Hacker News: darepublic

New comment by darepublic in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

darepublic — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:27:15 +0000

I feel that the web via browser is in danger. Vast majority of people can be convinced to switch to walled garden apps just like vast majority are fine with tablets, phones aka non open locked down computers. I am a Firefox/ublock user, and prefer browser to mobile apps, however I see the writing on the wall

New comment by darepublic in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

darepublic — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:23:08 +0000

I fear that more and more sites increasingly serve different experiences based on things such as the presence of Adblock etc.

New comment by darepublic in "No, local models will not win"

darepublic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:36:20 +0000

What about that edge computing. Those cheap drones

New comment by darepublic in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

darepublic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:26:01 +0000

It's ironic Zuckerberg would criticize anyone for closing stuff up. Facebook being the classic walled garden. That said the enemy of my enemy etc.

New comment by darepublic in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

darepublic — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:51:24 +0000

I'll never consider my time with programming to be useless. Even if we got sent back to the stone age and programmable computers no longer existed. The way of thinking to me is very valuable

New comment by darepublic in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

darepublic — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:18:13 +0000

The world is a reflection of the laws of physics. When complex self propagating systems coexist in an environment with limited material competition arises, and corruption is simply one inevitable result of that.

New comment by darepublic in "Interview with Boris Cherny [video]"

darepublic — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:04:31 +0000

I do have to still remind codex to fetch large amounts of db records in batches otherwise it will always make a first false step of a naive select all style approach. Context wise naive can be ok for small datasets though so codex didn't know the naive approach was not viable. Context management the new code plumbing these days

New comment by darepublic in "Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend"

darepublic — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:58:11 +0000

I think you can use ffmpeg to turn your audio into a video file

New comment by darepublic in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

darepublic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:07:49 +0000

they put a bunch of their stuff in shadow dom. A lot of the decisions of course are not based on usability but monetization incentives. If the current decision makers could, they would have made reddit a walled garden like facebook but the transition is a little awkward seeing as it used to be a free and open site. looks like they are close to cutting the cord on that openness.

New comment by darepublic in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

darepublic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:58:40 +0000

many 'human' generated comments on reddit are very toxic. characteristic of a sort of oneupmanship of shrill accusation and doomer-ism that gets incentivized with karma. Even when the general sentiment is justified I find it unhelpful and harmful for mental health. Yet I still sometimes drift over there. It can be addictive to scroll through.

New comment by darepublic in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

darepublic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:39:50 +0000

First there is a patch of greenery. People naturally drawn to spend time there. Then a generous benefactor comes along and builds a paved road. Hey you don't have to use those footpaths anymore! You can ride your bike along this! Thank you!

Then this wonderful benefactor starts adding more things.. fencing.. signage, guardrails. Then one day the benefactor says to everyone I've made all this for you. And yet some of you still don't use this place in the intended way. I will now put up a security perimeter. You must show your papers to enter, walk along the narrow lanes we've set up and obey the signage and pay a toll to justify all I've done. Some of you are so ungrateful

I wonder if we can find a new patch of greenery

New comment by darepublic in "Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy"

darepublic — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:57:23 +0000

I'd like the yc cosmos explorable in a no man's sky type game where visiting the company planets will let you explore their business model manifested as a planetary culture and enemy types. The big AI companies will be black holes sucking in material and taking everyones lunch

New comment by darepublic in "Ancient Roman Board Game"

darepublic — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:17:34 +0000

Ancient example of an unbalanced meta. Maybe we are missing some of the patch notes for balance changes

New comment by darepublic in "ChatGPT Work"

darepublic — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:50:38 +0000

I feel like the web is under attack. They want chatgpt in desktop app so they can start moving people away from chatgpt via web. Web being suspectible to automation is driving everything into locked down apps. The very toxic reddit.com a prime example of this -- forbidding mobile web access behind a timed wall.

New comment by darepublic in "ChatGPT Work"

darepublic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:05:14 +0000

I guess the smarter ai gets the dumber we have to be to compensate

New comment by darepublic in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

darepublic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:53:03 +0000

Just going to chime in that a year ago chatgpt was really struggling with robot framework. O3 era. Even apart from ai's ability to write working code in it I hate that dsl pseudo semantic bullshit

New comment by darepublic in "A new way to reflect on how you use Claude"

darepublic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:47:24 +0000

Not an anthropic fan but in fairness people know how to use it in the most literal sense. Few tools come with documentation on how to use them "well"

New comment by darepublic in "A new way to reflect on how you use Claude"

darepublic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:31:20 +0000

How people prompt and the output that ensues is valuable data. So they would probably want variety as a free live experiment.

New comment by darepublic in "Show HN: 18 Words"

darepublic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:24:45 +0000

just tried that same archive puzzle and it accepted braze for me

New comment by darepublic in "Show HN: 18 Words"

darepublic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:08:56 +0000

I would like a chance to play a puzzle I failed on to just practice what comes next. I don't need rewards or anything after the initial fail.

Fun game, thanks for sharing!