Hacker News: Onawa

New comment by Onawa in "An Introduction to Obsidian"

Onawa — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:56:58 +0000

Isn't it also missing nested folders? I tried Joplin, but no nested folders was a huge disappointment for me.

New comment by Onawa in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

Onawa — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:25:25 +0000

As long as our voting system is "first past the post", it will be nigh impossible for a third party to make any significant headway. IMO Citizens United and first past the post are the two main issues holding the US back from any kind of significant overhaul or change.

New comment by Onawa in "Keep Android Open"

Onawa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:23:20 +0000

I've been flashing phones for over 2 decades and have never bricked a phone. How did you manage that?

New comment by Onawa in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

Onawa — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:34:35 +0000

I really enjoyed Edge after it launched, but when they stuffed in all of the shopping plugins and integrations I bailed on it.

New comment by Onawa in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

Onawa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:34:52 +0000

> I personally believe the ultimate work of Christianity in humanity is to turn us all to repentance and bring us closer to God, not to reject the sinners.

I'm Native American (indigenous, or whatever other moniker you've heard). Both of my paternal grandparents were subjected to the horror of boarding schools. So forgive me if I'm a bit cynical when it comes to the methods deemed appropriate by Christianity to "turn us all to repentance and bring us closer to God."

I would argue that instead of being a tool to try and convince more people that the Abrahamic god is the "right one", maybe think about using LLMs to challenge your own biases regarding religion and to question the myriad of moral and logical issues presented within your holy book.

Just a suggestion from someone also looking at the idea of utilizing LLMs to preserve and explore indigenous language, culture, and wisdom without becoming a slave to the technology.

New comment by Onawa in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

Onawa — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:55:40 +0000

They are all part of "context", yes... But there is a separation in how system prompts vs user/data prompts are sent and ideally parsed on the backend. One would hope that sanitizing system/user prompts would help with this somewhat.

New comment by Onawa in "RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?"

Onawa — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:37:50 +0000

Denuvo is DRM, not anticheat.

New comment by Onawa in "Eat Real Food"

Onawa — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:42:52 +0000

They were referencing the last paragraph of the OP, about being able to safely sunset a large portion of beef production.

New comment by Onawa in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

Onawa — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:49:13 +0000

It depends on the person. I lived alone in my last year of undergrad and it sent me into a deep depression. I figured out that living alone was too much isolation for me and moved back in with a roommate. That helped to pull me out of my depression and be able to finish my degree.

New comment by Onawa in "Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses"

Onawa — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:12:44 +0000

It depends on the game, but for those with some kind of marketplace or transferable currency, I'm guessing market manipulation is one possible reason.

For other games, maybe trying to interrupt some time limited event or tournament. Going all the way down the rabbit hole, if you're not already familiar take a look at how crazy things get in a game like EVE: Online.

Then of course there are the bored trolls and/or people who feel wronged by the game's developers or other players.

New comment by Onawa in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

Onawa — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:50:13 +0000

Why no synthetic underwear? I feel like I would be miserable with only cotton boxer-briefs... I sweat entirely too much even in moderate weather to be comfortable in cotton. I am partial to Pair of Thieves extra long boxer-briefs, they don't ride up at all since I have big thighs. When travelling I can wash them in a sink, and they dry way more quickly than cotton.

New comment by Onawa in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"

Onawa — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:08:56 +0000

That's exactly what Quarto is, and there are already a handful of good journal templates for Quarto to choose from.

https://quarto.org/docs/journals/

New comment by Onawa in "Bonding twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records"

Onawa — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:11:09 +0000

Not if you grew up in the middle of nowhere like I did. I would have killed for that speed as a kid.

I was able to get 30-50 mbps when I finally got a smartphone I could tether in 2005. DSL didn't arrive where I grew up until probably 2012-2013.

New comment by Onawa in "Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones"

Onawa — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:09:52 +0000

So you mean Flock? Except even better, people pay them to install the cameras.

New comment by Onawa in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"

Onawa — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:16:51 +0000

It doesn't completely solve this problem but definitely helps to have something like context7 MCP server running that `Copilot et al.` can reach dramatically reduces hallucinations for most tools. And additionally I've used Continue.dev VSCode along with manually specified docs and guides that you can selectively inject into your context. Both of those tactics make a huge difference in answer quality.

New comment by Onawa in "Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims"

Onawa — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:24:35 +0000

Harris would have had an uphill battle even if she had a full campaign cycle. After quizzing many conservatives, I unfortunately heard entirely too many responses of, "women leaders are unstable", "wouldn't be respected on the world stage", "she fakes her accent(s)", "I don't even know what she campaigned on", and other mind-boggling reasons they wouldn't vote for her.

At this point, I have lost all faith in the American electorate to rise above bigotry and see past social media propaganda.

New comment by Onawa in "Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]"

Onawa — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:14:26 +0000

The same reason that anyone does any risky activity... Adrenaline and dopamine boosts. Riding motorcycles are a calculated risk, one that can make you feel absolutely amazing. You can greatly reduce the risk by riding safely and defensibly. Give yourself space, assume everyone is out to murder you, avoid riding at night, absolutely do not ride inebriated, wear visible gear, etc.

Here is a short from a doctor who rides, explaining his rationale https://youtube.com/shorts/r53eHYCF6Sc

And a video breaking down accident stats https://youtu.be/uZm8Kj0fC88

New comment by Onawa in "Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services"

Onawa — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:01:38 +0000

It's been 2.5 years since ChatGPT came out, and so many projects still don't allow for easy switching of the OPEN_AI_BASE_URL or affiliated parameters.

There are so many inferencing libraries that serve an OpenAI-compatible API that any new project being locked in to OpenAI only is a large red flag for me.

New comment by Onawa in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

Onawa — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:41:02 +0000

The dissolution and dismantling of US gov institutions that we are witnessing is unprecedented in modern times. Hell, a few of the agencies being attacked were created with bipartisan support.

I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from knocking down a few load-bearing walls.

It is easier to destroy almost anything than it is to create it in the first place.

New comment by Onawa in "Positron – A next-generation data science IDE"

Onawa — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:38:22 +0000

As an admin and advocate for Posit Teams, Connect and Server filled a niche where a single admin could spin up infra and allow for anything deployable by end users without having to worry about scaling.

It paid for itself in terms of scientists spinning up their own projects without having to provision server hardware, VMs, or anything else.