Hacker News: etothet

New comment by etothet in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

etothet — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:43:55 +0000

Very cool. I want to do something similar to ressurect old Orb disks from over 25 years ago.

New comment by etothet in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

etothet — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:09:15 +0000

I'm in the process of migrating away from my custom domain on Google (I'm grandfathered in from back when they offered it for free). So far getting all my old email, contacts, and calendar info FastMail has been seamless. All that's left is to repoint the DNS.

Like another comment, I too have a couple of services connected to "Sign in w/ Google". Until I actually delete my Google org, those will still remain active. Since I'm not paying, I feel OK about this.

New comment by etothet in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

etothet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:47:32 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Tuttle!

Meta's New AI Photo Tool Feature Removed

etothet — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-public-got-so-mad-at-metas-new-ai-photo-tool-that-its-scrapped-already-2000784400

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880908

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by etothet in "Fable 5 Access Extended Through July 12"

etothet — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:32 +0000

Not a huge surprise

Fable 5 Access Extended Through July 12

etothet — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:32 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/claudeai/status/2074548242386178258

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826791

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by etothet in "OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files"

etothet — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:40:05 +0000

Great job on this. I can see this being extremely useful for my teams!

New comment by etothet in "Claude's Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job"

etothet — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:24:06 +0000

Hate on the Claude desktop app on macOS all you want (I personally think it’s fine), but I don’t understand how Gruber can think the ChatGPT app is that good. It’s also…fine, but certainly not special IMO, despite being a native app.

New comment by etothet in "CarPlay Is Additive"

etothet — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:01:43 +0000

I owned a Model Y for several years, but, at least in my city, I always felt Tesla’s navigation had pretty poor route selection during busy times of the day - like dorecting me to streets that were notoriously stop and go during rush our when the highway alternative was known to be much quicker.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:07:05 +0000

Perhaps “charlatan” in the literal sense isn’t true. I was speaking more colloquial, but that was lazy of me.

I will ask though, has he been honest when he’s testified before Congress? At best, I think we can say he hasn’t been very transparent many of those times. If that’s not for power and/or financial gain, what is it? [0]

- [0] https://dispatch.techoversight.org/top-report-mark-zuckerber... - which was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060486

> “we're told to not like Facebook…”

I didn’t have to be “told” to not like Facebook or Meta. The company’s actions for well over a decade and those of its executives, including the CEO, allowed to form that opinion on our own. I’d be willing to bet that experience is not unique to me.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:23:26 +0000

I definitely didn't mean this as a personal attack.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:53:58 +0000

Those are fair points, though I didn't say he wasn't a good business person. I could probably concede that he is, but I don't see him as the tech visionary he's often propped up to be.

New comment by etothet in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:07:02 +0000

I've always felt that Mark Zuckerberg got lucky with Facebook and that he has no real lasting talent as a technologist or visionary. He seems to attempt to chase the latest "it" thing and has very few original ideas that actual stick long-term. He's quite the charlatan.

2026 Annual Stack Overflow Dev Survey

etothet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:59:57 +0000

Article URL: https://survey.stackoverflow.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646073

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by etothet in "Fox to buy Roku"

etothet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:08:04 +0000

I do a lot of my streaming with Apple TV, but the worst parts about the Apple TV app are in my opinion are:

- Too many promos of other shows before watching a show. This is often for shows I've already watched and am watching. Apple knows which shows I watch. It shouldn't need to give me promos for shows I've watched or am actively watching. - Poor UX for "Play Next Episode" functionality. If I just finished an episode of a show and I click to watch the next episode, I don't need to see the recap of the previous episode or the intro. - Speaking of intro, when you click to skip, it usually leaves you somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds from the end of the into, not actually after it.

New comment by etothet in "What I've learned about the trombone"

etothet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:09:14 +0000

Similarly, so do slide trumpets!

New comment by etothet in "Angular v22"

etothet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:50:03 +0000

I haven't been involved in Angular for quite some time. As someone who uses other JavaScript frameworks (Vue, React, Svelte), what am I missing out on? I'd be curious to hear from people who would pick Angular over any of the other big frameworks.

New comment by etothet in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

etothet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:27:48 +0000

In my experience, this is far below the cost the average dev will incur per month so this seems very reasonable to me. And, no doubt there are exceptions for heavy users so they can get some extra token usage when they need it.

New comment by etothet in "AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk"

etothet — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:54:01 +0000

https://archive.ph/nxp3m

New comment by etothet in "Orchestrating AI code review at scale"

etothet — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:31:51 +0000

What’s the over/under on when Cloudflare will acquire OpenCode (and keep it open source)?