mention an alternative method for anyone that doesnt know: keepass also has a feature called 'autotype' where the desktop program can send keystrokes to fill in password fields

the benefit of this over the browser extension is that there is no connection between your browser and your keepass vault.

its also handy for filling in passwords in desktop programs or even a terminal

one downside is that you wont be able to have passwords automatically filled in as youre browsing. you need to press a hotkey, but i would consider this to be more of a good security feature to cut out any chance of your browser autofilling any hidden password fields

there is still a browser extension that i use that adds the url to the titlebar of the browser, which makes it easier for the autotype dialog to show the correct logins from your vault

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/add-url-to-wi...

New comment by 4k93n2 in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

4k93n2 — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:41:45 +0000

maybe give comaps a go. it uses openStreetMap for its map data. i dont know what routing algorithm it uses or how it compares to google/apple but i do like how easy it is to start routes with this app. and if it goes off course is fairly easy to just tap another road and the click "add stop" to have it re-route

another plus is being able to download as many map areas as you would like, and unlike google its actually giving you the full map data (although i havnt used google maps in over a decade now but i remember downloading a map once but then certain POIs would only show up when i had data/cell turned on)

https://www.comaps.app

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

4k93n2 — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:31:39 +0000

they would have shut it down after 5 years

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

4k93n2 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:16:11 +0000

https://monosketch.io

New comment by 4k93n2 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

4k93n2 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:20:42 +0000

sounds like a very efficient way for an indie band to lose all of their street cred at once

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

4k93n2 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:25:54 +0000

how would they compare over 10-15 years though. with one you are able to swap out the motherboard when you want an upgrade and with the other you have to buy a completely new device.

then when it comes to repairing broken parts they are on opposite ends of the scale where apple actually go out of their way to make it harder for you to do that and its probably more expensive as well since only apple certified repair shops have access to certain parts

New comment by 4k93n2 in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

4k93n2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:49:50 +0000

jan.ai would be the ideal route to take here then. its open source, has a simple chat interface, it uses llama.cpp, it lets you search for models and downloads them, and it supports .gguf so youre not locked in if you want to use the models with another program later on

New comment by 4k93n2 in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

4k93n2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:22:14 +0000

is davinci fusion not an after effects alternative? or is it not at the same level?

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

4k93n2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:54:21 +0000

well, just based off that group photo of the openclaw developer and the staff at openai, i wouldnt be surprised if there was some truth to this

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

4k93n2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:09:13 +0000

tailscale has a feature called "funnel" that will let others connect to a service running on your tailnet, even if they dont use tailscale themselves

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

4k93n2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:53:46 +0000

you can at least block some of it out with ublock origin?

  news.ycombinator.com##td.title:has-text(/LLM|AI/i)

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

4k93n2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:05:08 +0000

is Bitwig not as good as Ableton? ive never used Ableton so i wouldnt know, but Bitwig seems crazy good to me, especially compared to other DAWs on linux like Ardour or Reaper

New comment by 4k93n2 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

4k93n2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:26:55 +0000

its only a fork since a year ago so there isnt a major difference between to two in terms of features. see: https://www.comaps.app/support/how-do-the-features-differ-fr...

but i mainly meant its better just because its more community based now

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Migrating to the EU"

4k93n2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:43:14 +0000

just to piggyback off of this, theres also Pikapods (based in malta i think) that have about 100 or so self-hosted apps that can be installed with one-click and then you just pay depending on what you use. im more into self-hosting on my own hardware but its a nice option for people who want to get their feet wet or that dont have the time to manage a VPS themselves

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Migrating to the EU"

4k93n2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:36:40 +0000

i thought the same but ive actually moved twice now. first to protonmail whenever that came out, then again a few years ago to posteo. it actually didnt feel like that much work in the end. i set up forwarding and switched over a few accounts every week. i still kept my gmail account around for years just in case but there will be a point where you just know you have all the important things switched over

New comment by 4k93n2 in "Migrating to the EU"

4k93n2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:32:37 +0000

thunderbird (formerly k9 mail) is a decent enough android app, but im not very picky when it comes to email either so keep that in mind. ive been using it with posteo for about 2 years now

New comment by 4k93n2 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

4k93n2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:18:17 +0000

fennec (firefox mobile fork) lets you install ublock origin

newpipe or tubular for youtube. ive also been using freetube lately. its just the desktop ui ported to an android app so its not as good as newpipe, but im using syncthing to sync freetube's settings/subscriptions between desktop and mobile

comaps is better fork of organicmaps and has better people running it

the fossify apps are great for the basics, sms, phone/contacts, gallery, calculator etc

droidify is a nicer front end for the fdroid store imo

keepassdx for passwords

kde connect or localsend for one-off file transfers between devices, or syncthing for things you need to sync all the time

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