Hacker News: hobo_mark

New comment by hobo_mark in "How to Exist"

hobo_mark — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:34:29 +0000

I used to read this blog over a decade ago and I'm very surprised to see it's still going.

New comment by hobo_mark in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

hobo_mark — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:59:31 +0000

Uh? Recently and frequently opened documents always show up on the first screen as soon as I open the app or website.

New comment by hobo_mark in "India's surprise baby bust"

hobo_mark — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:47:46 +0000

What are these European student debts you speak of, outside of the UK (which emphatically does not want to be considered part of Europe)?

New comment by hobo_mark in "First G-SHOCK with a heart rate monitor, also featuring Smartphone Link"

hobo_mark — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:51:11 +0000

Yet, my 10+ years old pebble 2 HR lasts a week, and the new pebble time 2 claims up to a month.

New comment by hobo_mark in "Pebble Production: February Update"

hobo_mark — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:31:15 +0000

My pebble 2 has a heart rate sensor, and the battery still lasts for a week after almost a decade of daily use.

New comment by hobo_mark in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

hobo_mark — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:44:43 +0000

Waitaminute, clawdbot has access to facebook? how since there is no API? it puppeteers the browser and somehow facebook antibot algorithms do not instaban it?

New comment by hobo_mark in "Litestream VFS"

hobo_mark — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:52:06 +0000

Is this VFS for read-only databases? Or can I query a database that has a single litestream writer somewhere continously making updates and backing them up to S3?

New comment by hobo_mark in "AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching"

hobo_mark — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:38:28 +0000

I don't read them, but I listen to them on my commute (with a saas I made).

New comment by hobo_mark in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

hobo_mark — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:06:07 +0000

Do you really need a human to ask whether you want fries with that?

New comment by hobo_mark in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

hobo_mark — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:03:12 +0000

When did Snapchat move out of GCP?

New comment by hobo_mark in "Why China is giving away its tech for free"

hobo_mark — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:16:11 +0000

Didn't know there was a queue, how does it work? Readers upload the paywalled article? Does that mean uploaders can alter the version of the article we end up seeing?

New comment by hobo_mark in "Cursor 1.0"

hobo_mark — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:16:34 +0000

I uninstalled Cursor months ago because of that and am always surprised nobody else brings that up, ever.

New comment by hobo_mark in "Litestream: Revamped"

hobo_mark — Tue, 20 May 2025 22:37:22 +0000

If you wanted to use litestream to replicate many databases (ideally, one or more per user), which is one of the use cases described here (and elsewhere), how do you tell litestream to add new databases dynamically? The configuration file is static and I haven't found an API to tell it to track a new db at runtime.

New comment by hobo_mark in "Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD"

hobo_mark — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:28:00 +0000

Are you confusing Wise with Stripe, where he used to work?

New comment by hobo_mark in "Hypermode Model Router Preview – OpenRouter Alternative"

hobo_mark — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:17:12 +0000

Is there something like OpenRouter, but for text-to-speech models?

New comment by hobo_mark in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B"

hobo_mark — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:29:34 +0000

Does not look like a bit moat, is that different from the reusable prompt files feature?

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/copilot-customiza...

New comment by hobo_mark in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B"

hobo_mark — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:24:08 +0000

I have tried (stopped a couple months ago). The Python extensions broke all the time while they manually patched around the latest MS release a few days later. Syntax highlighting glitched every other day requiring a full reload. Remote dev via SSH or tunnels also randomly stopped working. Liveshare... Essentially they do not own the platform their core product is built on.

Maybe it's fine if you only do local development in other languages (Javascript?), but I completely swore it off.

New comment by hobo_mark in ".localhost Domains"

hobo_mark — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:10:12 +0000

I added a fake .com record in my internal DNS that resolves to my development server. All development clients within that network have an mkcert-generated CA installed.

Not so different from you, but without even registering the vanity domain. Why is this such a bad idea?

New comment by hobo_mark in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

hobo_mark — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:36:37 +0000

That is all I needed to know, preordered :D

New comment by hobo_mark in "Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat"

hobo_mark — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:13:29 +0000

Would love to know if someone actually runs it reliably. Especially with a Workspace email address.