Hacker News: OberstKrueger

New comment by OberstKrueger in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

OberstKrueger — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:29:31 +0000

This behavior from people is the one thing that makes me wonder if we all wouldn't be better off just chucking AI off the proverbial cliff. It should be useful tool for enhancing the tasks we have to do, not something to fully replace thinking and human interaction completely.

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Anthropic's Claude Desktop App Installs Undisclosed Native Messaging Bridge"

OberstKrueger — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:52:38 +0000

The problem for me is that this is littering my drive with files in directory's for browsers I have never installed. I have never installed Arc or Brave or a few other of the browsers, but now I have directory's for them in my Application Support folder.

Is it an easy cleanup? Sure. But I shouldn't be seeing support folders for apps I have never installed on my machine, ever.

You can have an RSS dependent website in 2026

OberstKrueger — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745950

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Dependency and Skill Fade

OberstKrueger — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:24:33 +0000

Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/15/last-week-on-my-mac-dependency-and-skill-fade/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387164

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction

OberstKrueger — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:19:09 +0000

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/ai-abstraction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342979

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by OberstKrueger in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

OberstKrueger — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:57:53 +0000

Tablets need an edge where you can grip it. Without thicker bezels, it’s harder to hold it without your fingers being on the screen. This is much less of an issue for phone-sized devices.

Retiring the Slack Bridge on Matrix.org

OberstKrueger — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/11/removing-slack-bridge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078375

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

OberstKrueger — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:46:00 +0000

Unfortunately how I feel about it too. I gave an honest effort at getting into the ecosystem and tested it out with a few close friends. The rough edges brought the experience down compared to other stuff that “just works”, and losing community support for the IRC bridge took a huge use of my own away from it.

New comment by OberstKrueger in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

OberstKrueger — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:37:05 +0000

The first time I went through the theme picker, I was tickled to see a theme I had made years ago included. Realized later it was due to it including all of the themes from iTerm2 Color Schemes automatically.

It made for a more fun first experience with a terminal emulator than I expected to have.

The End of Writing

OberstKrueger — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:28:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ia.net/topics/the-end-of-writing-ia-on-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518607

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi"

OberstKrueger — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:19:14 +0000

Where is it clear that there is great market demand? The only time I see devices like this discussed is in the small maker community. And the technology limitation of not being a fast updating display limits it to more niche uses.

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Diablo Immortal Rift Simulator"

OberstKrueger — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:18:47 +0000

On the flip side, they're doing away with loot boxes in Overwatch 2 and replacing it with a battlepass and straight-forward shop[1]. Plenty of opportunity to screw that up, of course, but at least it'll be easier to see than having to dive into drop rate algorithms and best guesses at such.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23171133/overwatch-2-loot...

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura"

OberstKrueger — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 02:19:37 +0000

It's still there on Monterey, so any removal or altering of functionality will be part of the redesign in Ventura.

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Sunsetting Atom"

OberstKrueger — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:34:32 +0000

Atom might be retiring, but One Dark lives on in every other editor.

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Oregon expands electric vehicle charging statewide"

OberstKrueger — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 01:05:18 +0000

You charge it yourself. There’s no attendants at any chargers I’ve been to.

Twitter shutting down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1

OberstKrueger — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/01/twitter-cancels-tweetdeck-for-mac/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31581182

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

‘It's a Bloodbath’: The Crypto Crash Is Real

OberstKrueger — Wed, 11 May 2022 23:35:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gyy4/its-a-bloodbath-the-crypto-crash-is-real

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31347386

Points: 58

# Comments: 9

New comment by OberstKrueger in "Mastodon for Android"

OberstKrueger — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:55:01 +0000

Based on this open issue on the repo [0], it only has federated timeline support. The lead developer of Mastodon had this to say with regards to not adding it to iOS[1]:

> The omission is intentional and I do not intend to add these types of timelines into the app. They might have made sense for early Mastodon in November 2016 when there were less than 20k people total and all from a homogenous demographic but nowadays the signal to noise ratio makes them a liability in almost every aspect.

> [...]

> The local and federated timelines are not going away from other apps or the web app, to be clear. I’m simply not adding them to this app, and if that bothers you, simply don’t install the app.

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/8

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221

New comment by OberstKrueger in "The hunt for the M1’s neural engine"

OberstKrueger — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:24:14 +0000

Pixelmator Pro uses it for some of its ML functionality. Image scaling can use it, and it provides a cleaner image when upscaling, removing some compression artifacts and just smoothing it out more naturally. I’ve found it can work well downsizing too, although less of an effect. They also have an ML auto-crop tool and ML denoiser. All of these will hit the Neural Engine pretty good.

Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

OberstKrueger — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:25:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867473

Points: 25

# Comments: 3