Hacker News: czottmann

New comment by czottmann in "I've Sold Out"

czottmann — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:05:57 +0000

Earendil Inc. announcing Pi acquisition and Lefos

czottmann — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:36:24 +0000

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/press-release-april-8th/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688206

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by czottmann in "Anthropic's Existential Negotiations with The Pentagon"

czottmann — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:38:19 +0000

Archived: https://archive.is/l5PuV

Anthropic's Existential Negotiations with The Pentagon

czottmann — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:37:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/883456/anthropic-pentagon-department-of-defense-negotiations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141698

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by czottmann in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

czottmann — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:56:24 +0000

Archive: https://archive.is/20260224182829/https://www.axios.com/2026...

New comment by czottmann in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

czottmann — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:48:52 +0000

I'm working on a macOS app that identifies music playing around you, constantly. You can scrobble them to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, LB-compatible sites, a Mastodon account, local Shortcuts workflows, and/or or local files. It also support Apple Music and Deezer.

I built it because most scrobblers only keep track of Apple Music or Spotify plays, but I have streaming stations on all day long, or the radio is on, and those never make it into my playing charts or recommendations etc.

Early days, more to come, public beta is ongoing, and I am looking for testers :)

https://actions.work/listening-post/?ref=hn

New comment by czottmann in "Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters"

czottmann — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:46:19 +0000

It's 2026. If you still host your newsletter on Substack, YOU ARE AN ENABLER. At this point, you're either complicit or plain lazy, neither of which is an excuse. You make a choice every goddamn day.

New comment by czottmann in "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"

czottmann — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:19:14 +0000

I had to look that up, found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice#Organization:

> Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.

New comment by czottmann in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

czottmann — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:54:16 +0000

I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.

Beans: A CLI-based, flat-file issue tracker for humans and robots

czottmann — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:46:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hmans/beans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510446

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by czottmann in "Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"

czottmann — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:44:07 +0000

There's also Beans, doing MD-based ticketing in your project. It's really good. (Disclaimer: I've contributed a few of the agent rules.)

https://github.com/hmans/beans

> Beans is an issue tracker for you, your team, and your coding agents. Instead of tracking tasks in a separate application, Beans stores them right alongside your code. You can use the beans CLI to interact with your tasks, but more importantly, so can your favorite coding agent! > > This gives your robot friends a juicy upgrade: now they get a complete view of your project, make suggestions for what to work on next, track their progress, create bug issues for problems they find, and more.

Much, MUCH less invasive than beads (basically just a CLI tool and a `.beans.yml` & `.beans/` in your project, and a joy to work with. CLI, TUI, labels, status, types (epic, feature, task etc.), GraphQL query interface (agents love that).

It's good.

New comment by czottmann in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

czottmann — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:28:19 +0000

Hugged to death right now, therefore: https://web.archive.org/web/20251229204141/https://www.circu...

New comment by czottmann in "Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]"

czottmann — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:08:05 +0000

Here's the magnet URL to the torrent, can't hurt:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/

New comment by czottmann in "Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds"

czottmann — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:18:50 +0000

What the AF are you talking about. Stop spreading lies.

New comment by czottmann in "Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document"

czottmann — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:42:34 +0000

My German keyboard has umlaut keys: üäö. I use them daily. I was told that in other parts of the World, people don't have umlaut keys, and have to use combos like ⌥U + a/o/u.

Boy, I sure hope they don't think me an AI.

Just because many people have no idea how to use type certain characters on their devices shouldn't mean we all have to go along with their superstitions.

New comment by czottmann in "SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search"

czottmann — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:12:06 +0000

What makes you think this is slop?

Also, I think many people use the term "slop" and "AI was involved" interchangeably, but to me, they're not synonymous. To me, writing blog posts with the help of AI is fine (grammar checks, structural help etc.) while auto-generated content generation w/o human oversight is not.

New comment by czottmann in "HyperNormalisation (BBC documentary, 2016) [video]"

czottmann — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:03:04 +0000

> Hypernormalization is a documentary by the British filmmaker Adam Curtis from 2016, which was produced by the BBC.

HyperNormalisation (BBC documentary, 2016) [video]

czottmann — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:03:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt86SSNQKPw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798555

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by czottmann in "'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon"

czottmann — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:46:48 +0000

Contradictions and a lack of shame (about anything) are not lapses, they're integral part of the authoritarian playbook.

To be clear, I'm not "Just saying" – I'm actually saying.

New comment by czottmann in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

czottmann — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:32:58 +0000

Your comments make me think you've never seen hardships in your life that weren't self-afflicted.

Life can be cruel even if you've made great plans and took all the precautions you could think of. Illnesses, accidents, the lack of a social net because your country was set up that way, crime, the list goes on.