Hacker News: jeromechoo

New comment by jeromechoo in "CSS-Tricks has a new owner"

jeromechoo — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:15:44 +0000

As an eng who spent over a decade on frontend and hasn’t touched CSS since last November, I’m ecstatic for this news.

Nothing a frontier LLM has built me in the last year has been satisfactory to me. Every detail was shipped after millions of tokens stripping back and optimizing what Fable/Opus started doing.

The process is leaner and faster, but frontend isn’t “solved” just because LLMs exist.

New comment by jeromechoo in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

jeromechoo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:33:49 +0000

Wouldn’t searching an index be faster? Unless you’re really digging through a site for some super deeply nested link?

New comment by jeromechoo in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

jeromechoo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:23:49 +0000

Diffbot might be the only company that offers a self-hostable fully airgapped web index with access to content cache (ala archive.org). I work here, happy to share more info about how it works!

New comment by jeromechoo in "Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord"

jeromechoo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:21:28 +0000

Another Discord alternative that still lacks an iOS app. I personally don’t mind but if I am to switch my entire friend group to an alternative, native apps on mobile is a fundamental requirement.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Web Search API"

jeromechoo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:41:28 +0000

Basically a self-hosted Google SERP scraper?

New comment by jeromechoo in "Web Search API"

jeromechoo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:23:40 +0000

Codex uses SerpAPI. Its been snuffed out of its thinking traces. Not sure about Claude but likely similar.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Web Search API"

jeromechoo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:15:35 +0000

Very difficult to promise ZDR if you’re scraping Google and Bing.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance"

jeromechoo — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:01:57 +0000

This is neat. I like the zen background sounds. I'm particularly fascinated by digital third places with extremely limited social interaction (like cursor camp by Neal). I think it has something to do with the impossibility of something like this happening in real life.

That said, I'm not sure how real the "koi you see are other people visiting the pond together with you" bit is. I only ever saw 3 swimming koi. Maybe that's the base.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

jeromechoo — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:09:32 +0000

This has been my ongoing gripe. Someone put chat in front of a transformer model. It exploded like all prior versions of “AI chat” did. Now what?

The moment someone figures out a new modality for LLMs is when we’ll see the next hockey stick.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Apple Watch Series 12"

jeromechoo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:36:38 +0000

The plot thickens. Frankly even if it did get music right it would be tough to replace streaming my own Plex music library directly on my Apple watch. 100% worth paying for cellular.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Apple Watch Series 12"

jeromechoo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:51:18 +0000

Gotcha! Been a minute since I’ve looked it up.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Apple Watch Series 12"

jeromechoo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:41:59 +0000

This person gets it.

It was fine up till the 13 mini. Every iPhone after that is too big and heavy to fit in a running belt without jostling.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Apple Watch Series 12"

jeromechoo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:23:39 +0000

Assuming you’re using the Garmin for fitness related reasons — are you really carrying your phone around with you for music? I guess it works if you bike?

New comment by jeromechoo in "The Amazon tax"

jeromechoo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:19:44 +0000

Last week I searched for a "Eufy S350" security camera on Amazon. Instead of search results, Alexa for Shopping took over the entire screen, proceeded to tell me that the Eufy S350 doesn't exist, and then recommended a Eufy vacuum cleaner.

This feels comical to me today, but I can imagine a near future where paid AI ads gaslit you into believing that the product you searched for is vastly inferior to the product AI "recommends".

New comment by jeromechoo in "I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone"

jeromechoo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:04:46 +0000

Ohhh this could just work!!

New comment by jeromechoo in "I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone"

jeromechoo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:31:11 +0000

I have an X4 as well and tried going down this path but it's just a bit too much friction for me to set my X4 to hotspot mode and run the calibre sync every time I want to refresh my feed.

Absolutely love the idea though. Just wish Crosspoint/X4 had the ability to schedule push/pull, but that would likely burn through the battery.

New comment by jeromechoo in "I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10"

jeromechoo — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:21:31 +0000

It feels like we've hit a point where search engines can become what "todo list apps" were for devs 10 years ago.

What a homebrewed solution lacks in coverage it excels in indexing and serving a small slice of the internet really really well.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Worse on Purpose"

jeromechoo — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:27:29 +0000

Might’ve been one of the earlier entries. When I first purchased a zip up hoodie from American Giant 10ish years ago they were around $65.

New comment by jeromechoo in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

jeromechoo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:51:49 +0000

Every time another nostalgia post comes along for MUDs people start replying with the name of a small MUD they enjoyed but I’m surprised how rare it is to see Iron Realms MUDs mentioned.

I’m almost certain they are the largest MUD development company to exist.

I played two of their MUDs — Achaea and Lusternia. The sheer imaginative scale of these worlds and engines are unmatched by even today’s standards. (And they still exist!)

PVP is a battle of engineering. The best PvPers build elaborate trigger systems that watch the terminal for specific maladies and conditions and counter them with herbs, potions, and skills.

The RP is similar to D&D but so much deeper. Where D&D is mostly storytelling by a DM, RP in huge commercial MUDs involve gods, physics, deeply entrenched politics, money, fame, and power spanning thousands of players.

Entirely player-driven economy. If you wanted a sword you could buy one from a player run market or commission a unique piece from a blacksmith. And boy it was truly unique. A blacksmith in Lusternia is really a wordsmith. A steel sword can be described as “honed to an obsidian finish”.

Peak human imagination, but sadly in a medium too many people can’t get into.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

jeromechoo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:17:13 +0000

If mechanical time keeping hadn’t made the leap to luxury, I wonder if it would’ve ended up in the same situation as walkmans.