Hacker News: kid64

New comment by kid64 in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

kid64 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:15:10 +0000

So what is an example use case where you'd prefer to do X without using this particular tech?

New comment by kid64 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

kid64 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:29:10 +0000

"Dear Claude, please create an eztensive testing suite for this app. Love, cobertos"

New comment by kid64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

kid64 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:36:28 +0000

I think the accepted remedy is to root the device, then use a root-level firewall to prevent it from phoning home. But Boox can of course snap their fingers and undo that any time, and rooting comes with its own set of security concerns. In any case, you're strongly advised to never enter a password on the device using the on-screen keyboard, and rotate any credentials you may have already entered.

New comment by kid64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

kid64 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:08:30 +0000

It's not about their Chineseness. They're notorious, unapologetic GPL violators with a poor track record when it comes to privacy and general integrity (paying for reviews, etc)..

See:

- https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/onyx...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/13e8bw3/psa_onyxbo...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31247982

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37665408

- https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F0...

etc...

New comment by kid64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

kid64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:17:49 +0000

I checked it out and they conspicuously omit the thickness from the FAQ "dimensions" answer. They also avoid any photos of the product that clearly show the thickness. So, guessing it's pretty thick?

New comment by kid64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

kid64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:44:42 +0000

Yeah but do you trust those guys?

New comment by kid64 in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

kid64 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:20:34 +0000

Actual source (there are many others): https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/29483

New comment by kid64 in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

kid64 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:00:30 +0000

In the OP's country, dog food may be considered less desirable than people food.

New comment by kid64 in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

kid64 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:45:24 +0000

I'm glad fer you too.

New comment by kid64 in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

kid64 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:52:59 +0000

What an egregiously disingenous piece of legislation. Not surprised.

New comment by kid64 in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

kid64 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:45:53 +0000

I think the author's sentiments can be neatly summarized as follows: "I wish I didn't live in a society".

New comment by kid64 in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

kid64 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:22:33 +0000

Sorry, the lack of vision I referred to related to Obsidian's leadership -- unserious D&D kids largely unconcerned with usability, performing security theatrics with sync e2ee while their users data is regularly at risk of mass exfiltration via their insanely dangerous community plugin ecosystem.

The on-screen appearance of the feature you're referring to may be visual and coherent, I'm just pointing out that users frequently cite theoretical or anticipated benefits of this feature, not real ones.

New comment by kid64 in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

kid64 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:31:15 +0000

I agree with your first couple of sentences. But the YouTube bit is dangerous misinformation. You cannot match any credible university education by watching YouTube.

New comment by kid64 in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

kid64 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:25:52 +0000

Exactly, Macs were more of a yuppie toy for people that didn't need real computers.

New comment by kid64 in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

kid64 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:00:04 +0000

The thesis here seems to be that delimiters provide important context for Claude, and for that putpose we should use XML.

The article even references English's built-in delimiter, the quotation mark, which is reprented as a token for Claude, part of its training data.

So are we sure the lesson isn't simply to leverage delimiters, such as quotation marks, in prompts, period? The article doesn't identify any way in which XML is superior to quotation marks in scenarios requiring the type of disambiguation quotation marks provide.

Rather, the example XML tags shown seem to be serving as a shorthand for notating sections of the prompt ("treat this part of the prompt in this particular way"). That's useful, but seems to be addressing concerns that are separate from those contemplated by the author.

New comment by kid64 in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

kid64 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:02:54 +0000

Only in 2nd-brain mythology, which holds that you'll discover connections between your notes that you didn't realize was there. I think it started as eye candy to confuse prospective users considering Roam Notes. They later did something similar with their "Canvas" feature. So, these are features you get with their lack of coherent vision, rather than basic usability and a safe plugin ecosystem, neither of which Obsidian plans to deliver..

New comment by kid64 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

kid64 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:59:02 +0000

Who still reads Ars Technica? Has been primarily slop and payola for some time now.

New comment by kid64 in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

kid64 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:31:43 +0000

$50k and €30 are of the same order of magnitude.

New comment by kid64 in "Termux"

kid64 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:19:50 +0000

I remember hearing something about the circumstances of that transfer, do you have a link/reference. Also, when you run Syncthing (the normal build I assume, without the Android wrapper), are you able to reliably prevent Android from killing it?

New comment by kid64 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

kid64 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:04:48 +0000

Or several times more, in some cases