Hacker News: ArneVogel

New comment by ArneVogel in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

ArneVogel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:27:05 +0000

I used it on my old pc, but I don't buy still that regularly online so I guess I forgot to reinstall it again. Also it is outdated by now as the domain list hasn't updated in two years.

How I made the most intrusive Firefox extension

ArneVogel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:36:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arnevogel.com/firefox-permissions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728069

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ArneVogel in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

ArneVogel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:35:58 +0000

I won the "Middle Finger Emoji Sticker" Award! (https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension#the-middle-fin...)

I quickly wrote up how: https://www.arnevogel.com/firefox-permissions/

New comment by ArneVogel in "Show HN: Tic-Tac-Toe"

ArneVogel — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:29:38 +0000

The title bot stole the "Ultimate"!

Show HN: Tic-Tac-Toe

ArneVogel — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:26:08 +0000

Playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe with my friends on pen and paper I wanted wondered if there is a online community like for chess but I didn't find any for multiplay with ratings, or any match making at all.

So here is my try to build a ultimate tic-tac-toe online community.

Since there are basically no players outside of me and my friends I have also added bot support. Something interesting here: the usual Minimax algorithm doesn't work since there is no evaluation function like with chess. The bot simulates X games with random moves and picks the move that wins the most.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154600

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Things GenAI Needs for Better Content Design [video]

ArneVogel — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:34:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfHBINzB0Ps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680947

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

In the DOM We Trust: The Hidden Dangers of Reading the DOM on the Web [pdf]

ArneVogel — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:02:18 +0000

Article URL: https://trouge.net/papers/in_the_dom_we_trust_ccs25.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613177

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ArneVogel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

ArneVogel — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:54:26 +0000

Hej, I am still working on FisherLoop [1] to learn Swedish (but I have added German, Spanish, French and Italian since). I created FisherLoop because I like audiobooks for language learning but I hated having to pause to look up words + I want to read along the book while listening. With FisherLoop I made "interactive audiobooks" where I use TTS with word level timestamps to highlight the words as they are spoken + I can click on words for the translation.

I am using cerebras for book translations and verb extraction and all LLM related tasks. For TTS I am using cartesia. I have played around with Elevenlabs and they have slightly natural sounding TTS but their pricing is too steep for this project. Books would cost a couple of hundred euros to process.

[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/

Show HN: I made a word guessing game based on word semantic similarity

ArneVogel — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 05:31:06 +0000

This is inspired by [1] which was posted to HN two days ago [2]. In the blog the Jack describes this game: * Is it closer to Mussolini or bread? Mussolini. * Is it closer to Mussolini or David Beckham? Uhh, I guess Mussolini. (Ok, they’re definitely thinking of a person.) * Is it closer to Mussolini or Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton. * Is it closer to Bill Clinton or Pelé? Bill Clinton, I think. * Is it closer to Bill Clinton or Grace Hopper? Grace Hopper. * Is it closer to Grace Hopper or Richard Hamming? Richard Hamming. * Is it closer to Richard Hamming or Claude Shannon? You got it, I was thinking of Claude Shannon.

I wondered if it was possible to play this game against the computer [3]. I have solved this using the word vectors from GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation [4] and projecting them to 2d.

I am not 100% happy with how the game plays right now. It is hard to get closer to the target right now if you started "far away" from the target. That is why I have added the hints. If you have ideas for the game format let me know :)

[1] https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44595811 [3] https://xkcd.com/1425/ [4] https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622247

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

ATC/OSDI'25 Technical Sessions

ArneVogel — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:15:24 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/07/atcosdi25-technical-sessions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44529218

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ArneVogel in "Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched"

ArneVogel — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:25:45 +0000

I think this is the first time I have seen the .int tld used.

New comment by ArneVogel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

ArneVogel — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:00:33 +0000

Maybe I should have clarified, in addition to Swedish, I have added Spanish, Italian, German, and French.

New comment by ArneVogel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

ArneVogel — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:16:47 +0000

Did you use the hi@... email? I am seeing a hard bounce for that email. Not sure how to debug that right now. All my emails I have tested have worked. Could you try a different email while I debug?

Want to meet people, try charging them for it?

ArneVogel — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-06-28-want-to-meet-people-charge-them.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419986

Points: 192

# Comments: 90

New comment by ArneVogel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

ArneVogel — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:10:24 +0000

Hej, I made FisherLoop[1] to learn Swedish. FisherLoop are interactive audiobooks where I use TTS with word level timestamps to highlight the words as they are spoken. This helps me pick up on pronounciation and grammar in a, for me, natural way. Additionally, I added flashcards from the books + word lookup. I am adding new books right now. If you have any requests: public domain books, which are around one hour reading time let me know :)

[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/

New comment by ArneVogel in "Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?"

ArneVogel — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:51:13 +0000

I am using it for FisherLoop [1] to translate text/extract vocabulary/generate example sentences in different languages. I found it pretty reliable for longer paragraphs. For one sentence translations it lacks context and I have to manually edit sometimes. I tried adding more context like the paragraph before and after, but then I found it wouldn't follow the instructions and only translate the paragraph I wanted but also the context, which I found no good way to prevent. So now I manually verify, but it saves me still ~98% of the work.

[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/