Hacker News: knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=knocteHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:23:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS"]]>I've heard that an NFC alternative to ApplePay & Google{Pay|Wallet} is Curve Pay, but sadly it requires KYC (while the former ones don't). Do you know if Walt will require KYC too? It's not clear from their website.

]]>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:52:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223546knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223546https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223546<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"]]>A wall is a wall, here's an unwalled one: https://archive.ph/WZh8X

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:02:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50203667knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50203667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50203667<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"]]>Aight, I recognize I only skimmed through the comments, I was completely convinced it was a typo because it has to be a big coincidence that in a post about Shopify suddenly they talk about Spotify and it's not by mistake.

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:25:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656070knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656070<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"]]>Actually, the first occurrence might have just been a typo (auto-correct?), but the second occurrence looks like slop directed at the previous comment.

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:21:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653521knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653521https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653521<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"]]>I never said I paid, I was referring to my opensource repos.

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:41:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474089knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474089<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"]]>Not a fan of defending GitHub, but TBH them launching GithubActions made me abandon all other CI platforms I was using in the past, I even left GitLab just for that.

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:36:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461660knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461660https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461660<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Rewriting in Rust"]]>Did I just read an HN comment written by an AI? Looks sycophantic enough

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:02:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371726knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371726<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Go 1.27"]]>Can proper Result/Option types be created for Go now?

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:21:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370349knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370349https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370349<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"]]>Why?

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:07:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357976knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357976<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"]]>But how's this related to melatonin? Did you use it on those 7 years to progressively switch?

]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:32:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230485knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230485https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230485<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"]]>Well, if he had proposed more concrete plans for what that body might do... but yeah, it seems too abstract that indeed sounds like a bureaucrat wanting to wrap everything under a big pile of paperwork.

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:13:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909049knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909049https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909049<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"]]>Am I the only one thinking this tweet is just a word salad with a lot of sauces and condiments?

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:02:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908891knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908891https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908891<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"]]>Or give them a dedicated user and you don't lose precious CPU cycles to run a VM/container: http://github.com/tarsgate/skynot

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:11:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894809knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894809https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894809<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "TypeScript 7"]]>Yeah! This way TS at runtime would also benefit from the speedup, not just the compilation.

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:49:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842325knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842325https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842325<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "TypeScript 7"]]>> Python is strongly typed

Get the f*ck outta here.

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:45:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842290knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842290https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842290<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"]]>I shared your fear some weeks/months ago so I was always using my harness in the cloud. However, latency started to become an issue when I traveled to other countries where I needed a VPN... so I ended up cooking skynot to be able to trust running my harness in my own computer: https://github.com/tarsgate/skynot (PRs welcome if you want to add support for another harness different than Pi)

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:01:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757129knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757129https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757129<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"]]>> and thankfully could not get anywhere near that today.

Because you're addicted to HN now and HN didn't exist by then?

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:43:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393479knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393479<![CDATA[Beware of infinite loops when using AI]]>Article URL: https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action/pull/260

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393369

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]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:26:37 +0000https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action/pull/260knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393369https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393369<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"]]>That's why I don't even let my AI use my user account. If you are interested in this setup, use my tool 'skynot' or adopt a similar setup: https://github.com/tarsgate/skynot/

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352381knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352381https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352381<![CDATA[New comment by knocte in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"]]>Funny to find this just now, when just yesterday I told an LLM "and please don't lecture me again on $factAboutSomeProgrammingSubject", and then the LLM proceeded to write wrong tests and just told me "alright, tests pass, I'm sorry for correcting you before...". It took me a while to find the wrong tests. Wasted time all around.

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 06:18:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305284knoctehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305284https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305284