Hacker News: ccakes

New comment by ccakes in "HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons"

ccakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:09:02 +0000

> The scary part to me is that it actually works. Not practically, but that upper management and whatnot actually buy it.

That “below average” intelligence pool are well represented in upper management. FOMO is a powerful thing, smart people are often tricked by dumb ideas because they don’t want to miss out on something or be perceived to not understand the value of a bad idea

New comment by ccakes in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

ccakes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:30:55 +0000

Counterpoint - the two major Australian supermarkets both sell in-store “finished” cookies that are like crack. They’re delicious. They come in a pack of 5 for $3.50 but 5 is way too much. I’d gladly pay $1 each for them as a snack while I’m shopping

There are occasions where shrinkflation does make sense. In the Mars case, I’d say there is consumer demand on the health side as well. Yes, a Mars bar is never “healthy” but 40g is less worse than 60g

New comment by ccakes in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

ccakes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:33:35 +0000

Automatic filtering on modern iOS has been a game changer here. Assume Android has something similar, but I can't speak highly enough of that one feature

New comment by ccakes in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

ccakes — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:17:14 +0000

An MMO of Full Throttle would be amazing!

Ze networking tool you didn't know you were looking for

ccakes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:42:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ze-software/ze

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735488

Points: 1

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New comment by ccakes in "MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40k Music Videos and Commercials"

ccakes — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:14:43 +0000

Reminds me of RAGEagain for the Australian viewers

https://www.rageagain.com/

New comment by ccakes in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

ccakes — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 04:48:23 +0000

10 years ago I would have agreed with you but these days.. Outlook has been crapped on so much that Google Workspaces are competitive imo

New comment by ccakes in "Hung by a thread"

ccakes — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:21:58 +0000

Meh, I enjoyed reading it. I could be LLM-assisted but also I have a bunch of younger devs on my team who do actually write like this

You’re welcome to not like the article, and it can even be LLM-assisted, but that doesn’t mean it’s slop

New comment by ccakes in "Claude Cowork first impression: Cowork Deleted 11GB of files [video]"

ccakes — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:16:20 +0000

Naive question, but isn’t every output token generated in roughly the same, non-deterministic, way? Even if it uses its actual history as context, couldn’t the output still be incorrect?

Not trolling, asking as a regular user

New comment by ccakes in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

ccakes — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:26:12 +0000

Seems to be looking for a new maintainer. If anyone has the bandwidth, it’s a great piece of software

New comment by ccakes in "Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)"

ccakes — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:15:23 +0000

Giving the benefit of the doubt, could it be being used as a translation tool?

New comment by ccakes in "On privacy and control"

ccakes — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:37:56 +0000

> Cloudflare isn't one of the good guys here

Came here to say the same thing, post was interesting until I got to that point.

> nuisance captchas

Try using the internet outside of the western world and major hubs. Cloudflare make it so painful with captchas and browser integrity checks

New comment by ccakes in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

ccakes — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:14:24 +0000

This is a great project! I like and use Wayland but the portal protocols and extension mechanism does leave a lot to be desired. Wayland is still quite a way behind Windows and macOS in terms of what productivity users need

An X11 rewrite with some security baked in is an awesome approach. Will be watching!

New comment by ccakes in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""

ccakes — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:44:18 +0000

I use Firefox personally, where do people who care about privacy go? For those of you who’ve already given up on Firefox (I can understand why..), where did you go?

New comment by ccakes in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

ccakes — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:38:59 +0000

> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

The point is that it doesn’t matter. A single site going down has a very small chance of impacting a large number of users. Cloudflare going down breaks an appreciable portion of the internet.

If Jim’s Big Blog only maintains 95% uptime, most people won’t care. If BofA were at 95%.. actually same. Most of the world aren’t BofA customers.

If Cloudflare is at 99.95% then the world suffers

New comment by ccakes in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

ccakes — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:43:14 +0000

Don’t mess with perfection

New comment by ccakes in "Tanzania has its Tiananmen moment"

ccakes — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:06:29 +0000

http://archive.today/crZ8U

New comment by ccakes in "From web developer to database developer in 10 years"

ccakes — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:08:32 +0000

Definitely fair but for the candidate considering this, it's a numbers game. They're just looking to get their foot in the door for a new career path. You care, and you're right to care, but there will be others who don't.

Then next time, it's no longer a lie and they can (in theory) get by on merit

New comment by ccakes in "From web developer to database developer in 10 years"

ccakes — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:22:37 +0000

Lie on LinkedIn, get a foot in the door and explain in the interview

New comment by ccakes in "Recall for Linux"

ccakes — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:12:55 +0000

Mac only but if you want a local only version of this (which has been mentioned in other comments), Dayflow[1] looks decent. I think I'd actually love something like this but can't quite bring myself to run it.. even with local models

[1] https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow