Hacker News: batperson

New comment by batperson in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

batperson — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:10:53 +0000

Edge user here. For one, chromium is faster than firefox, any given page will load about 20% faster, another reason is edge workspaces feature, I've grown to like it, which seems to be some sort of chromium feature that everyone bakes in weird ways if at all, and I'm still running ublock origin on edge without any funky bypasses.

Then there's a fact that a bunch of sites/webapps straight up refuse to work on firefox and they ask you to install chrome or something. And lastly chromium the most popular browser flavor and as a web dev it helps to see pages through "the same eyes" as my users/customers.

That's about it, the only reason I use firefox every day is their superior picture-in-picture player, chromium one is waaay inferior.

New comment by batperson in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

batperson — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:30:10 +0000

If you check openrouter there are a tons of providers selling API access to open source LLMs at a fraction of the cost compared to SOTA models (codex/claude). What model you're serving and what kind of platform you serve is a big factor.

I'm no expert but I think eventually we'll have even more specialized ASIC like machines with models burned into them and a that will absorb a chunk of the market, similar to what happened to crypto mining but to a lesser degree since the work isn't as static.

New comment by batperson in "How is Groq raising more money?"

batperson — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:31:18 +0000

Before they removed it, I was using groq Kimi K2 model for a chat bot in small community site/chat. It was really good, seemed to have incredibly vast general world knowledge and the fast speed (400tok/s if I remember right) meant that chat users got a response instantly which was a much better experience compared to other SOTA models at the time.

On the bright side it looks like Cerebras might be serving Kimi K2.6 at 1000tok/s soon https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/cerebras-kimi-k2-Enterprise

New comment by batperson in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

batperson — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:20:04 +0000

These are business class laptops, there's no dedicated GPU. Where are you're going to utilize this high refresh rate? I'm pretty sure 99% of the time the integrated graphics would be working hard to churn out 120 frames of static views.

I bet the vast majority of people would be perfectly happy to have 60hz display, longer battery life, and save a few bucks at the same time.

Funny bonus anecdote: I reinstall my OS in december, only a few weeks ago did I realize it wasn't set to 144hz but 60hz, since I was busy with work since and didn't play any games I did not even realize.

New comment by batperson in "Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger"

batperson — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:26:36 +0000

Damn, what a flashback. I forgot about that game, it was quite something for its time. I remember the gesture spell casting system not working very consistently, but it was still a ton of fun.

New comment by batperson in "“QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming” [pdf]"

batperson — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:04:38 +0000

I found the opposite when I went through a split keyboard phase and did Colemak-DH layout. As far as english goes I found that a lot of words had a smoother "flow" when it comes to finger location.

In the end I went back to a regular qwerty because my WPM on split keyboards/colemak-DH was considerably worse even after many months of practice.

New comment by batperson in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

batperson — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:01:48 +0000

I can't find information on what would happen to Chromium, would google need to hand it over too? That's probably more important than the fate of Chrome.

New comment by batperson in "Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]"

batperson — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:59:37 +0000

+1, a nicer looking ff experience, more customizable too.

New comment by batperson in "OpenAI o1 System Card [pdf]"

batperson — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:58:09 +0000

Wasn't aware of "Claude Dev", just tried it out, it's pretty cool. I had this simple node chatbot with a handful of features but it was all just one big script, asked it to split up the logic into separate files that would make further dev work/maintenance easier.

5 minutes and 30 cents later it came up with a decent folder structure and split everything up nicely, even cleaned up a bunch of messy code into some helper functions. Vanilla claude API could've probably done all this as well, but it would've been much more of a hassle. I'll definitely be playing around with it some more!

New comment by batperson in "Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?"

batperson — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:29:05 +0000

Nuts, seeds and olive oil are all extremely high in calories.

New comment by batperson in "Mixtral 8x22B"

batperson — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:05:17 +0000

That's the old/regular model. This post is about the new "instruct" model.

New comment by batperson in "Tailwind Isn't for Me"

batperson — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:07:40 +0000

A big issue that these articles never mention is that using browser dev tools to debug CSS becomes a huge pain with tailwind. It also makes it harder for community to create custom themes/user scripts for your website/app since targeting specific elements becomes incredibly hard when no class names exist.

New comment by batperson in "Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax"

batperson — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:24:17 +0000

Then you can think of Spotify as a more user friendly alternative to Napster, Kazaa, Soulseek, Limewire and friends.

New comment by batperson in "Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)"

batperson — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:40:10 +0000

The PPI ratio for 32" 4k with no scaling is actually pretty good (at least to my eye, since it's similar to my previous 24" 1080p, 27" 1440p monitors). If we can agree on that, then the solution is to just move the monitor closer to your eyes, 3rd party monitor arms help with that.

New comment by batperson in "Tell HN: Firefox has madea lotof progress. Let the browser wars continue"

batperson — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:13:29 +0000

Sidebery is great for this nowadays, looks pretty slick too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

New comment by batperson in "Somafm"

batperson — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 05:18:07 +0000

Scrobbles... reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8az1UMOiQ

New comment by batperson in "Introduction to math for game developers"

batperson — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:20:16 +0000

Could you elaborate ? Does this require any specific setup?

New comment by batperson in "Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?"

batperson — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:32:53 +0000

You can also just click the . (period) key when viewing any repo.

New comment by batperson in "Hacker News needs a Dark Mode"

batperson — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:03:16 +0000

Here's my custom dark mode CSS if anyone enjoys the google dark mode aesthetic (I inject with the "Stylus" extension, avoid "Stylish" extension at all costs): https://pastebin.com/CsVkRbYM

Also my CSS for hckrnews.com (my preferred homepage UI): https://pastebin.com/SLRrY9gn

Looks like this: HN - https://i.imgur.com/P6rDgR8.png hckrnews.com - https://i.imgur.com/HfjOAYW.png

New comment by batperson in "Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone"

batperson — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:47:30 +0000

In the case of Washington Post it just has a "position: fixed" style on the element. That's usually the case with most of these scroll locking sites, one of the root parent elements will have some CSS style that you can click off.