Hacker News: ktimespi

New comment by ktimespi in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"

ktimespi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:27:21 +0000

finally.

New comment by ktimespi in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

ktimespi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:04:07 +0000

I guess this is breaking ToS?

New comment by ktimespi in "S3 Files"

ktimespi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:22:55 +0000

s3fs can do partial reads too with range queries, I'm leaning more towards the tradeoff.

New comment by ktimespi in "S3 Files"

ktimespi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:27:33 +0000

This was my concern too. The whole point of using S3 as a file system instead of EBS / EFS (for me at least) is to minimize cost and I don't really see why I would use this instead of s3fs.

New comment by ktimespi in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

ktimespi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:02:20 +0000

This is ideal for my use case, yeah. No need to fiddle around with another app's UI.

New comment by ktimespi in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

ktimespi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:30:18 +0000

Yeah, the fact that she realized what's going on and still worked tirelessly to give Mark / Facebook more negotiating power speaks volumes. I also can't buy the whole "I have financial woes and can't escape" spin that she puts on her situation.

Otherwise, great book.

New comment by ktimespi in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

ktimespi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:02:13 +0000

This is sweet!

New comment by ktimespi in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

ktimespi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:36:32 +0000

I've thought about this a bit too, and instead of a straight escape hatch to html when any special formatting is necessary, it might make sense to bind css to particular elements like so:

##[color:red] Heading 2

or using code blocks with particular headers which render out as normal text with the styling applied, like this:

```styling: 'ruleset here...' Lorem Ipsum Dolor ```

this does require a lot of work to consider what might be ergonomic for a particular element (by element I mean ATX headings, blocks, etc.), though.

New comment by ktimespi in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

ktimespi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:22:15 +0000

Yeah, realized this the first time I used an LLM to code. I've not used them since. No matter how good it gets, it's dangerous to lose touch of my own intelligence.

New comment by ktimespi in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

ktimespi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:17:04 +0000

For me, receipt scanning and tagging documents and parts of speech in my personal notes. It's a lot of manual labour and I'd like to automate it if possible.

New comment by ktimespi in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

ktimespi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:07:21 +0000

It's a major disservice to me as a paying user too.

New comment by ktimespi in "Tailscale'd into Homelabbing"

ktimespi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:00:36 +0000

I've had a very pleasant experience with Tailscale for self-hosted applications too! I will recommend Silverbullet (https://https://silverbullet.md/) for note-taking.

New comment by ktimespi in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

ktimespi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:57:12 +0000

The fact that I couldn't turn off shorts recommendations on youtube is just so, so annoying. It's such a time sink and I'm glad that the tides are finally shifting against addictive algorithms like these.

New comment by ktimespi in "Autoresearch for SAT Solvers"

ktimespi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:01:06 +0000

sounds like AlphaDev [1] might be a better approach for a problem like this.

[1] https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphadev

New comment by ktimespi in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

ktimespi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:06:00 +0000

I've heard Zulip is a good alternative

New comment by ktimespi in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

ktimespi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:24:22 +0000

He realizes that they can't move data out of Slack, and asks for another corporate product that has the potential to lock down the organization's data...

New comment by ktimespi in "Looks like it is happening"

ktimespi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:15:46 +0000

I don't think it is true either, considering the broad claims made.

The thing to be changed is research incentives, not getting the bar even higher. Take the Francesca Gino case, for example. I don't think anyone can argue that Harvard's bar is "not high enough".

New comment by ktimespi in "Looks like it is happening"

ktimespi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:03:49 +0000

This comes across as elitist

New comment by ktimespi in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

ktimespi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:47:21 +0000

My current issue with pass is my difficulty with migrating my private GPG keys to new devices. Makes the experience so much more worse IMO. (I've been using pass for 6 years at this point)

New comment by ktimespi in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

ktimespi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:41:00 +0000

I'd be glad if someone could enlighten me on why the whole file needs to be encrypted.

What issues does storing an encrypted value (password, metadata, etc) associated with a particular key (let's say website name) have? (apart from leaking the fact that that file has a entry associated with that site)