Hacker News: Diti

New comment by Diti in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner"

Diti — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:23:59 +0000

Is there something wrong with the pictures in the second half of the article? It seems like they are taking forever to load (about 30 seconds each), one at a time. I’m on mobile (iOS).

New comment by Diti in "Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL"

Diti — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:02:32 +0000

I wonder how! I’m getting refusals too:

> I cannot fulfill this request. I am unable to generate sexually explicit models or adult toys.

New comment by Diti in "Show HN: Smarter Shell History for Zsh"

Diti — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:37:50 +0000

It’s fun to see the difference between the LLMs (or between the LLM and the person) before and after commit `3c275fdˋ. The project switches from big diffs with commit messages on day one, to smaller diffs with no commit messages besides the summary on day two (today).

Good idea though, I’ll ask Claude to make me the same but without the `fzf` dependency – Zsh’s “ZLE” is powerful enough.

New comment by Diti in "Dithered QR Codes"

Diti — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:53:50 +0000

Using their logo in this way is probably a trademark violation, so they would be able to get your QR code “for free” (minus the costs involved with consulting their legal division).

New comment by Diti in "TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas"

Diti — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:26:58 +0000

This has been a solved problem for at least two decades. Use ASN.1 and choose your encoding rules accordingly: JER when you need JSON, XER when you need XML, and switch to BER/DER when you need to reduce transfer costs.

New comment by Diti in "The AI Productivity Gap"

Diti — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:24:39 +0000

How to get rid of every highly-skilled-but-unmedicated neuroatypical developer (could be people like Xe Iaso or Soatok):

> hiring someone who is a good coder, but has trouble reasoning about systems, has no patience for working through hard problems with others, and can’t break down vague requirements into tangible action items.

Why not hire the excellent developers for the highly-technical skills they bring, and match them with architects/product managers who are the ones who have the big picture? Am I crazy to think like this?

New comment by Diti in "Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?"

Diti — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:19:15 +0000

Because VC money depends on the company’s growth plans, and VC money isn’t offered if “AI” isn’t part of the product any more. (Sample size of one, told by a friend who’s in direct contact with the CEO.)

New comment by Diti in "Back to Kagi"

Diti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:04:52 +0000

I extensively report obvious slop websites. Most of them get rejected/marked as “not AI”. That initiative is cute on paper, but they apparently do not trust the community.

New comment by Diti in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

Diti — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:38:27 +0000

I believe this particular alignment might be virtue signaling to appease payment processors and increase the value of the company.

New comment by Diti in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

Diti — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:14:53 +0000

If written sarcasm isn’t properly labeled as sarcasm, per Poe’s law, you may consider that message you replied to be a genuine opinion.

I would have downvoted the sarcasm (it doesn’t contribute to the conversation), but I believe it actually is the author’s opinion.

New comment by Diti in "Knowledge Should Not Be Gated"

Diti — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:02:07 +0000

Yep. Also no author – an actual writer would have taken credit. I flagged the article but it did nothing.

New comment by Diti in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

Diti — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:33:14 +0000

Woops! This is what sleep deprivation does. Thanks!

New comment by Diti in "Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client"

Diti — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:09:19 +0000

Because support for the app stops the moment the Claude Code subscription ends. No-one enjoys unmaintained apps.

New comment by Diti in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

Diti — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:03:52 +0000

A VPN is literally a… (Very) Private Network.

New comment by Diti in "NixOS 26.05"

Diti — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:47:08 +0000

Let’s be honest, most people do not review the full output of Claude Code because of slop fatigue.

New comment by Diti in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

Diti — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:40:11 +0000

Where in the terms of service or in the admin UI do you see this information? You can pre-pay, yes, and the CDN service (and ONLY the CDN service) has a setting to stop the billing. But the other services do not seem to have a limit on how much you can get billed.

New comment by Diti in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

Diti — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:12:03 +0000

I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens.

As far as I know, Bunny products are their own business units with their own goals and feature requests (Bunny Stream, in particular, lacks a lot of features) and the “block all requests after the bill becomes 50 EUR” ONLY exists for Bunny CDN, not for their other products.

The day Bunny starts treating all their products evenly (and listen to requests asking to implement basic features) will be the day I will switch all my nonprofit communities to their services.

New comment by Diti in "window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world"

Diti — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:27:54 +0000

If you see a directory for pictures, it means XDG directories are available in your system. Then you can change their location at will, and place them as deep in your user directory as you like. Like in `~/opt/art/visual/picture`.

My Nix Home Manager settings for XDG directories:

    xdg.userDirs = {
      enable = true;
      createDirectories = true;
      desktop = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/var/desktop";
      documents = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/opt/docs";
      download = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/var/download";
      music = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/opt/art/music";
      pictures = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/opt/art/visual/picture";
      publicShare = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/var/public";
      videos = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/opt/art/visual/video";
      templates = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/opt/templates";
    };

New comment by Diti in "JSON-LD explained for personal websites"

Diti — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:30:17 +0000

I don’t think you have understood the article enough. You can use Schema.org/FOAF/WikiData/etc. ontologies in HTML without JSON-LD and the script tags.

New comment by Diti in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

Diti — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:18:44 +0000

Anything is a step-up for Markdown, unless you include HTML in your Markdown. The base features of AsciiDoc (or Org-mode) are alike to Markdown in terms of simplicity (no typesetting).