Hacker News: Given_47

New comment by Given_47 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

Given_47 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:41:00 +0000

Totally unrelated, but I just came across ur comment [0] from last month about indexing ur search history etc, and ik of a couple programs that fill that niche. The first is spyglass [1], but it's no longer in active development, and the second is this python program, knowledge [2], that I have yet to personally set up (but obviously have an open tab for it, as I plan to eventually lol). So u might want to check these out, especially the latter one, as it's currently in development

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531526 [1]: https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass [2]: https://github.com/raphaelsty/knowledge

New comment by Given_47 in "The fishy death of Red Lobster"

Given_47 — Fri, 03 May 2024 03:14:03 +0000

Somewhat ironical, but I'd be a bit more charitable and simply chalk that up to edge cases; additionally it's no different than typical ideological signaling. I find it less interesting to care about the extent people can bastardize a given idea, also because that's an entirely different, sociological issue.

Tho really any belief system that becomes so institutionalized will inevitably attract flies and become debased over time. However one could cheekily remark that by virtue of its message and who it spoke to, early Christianity was inherently debased, and certaintly ignoble.

New comment by Given_47 in "The fishy death of Red Lobster"

Given_47 — Fri, 03 May 2024 02:47:33 +0000

Yea, I dislike that frequent atheist rejoinder cuz it totally misses the point; religion is concomitant and merely used as a pretense. Which I equally dislike, I wish there were more transparency about one's innate will to dominate rather than masquerading behind fictitious ideological claims.

New comment by Given_47 in "The fishy death of Red Lobster"

Given_47 — Fri, 03 May 2024 02:24:08 +0000

Yea, Spinoza effectively argues that the Commandments were necessitated by practical utility to control the unruly and uneducated masses and have since become even more bastardized by sectarian religions that wield these appeals to control people and actually prevent them to fully getting to know "God", which he finds entirely possible through reason alone.

And humorously, the latter of each of GP's respective points map pretty well to the destructive effects of what Nietzsche most feared of what he sensed was impending nihilism. Tho the difference, among many, is that "belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable".

New comment by Given_47 in "Beej's Guide to Network Concepts"

Given_47 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 06:14:08 +0000

Awesome, looking forward to starting this! And thanks for all your work Beej

New comment by Given_47 in "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser"

Given_47 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:14:15 +0000

You know, that highlights the idiocy of my workflow. I typically search through my bookmarks or history with Vimium, and not through my open tabs because I want to open the link in my current context; not the context where that tab resides.

But overall I actually think the visual aspect is the reason, its mostly an unavoidable nag saying "DONT FORGET!" Closing tabs sends them into the abyss, unless you precisely remember what you're looking for (for someone wont to ctrl/cmd click hyperlinks, good luck finding those). And I do use session buddy to save and organize contexts (and keeps the tab situation somewhat "sane") but—and similarly with OneTab—those just get sent off to the extension's local db and you forget.

> Do you end up with a “feel” for where the tab is, similar to how we get used to the contours of our camera role on a smartphone?

When I used to only have a few hundred, spread out into different windows, and designated virtual desktops for each meta topic, definitely. It's what I want to get back to.

New comment by Given_47 in "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser"

Given_47 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:35:29 +0000

Haha, I use session buddy for that but I reopen all tabs every time I restart my computer because the fallacious thinking of "THIS time I'll go through some of them!" My above comment did prompt me to seriously start looking into a better system, though predictably now I have a ton of tabs open for linkding, archivy, et al. The awesome-$THING project(s) are great resources but you quickly spawn fifty additional tabs for each project's repo

New comment by Given_47 in "Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness"

Given_47 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:23:47 +0000

Love lunar. Dev is super responsive and it has a pretty feature-full cli tool as well which makes it easy to script

New comment by Given_47 in "I like gentoo's package deprecation process"

Given_47 — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 21:19:44 +0000

> Gentoo's biggest draw for me however is its philosophy and dedication to "choice".

Same. I remember when I was going through the install handbook its three stated "design principals [sic]" of openness, choice, and power [0] spoke to me.

> I liken Gentoo to being given a bucket of Lego bricks.

I recall seeing some comment (might've been ascribed to Daniel Robbins, not sure) about how "Gentoo was created to be LFS for humans."

[0]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Abo...

New comment by Given_47 in "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser"

Given_47 — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 03:28:48 +0000

> I have once been to told to see a doctor or psychiatrist for having a few hundred tabs

Yea that's nothing, haha. I currently have 3592 open. Like you mention, research and tab hoarding go hand in hand. Even recreational research: everyone is familiar with the wikipedia spree with its innumerable hyperlinked articles and references, and now you suddenly have 20 additional open tabs. I'll read maybe two of them, but the others piqued my interest enough to warrant opening, so definitely not closing them. If you never purge, you eventually end up in the hundreds/thousands.

My tabs get auto suspended when they've been idle for thirty mins, which prevents the memory usage from becoming ridiculous enough to incentivize me to change! Though I do need a better system, such as a tagging/categorization system for links. At least half my open tabs are things not of immediate relevance (duh), but HN posts/random blog posts on $NICHE_TOPIC that I'll (hopefully) get to eventually; eg building a DIY keyboard. Especially the blog posts, I can't be sure that I'll stumble upon them again. Sites like MakeUseOf can fuck off, they always float to the top of the SERP.

New comment by Given_47 in "Meta Faces European Privacy Crackdown on Behavioral Advertising"

Given_47 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:29:42 +0000

Non-paywall version:

https://archive.is/RG2Mg

New comment by Given_47 in "The case against AI everything, everywhere, all at once"

Given_47 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:08:02 +0000

Disabling js was the only way to make it bearable for me. Breaks some functionality here and there, but for general “browsing” the trade-off is worth it. Eg zero ads, popups, paywalls.

New comment by Given_47 in "The case against AI everything, everywhere, all at once"

Given_47 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:49:44 +0000

iOS FF is pretty subpar. You can’t even crudely disable all js like in safari. Though I still use it, as Brave crashes on launch half the time and refuses to open (1.3k tabs) and safari also has a 500 tab limit

New comment by Given_47 in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

Given_47 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:58:39 +0000

Prog house not trance, but Hernan Cattaneo’s Balance Presents Sudbeat Continuous Mix 2 [0] is my absolute go-to as a complement for focusing/thinking etc. Not his overall best work, but for my criteria for focus music it’s amazing (butter smooth transitions, no vocals, continuity throughout mix, ~120 bpm).

[0]: https://open.spotify.com/track/1t7EJCFDDcJKBF129PvJan

New comment by Given_47 in "Why the Internet Isn't Fun Anymore"

Given_47 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:49:15 +0000

Not parent, but Marginalia's list[0] of blogs is a great aggregation. I've also stumbled upon some webrings through some of the blogs (have them open somewhere among my 3000 open tabs haha).

[0]: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/PublicData/blob/master/s...

New comment by Given_47 in "Be an Open Source Absolutist"

Given_47 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:39:23 +0000

Noticed the same recently but with some others such as nitter.tux.pizza but with the main instance working (which I’ve avoided cuz it seemed like it was overrun for a good 1-2 months)

New comment by Given_47 in "Moving Marginalia to a new server"

Given_47 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 17:47:51 +0000

Super happy for you! Funny coincidence, given we just talked about your “modest” specs last week haha.

-“John”

New comment by Given_47 in "TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold"

Given_47 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:13:54 +0000

Wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing that out. And full disclosure, I haven't seen any tiktok book reviews so these are my thoughts on tiktok globally (which is perhaps unfair). I guess my general annoyance then is the, let's say, minification. And the stupidly engaging hook sentences. Very artificial and a lack of authenticity and because you're at the mercy of the algorithm, the discoverability of niche, genuine vids can be extremely hard. Not that these are groundbreaking takes though

New comment by Given_47 in "Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it"

Given_47 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:20:42 +0000

Tin foil hat time: I've started writing down companies behind ads that happen to slip through my defenses that are obnoxious/offensive/etc. Because, as you mention, so much of advertising is psychological manipulation. It'll be helpful to have a list of offenders to reference to before making a purchase for example.

The idea occurred to me after someone here proclaimed that they're simply unaffected by ads, reasoning they don't make rash purchases. Someone naturally countered with the extreme subconscious effect of ads.

This list thing is imperfect (I mean look how omnipresent car logos are for example) but it's an improvement from thinking you're immune to ads. Memory is fickle, and why Memento is my favorite movie.

New comment by Given_47 in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

Given_47 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:44:25 +0000

> This rings a little hollow to me because as a consumer, wouldn't I have noticed a lack of non-amazon options?

You haven’t? What sorts of products do u typically browse/shop for?