Hacker News: kimos

New comment by kimos in "Googlebook"

kimos — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:10:44 +0000

My brother in size Small-Tall, tell me where you shop!

This is a good one: https://tallslimtees.com/

I also do some made to order from Son of a Tailor and Proper Cloth, but it’s expensive and laborious and slow and risky.

New comment by kimos in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

kimos — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:01:57 +0000

Then that becomes an ongoing effort. The rewrite is once. (Good idea or not)

New comment by kimos in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

kimos — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:39:09 +0000

It isn’t exactly. They created a list of known extensions by their id and a file which is known to exist in that extension. The site iterates over each pair and tries to load that file, if it doesn’t error it knows the extension is installed. It’s a clever and difficult manual process, but it does bypass the security trying to prevent this kind of thing.

I read that their reasoning is it exists to block users that use known scraper extensions which bypass their terms of use. But don’t entirely buy that.

New comment by kimos in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"

kimos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:55:06 +0000

This is partially why search is doomed. Sure LLMs are overtaking search, because search has been enshitified to the point you need an LLM to even get thr answer you’re looking for.

I keep thinking how often LLMs are used to “solve” problems we created.

“Meeting starts at 3” gets fed into an LLM to turn it into a 3 paragraph email, only to be summarized by a different LLM on the other email client end as “Meeting starts at 3”. What a waste.

New comment by kimos in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

kimos — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:41:07 +0000

I clicked the link out of interest but am quite happy that the article had no image.

New comment by kimos in "Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler"

kimos — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:13:32 +0000

This removes a large portion of the magic of Ruby.

New comment by kimos in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

kimos — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:07:27 +0000

I completely understand how this game is brilliant and a perfect puzzle game. But it was so hard and frustrating I could not play it.

New comment by kimos in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

kimos — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:42:47 +0000

Maybe! It won’t change liability. But perception is important too.

New comment by kimos in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

kimos — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:50:55 +0000

I think it’s trying to demonstrate intent. “This is cool and hacking is fun” vs “Here is a tool to do bad things”. I don’t think it would much protect you from consequences, but it can change perception of the intent of the project.

New comment by kimos in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

kimos — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:24:58 +0000

This makes no sense and has nothing to do with serving traffic.

More EC2 workers means more parallelism means tests map to more workers and the CI build finishes faster. It’s just CI perceived complete time.

New comment by kimos in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

kimos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:35:59 +0000

I’m in Canada. I’ve had a couple of Kobos and I’ve loved every single one of them. The Kobo bookstore works fine. No complaints.

New comment by kimos in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

kimos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:21:17 +0000

Yes. But to be fair there are plenty of websites that are bad enough they’re not adapted for me to be able to use it.

New comment by kimos in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

kimos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:15:47 +0000

A subreddit or forum like this is a good resource:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/

But it turns every decision into an exhausting research and optimization project.

New comment by kimos in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

kimos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:03:39 +0000

Canada too.

I only have WhatsApp installed for when I leave the country.

New comment by kimos in "DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments"

kimos — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:58:06 +0000

I had just assumed the slow animation was buying time to call out to an LLM.

New comment by kimos in "Flighty Airports"

kimos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:56:12 +0000

This app brings me so much delight. Seeing the incoming plane, knowing % chance of onetime or late.

Honestly I often know changes from Flighty for my flights before the airlines do or at least before they notify me. I had once my carrier said on time and Flighty said 90 mins delay. I went to the airport on time and turns out flight was delayed. Should have just trusted them!

New comment by kimos in "Flighty Airports"

kimos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:54:12 +0000

Because they don’t want to?

It’s not just about money. It’s complexity, company size, management, etc.. Loss of focus by having to build a new app from ground up. Features and improvements take longer as they have to be done twice. Parity problems. Support debt. Maintaining multiple versions of the same app isn’t just “hire more”.

As you agreed with, they are successful. Maybe they’re happy with that.

New comment by kimos in "American aviation is near collapse?"

kimos — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:17:52 +0000

This is how Canada works (Westminster style). When a govt tables a budget it goes to a vote, and if they can’t get the votes to pass it it triggers a no-confidence vote in the govt and away we go to an election.

New comment by kimos in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

kimos — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:09:11 +0000

There was 7 seconds between clearance being given and the accident.

New comment by kimos in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

kimos — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:10:51 +0000

Beyond is not a convincing substitute. I think it’s delicious for processed food and I prefer it to beef by a lot, but it is definitely beany tasting.