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New comment by couscouspie in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

couscouspie — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:10:43 +0000

That would be ideal, but AI is less like a tool and more like a human in this regard and you don't have character sheets for each of your colleagues, as well.

New comment by couscouspie in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

couscouspie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:32:57 +0000

Maybe it is just me, but by far most of the time, when I want to archive something from the internet, it is information and information is best served in an absolutely minimal text format like html or md.

New comment by couscouspie in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

couscouspie — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:09:43 +0000

You make it sound as if "coding" was a distinct thing with clear boundaries in the technical world. But this critically misses the fact that coding agents dramatically lowered the barrier to controlling everything with a microchip. The only thing that exists "outside [the reach] of coding agents" is purely the analog world and that boundary will get fuzzier than it is perceived to be.

New comment by couscouspie in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

couscouspie — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:30:29 +0000

It seems like many people have the same or similar ideas. I was thinking of using a tool similar to bookmark-managers as the foundation of a new web. Where you subscribe to RSS-feeds of specific (or clusters of) people to specific topics as the "follow" primitive and you publish your own feed(s), which bookmark-managers btw. already allow. The missing pieces are commenting on the feeds of friends and a layer of federated ML for ranking, which the user controls by simple sliders that set the mark for dimensions like retrieval-vs-discovery, hightrust-vs-highnovelty, recency-vs-trendingimpetus and so on.

New comment by couscouspie in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

couscouspie — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:56:10 +0000

That's like saying Spotify wouldn't be a good example, because it outsourced music production to musicians and just not a meaningful point.

New comment by couscouspie in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

couscouspie — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:53:39 +0000

I thought that early coding assistants came to be written in some Java/TypeScript, because AI companies just had web-devs playing around and then made it a product even though the languages being such a misfit for terminal. Why did you decide for TypeScript?

New comment by couscouspie in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

couscouspie — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:02:27 +0000

I like rants though. They help me understand, not only how people feel about stuff, but also why.

New comment by couscouspie in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

couscouspie — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:33:31 +0000

That's not a factual statement over reality, but more of a normative judgement to justify resignation. Yes, professionals that know how to actually do these things are not abundantly available, but available enough to achieve the transition. The talent exists and is absolutely passionate about software freedom and hence highly intrinsically motivated to work on it. The only thing that is lacking so far is the demand and the talent available will skyrocket, when the market starts demanding it.

New comment by couscouspie in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

couscouspie — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:49:00 +0000

That's a Microsoft problem, not a FOSS problem though.

New comment by couscouspie in "What the heck is going on at Apple?"

couscouspie — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:07:21 +0000

I can't turn it off on my Samsung Galaxy S23 which I originally bought, because it was not marketed with AI. The patched it in later and ever since it just randomly starts as if it was listening all the time.

New comment by couscouspie in "Europe Is Under Siege"

couscouspie — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:56:06 +0000

I was also baffled how the author completely fails to realize, that the US didn't just abandon Europe, but is actively exploiting and working on undermining it.

New comment by couscouspie in "Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces"

couscouspie — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:45:04 +0000

Not what I imagined under neo brutality.

New comment by couscouspie in "Making RSS More Fun"

couscouspie — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:44:35 +0000

Do you have specific things in mind to which you refer as more modern alternatives?

New comment by couscouspie in "Making RSS More Fun"

couscouspie — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:23:09 +0000

I find this topic of link aggregation, feeds and readlists highly interesting and believe that herein lies the solution for a new web similar to like reddit basically imagined it, before going full commercial.

Both presented ways in looking at an RSS feed make sense and come with their own set of pros and cons. But to me it looks like it is entirely possible and the best solution to treat it as both at the same time: the feed is a stream, but you treat it as an inbox not for the items that are streamed themselves (e.g. blog entries), but as the notification that they exist. So, I will try out in the future to keep three lanes: a readlis, where you store the things you want to read, a read-it where you store the things you actually read already and the RSS-feed aggregor "inbox" where you marked things as read if you decided to either put it on the readlist or not. So the read-marker of the RSS-feed aggregor becomes a "noted-it" button.

A fourth lane that forwards interesting reads or notifications could be the building brick of a new internet, where you aggregate things from people you like or trust and index them as your personalised search engine.

New comment by couscouspie in "Time to start de-Appling"

couscouspie — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:51:20 +0000

Taking control of your own data is shitloads of work, I and understand people do not have time it, and have other priorities.

That's not a physical law, but just the result of the current technological landscape.

New comment by couscouspie in "Time to start de-Appling"

couscouspie — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:15 +0000

wdym? We are in Edward Snowden times. The timeline where Edward Snowden gave up on an awesome life to inform us, the global public, of the greatest scandal of all times and nothing happened, to be precise.

New comment by couscouspie in "GNU Midnight Commander"

couscouspie — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:43:21 +0000

I don't even understand the problem: ESC and the following key is generally just an alias for ALT+key.

New comment by couscouspie in "996"

couscouspie — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:24:59 +0000

Your refusal of 996 is relatable for senior or mid level workers. But that's something less experienced people can not afford and in this market even unlucky seniors are forced to accept things they wouldn't have to 2 or 3 years ago.

New comment by couscouspie in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

couscouspie — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:13:33 +0000

> Europe’s trade negotiators will outclass Trump’s B-Team

Hardly matters. As long as von-der-Leyen remains head of commission the European Union stays devoted to the US no matter the consensus of commission, parliament, national governments or the people.

New comment by couscouspie in "Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting"

couscouspie — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:01:58 +0000

> The way to understand it is when you catch yourself almost falling asleep at night while reading something. You lose the ability to understand anything, even though you are still reading and the words are still English.

That's btw a perfect analogy what ADHD is when consuming anything, anytime.