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New comment by magistr4te in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

magistr4te — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:08:25 +0000

I'd say this argument is not relevant to the specific question the article tries to answer, as AI adoption through these means is forced and may in many cases go against user preferences.

Edit: The deciding factor being whether you want to figure out if people are interested in AI / find it useful, or if the question you seek answered is more akin to "X% of people consume lead in their food"

New comment by magistr4te in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

magistr4te — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:37:51 +0000

It is a real product. They take real payments and deliver on whats promised. Not sure if its an attempt to subvert criticism by using satirical language, or if they truly have so little respect for the open source community.

New comment by magistr4te in "Vargai/SDK – JSX for AI video, declarative programming language for Claude Code"

magistr4te — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:03:48 +0000

slop

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39C3)

magistr4te — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46507026

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by magistr4te in "As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook"

magistr4te — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:43:59 +0000

I've never done the math on this, but my immediate thought on that reasoning was always that you'd have to burn through a LOT of paper to actually have such an electronic product be more environmentally friendly. Does anyone have concrete data on this?

New comment by magistr4te in "Show HN: LLMpeg"

magistr4te — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:32:06 +0000

Ah, thank you for the correction. It's been quite a while since I used shell_gpt and things seem to have changed; I need to revisit these tools :) Your plugin suggestion sounds interesting, I'll consider it!

New comment by magistr4te in "Show HN: LLMpeg"

magistr4te — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:33:16 +0000

I finished shellmind (https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind) a few days ago, and it might interest you! It avoids having to copy-paste commands, by integrating directly into the shell and let's you review the real command before send-off. It's also general purpose and can handle more then just ffmpeg.

New comment by magistr4te in "Show HN: LLMpeg"

magistr4te — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:30:46 +0000

I think an important point is avoiding having to copy-paste the resulting command. A few days ago I finished shellmind (https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind), which is a general purpose tool like shell_gpt, but integrates directly into the shell for a more efficient workflow.

shellmind: LLM powered pseudocode shell commands

magistr4te — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:24:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621682

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ngrrram: Improve typing speed and learn new layouts (incl. free cat)

magistr4te — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wintermute-cell/ngrrram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432269

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Living Worlds (Mark Ferrari)

magistr4te — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:25:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051587

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by magistr4te in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

magistr4te — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:48:54 +0000

Tldr: you can't just spread a very negative opinion about someones hard work and then plug your ears shut for any kind of non-symathetic interaction.

In my eyes this rationale would make sense if there was no backstory to this. If there was no preceeding blogpost, I'd consider Vlads messages pure spam.

But the context here is different: The author wrote a very critical, and clearly opinionated blogpost. There was clear intention in engaging with this subject.

Now the author seems to want to avoid responsibility, while Vlads attempt to react to a public hit piece with a respectful conversation was honestly the best way to handle this.

New comment by magistr4te in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

magistr4te — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:36:46 +0000

While I do not agree on Vlads interpretation of PII and GDPR at all, that whole conversation was so incredibly mishandled by the author of this blog post.

I understand not wanting to engage in a conversation about a product you don't care about, but after collecting so much information and writing a lengthy blog post about it, that is a different story. In my eyes, the author wrote a hit piece largely based on personal grudges, and then wanted to avoid any kind of responsibility.

And from my point of view, a lot of the financial stuff "makes sense". This is a small startup, probably with little business experience, and it shows. But why make it look like they are doing evil because of small, negligible mistakes?