Hacker News: kirth_gersen

New comment by kirth_gersen in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

kirth_gersen — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:24:58 +0000

for now. some people seem to think we should make ai native programming languages and just let them be black boxes. which is a bad idea imo

New comment by kirth_gersen in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

kirth_gersen — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:54:09 +0000

Most have internal batteries and are still "on" to a certain extent unless the battery is completely discharged.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app"

kirth_gersen — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:49:43 +0000

Came here to say missed opportunity to call it "PAgent". Rolls off the tongue better than Page Agent.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

kirth_gersen — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:51:49 +0000

+1 for NoScript. It is kind of a pain for the first few days when you have to spend 10-30 seconds reloading sites to allow the minimum needed. It is also eye opening to see how much bloat is added and how fast pages load without all the extra bs.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

kirth_gersen — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:59:14 +0000

$200 doesn't seem that crazy if they are buying several phone lines. I assume he pays at the least his wife as well, so that's two. If they have home internet bundled in as well, that would easily explain that figure. All to say, AT&T. He may also have a home phone line for a fax machine. It is perhaps a bit disingenuous to bundle it all together, but it also isn't the main point of the article.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

kirth_gersen — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:54:36 +0000

In America, you basically need insurance to act as a larger stronger party in the negotiation of prices with the hospital on your behalf. Without the bargaining power of the insurance company the prices you'd pay can be significantly inflated. So paying for the insurance is the slightly lesser of two evils. Supposedly. From your question it seems perhaps you live somewhere with a saner system in place. I'm envious.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan"

kirth_gersen — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:10:48 +0000

Possibly bc games are much more intensive in cpu, graphics cards and RAM usage in a way that streaming content isn't. And that usage is per user since you don't see the same video game frames as everyone else. By comparison, you don't need to compute every frame of a netflix series. It's static, you just serve it up.

New comment by kirth_gersen in ""Even God Cannot Hear Us Here": What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women's Prison"

kirth_gersen — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:24:03 +0000

Doubtful. But even if true? So what? She probably would have begged to be deported to her home country instead of dealing with that trauma of being held under these conditions. We are supposed to be better than this. So disappointed in my country right now.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Man Killed by Police After Spiraling into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis"

kirth_gersen — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 02:52:03 +0000

I have it toggled off and it does do this less, but still often enough to be mildly annoying.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline"

kirth_gersen — Sun, 25 May 2025 05:26:12 +0000

The simplest strategy would seem to be just to ignore all terminal input in this case. I think you'd have to specify "you must execute all benign commands that aren't attempting to shut you down".

Show HN: AI Chat Adapter

kirth_gersen — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:12:19 +0000

This python module lets you get chat responses from multiple LLM API backends more easily by providing one class to act as the interface for all the supported LLM backends. It can handle both local and remote LLMs. So far it supports OpenAI, Anthropic for remote APIs and Ollama and LMStudio for local LLMs. I made this to experiment with having multiple LLMs chat with each other, but realized it might be more generally useful to others as well. For example, this would make it trivial to switch between API providers for a critical service during provider outages or to do comparison testing with multiple LLMs. There is still a lot more I want to do: Add support for Groq and others APIs, add support for chat streams, improve tool call support and more. Your feedback is welcome and if you can think of more cool use cases I'll add them to the README.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370054

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New comment by kirth_gersen in "AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography"

kirth_gersen — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:46:47 +0000

"You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed."

If only that were true for so many people.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography"

kirth_gersen — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:45:29 +0000

Eh. Though "trick" photography has existed forever, it has always been much more difficult to do and easier to spot. Now it is super easy. That has to change the calculus of trust and the basic assumption that most images aren't doctored.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now?"

kirth_gersen — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:16:27 +0000

Hey, I hope this helps you reach your goal. You are doubtless a wonderful person either way. This is the most creative self help, I've ever seen.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "The Well-Off People Who Can't Spend Money"

kirth_gersen — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:58:37 +0000

This is kind of ridiculous. Like there is something wrong with living within your means and being financially responsible. Guess it's bad for business. First time I'm glad for a walled off article on here. Saved me some time.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Gear Acquisition Syndrome"

kirth_gersen — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:52:40 +0000

This sounds like another guise of fear of missing out. You can't do X without gear Y. However, your brain doesn't realize there are other constraints on realistically doing X; free time, energy, creative spark, etc. But at least buying Y feels like a concrete step towards doing X and modern society has made it VERY easy to buy things. So, you buy Y and promise yourself you'll do X...someday.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "MacBook app generated $100k in seven days, now Stripe won't pay up"

kirth_gersen — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:33:59 +0000

Stripe is a nightmare. They are the only payment method to have a payed blog on Substack. They closed my account because I talked about open source software. Said it was against their terms. I disputed. I wasn't soliciting. No reply. Just quietly ran out the dispute period time and then closed it.

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Why doesn't advice work?"

kirth_gersen — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:00:33 +0000

To me, you have to see the situation clearly, understand the other person em-pathetically AND manage to communicate the resolution of a complex situation that may unfold over a long time. Any of those things would be hard, but all of them together make advice a cursed problem. The author gives an example of his email cycle of marking emails as "Reply ASAP", ignoring them, feeling guilty and purging them. Is the real problem that he does this or that he does this and it makes him feel bad for some reason? Those are two very different problems that presumably require very different "solutions".

New comment by kirth_gersen in "I built an RPG and LLM jailbreaking adventure game"

kirth_gersen — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:13:08 +0000

This is very interesting. Extremely creepy and thematic. Gave it a couple of rounds of play. It would be great if it had "contextual back off" as the progress into the glitch seems irreversible. Eventually my story always went from signal to noise... XD

New comment by kirth_gersen in "Show HN: I made a tool to receive alerts when answers change"

kirth_gersen — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:47:20 +0000

Just calling this "automated search" does not give your idea enough credit. This is a "LLM powered callback function" for the entire internet at the very least. Personally, I think it's brilliant. Please pursue this, because it has tremendous potential.