Hacker News: lxgr

New comment by lxgr in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

lxgr — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:19:52 +0000

Significantly reducing the risk is enough for me in many cases. Chasing “zero risk” is often a fallacy.

New comment by lxgr in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:59:51 +0000

Not GP, but sometimes I want my browser to do pretty random/niche things without that compromising all of my browsing data.

New comment by lxgr in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:58:45 +0000

Why should there not be a middle ground between “can do absolutely everything with all my data” and “is basically a glorified bookmark button” based on the level of trust I have for an extension?

New comment by lxgr in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:46:18 +0000

Ah, I love these as they're generally much thinner/lighter/more flexible than USB-C 3 cables but still support at least 60W power delivery! Advertising them as USB 3 is a shame, though.

New comment by lxgr in "Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:07 +0000

You can "install" the PWA on iOS by adding it to your home screen, then your ntfy instance can use APNs directly (via Web Push)!

New comment by lxgr in "Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:24:59 +0000

What do you mean by "battery consuming application"? At least the PWA of ntfy can use Web Push, which uses your browser's existing push notification service and should not consume any additional battery.

New comment by lxgr in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:15:14 +0000

If you can afford it, I'd honestly throw these out. "Charging only" is not a spec-compliant thing in USB-C, and personally I wouldn't want to re-discover which devices do and don't support them every time I just want to quickly grab a cable.

What's less easy to replace are all these damn USB-C devices lacking the UFP-identifying circuitry that only work on USB-A chargers using A-to-C cables...

New comment by lxgr in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:53:55 +0000

Great utility.

The only wrinkles for me are that Macs apparently don't interrogate cables when they don't have to, i.e., when the power adapter supplies <= 60W (not sure if that's a USB-C protocol or an Apple implementation limitation) and that the website copy is full of GPT-isms, which makes me suspect that some of the output might be assumed instead of empirically validated as well.

New comment by lxgr in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:59:44 +0000

> The old ChatGPT app, which has now been renamed "ChatGPT Classic", feels much faster and is using around 478 MB under the same conditions.

That's definitely better, but all things considered, this is still an absurd amount of memory for a text chat client, even if you account things like hardware composited high-definition UI surfaces etc. into it.

The old app also had a habit of spinning at least one CPU core at 100% due to some runaway "shimmer" animation when an image wouldn't load or something...

> my experience with the new ChatGPT app since Codex was folded into it hasn't been great.

My main gripe beyond the performance issues is that OpenAI doesn't yet seem to know where they want to go with Codex and "ChatGPT Work", and is changing the paradigms daily, making it feel like there's no point in even trying to understand them.

It's really unclear to me which conversations (and lately scheduled tasks) are local and which are cloud-based.

New comment by lxgr in "Coldcard's $38M (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody"

lxgr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:08:10 +0000

> If your firmware is open-source or has ever been public, assume it's already being read by attackers and defenders alike.

You better assume the same for closed-source software too. Turns out modern models are pretty good with decompilers...

New comment by lxgr in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

lxgr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:44:56 +0000

As I understand it, the main problem with bucket shops was that they were the counterparty to each bet, so they had a very high interest in customers actually losing. More legitimate exchanges earn their money via trading fees, so at least they only have an interest in customers trading a lot.

Unfortunately, when trading a lot at negative expected value, the outcomes converge...

New comment by lxgr in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

lxgr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:32:49 +0000

You actually raise a great point for regulating high-risk (and recently heavily gamified) options and futures bets more like gambling for retail investors.

New comment by lxgr in "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"

lxgr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:26:44 +0000

This shows 10 credits per 5.6 Sol chat message, but the price for 100 credits I see on my (consumer) account is just $4. Are business credits vastly more expensive?

New comment by lxgr in "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"

lxgr — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:53:56 +0000

> ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message

For what kind of message are you seeing that kind of charge?

New comment by lxgr in "My server is a phone now"

lxgr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:05:44 +0000

As a strictly opt-in system, with a corresponding default tip amount reduction of 50% (7.5%/9%/10%), I don’t see any issues :)

New comment by lxgr in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

lxgr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:43:26 +0000

> Hence it is legal (in Germany) for politicians to buy/sell right before passing laws which influence the valuation of companies.

Are you sure about that? European legal theory for insider trading implicitly covers more cases than the US without needing to explicitly enumerate them as far as I understand (in a nutshell, trading on insider information is illegal regardless of the source or whether any fiduciary duty was breached), and I'd be surprised if this case were not covered.

New comment by lxgr in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

lxgr — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:10:37 +0000

> So 5.6 Luna is just their next version of what they used to call 5.5 instant tier

I wonder if this means that Luna is more, uhm, "free tier like" in its responses? The "Instant"/"Chat" models have a pretty particular vibe.

New comment by lxgr in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

lxgr — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:45:50 +0000

I highly doubt that that's the last word on that matter, but even if: Even before LLMs you could combine individual non-copyrighted components into something copyrighted.

New comment by lxgr in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

lxgr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:18:47 +0000

A stopped clock is also right twice a day.

New comment by lxgr in "The Valley of Webhooks"

lxgr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:33:24 +0000

Assuming you're not using the proposed streaming option, I suppose you could always send a webhook for that fact alone? In other words, an empty notification, with semantics of "something has probably changed, better poll the SCROLL if you aren't already".