Hacker News: Cyberdog

New comment by Cyberdog in "Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS"

Cyberdog — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:58:12 +0000

In a sense, yes. They used third-party extensions (XCMDs) to HyperCard to add features it didn’t support out of the box, such as full-color support.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

Cyberdog — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:05:58 +0000

Don't worry. I'm sure EU legislation will solve nuisances that are solely a creation of EU legislation.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

Cyberdog — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:01:19 +0000

So the "cut" file doesn't disappear from its directory when you "cut" it? Only when it's pasted?

New comment by Cyberdog in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added"

Cyberdog — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:57:39 +0000

Former foodservice worker (in the US) for several years here. Servers do not spit in customers' food; that would be psychopathic behavior that no manager would tolerate and grounds for immediate termination, and the type of person who would actually do that is the type of antisocial person who is going to struggle in any job. If a known bad tipper ends up in a server's section, she'll roll her eyes in private, perhaps grumble to her co-workers, then go put on the customer service smile and serve them as normal.

That said, please tip. Note that (where legal) servers are generally paid below minimum wage because it's expected their income will be supplemented with tips. Consider the tip not a bribe but as a payment for a service you were provided which, at least in the current cultural climate, is not being tacked on to the actual bill; you may not like that and want that cultural norm to change, but it hasn't changed yet and is unlikely to in the near future. If tipping really offends you, then order pick-up instead of dining in, or just cook at home.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

Cyberdog — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:49:26 +0000

So the "cut" file just disappears then? Is there an "undo?" That seems really horrifying.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you"

Cyberdog — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:45:05 +0000

Agreed, the Thermos company's lawyers will probably fire off a terse letter once they find out.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

Cyberdog — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:24:45 +0000

What does happen if you never paste the file?

It feels to me like cut/copy (in the clipboard manipulation sense)/paste are nonsensical operations on files in the first place.

New comment by Cyberdog in "N.J. MVC error registered 6,600 undocumented immigrants to vote"

Cyberdog — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:54:54 +0000

HN title is misleading; the article merely says that the people were non-citizens. And as this happened when they were at a government office in the process of getting ID cards or driver licenses, it's safe to assume the vast majority of them were not undocumented - they were literally obtaining documentation.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Cyberdog — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:49:23 +0000

If I can tell that the LLM didn't answer my question properly, why would I engage with the ad the answer contains, which would likely be equally irrelevant?

New comment by Cyberdog in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Cyberdog — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:47:21 +0000

Incredibly Reddit-brained, if you're serious. Just say "explain, in simple terms, this thing," then ask follow-up questions on the parts you still struggle to grasp. It works for me - one of the things I find LLMs are quite good at, really.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

Cyberdog — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:55:53 +0000

Is this the same "Kagi" that used to manage shareware license purchases (primarily for Mac) 30 years ago? I assumed it was as this Kagi also seems to be Apple-centric, but that Kagi was run by a man named Key (Key Netherly or something like that), not Vlad.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

Cyberdog — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:37:19 +0000

I'm giving it a try after a couple months of daily driving with Zen, which I've become quite fond of. One potential deal-breaker is that it seems to be impossible to log into GitHub. After autofilling my credentials from the keychain, the form submits, and then I get redirected right back to the form with no error message. The same thing happens when I try logging in with my passkey. Has anyone else run into this and found a workaround? I tried turning off auto-submitting password forms in the Settings but that doesn't change anything.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

Cyberdog — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:10:38 +0000

SponsorBlock has a native Safari/iOS extension that works fine.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise"

Cyberdog — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:20:41 +0000

Thanks for that clarification. I was scouring the article and this comment section for some sort of clarification on how this would be enforced, since nowhere does it say that a new law was being passed or something.

New comment by Cyberdog in "The state of open source AI"

Cyberdog — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:24:34 +0000

querySelector/querySelectorAll() are great for plucking out deeply nested elements but if all you need is to find all elements of a certain class and the API gives you a tool to do exactly that, why not do that instead of reaching for the general-purpose Swiss army knife? Sure, the execution speed difference may be only measurable in microseconds, but it takes about the same amount of time to type so why not use the specific tool?

New comment by Cyberdog in "The state of open source AI"

Cyberdog — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:22:35 +0000

That's a subjective question, so I'll give a subjective answer. The browser, for better or worse, was a lot less dumbed down for mobile than competitors, the stylus-less touch interface reduced UI friction and the odds that you'd lose a critical (if inexpensive) component, and the slew of contemporary iPod users could easily migrate their libraries over.

New comment by Cyberdog in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

Cyberdog — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:31:46 +0000

Yes, Firefox itself is a “general purpose” browser, and that’s probably for the best in terms of wide market appeal. Other developers have taken the engine and made power-user-focused browsers with it. Lately I’ve fallen in love with Zen (though after 2 months of use its pinned tabs features still confuse me a bit).

https://zen-browser.app/

New comment by Cyberdog in "The state of open source AI"

Cyberdog — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:24:21 +0000

While that may be technically true for a strict definition of “smartphone,” there’s no denying the iPhone redefined the concept in a way that its competitors were forced to copy to have any hope of keeping up. Nobody hears the word “smartphone” and thinks of a Blueberry or Treo anymore.

New comment by Cyberdog in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

Cyberdog — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:06:33 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I did some brief research on those two and DuckDB in particular looks enticing. I'll have to remember to give it a try on my next side project.

New comment by Cyberdog in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

Cyberdog — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:50:09 +0000

I don’t understand why a local app database shouldn’t still have the same basic functionality and data guarantees as the full-sized ones.