Hacker News: AnonHP

New comment by AnonHP in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

AnonHP — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:39:04 +0000

My guess is that OpenAI now has a full blown Cursor equivalent in development (an expansion of Codex?) and will announce it in September. Otherwise it stands to lose those who are used to working with Cursor.

New comment by AnonHP in "Pixel Watch 5"

AnonHP — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:40:58 +0000

> two-finger-tap to feel the time discreetly

What is this “two-finger-tap to feel the time discreetly” and how does it work?

New comment by AnonHP in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

AnonHP — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:33:09 +0000

My experience is different. I like the chronological feeds and the lists I can create to group accounts.

New comment by AnonHP in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

AnonHP — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:30:31 +0000

I have a lurking account and follow some other accounts, but I’m not interested in “liking” or “reposting” any posts. I want to keep my usage and engagement as low as possible. The “For You” feed doesn’t work for this need because it relies on signals like liking content.

I agree that the Discover feed sucks (why does it show posts from people I’m following when there’s a dedicated tab for that?). But I’d rather have a better Discover feed than me having to do more work on the “For You” feed.

New comment by AnonHP in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

AnonHP — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0000

> Any call the agent makes to an external connector is reviewed by an LLM judge to prevent dangerous operations.

A few basic questions: how reliable is this judge since it’s based on an LLM? What additional measures can an admin or someone with more technical knowledge take to tighten this further if needed? Are the rules in or used by this judge visible to the users or an admin?

New comment by AnonHP in "Parody Hacker News (2013)"

AnonHP — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:34:43 +0000

Someone please create something similar about AI slop and comments about AI slop in an article. That will be more 2026 HN. /s (partially)

New comment by AnonHP in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

AnonHP — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:13:54 +0000

GP here. You make some valid points, but I was talking about the pricing of the hosted service by Ente because Ente allows self hosting too. Of course, the investment to support self hosting and to provide the apps (for free to anyone, including the self hosting crowd) matter in pricing decisions. But it still seems quite high to me.

New comment by AnonHP in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

AnonHP — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:07:52 +0000

GP here. The initial comment did not say that it was the gross margin. Only a follow up reply to my comment asking about the price reduction did. So I assumed it was net margin.

New comment by AnonHP in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

AnonHP — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:35:26 +0000

If your margins are about 70%, do you have any plans to reduce your prices? Compared to other photo storage platforms, your pricing seems a lot higher. End to end encryption seems to be the only USP when a person looks at your hosted offering.

New comment by AnonHP in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

AnonHP — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:34:14 +0000

I’ve always felt that SQL is somewhat easy to grasp for basic queries, but gets complex and difficult for even moderate to higher complexity use cases. My eyes glaze over when I read long stored procedures that someone else has written. Any recommended resources to go from beginner/beginner-intermediate to advanced?

New comment by AnonHP in "Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)"

AnonHP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:16:40 +0000

I had a quick look and bolted out within half a minute. Trying to open an organization or repo throws an error. There’s a featured comparison section on the homepage, and tapping on the first one leads to a message saying free tier allows two things to be compared and a pro subscription allows more. Why put this as the first in this section then?

Seems like this is not fully baked yet and it pushes for pro subs a little too soon.

New comment by AnonHP in "Detection Is Not Protection: What WAF Detection Mode Does (and Doesn't)"

AnonHP — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:17:33 +0000

I disagree that it’s a waste of time or that only gullible people use it. A WAF (enabled to block malicious requests) is a cheaper and quicker solution to throw and still get some benefits.

I’ve seen that even in some large (non-FAANG or whatever) companies, budgets for security are always very tight or not available. Practically, it’s easier to kick the can down the road with a WAF.

For enterprise applications deployed for specific clients, if at all there are issues because of the WAF, they’d quickly bubble up through standard support mechanisms.

New comment by AnonHP in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

AnonHP — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:12:10 +0000

How is it on older or budget hardware though? It’s been a long time since I tried KDE, and in between even worked with Xfce because Gnome was a bit more resource intensive. Is it still the case that in terms of hardware specs and demand of the hardware, KDE needs/uses more than Gnome? I guess Xfce will be in a different league capability wise and resource requirement wise.

New comment by AnonHP in "Zed new terms required to be 18 years old"

AnonHP — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:43:44 +0000

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240158 from yesterday

New comment by AnonHP in "Zed new terms required to be 18 years old"

AnonHP — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:42:56 +0000

Gram [1] is a fork of Zed with all these removed. It seems to depend on more involvement from others to keep it going though.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

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

AnonHP — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:22:58 +0000

> On iOS there isn't always a choice to not build something native.

Tangentially, even native can be badly designed and developed, performance wise. Even Apple hasn’t been able to do a good job with the Reminders app (one of the several apps ported to Mac with the same level of negligence that Electron brings in). I use a lot of Reminders and lists in Reminders. It’s janky and poorly coded.

New comment by AnonHP in "Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries"

AnonHP — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:17:59 +0000

I skimmed through the article. I didn’t understand what role AI supposedly plays in this case for tracking aid deliveries. For tracking you need sensors and connectivity from the mode of delivery, location information, some analytics and databases. What does this AI do for tracking? I can understand a sales pitch that says AI decides where to provide aid, how much, when, etc. But tracking deliveries? It’s a head scratcher for me.

New comment by AnonHP in "Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries"

AnonHP — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:07:50 +0000

I think Meta employees don’t protest either for the genocides its platforms aided and supported or the other harms caused to kids in general. Maybe the pay is so good that one can convince oneself they’re on the good side. Maybe these companies attract a certain type of personality that doesn’t necessarily care much about others.

New comment by AnonHP in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

AnonHP — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:05:53 +0000

> Apple's challenge is they want to maintain privacy, which means doing everything on-device.

Apple is not trying to do everything on-device, though it prefers this as much as possible. This is why it built Private Cloud Compute (PCC) and as I understand it, it’s within a PCC environment that Google’s Gemini (for Apple’s users) will be hosted as well.

New comment by AnonHP in "The Day the Telnet Died"

AnonHP — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:26:28 +0000

So Telnet as a client is not dead though, right? A long time ago, I used to use the Telnet client to talk to SMTP servers (on port 25) and send spoofed emails to friends for fun.

With port blocking widening in scope, I’ve long believed that we would one day have every service and protocol listening on port 443. Since all other ports are being knocked off in the name of security, we’ll end up having one port that makes port based filtering useless.