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New comment by hakunin in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hakunin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:05:51 +0000

Yeah, for perfect positioning/overlaying I would be much stricter with my requirements. For that type of OCR I used Apple’s own LiveText framework that comes with MacOS. But in this use case I only care about standalone plain text and descriptive text to store in the database, not overlay over original content, so never tested Mistral on that front.

New comment by hakunin in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hakunin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:23:29 +0000

IME way better. It may not be the best out there, but it's cheap (2c per page), fast, easy to integrate API, and sufficient for my needs. It does things like describe what's drawn in pictures and shown in graphs, which all helps when searching.

New comment by hakunin in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hakunin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:55:12 +0000

Yeah, for me it was all about not letting mail and kids schoolwork pile up. I like to scan ads that local businesses leave in my mailbox, so that I can ask "show me lawn care services near me". A lot of them don't really have any other online presence.

Btw, I tried to keep the Mistral part modular, so that another OCR could be integrated.

New comment by hakunin in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hakunin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:59:00 +0000

A SQLite based sweeper of all the scans, notes, PDFs and images I have on my filesystem, that stores their paths and allows searching their OCR’ed descriptions and text, as provided by Mistral OCR. I can ask things like “when does my car need maintenance” or “find me that picture my kid drew for Mother’s Day”. I use pi-based bash executable to launch a doc chat like that. https://github.com/maxim/ringbinder

New comment by hakunin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

hakunin — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:33:40 +0000

Your point 3 is a non sequitur. If air travel is magical and valuable, that doesn’t automatically mean it needs subsidizing. We sometimes allow magical and valuable things to go away if we find them not to be popular enough to garner widespread political support.

My statement is correcting a fact (descriptive) not proposing what to do about it (I.e. not prescriptive).

It’s very hard to imagine what the world would look like without subsidized air travel. I have to think long and hard to figure out if subsidies would actually be sensible for something like this. I can be convinced either way right now, but it would take a lot of good historical data on something very similar, perhaps has to be specifically air travel in countries that do and don’t subsidize it, and their economic outcomes, controlled for other factors.

But saying that air travel is somehow the same in kind as other kinds of travel is incredibly shallow and reductive. We get to travel orders of magnitude faster and to places we wouldn’t even be able to reach otherwise.

New comment by hakunin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

hakunin — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:31:39 +0000

No, all I’m saying is that air travel is so different than any other kind of travel, that it is very special, and borderline magical. Saying something like “nothing magical about air travel, things and people would still travel around the globe” is very reductive. I’m not giving my opinion on subsidies.

New comment by hakunin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

hakunin — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:52:26 +0000

I’m responding to a claim that there’s nothing “magical” about air travel. It literally enables things otherwise impossible.

New comment by hakunin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

hakunin — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:49:41 +0000

When something is that drastically different, it becomes different in kind. For example, if you have high network latency, you cannot jam (play live music) with friends remotely. If you have low latency, you can. Just because the difference is in a single value (I.e. net speed) doesn’t mean it doesn’t change the fundamental nature of what’s possible. Air travel makes the kind of business, shipping, and attendance possible that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise, because our collective lifetimes and risk tolerances are limited.

New comment by hakunin in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

hakunin — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:46:25 +0000

Growing up in the 90s in Moscow wasn't all cakewalk (immigrated to US soon after), but I fondly remember watching the show and reading Russian-translated X-Files books. I don't know why the books were so fascinating to me. Imagined my life in America as something akin to Fox Mulder: suit, nice hair, car, hotel, official business. The lifestyle was all foreign to me, and also the coolest ever.

New comment by hakunin in "Zed 1.0"

hakunin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:25:55 +0000

Yeah, and Sublime has both: vim mode and multiple cursors.

New comment by hakunin in "Zed 1.0"

hakunin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:58:16 +0000

I used TextMate prior to Sublime, but then I became into vim mode, which TM never got I believe.

New comment by hakunin in "Zed 1.0"

hakunin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:22:57 +0000

I'm also sticking with Sublime for many years, and at this point it feels like it is some kind of old man stubbornness (like George R.R. Martin using WordStar 4.0 type thing). I don't know why its ergonomics for me have been just unbeatable. I gave others (VSCode and Zed) good weeks and months of configuring them to my liking and using them exlusively, and always returned to Sublime. All the AI stuff just runs on the side in the terminal (iTerm2 for me, but checking in on Ghostty sometimes too, waiting on them to figure out their minimal text brightness feature).

New comment by hakunin in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hakunin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:23:43 +0000

Hm, didn’t encounter any crashes you describe in my usage, but your second paragraph sounds familiar.

New comment by hakunin in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hakunin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:01:51 +0000

On pi coding agent, it worked very well for me over the past few months, but started glitching more recently, just prior to this announcement.

New comment by hakunin in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hakunin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:43:18 +0000

The minimalistic harness famous for having a tiny system prompt (avoids context pollution), and being what underlies openclaw. (https://pi.dev)

New comment by hakunin in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hakunin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:10:33 +0000

Yeah it was crazy. Nowadays I use pi with OpenAI GPT 5.4/5.5, which to me seems both better and more generous than Claude. I supplement it with OpenCode Zen to get access to a bunch of models at token cost, and OpenCode Go ($10/mo) to get subscription-style access to Kimi, GLM and friends.

New comment by hakunin in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hakunin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:52:32 +0000

Everybody who says it's a 5-9-27x seems to not be aware of the obvious loophole. More like 50x increase. You were able to use over $500 worth of Opus on a $10/mo Github plan easily, no hacks. You could just prompt "plan this out for me, don't stop until fully planned, don't ask any questions", and you would get ~$5 worth of planning in one 3x request. At 100 requests/mo, each easily reaching $5, that's easy $500 worth of tokens.

New comment by hakunin in "2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey"

hakunin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:29:17 +0000

Find myself having forgotten most answers (books, etc), having started so long ago. It's a different world now.

New comment by hakunin in "1Password Is Down"

hakunin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:02:42 +0000

Yeah, the status page confirms this by listing CLI as a separate item from "access to passwords" and indicating it having major outage unlike the latter.

New comment by hakunin in "1Password Is Down"

hakunin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:35:15 +0000

None of my `op` scripts seem to work. Looks like I can't login to the website either.