Hacker News: akho

New comment by akho in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

akho — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:22:58 +0000

> want to keep it going as long as possible

note that the volume of EU and US support to Ukraine is obviously calibrated to the same goal.

New comment by akho in "Tiny Little Office"

akho — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:09:06 +0000

typst is VC-funded, and its longevity is in doubt.

New comment by akho in "What I Self-Host"

akho — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:46:13 +0000

> Self-hosting e-mail seems like a lot of work for very little benefit. I cannot risk not being able to send or receive e-mails.

I do not understand the combination of these two sentences. The second is the reason to self-host email, and the first is somehow about not self-hosting email?..

> how all of this could run on 16 GB RAM

apart from Frigate (I've never run something like that, so I don't know), all this should fit in, like, 4 GB. Services are cheap.

> Single binary deployment? Yes, please.

> Podman.

Lol.

New comment by akho in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

akho — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:56:42 +0000

does it achieve token efficiency? vs something like maki? It's not at all clear what the method of that "efficiency" is.

my main issues with maki are that the line editor (what you use to enter your prompts) is very barebones, copy-paste is broken (no middle-click paste, or copy to PRIMARY; implicit copying to CLIPBOARD that can only be used with a mouse), and scrollback is not native. So it's not a real cli, but some sort of weblike tui.

I tried 3code; it does not mess with selection, but code printed in the conversation has | markers in every line, and is thus uncopyable in practice. Don't know how to use that.

New comment by akho in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

akho — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:00:20 +0000

At least GNOME 1 enjoyers seem to have aged out of these discussions.

New comment by akho in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

akho — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:43:13 +0000

Works on Wayland. Doesn't work in some assclown programs; e.g. claude attempts its own copy-to-clipboard feature, which goes around primary.

New comment by akho in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

akho — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:52:25 +0000

I don't understand your initial comment at all, then. You want touchpads to have features they already have, which you haven't tried, because you don't have a touchpad?..

Or was there a different meaning?

New comment by akho in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

akho — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:14:02 +0000

Pinch-to-zoom is handled by libinput, and exposed to gtk apps. Works fine in firefox. Works in GtkWebkit views. works in Loupe the image viewer. works in Gnome Maps. Even works in Emacs, ffs.

Are you on X or smth?

New comment by akho in "Heretic removes restrictions from language models"

akho — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:51:07 +0000

The Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications, which is ratified by most countries, and only denounced by Denmark, Germany, and The Netherlands, bans most porn.

There are some enforcement issues.

New comment by akho in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

akho — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:18:42 +0000

This post is _about_ how that is both possible and common.

Only GPL is somewhat immune, because Stallman was always right.

New comment by akho in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

akho — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

Why not allow everything? It's not like it can do much inside the container.

New comment by akho in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

akho — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:16:28 +0000

— Open the garage door, Siri.

— I'm sorry, OptionOfT. I'm afraid I can't do that.

New comment by akho in "Rune is now open source"

akho — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:12:55 +0000

> Internal Server Error: administrator has misconfigured Anubis. Please contact the administrator and ask them to look for the logs around: fast.

Lol.

Worked after a couple of tries. Love how the pictured creepy furry pushes blame on the "administrator".

New comment by akho in "On Really Trying (2009)"

akho — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:17:30 +0000

The kids of everyone on that flight went on to good educations and some measure of success. It takes a lot of effort to fuck up. That is the privilege, yes.

Attributing that success to strict parenting and hard work requires quite a lot of extra argument, which the thread starter does not have. Refusing humanity of people who were not on the flight, and did not achieve the same success, is something else entirely.

New comment by akho in "On Really Trying (2009)"

akho — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:59:44 +0000

Of course everyone is influenced by their parents and grandparents. That does not mean their achievement is yours.

The person I was replying to started the comment chain from an abhorrent position of Social Darwinism. Failing to see their privilege, and failing to distinguish their lives from their grandparents' is very common for people holding those opinions.

New comment by akho in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

akho — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:40:31 +0000

eh, the whole site is claudes anyway

New comment by akho in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

akho — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:16:50 +0000

What's the point of getting a DRMed e-book from a library, and then converting it? You are not supporting the author, you are not supporting the library, and you are not even being a good boy, legally. (You also typically get worse files than you'd get through other means)

New comment by akho in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

akho — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:09:54 +0000

is this using my subscription

New comment by akho in "On Really Trying (2009)"

akho — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:19:42 +0000

sob stories of your gramps life have nothing to do with you

New comment by akho in "On Really Trying (2009)"

akho — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:55:58 +0000

children from families flying Concorde grow up to be doctors and lawyers, news at 11