Hacker News: js98

New comment by js98 in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

js98 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:54:46 +0000

Personally, my recent and surprisingly greatest win was to set up my old phone (samsung S21) with the addictive apps, removing them completely from my iPhone.

Quite literally "cold-turkey'ed" from 4.5-ish hours/day to 2 hours a day in a single day, consistent over the last few weeks.

I set up my second phone with a custom homescreen, and installing the 'bad' apps on there (Instagram, Youtube, NYTimes in particular). I dont use it for other apps.

Now if I want to scroll, which I still do sometimes, I have to walk to a specific chair next to which my 'addiction phone' is, I'll scroll for 10-15 minutes, and get back to the real world. I used to have particular issues with scrolling during vibe-coding sessions, and I'm genuinely surprised how well this approach worked for me.

Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?

js98 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:55:35 +0000

Looking at tech blogs, HN submissions, et cetera, a lot of content is (partly, increasingly?) generated by AI. The value of the reader's time and slop has been discussed at length. I ask:

Among you, the HN-community who writes, how much do you use AI in the process?

There is somewhat a spectrum from none, to grammarly-style cleanup, to whisprflow to 'look at my project, write me a HN-ready post'.

Personally, I've done a 180, where I started at light touchups to rough draft-to-polished back to almost none, to keep the writing my own (I do some writing at jakobs.dev).

As a reader, do you believe you notice, and care?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235223

Points: 10

# Comments: 37

New comment by js98 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

js98 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:20:25 +0000

Hey all, I’ve built Nekode (https://github.com/Jakob-98/nekode), which is desktop-cats for monitoring your AI coding agent sessions (OpenCode/Claude Code/ Copilot CLI/VSCode Copilot). It works as a macOS menubar app, and the cats run around on your desktop.

Each cat mirrors the agent's state, such as sleeping when idle, walking when working, sitting when waiting for input, running toward your cursor when it needs permission.

Fully native Swift, no Electron, under 5 MB, zero network requests, all session data stays local as plain JSON.

I published it source-available with an honor-system license, but this week I’m going to fully open source it and remove the licence. The payment/nag system was an interesting experiment but the project is more useful to me as a proper OSS tool at this point.

https://nekode.dev

New comment by js98 in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

js98 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:05:39 +0000

Oh wow thats good timing. I DIY’ed a workaround for this only last week for my openclaw instance. Happy to change it to this! https://jakobs.dev/granular-notes-access-limiting-openclaw-b...

New comment by js98 in "Pragmatic Notes on Running Dangerous AI Coding Agents in Cloud VMs"

js98 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:32:40 +0000

Hey all. TL;DR: none of this is super novel or fancy, but the set of a few simple approaches (cloud VM, tailscale for connecting, strong isolation, long-running sessions, basic notifications) made using agents with all tools enabled much more useful for me.

I hadn’t seen many practical writeups on running coding agents in cloud VMs specifically, so I figured it was worth sharing what actually worked day-to-day for me. I use this approach practically daily now

Pragmatic Notes on Running Dangerous AI Coding Agents in Cloud VMs

js98 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:21:37 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobs.dev/pragmatic-notes-running-dangerous-ai-agents-cloud-vms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704650

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by js98 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

js98 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:45:10 +0000

https://jakobs.dev Sharing learnings from engineering work!

Where is Point Nemo? (the point furthest away from land)

js98 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lukatela.com/pointNemoRevisited/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552266

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by js98 in "ChatGPT Atlas breaks down on simple, scoped repetitive browsing tasks"

js98 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:47:24 +0000

I tested ChatGPT Atlas as an alternative to writing a small scraper for collecting price distribution counts from Dubizzle (UAE Marketplace). It could extract correct numbers for a single filter, but consistently failed to repeat the same simple browsing steps across categories, hallucinating completion or stopping with vague time-constraint explanations. Curious if others have seen similar behavior with LLM-based browsing tools (or have had an alternative work for them)

ChatGPT Atlas breaks down on simple, scoped repetitive browsing tasks

js98 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobs.dev/chatgpt-atlas-doesnt-have-time-for-me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498158

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by js98 in "Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents"

js98 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:01:45 +0000

Similar writeup I did about 1.5 years ago for processing millions of (technical) pages for RAG. Lots has stayed the same it seems

https://jakobs.dev/learnings-ingesting-millions-pages-rag-az...

New comment by js98 in "Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"

js98 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:12:07 +0000

This website is unreadable on mobile.

New comment by js98 in "Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries"

js98 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:36:38 +0000

Nice work! I spent a bit too much time creating a map with 5 colors… ;)

New comment by js98 in "Today's AI Isn't Sentient"

js98 — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:37:35 +0000

This seems just like a single argument and counter argument against the sentience (or lack thereof) of AI today. I feel like the article lacks some broader views on the nature of sentience, and is quite narrow in its approach

Although, in fairness, I probably wouldn’t make a much better case for either of the sides

Learnings from ingesting 5M+ technical pages for RAG on Azure

js98 — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:03:57 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobs.dev/learnings-ingesting-millions-pages-rag-azure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40343522

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by js98 in "Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia"

js98 — Fri, 03 May 2024 05:24:45 +0000

Good story, but the writing is annoyingly tough to follow.

Azure AI 'Hybrid' search gotcha: returning unexpected/unmatching results

js98 — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:18:22 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobs.dev/showcase-azure-ai-hybrid-search-unexpected-results-gotcha/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221797

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?

js98 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:52:41 +0000

There are many options and opinions about, what is currently the recommended approach for running an LLM locally (e.g., on my 3090 24Gb)? Are options ‘idiot proof’ yet?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39893142

Points: 195

# Comments: 88

Show HN: Inject hidden prompt in LLMs using Base64 encoding

js98 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 09:29:32 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobs.dev/gpt-hidden-prompt-base64-attack-vector/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38998880

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by js98 in "Show HN: Interactive AI Resume/LinkedIn for better networking/job hunting"

js98 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 07:16:26 +0000

Ha this is great! I built something similar to this for myself a few months back at my personal site at https://jakobs.dev/chat