<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kmarc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kmarc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:33:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kmarc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Git hosting that never leaves Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a daily user of bitbucket, gitlab, and github, it's refreshing to see how insanely, extremely snappy this web ui is.<p>I hope all the best to succeed with this project, I'm sold!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:09:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577297</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a bit opponent of Apple's walled garden, but the build quality of this laptop is quite far away from a MacBook... Except the display, this OLED WXHQwhatever is stunning.<p>Source: I bought the same (with core i7, so it's performant, etc.).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462154</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except... a million reasons where they will either not understand, or they should have not become a parent.<p>The problem with the "The Most Infuriating Answer" is that it entirely neglects facts, and only those say it who do have a good experience with it.<p>Happy for you, internet stranger. Just like I am happy for all of those around me: you all are the ones who do good parenting.<p>In case you also want to become a better person in general, I recommend to stop being condescending, and not to say this ever again to anyone. You hurt more than you think you are wise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:52:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359265</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then you must be sad that the "AI slop" is a user friendly, working toy whereas the OSM data one is just a miserable static database-render.<p>Go and compare them. I love getting lost in data, and I was happy to see all the overloaded, very badly curated, non-dynamic OpenRailwayMap. I cannot click on a railway to get more info, the electrification map is just a mess of many similarly shaded colors. Not user friendly, even if it _has_ the data, it is unfriendly to the user, and makes exploration hard.<p>I say this as an OSM enthusiast and contributor.<p>Compare this to the "AI slop"; even though at first I ran into a misinformation (Zambia central links to London Central), it still made me stay on the page and explore some scenic routes. I obviously knew that this is NOT all the railways, but something fun to engage with and maybe even learn / explore some new things, hell maybe start planning my winter vacation.<p>I guess what I am saying is: your comment has no added value, just sourness, negativity.<p>I hope the author keeps iterating on this project, eventually make it more OSM-interconnected, fix the tiny bugs and focus on bringing joy to us who are interested. After all, this product is out in public now, whereas your miserable comment will get buried here for good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:27:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254550</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I my mind it's mostly corporate socio-political. Your management have no idea what a (rest) API is, but they saw MCP in countless LinkedIn slop and therefore you are allowed to work on one / use an upstream solution to connect the agents to your 23 year old monolithic unmaintained homebrew CRM that only runs because overcompensated Frank is still willing to pet it manually.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:25:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179252</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure, haven't tried it today.<p>Last night it single handedly implemented a feature after a grilling session, and came back with the red-yellow-green risk assessment points that I mostly saw with anthropic models. I had to check if I'm using the right model, but it was DS4Flash.<p>So maybe I was using it already?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:27:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121345</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recommendation? No. Just go with the passive-aggressive advice "let pi build it for you". :-)<p>To be more constructive, what I did (as an experiencd SWE but a complete noob to agentic coding): went to pi.dev's extension marketplace and looked into all the new shiny stuff. Subagents, mcps, context and memory optimizers, skills. Using the most popular ones (not necessarily the best ones)<p>It was like 15years ago learning the new mindset of vim (and spending a ton of time to customize it to my workflow). My understanding is that Claude and opencode doesn't give you this flexibility.<p>Learning all these stuff drove me to also set up openwebui, and it was such a successful private project that I implemented it at work (with jira/confluence/bazel query access) and management said "we need this by tomorrow".<p>I believe the models matter not that much anymore. The "harness" does. (unless you just want to vibe code. Thebn, throw crap at fable and call it a day)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:30:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120499</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Essentially I'm running everything on flash now inside pi. With the correct set of MCP servers, context reducer tooling and skills it can implement any task I throw at it. Some sessions take 30+ turns, but it's fast and cheap; all this in an hour, with ~$0.5 cost.<p>(TBH though, in my multi-subagent workflow I do use other, more expensive models for planning, reviewing, oracle-ing)<p>I haven't used our slow opus subscription for weeks.<p>(Also set up an OpenWebUi self-hosted chat that works from my phone, has some mcp and skills. fully replaced perplexity. Monthly cost ~$18 for hosting and subscriptions)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:16:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120410</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "KOReader"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got to the same conclusion. Installation was also painful; understandable, these platforms are clumsy.<p>The software itself is magic, kudos to all the developers and community.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097280</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So much fun reading new reddit on your phone browser, to have it pop-up a "use our app" banner, that prevents you from interacting with the website anymore<p>Hmmm, I remember this from the past, but one of my adblock rules probably catches this one, I haven't experienced it for years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:13:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018350</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Qwen 3.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can highly recommend OpenCode Go.<p>I use it from pi.dev as well through the OpenCode Go $10 subscription ($5 first month).<p>Used more than 20M tokens at a cost of ~$20 (up to $60 is included in the $5 plan)
Out of which deepseek pro had ~200 messages which is around 1.5M tokens (10+M cached)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:21:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967040</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After 18y of thinkpads, this year I bouth a Lenovo yoga for... Cheap (1000€).<p>32G RAM, nvme 1TB, core ultra 258V.<p>Looking at the prices now... Wow, was I lucky.<p>Tried some of the 7b models locally, more than usable, around 30token/sec, not with the NPU, but using the ARC integrated GPU.<p>I am a noob for this, but I guess it's time to experiment more with this local setup</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856360</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does a nazi salut make him one?<p>Regardless, the technology itself is amazing, and eventually should (will) be common infrastructure</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783555</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "NixOS 26.05"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr</a><p>Aconfmgr is a good solution (practical trade-off for me). When it feel like "my OS must be dirty at this point", then I spend a couple minutes with this and I'm back to the clean state.<p>I don't do this more then twice a year, so if you insist on an always clean system, YMMV</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721166</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Local Git remotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stalled...? I even had to look up the name using  "pgp social network xlm" as search terms.<p>App still working tho.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 01:20:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331393</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Local Git remotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use Keybase's encrypted git repo the same way (to sync "private" dotfiles across laptops / remote workstations)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:07:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324044</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I visited the local waste processing plant to learn about the basics in general and have some insights on what could I do for better recycling.<p>Clothing is the worst offender here. Impossible to recycle. The quality would not be good enough and the price is too high. It is a huge waste of resources.<p>Upcycling (e.g. repurposing) works with some materials, though, however, with very low efficiency.<p>Europe is moving towards reducing fast fashion therefore. This is a good thing in general, but I don't see this change in the US / Asia. And very slowly also in Europe.</p>
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<p>Wait, isn't that what Windows 3.1/95 did with the "What's this" button?</p>
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<p>This resonates with me a lot.<p>I do some stuff with gemini flash and Aider, but mostly because I want to avoid locking myself into a walled garden of models, UIs and company</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:08:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885797</link><dc:creator>kmarc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmarc in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you know how it compares to LibreTube[1]? For the SponsorBlock integration; it works well for me, but I kinda miss the newpipe interface.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube</a></p>
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