Hacker News: FrinkleFrankle

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Search for everyone"

FrinkleFrankle — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:14:59 +0000

I use it much less than I did prior to LLM becoming useful. However, when I need to search, it just works. Their AI integration with their search is also great, but I couldn't justify it and ChatGPT subscription. I can't bring myself to cancel Kagi entirely, though. I still did 600 searches this month.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks"

FrinkleFrankle — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:45:43 +0000

Would you mind sharing, if you're open sourcing it?

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

FrinkleFrankle — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:35:21 +0000

It really depends his good it is. There are so many shows where stories just don't pay off well. I could see an AI developing a show with a complex web of throughlines kept logically consistent and fleshed out.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "You said no MCP"

FrinkleFrankle — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:47:47 +0000

MCP is a tool more for security than anything else. If you give your agents access to an API key, there's a chance they can accidentally or maliciously leak that key. If the MCP server has access to the keys instead, it takes that possibility away. That's not always something you need to care about, but it is very important for some people's threat model.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

FrinkleFrankle — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:41:18 +0000

I'd rather use the fancy models while absurd valuations are subsidising them and then pick up a couple grand worth of their old hardware in a few years when they're eol.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

FrinkleFrankle — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:39:24 +0000

Fuck, that's smart. Thank you for the idea.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "I switched to Brave"

FrinkleFrankle — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:27:18 +0000

FYI, you can use brave/chrome policies to disable most of the annoying stuff in brave. It is an incredibly sleek browser when you do so.

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Gro...

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip"

FrinkleFrankle — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:31:35 +0000

I've had a ZFS array running since ~2009. It's gone through upgrades and disk replacements, etc. Have not suffered a data loss in that time. ZFS I'd the goat.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

FrinkleFrankle — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:58:46 +0000

I'd say anyone who chooses to kill a civilian, whether based on an order or not, is a war criminal. I really don't care if they thought they were there for a noble cause or not.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

FrinkleFrankle — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:19:06 +0000

Any hope of ever expanding to Canada?

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

FrinkleFrankle — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:17:09 +0000

Sounds cool. Care to share it?

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

FrinkleFrankle — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:29:09 +0000

Windows 2000 was incredible. It was so sleek, fast and worked so much better than XP. I'm sure it still required a lot of tinkering compared to a modern OS, but I still miss it.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

FrinkleFrankle — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:14:14 +0000

Sounds cool. Do you have a link or more info to share?

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

FrinkleFrankle — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:47:09 +0000

Brave has ad-blocking built in and policies can be used to disable any unwanted features. With Chrome going user-hostile, it's a pretty great option.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

FrinkleFrankle — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:28:49 +0000

True. You'd probably go crazy as a brain disconnected from your body, regardless of what drugs they give you.. But It'd be an interesting final experience, I guess. I do hope they're getting pain killers along with the anaesthesia, though.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

FrinkleFrankle — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:37:09 +0000

Would you mind sharing the relevant config?

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

FrinkleFrankle — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:28:30 +0000

New code will also use these tools from the get go, hopefully vastly reducing the vulnerabilities that make it to prod to begin with.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

FrinkleFrankle — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:32:39 +0000

They need a complete reworking of the government. The fact is that bum-fuck states with a handful of citizens can use their senate seats to hold the country hostage. Nothing will ever get better until that is resolved.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

FrinkleFrankle — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:03:35 +0000

Just because a calculator will only ever be used by a subset of the population to type 80085 and giggle, doesn't mean it can't also be used for complex calculations.

AI is a tool that can accelerate learning, or severely inhibit it. I do think the tooling is going to continue to make it easier and easier to get good output without knowing what you're doing, though.

New comment by FrinkleFrankle in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

FrinkleFrankle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:49:17 +0000

Yeah, llms change the game for card creation. I'm trying to learn Rust (programming language) and I have Codex ingesting books/articles and generating sensible cards from them. It's able to consistently get the HTML right for syntax highlighting in examples too.