Hacker News: _hzw

New comment by _hzw in "The August 17 outage"

_hzw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:32:49 +0000

I recently received a PR fully automated by Claude for an 8 years old repo. The bug is legit and the scope it affects is larger than what that PR addressed, but I no longer care too much about that legacy code anyway, so I also let Claude run free for the first time in my life, from handling that PR to fixing all related bugs.

I walked away for half an hour and back, found Claude opened and merged 9 more PRs and added a comprehensive CI for testing for all platforms. It will likely take me months to reach this level of output, but only half an hour for a capable agent.

No wonder why GitHub is down all the time.

New comment by _hzw in "KOReader"

_hzw — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:23:54 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by _hzw in "KOReader"

_hzw — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:34:33 +0000

KOReader doesn’t support Japanese vertical rtl layout without a hack (e.g., rotating the fonts) is the single reason I don’t use it. The stock software on Kindle, on the other hand, does care about this a lot and its implementation is very good. In the end, I just built my own local server and a KUAL app to sync books and notes and progress in/out from jailbroken devices.

New comment by _hzw in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

_hzw — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:10:05 +0000

Thanks to the author, I now have a whole lot of destinations to walk around town. I will take some photos of every library and upload to the app soon too!

New comment by _hzw in "Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle"

_hzw — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:02:36 +0000

I am working on a self-hosted library server for jailbroken kindle and opted for using pure Rust for the KUAL app to sync books and annotations with the server.

It's just running `cargo build --release --target armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf` with a .cargo/config.toml:

``` [target.armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf] linker = "rust-lld" rustflags = ["-C", "link-self-contained=yes"]. ```

the downside is I can't use any c-deps. :)

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

_hzw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:42:42 +0000

I have a pipeline of jp epub>m4b, just need to swap tts models in between :)

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

_hzw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:20:25 +0000

Exactly. Qwen only has one pitch accent for pure hiragana words, even though it actually work (removing mandarin mixed-in), which requires some great efforts to normalize text in order to disambiguate heteronyms, the result is (if you use voice cloning) your favorite CV speaking in some weird, unknown accent :)

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

_hzw — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:49:36 +0000

I'd love to see a monolingual Japanese model sometime in the future. Qwen3-tts works for Japanese in general, but from time to time it will mix with some Mandarin in between, making it unusable.

New comment by _hzw in "David Lynch has died"

_hzw — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:05:18 +0000

An (un)obvious connection between Eraserhead and Bloodborne (spoiler!):

https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/xgu21c/eraserhe...

New comment by _hzw in "Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor"

_hzw — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:40:08 +0000

Apple Books has some rare exclusives. To name one, all of Norman Berrow's novels are only available there.

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product"

_hzw — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:35:16 +0000

New comment by _hzw in "The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids"

_hzw — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:30:02 +0000

If both are selfish, then neither is selfish. You conveniently deconstructed the concept of selfishness and I like it a lot.

New comment by _hzw in "Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical"

_hzw — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:34:21 +0000

If that was the reason, Gemini must have been doing some very convoluted reasoning...

New comment by _hzw in "Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical"

_hzw — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:29:36 +0000

Tangent. Yesterday I tried Gemini Ultra with a Django template question (HTML + Bootstrap v5 related), and here's its totally unrelated answer:

> Elections are a complex topic with fast-changing information. To make sure you have the latest and most accurate information, try Google Search.

I know how to do it myself, I just want to see if Gemini can solve it. And it did (or didn't?) disappoint me.

Links: https://g.co/gemini/share/fe710b6dfc95

And ChatGPT's: https://chat.openai.com/share/e8f6d571-127d-46e7-9826-015ec3...

New comment by _hzw in "The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids"

_hzw — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:33:16 +0000

It's interesting to note that you consider having children a selfish choice, because in some cultures, not having children is considered selfish.

New comment by _hzw in "YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix"

_hzw — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:40:30 +0000

I live in Germany. After dual-using Google Maps and Apple Maps for a year, I've finally uninstalled Google Maps and now use only Apple Maps.

New comment by _hzw in "Letterboxd/Goodreads/storygraph but for video games?"

_hzw — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:41:50 +0000

I resonate with the top comment on Tildes that suggests we need a singular conglomerate to cover all media types. We actually had one from China, douban.com, but the situation of censorship there makes it unusable. There are also a few new alternatives, such as nicedb.org and its fork, neodb.social, but I find them somehow lacking.

New comment by _hzw in "Blot turns a folder into a website"

_hzw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:27:54 +0000

Does anyone remember scriptogr.am? It was a similar idea, but it's long gone now.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=scriptogr.am

New comment by _hzw in "Positive news from 2023"

_hzw — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:29:19 +0000

As the saying goes, "no news is good news".

New comment by _hzw in "Wikipedia: Articles for Deletion/Minecraft (2010)"

_hzw — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:46:01 +0000

Is there anyone out there building a federated Wiki based on ActivityPub, given it's such a fad nowadays?