Hacker News: VertanaNinjai

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:43:12 +0000

Í think their point was that Wireguard has no physical hardware, so it’s strange as a software project they’d be forced to go through verification for a hardware program.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "“Your frustration is the product”"

VertanaNinjai — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:56:55 +0000

Maybe there are some details missing here, but asking for more detailed or tailored feedback makes it seem like he cares and was willing to hear you out. Sometimes people are in their own industry for so long that they forget what their industry and tools look like to outside eyes. A simple menu to him could’ve been overwhelming for you as a quick example.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:16:47 +0000

Well, huge shoutout to you for following up on your word!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/rickyb/network-manager-applet/-/com...

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:27:16 +0000

If you’re against anthropomorphism of LLMs then how can it “encourage” you if you’re not having a conversation? How could it “convince” you of anything or cast something in a bad light without conversing?

Your point about censorship, however, I fully agree with.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

VertanaNinjai — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:13:30 +0000

Do you have any good starting points? For example, if someone had an ollama or lm studio daemon running where would they go from that point?

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "How two photographers transformed RAW photo support on Mac"

VertanaNinjai — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:45:21 +0000

That functionality may exist, but I’m learning it from this comment. That is very nonintuitive and hard to discover.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started"

VertanaNinjai — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:05:01 +0000

And how is YouTube becoming better? Because in recent years if they detect ad blocking on a network? They will shadow ban the entire network. I can no longer use YouTube without a VPN because every single video cuts at the 1:00 mark. No explanation, no pop up. The videos simply load indefinitely. I have tried numerous solutions, but when I’m on my home network? I either VPN or I don’t get YouTube access.

This has been my situation for at least 2 years across multiple devices and accounts.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:17:45 +0000

This might be the first time I’ve seen someone happy about an advertisement in the wild. It is a cool video though!

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:11:01 +0000

I’m not sure where you’re pulling “backdoored” from, but if Apple markets their devices as private then it seems reasonable that end users expect a private device.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

VertanaNinjai — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:57:57 +0000

It can be brute forced if that’s what you mean. It has a fairly low difficulty curve and these old games have a grid system for movement and action selections. That’s why they’re pointing out the lower parameter amount and CPU. The point I took away is doing more with less.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

VertanaNinjai — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:00:06 +0000

The prompt explicitly says “not Rust”. So the answers don’t say Rust.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Building Personal Software with Claude"

VertanaNinjai — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:25:55 +0000

Claude’s web UI has some strange limitations. You may be better off using another provider that just uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet API. One example of many is Kagi’s interface. You can set a system prompt and Claude will actually follow it instead of trying to be too clever. If your prompt says “give full and complete code files at all times unless specified otherwise by the user” it tends to follow that way more accurately than Claude.ai. May be worth a try for you to check out some other providers/interfaces.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries"

VertanaNinjai — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:08:42 +0000

I understand your point in general, but I don’t think it applies to Kagi. Users were paying the same monthly fee and then the company added those features on with no extra subscription cost. I also like that it doesn’t clutter my search. It doesn’t appear unless I press the AI button or end my search with a question mark (can also be disabled).

The only extra costs are if you use the (opt-in optional) AI Assistant which is a web UI to access various models for chatting purposes. As an aside, they recently updated this UI so it’s actually usable as a ChatGPT or Claude alternative.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

VertanaNinjai — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:39:38 +0000

Here is a page DOJ publishes on that (at least for fines). https://www.justice.gov/atr/sherman-act-violations-yielding-...

I also found this for criminal prosecutions under section 2 which is the section covering illegal monopolies. Pages 12 and 14 have some quick summary charts and tables.

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/ant...

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy"

VertanaNinjai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:54:33 +0000

From another comment here.

https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interopera...

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy"

VertanaNinjai — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:52:15 +0000

“Probably” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I’m not sure why Meta deserves the benefit of the doubt with a horrible privacy track record as shown in multiple judicial districts throughout the globe.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python"

VertanaNinjai — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 23:39:00 +0000

What do you mean? Just venv your venv.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "The MANY Alternatives to Scrum"

VertanaNinjai — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:46:53 +0000

No, please tell us what that’s like as a programmer.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps"

VertanaNinjai — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:40:09 +0000

So they told you that’s not supported and don’t do it. You then did it and seem surprised at a bad outcome. And you’re blaming the software and/or vendor?

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

VertanaNinjai — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:34:39 +0000

Not so sure you need anything to do with Hezbollah to be afraid. One example of many.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-ne...