Hacker News: askonomm

New comment by askonomm in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

askonomm — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:57:20 +0000

Well for one it is illegal in the EU at least, not that Microsoft or other U.S tech giants care about laws.

New comment by askonomm in "OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor"

askonomm — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:04:00 +0000

Just like how OpenAI is open source.

New comment by askonomm in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

askonomm — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:35:28 +0000

Pretty sure they meant it sarcastically …

Do MCP's use more tokens than CLI's?

askonomm — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:30:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nmm.ee/token-usage-mcp-vs-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616515

Points: 3

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New comment by askonomm in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

askonomm — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:03:06 +0000

Both can be true at the same time. You don’t have to be extremely passionate about your job and go above and beyond, you just have to be competent.

New comment by askonomm in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

askonomm — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:28:47 +0000

At this point I’m convinced that the only people working at Microsoft are those who nobody else would hire. There is no way a self-respecting person would be ok creating garbage like this, day in and day out.

New comment by askonomm in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

askonomm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:33:38 +0000

Most probably do yes, but it's not a requirement to use any of Apple's devices. You don't need to do some command-line kung-fu to get around online account requirement like on Windows, you can just click "Skip" at the online account step, and that's it.

Perhaps you hear no complaints because unlike on Windows, MacOS does not spoon-feed you 10 screens of dark-pattern-riddled upsell ads with options of "Remind me later", "Yes" during set-up. It quite literally feels like being spat on, considering Windows is not a free operating system, and yet it still riddles you with ads and dark patterns as if some horrible shareware from the mid 2000s.

New comment by askonomm in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

askonomm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:11:05 +0000

I thought it's basically the same in all of EU?

New comment by askonomm in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

askonomm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:41:04 +0000

AI reviewing AI. Or in other words, having non-deterministic systems review the creation of non-deterministic systems, hoping for a deterministic result. Good luck with that.

New comment by askonomm in "We should be more tired than the model"

askonomm — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:52:14 +0000

I find great success in not relying on LLM's built-in knowledge, but giving it links to necessary docs/manuals and have it read that before doing anything.

New comment by askonomm in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

askonomm — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:48:14 +0000

Depending on the government. USA government? Yes, I'd trust that even less than Microsoft. Most EU governments? I'd trust a hell of a lot more. Especially my own (Estonian).

New comment by askonomm in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

askonomm — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:45:41 +0000

I mean to be expected of Google. Even their Google Pay sends data to their servers whenever you use it to make payments, effectively also making it so you can't even use it without service. Apple Pay does not, runs the whole thing on-device, and not only is private, but as a result also enables payments entirely offline.

New comment by askonomm in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

askonomm — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:40:30 +0000

From my analytics, around 85% of visits to my sites are now from bots. It's hard to say if these are oldschool bots or people just browsing the web via chatgpt now, but the reality is that very few actually visit the actual sites I have anymore.

New comment by askonomm in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

askonomm — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:28:51 +0000

Because companies here actively want to avoid breaking the law, as opposed to the U.S where breaking the law is just a matter of paying some $ to the grifter in chief? I always find it funny when Europeans being proactive about that sort of stuff is somehow a bad thing from Americans point of view. Like wanting decent human rights and not having to bend over to megacorps is something we should not have.

Though, if the Americans in question just want to do their grifting in EU, it makes sense why they are upset at that, I guess, because it limits their grifting opportunities.

New comment by askonomm in "Claude Design"

askonomm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:34:53 +0000

Only "the greatest country in the world" has laws that allow firing for NOT doing overtime.

New comment by askonomm in "Claude Design"

askonomm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:33:54 +0000

Their engineers are excellent? Have you seen the leaked Claude Code codebase? Juniors write better code than that.

New comment by askonomm in "AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development"

askonomm — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:13:22 +0000

So you are saying that a plumber does not in fact need to know how to be a plumber?

New comment by askonomm in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

askonomm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:56 +0000

Same for me. Been fully agentic for half a year or so, still remember the myriad of programming languages and things just as well if there's no AI present at all. Hard to shake 15 years of experience that quick, unless maybe that experience never fully cemented?

Maybe the difference between actually knowing stuff vs surface level? I know a lot of devs just know how to glue stuff together, not really how to make anything, so I'd imagine those devs lose their skills much faster.

New comment by askonomm in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

askonomm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:47:59 +0000

This. Not to mention that for the mainstream users there are mainstream distros that are largely the same they have always been: Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, so I never really understood the issue of having tons of distros out there for enthusiasts.

New comment by askonomm in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

askonomm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:58:20 +0000

Ah, yes, the [insert super inconvenient and complex thing to do that most people don’t know, want or should do] will solve it! And when that fails, surely the user can just write their own OS, right? Bunch of skill-issued complainers we the users are.