Hacker News: borg16

New comment by borg16 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

borg16 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:54:09 +0000

can you recommend what host do you use? noob here, and looking for something like this.

New comment by borg16 in "Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed"

borg16 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:41:35 +0000

vibe around and find out

folks have created software by "vibe coding". It is now time to "face the music" when doing so for production grade software at scale.

New comment by borg16 in "The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough"

borg16 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:41:14 +0000

at this point it may be considered as form factor that has been deprecated, despite the advantages it brings

New comment by borg16 in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

borg16 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:31:17 +0000

i guess folks in azure wanted to show some solidarity with aws brethren

(couldn't resist adding it. i acknowledge this comment adds no value to the discussion)

New comment by borg16 in "Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year"

borg16 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:39:37 +0000

I never really understood the concept of small teams. Managing a small team really does not provide the scale and benefit that a medium to large team does. Lost bandwidth of manager of said small team or extra salary of the same manager seem like something the company could use in other places.

But often such teams in faang come up as a by product of someone’s empire building and that is unfortunate for others involved in it.

New comment by borg16 in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

borg16 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:58:45 +0000

can someone tell me what are some common use cases of such a tool? may be i'm not the intended customer base, but am curious to know what others are using it for.

New comment by borg16 in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

borg16 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:38:22 +0000

i think your use of the phrase "terrifying forum" is aptly justified here. that has got to be the most unsettling subreddit i have every come across on reddit, and i have been using reddit for more than a decade at this point.

New comment by borg16 in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

borg16 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:14:27 +0000

i read in an earlier thread for this on HN - "this is a classic example of data driven product decision" aka we can reduce costs by $x if we just stopped goo.gl links. Instead of actually wondering how this would impact the customers.

Also helps that they are in a culture which does not mind killing services on a whim.

New comment by borg16 in "Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts"

borg16 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:19:43 +0000

yeah their efforts seem to show no care for their consumer level subscribers. all they do seems to be tiered to enterprise customers.

New comment by borg16 in "Can we test it? Yes, was can [video]"

borg16 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:39:49 +0000

shout out to "A tribe called Quest" for the title (my guess)

New comment by borg16 in "Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival"

borg16 — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:55:07 +0000

it's a third of the price to begin with. I think readwise has a winner in reader app, but they sure do charge a premium for the same. You can get the same functionality in linkwarden or pinboard for a fraction of readwise's subscription pricing.

New comment by borg16 in "How University Students Use Claude"

borg16 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:30:58 +0000

here is an idea, curious what others think of this:

split the entire coursework into two parts:

part 1 - students are prohibited from using AI. Have the exams be on physical papers than digital ones requiring use of laptop/computer. I know this adds burden on corrections and evaluations of these answers, but I think this provides a raw answer to someone's understanding of concepts being taught in the class.

part2 - students are allowed, and even encouraged to use LLMs. And they are evaluated based on the overall quality of the answer, keeping in mind that a non zero portion of this was generated using an LLM. Here the credit should be given to the factual correctness of the answer (and if the student is capable of verifying the LLM output).

Have the final grade be some form of weighted average of a student's scores in these 2 parts.

note: This is a raw thought that just occurred to me while reading this thread, and I have not had the chance to ruminate on it.

New comment by borg16 in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

borg16 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:00:04 +0000

is it because there are features that AWS provides to you that are not available in GCP, or just the fact that setting up exact replicas of processes is hard for migrations like these?

New comment by borg16 in "Anthropic's next major AI model could arrive within weeks"

borg16 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:46:37 +0000

not if your investors see release of at least one new model every 'x' months as a necessity. but anthropic has definitely warded off that fate so far.

New comment by borg16 in "Perplexity got ads"

borg16 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:09:23 +0000

i think it comes down to:

1. the majority user base does not care and/or is not willing to pay for the ads 2. these platforms/products do not want to cater to the minority that cares about their privacy and not being exposed to any advertising

New comment by borg16 in "Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader"

borg16 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:44:19 +0000

thanks. I pay for miniflux through pikapods that I can now get rid of, thanks to your free and alternative offering.

New comment by borg16 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

borg16 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:22:24 +0000

one thing i definitely worry is about using public lands for oil, mineral extraction purposes.

while America has a bounty of public land acreage wise, 4 years and a complete control of the government is a lot of time to do some lasting damage to the ecosystem by opening up these areas for privatization.

New comment by borg16 in "World’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest"

borg16 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:55:17 +0000

i was once on a solo road trip. I took a turn by chance and ended up near this lake and saw the Pando being talked about here. Talk about coincidence!

New comment by borg16 in "Waymo closes $5.6B investment round"

borg16 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:02:14 +0000

if i am interested in reading more about this, can you point me to some resources?

New comment by borg16 in "Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night"

borg16 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:04:52 +0000

this is wonderful.

can i ask how you went about arriving at this workflow?