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New comment by kromokromo in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

kromokromo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:23:46 +0000

Im with you, my take-away from the article was of sadness for all the books that are going extinct because of this.

Real humans sharing their unique knowledge, packaged in a book.

New comment by kromokromo in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

kromokromo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:57:15 +0000

No. We need to think in other ways than the ad economy. I’d gladly pay for good content if there was a decent system set up for it.

New comment by kromokromo in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

kromokromo — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:48 +0000

Its probably just a corporate symptom, weird stuff like this happens in messy large orgs.

New comment by kromokromo in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

kromokromo — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:39:46 +0000

Which is often the case in music too actually. So many famous artists and bands created their best work early in their careers. You would think touring and several albums make them perfect the craft of making songs, but I think involving money and external pressure actually kill the creative spark if you’re not mindful about it.

New comment by kromokromo in "Keygen.music"

kromokromo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:03:25 +0000

Also a missed opportunity for some of that sweet vanilla html paired with the keygen and crack ansi splash screens

New comment by kromokromo in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

kromokromo — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:00:15 +0000

I disagree. They have been winning lately because of better harnesses and interfaces. New actual decent features are shipped almost weekly on Claude code and Claude desktop.

New comment by kromokromo in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

kromokromo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:49:04 +0000

I’ve been juggling between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for the last couple of years, but ChatGPT has always been my main driver.

Recently did the full transition to Claude, the model is great, but what I really love is how they seem to have landed on a clear path for their GUI/ecosystem. The cowork feature fits my workflows really well and connecting enterprise apps, skills and plugins works really well.

Haven’t been this excited about AI since GPT 4o launched.

New comment by kromokromo in "San Francisco Graffiti"

kromokromo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:14:52 +0000

I agree. It feels like people are actually living there, in contrast to sterile, corporate glass/concrete.

New comment by kromokromo in "European Alternatives"

kromokromo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:26:36 +0000

Theoretically possible in a distributed way, though usually inefficient. IPFS is a good example.

New comment by kromokromo in "GPT-5.2"

kromokromo — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:17:38 +0000

Asking an LLM to give itself a «confidence score» is like asking a teenager to grade his own exam. I LLMs doesn’t «feel» uncertainty and confidence like we do.

New comment by kromokromo in "AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?"

kromokromo — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:03:56 +0000

I think a lot of the problems lies in their prompting. AI is usually at its worst when just saying «deploy terraform module». And off it goes spitting out code.

What they should have done as juniors was to have a conversation about the topic and task first. «Help me understand …» learning and planning is especially important with LLM coding.

New comment by kromokromo in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

kromokromo — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:41:21 +0000

Bitcoin as a digital store of value is fine. It makes sense to store money in something digital and secure to hedge against local instabilities in currencies, governments etc. People store money in it because it currently secure and it been battle tested, nobody has been able to hack it.

However, I am concerned about the security model on a 5-10+ year perspective. Miners secure the blockchain and get paid for it in bitcoins. We have seen that the mining has become more and more sentralized as the mining gets progressively harder (as by design). Progressively harder mining means that the price of bitcoin must rise in pararell to cover the expenses of the miners securing the network.

Here are my concerns:

- Increasingly centralized mining means a higher risk of a 51% attack (controlling 51% means you control the entire network).

- Bitcoin not able to maintain a constant price growth that will lower the incentive to keep mining as the difficulity increases.

- Quantum Computing actually cracking the encryptions which will kill the entire network instantly.

- Instability in the world might lead to spikes in electricity prices, which will affect the incentive to secure the network with mining.

I also think spending so much energy on security, when there are other viable options available is insane in our current age.

Transitioning to a Proof of Stake model like Ethereum instead of a Proof of Work model would be much more robust with a fraction of the power consumption, but thats just my opinion.

New comment by kromokromo in "I designed my website to look like a chat log"

kromokromo — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:18:05 +0000

I would suggest containing the chat in a framed container that spans the page, and scroll inside it. In the current form, scrolling the entire webpage makes it loose the chat box effect in my opinion. Right now it just feels like scrolling a html page with horizontal cards.

New comment by kromokromo in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

kromokromo — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:48:06 +0000

Opening up coal mines just to bring back jobs in the rust belt does not make any sense. Start mining silicon and other minerals used in solar, batteries and chips instead. It makes a lot more sense even though the initial investment is higher.

New comment by kromokromo in "M4 MacBook Pro"

kromokromo — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:09:59 +0000

100% agree on this. Ive had this thing for 3 years and I still appreciate how good it is. Of course the M4 tingles my desire for new cool toys, but I honestly don´t think I would notice much difference with my current use.

Show HN: My First VSCode Extension – Syntax Error Summary

kromokromo — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:28:20 +0000

Published as "Syntax Error Summary" in the VSCode extension marketplace.

Simply exports all the syntax errors from the current file into a sidepanel. Copy to clipboard button.

Part of my "Coding with LLMs" debugging workflow.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785691

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New comment by kromokromo in "Medieval"

kromokromo — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:24:55 +0000

You can tell Teenage Engineering is a fun place to work.

New comment by kromokromo in "Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers"

kromokromo — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:32:02 +0000

Huge fan of this guy, very talented and creative mechanical lego engineer. You can also tell he spends a lot of time editiing his videos.

New comment by kromokromo in "Winpopup (2001)"

kromokromo — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:15:35 +0000

It was only a matter of time, with opportunities like that - what did they expect?

New comment by kromokromo in "Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player"

kromokromo — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:50:52 +0000

Such a missed opportunity though, should have made buttons and sliders physical as well!