Hacker News: FranklinMaillot

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Claude Opus 4.8"

FranklinMaillot — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:20:32 +0000

And that doesn't use "worth flagging" and "load-bearing" in every other sentence.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update"

FranklinMaillot — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:01:12 +0000

Maybe the /export command is what you're looking for.

'Export the current conversation to a file or clipboard'

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

FranklinMaillot — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:32:17 +0000

It's finally there but you have to enable it in `about:config`. Search for `browser.profiles.enabled`.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

FranklinMaillot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:27:35 +0000

Maybe a low-profile keyboard with very-light actuation switches could help. Also choc keyboards have less spacing between the keys than traditional MX keyboards, which should required less finger travel.

Using a thumb key for Enter, would definitely help with your pinky.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down"

FranklinMaillot — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:41:36 +0000

No, I found the issue. It went all in on unit tests and wrote way too many.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down"

FranklinMaillot — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:37:10 +0000

Not sure if this is related, but has anyone seen their allowance used up unexpectedly fast? Had Claude Code Web showing service disruption warnings, and all of a sudden I'm at 92% usage.

I'm on the pro plan, only using Sonnet and Haiku. I almost never hit the 5-hour limit, let alone in less than 2 hours.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

FranklinMaillot — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:27:03 +0000

Firefox panorama: showed a view all your tabs as thumbnails and let you organize them into groups visually.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Structured Procrastination (1995)"

FranklinMaillot — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:50:54 +0000

Also known as 'procrastivity'.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "iPhone Air"

FranklinMaillot — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:17:11 +0000

That's precisely why people need a phone focused on design and engineering to stand out.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories"

FranklinMaillot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:37:40 +0000

You may be aware of that, but they released mistral-medium-2508 a few days ago.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

FranklinMaillot — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:54:48 +0000

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New comment by FranklinMaillot in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

FranklinMaillot — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:02:45 +0000

Exactly! That's so baffling and infuriating. They're living in an alternate reality at this point. I was just looking at Raphael Enthoven's X account earlier and it makes me crazy.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results"

FranklinMaillot — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:19:15 +0000

The number of goals scored in a game would be a better metric in my opinion.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear"

FranklinMaillot — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:37:20 +0000

It also stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder which is winter depression.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds"

FranklinMaillot — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:04:36 +0000

Exactly. It looks like it was written by a very bad LLM. It keeps repeating the title over and over again.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"

FranklinMaillot — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:28:56 +0000

Wasn't the @ also invented by users? I remember it was fascinating to watch this network self organize and create conventions of its own, that are now used everywhere.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

FranklinMaillot — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:12:55 +0000

Under 100€: a password manager. Every time I need to sign in to an account I haven't used in a long time, I appreciate how much it makes my life easier.

No need to remember which email address I used to sign up, which of my passwords I used, what special character I added... It makes 2FA a breeze. It works seamlessly across my computers, browsers, phones...

I also use it to store API keys, my social security number, passport number, IBAN, copies of documents I need to keep handy..

The added security is just the icing on the cake.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "The Simple Guide to Building and Breaking Habits"

FranklinMaillot — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:08:39 +0000

A distinction that is rarely mentioned when talking about habit forming is the one between building a new habit, like exercising every day, and breaking a bad habit, like quitting junk food. The latter is much harder in my experience but the article hardly acknowledges it.

The former implies building up the willpower to exercise and once it's done, you don't have to think about it for the rest of the day. Quitting a bad habit, on the other hand, is a constant struggle to resist the urge a thousand times per day. When grocery shopping, when out for dinner, when bombarded with ads for ultra processed food... The slightest patch of hardship in your day can make you trip up.

I find the identity-focused strategy can help. Other strategies that somewhat work for me:

- I condition myself to associate the bad habit with the worst things I can think of. Anytime the temptation to eat junk food creeps up, I picture the fat building up in my arteries, I convince myself that the processed food industry is evil, etc.

- I remind myself that the road to success will not be straightforward and I should focus on the general trend instead of the day to day success and failures. Having some kind of habit tracker can help with that.

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?"

FranklinMaillot — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:34:27 +0000

AI explained. It's a youtube channel that gives a nice in-depth overview of the latest papers in the field of LLMs.

https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official

They also have a free newsletter and more behind a Patreon subscription.

https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/p/the-3rd-era-of-ai-langua...

https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained

New comment by FranklinMaillot in "Use a work journal"

FranklinMaillot — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:00:30 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree on mechanical keyboards.