Hacker News: grepex

New comment by grepex in "Fastpotify"

grepex — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:54:27 +0000

Agreed. I like Joe Rogan but hate Spotify. For that time period where Rogan was a Spotify exclusive, I didn't listen to his podcast at all.

New comment by grepex in "Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source)"

grepex — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:47:53 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ryoku – Arch and Hyprland Omarchy Alternative

grepex — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:25:54 +0000

Article URL: https://ryoku.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437519

Points: 5

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New comment by grepex in "Visual Studio Code 1.0 (2016)"

grepex — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:31:41 +0000

Pretty cool to go back and read the comments that were posted on the release date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11498000

New comment by grepex in "Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman"

grepex — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:11:24 +0000

It's obvious you're speaking from a place of emotion and not from knowledge or logic.

Even if that were true the answer wouldn't be to not train them more. The answer would be to give them more proper training.

Kindle update toughens DRM and ends Libby loophole

grepex — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/kindle-toughens-drm-ends-libby-loophole-3700600/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388279

Points: 6

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New comment by grepex in "Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman"

grepex — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:51:09 +0000

Yes, I'm sure they would agree but I'm pointing out that the department/agency would agree as well. I don't think that departments were actively seeking out aggressive people, but rather seeking out people who could handle getting aggressive when a situation calls for it. Someone who can't get aggressive is likewise a liability.

I do see what you are saying regarding de-escalation. It seems like one of those things that is easy to mistakenly dismiss as "easy" and focus on something like firearms or tactics training.

New comment by grepex in "Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman"

grepex — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:16:46 +0000

It sounds like that guy may have been exaggerating a bit. Aggressive people are a liability. Especially in law enforcement. Not just to the department but to fellow officers. They stir shit up and it is dangerous and annoying.

Cops do need more training, like dramatically more training. I think the screening process is trying to solve a really difficult problem. You don't know if/how someone will be corrupted when they have a little bit of power. Or how they will change over time.

New comment by grepex in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

grepex — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:35:04 +0000

Read: not all markets and manufacturers will have the same respect for their customers.

New comment by grepex in "Show HN: A simple, powerful, and cheaper email verification API"

grepex — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:50:33 +0000

I tested a couple of emails I have with custom domains on Proton Mail and I got the following result:

{ "email": "{redacted}", "status": "unknown", "action": "review", "flagged": false, "signals": [ "verification_inconclusive" ], "suggestion": null }

New comment by grepex in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

grepex — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:37:23 +0000

This is my biggest fear for the law enforcement officers. They're becoming overdependent on these technology tools and forgetting to do actual police work. I say this as a former police officer myself.

New comment by grepex in "Terafab"

grepex — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:33:48 +0000

Yeah, I realize that. Type 2 seems more intriguing to me though. I wonder what sort of impact it would have on a solar system to harness most of the star's energy. Is there a sort of outer space ecosystem that it would disrupt?

New comment by grepex in "Terafab"

grepex — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:45:51 +0000

For anyone out there who might know:

To achieve a Type II civilization, is a Dyson Swarm currently the best theoretical approach or are there others that are more promising?

New comment by grepex in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

grepex — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:41:23 +0000

So many people sleep on Brave search. I agree, it's like Google from 08. It just searches for what you ask for. You can disable AI overviews. It's quick. Has a nice UI. It's free lol

New comment by grepex in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

grepex — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:49:21 +0000

What I've seen many people do is install the Google Camera app and turn off network permissions for the application so it cannot send any data to Google.

New comment by grepex in "Grok Build is open source"

grepex — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:14:11 +0000

It is written in Typescript.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

There is an archived Opencode project written in Go but I don't think it is affiliated.

https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode

New comment by grepex in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"

grepex — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:31:04 +0000

Respectfully, that's a bit of a stretch. Impaired human memory and increased risk taking are coefficients that would impact far more industries than software. I think the notion is that software, in particular, seems buggier. IF these side effects of repeated COVID infection have anything to do with software bugs, I would think it's contribution would be dramatically smaller than say LLM assisted coding, rapid merging of code, lack of human review.

Just a couple of examples:

- Linux kernel ai commits (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ai-submissions-to-linux-hits-...)

- Omarchy 4 30k lines of ai generated code (https://x.com/dhh/status/2057907663967543618)

New comment by grepex in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

grepex — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:25:38 +0000

The irony is that it is sometimes irrational/illogical to only consider rationality and logic.

Have you ever had an experience where, by all calculations, you should be happy with the outcome but for whatever reason you're not?

In some ways, that is the state of the internet today. Everything is optimized based on analytics, but so many of use are unhappy with how things are.

New comment by grepex in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

grepex — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:02:52 +0000

A quote from the novel The Body Of This Death by Ross McCullough that I think is very insightful in this context:

> It was always obvious to me that rationality must be more than merely material. It is still obvious: the self as software is somehow both too immaterial (as if it could be transferred from hardware to hardware) and not immaterial enough (as if it required some hardware for its every operation).

New comment by grepex in "GoFundMe Ignores Rules Hosting Legal Fund for ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good"

grepex — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:01:03 +0000

I would think that in order for a legal defense to be in defense of a crime, one would have to be charged with a crime, no?

In the current state of affairs this can be seen as funds being collected for a civil defense maybe.