Hacker News: kilroy123

New comment by kilroy123 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

kilroy123 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:31:21 +0000

I made a thing to watch YouTube like it's 2000s cable tv.

I'm working to make it better right now.

https://channelsurfer.tv/

Show HN: Millions of websites crawled for LLMs to rebuild the pricing pages

kilroy123 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:46:55 +0000

I did a dumb thing by crawling millions of pages to find all the pricing pages I could.

Then I fed all of them to ~50 LLMs to see how good or bad they all did. Then I dumped it all on a page. Just because.

Here's a post on how I did this: https://pricepage.lol/how-i-built-pricepage-lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740358

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kilroy123 in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

kilroy123 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:27:09 +0000

Well said. I really hope the Chinese models keep getting better. Competition is good.

New comment by kilroy123 in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

kilroy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:44:31 +0000

I don't have much to add except to say, I love this trend of people rebuilding old games like this. I hope to see a lot more of this.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

kilroy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:08:36 +0000

That salary is not unheard of at all in London. Especially when you convert £ to $.

New comment by kilroy123 in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

kilroy123 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:26:26 +0000

Makes me think of all these tools that use AI to make fancy flashcards for you to study.

It seems rather silly to me, as _creating_ those flashcards is what helps you learn, with the studying after, cementing that knowledge in your brain.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

kilroy123 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:56:47 +0000

I think a larger problem is that a lot of YC folks just use Bookface instead of HN.

Channel Surfer Weather Channel

kilroy123 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:10:53 +0000

Article URL: https://channelsurfer.tv/?ch=50

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kilroy123 in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

kilroy123 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:18:17 +0000

Shameful plug, but I have a weather channel on channel surfer:

https://channelsurfer.tv/?ch=50

Show HN: A simulated computer on Mars with real orbital mechanics

kilroy123 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:30:07 +0000

Article URL: https://marsputer.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601454

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kilroy123 in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

kilroy123 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:46:36 +0000

To big ones:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

https://wtfhappened2012.com/

Show HN: Let Me Emoji That for You

kilroy123 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:16:46 +0000

Article URL: https://letmeemojithatforyou.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518511

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kilroy123 in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

kilroy123 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:05:42 +0000

I don't know if I qualify for "smart" but my plan has been to keep one foot in the US and one foot in Europe.

I saw the writing on the wall long ago. I predicted all of this happening many years ago. I left the US back in 2015.

Currently in the UK, and I hope to eventually get dual citizenship. My partner is European, so that is possible too.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

kilroy123 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:17:16 +0000

The Oculus is actually pretty decent for the price and as a standalone device. The issue is the OS feels so... like it was built by a big company with a dysfunctional org chart?

It's still an unfocused mess.

The bigger issue is, VR will ALWAYS be a niche thing. Always on AR glasses are the real future bet, not a niche industry.

VR will never be as big as Facebook / Instagram / WhatsApp. It just doesn't make sense to invest so much into it. Not sure what Zuck doesn't see this?

New comment by kilroy123 in "Kagi Small Web"

kilroy123 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:49:26 +0000

There are still a lot of alternatives:

http://cloudhiker.net

https://www.offscopes.com

Newsletter version if you prefer: https://randomdailyurls.com

New comment by kilroy123 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

kilroy123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:18:17 +0000

Thank you for the kind words. I was going for that feel.

The grainy interlace effect is just good old-fashioned CSS. :)

It is curated! I will seriously do a lot more work on making it better. Especially the music, it's a bit redundant right now.

I haven't had time to get to that. This has really blown up and even been in the news, so it's been hectic.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

kilroy123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:57:41 +0000

When you get to your feed, you have to click the bookmarklet. It will pull your videos and copy them to your clipboard.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

kilroy123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:08:48 +0000

You have to tap on the channels on the left.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

kilroy123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:43:03 +0000

I add channels and playlists.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

kilroy123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:12:15 +0000

I'm the creator of this. It is human curated. :-) Actually, there's zero AI with this one.