Hacker News: kip_

New comment by kip_ in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

kip_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:48:15 +0000

I hadn't, but then 2.1.177 dropped in on auto-update and I assumed that was going to be the end of Fable for me, but I'm still on it. At least that's what the model picker is continuing to say along with the header.

    Claude Code v2.1.177
  Fable 5 with low effort · Claude Max
       ~/testing

Never mind, it failed a few minutes later with: There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

And now we're done. Oh well.

New comment by kip_ in "Claude Code 2.0"

kip_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:43:14 +0000

tab-completion of filenames in the directory tree is now unavailable. You'll need to use the Codex style @file to bring up an fzf style list

New comment by kip_ in "Seedship – Text-Based Game"

kip_ — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:12:41 +0000

https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bmcirjr... has something to say about that.

New comment by kip_ in "How to drill your own water well"

kip_ — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:42:57 +0000

Particularly https://azwatermaps.azwater.gov/gwsiweb/

New comment by kip_ in "How to drill your own water well"

kip_ — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:41:24 +0000

https://new.azwater.gov/aaws/maps-resources will give you a good idea of how far down wells have to go in various areas of Arizona.

New comment by kip_ in "micro – A Modern Alternative to nano"

kip_ — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:28:44 +0000

Some of us graybeards use to use teletypes to talk to our computers. In one of the earlier races between differing I/O, the printer couldn't print as fast as the teletype was receiving data, so the teletype would send XOFF (Ctrl-S) to tell the remote end "Stop sending data and let me catch up" and would then send XON (Ctrl-Q) to say "I'm caught up, go back to sending data.

Many of us carried that to our VT100 terminals and used it when lines of code or output would flood the screen faster than we could read.

Eventually paginators like 'more' and 'less' were invented and flow control via the keyboard codes for XON/XOFF fell out of favor, but some of us have very strong muscle memory. :)

New comment by kip_ in "Ask HN: Why is Hacker News unable to effectively discuss difficult topics?"

kip_ — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:44:16 +0000

Dear Cake Baker News moderators,

I'm terribly disappointed that this community of thoughtful, interesting bakers can't seem to effectively discuss the topic of whether or not beans belong in chili.

New comment by kip_ in "Show HN: Weltschmerz by age"

kip_ — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:53:07 +0000

"My baby is X months old and" led to discovering much fretting by parents.

New comment by kip_ in "A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages"

kip_ — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:11:37 +0000

The docs located at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Mu... should help you there.

New comment by kip_ in "The PDA returns to CES, because everything old is new again"

kip_ — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:49:47 +0000

It's been well over a decade since I last used a Palm device, and yet my printing still slips into Graffiti, notably the horizontal trail at the end for the letter V.

New comment by kip_ in "Breaking into 1Password, KeePass, LastPass and Dashlane"

kip_ — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:46:17 +0000

So they're brute forcing the master password for these databases. Why should I be worried if I'm using a non-dictionary multi-word passphrase as my master password?

"Different password managers employ different approaches to security. As an example, LastPass generates the encryption key by hashing the username and master password with 5,000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA256, while 1Password employs even more rounds of hashing. This is designed to slow down brute-force attacks, and it almost works. Granted, these are still nearly an order of magnitude less secure than, say, Microsoft Office 2016 documents, but even this level of security is much better than nothing." I'm guessing they meant more secure then Office 2016.

New comment by kip_ in "Show HN: IsTempMail – Detect and block disposable email addresses"

kip_ — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:22:53 +0000

Why is thrott.com (ThrottleHQ) on your block list?

I'd argue that those emails aren't disposable. I use ThrottleHQ to track when service providers resell my email to other lists.

New comment by kip_ in "SVG changes color when rotated in Safari 10"

kip_ — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:16:54 +0000

I'm running macOS Sierra, 10.12 and Safari 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10) I do not get the color change.

Yes, 12602, not 11602.

New comment by kip_ in "Thinking Forth (1984)"

kip_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:32:05 +0000

I was amused to see that uBlock Origin's default filter lists now include sourceforge and thus I was momentarily stopped from seeing it.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Badware-risks

New comment by kip_ in "Capistrano's Borked"

kip_ — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:16:24 +0000

Actually the wiki for Github allows any text after the URL and then brings up the editing form and then save it.

https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/This-is-silly

New comment by kip_ in "Hunting Task Wabbits"

kip_ — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:19:55 +0000

Isn't 8% month over month something like 150% year over year, how much faster growth did they need, or has the market really come to expect 1,000% year over year to be worthy of funding?

New comment by kip_ in "Martin Gardner's best mathematical puzzles"

kip_ — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:57:42 +0000

Think about what happens when you lay down any domino on that chessboard.

New comment by kip_ in "Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site"

kip_ — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:40:29 +0000

So you want to be yet another place I need to check in with to get these offers and provide the tracking, analytics and subscriber numbers to sell to businesses?

In addition to Facebook, Twitter and my regular email.

New comment by kip_ in "Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?"

kip_ — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:02:56 +0000

Another happy BazQux user.

New comment by kip_ in "Google timer"

kip_ — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:09:48 +0000

Announced over 6 weeks ago at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-timer.html