Hacker News: majora2007

New comment by majora2007 in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

majora2007 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:38:25 +0000

Plex is aimed for a simple ease-of-use experience, so if you aren't technical enough to setup a reverse proxy, Plex offers all the authentication and proxying for you.

It's not a true self-hosted software. It just depends on what matters most to you.

New comment by majora2007 in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

majora2007 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:36:43 +0000

I just want to throw out that you might like Kavita for a comic/book server. It's built to feel like Plex. https://www.kavitareader.com/

I do agree that Plex doesn't seem like a good fit for books and comics. The first major hurdle is the lack of a singular metadata source that Plex can hook into for metadata - although this year has shifted with Hardcover and MangaBaka. Plex also uses a filename parsing mechanism (like Kavita does) which has drawbacks since books and comics have an extremely wide variety of naming conventions and lack of good tooling.

New comment by majora2007 in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

majora2007 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:53:05 +0000

idk about a house party once a week, but I do like the idea of having my friends invite their other friends. As I age, it becomes harder to find new friends just by happenstance. Friends of Friends usually end up becoming friends after meeting them.

New comment by majora2007 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

majora2007 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:40:24 +0000

That's interesting, 4.6 is finally when AI started to become good in my eyes. I have a very strict plan phase, argue, plan then partial execute. I like it to do boilerplate then I do the hard stuff myself and have it do a once over at the end.

Although I have had it try to debug something and just get stuck chugging tokens.

New comment by majora2007 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

majora2007 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:07:56 +0000

This is exactly what got me to actually pay. I had a side project with an architecture I thought was good. Fed it into Claude and ChatGPT. ChatGPT made small suggestions but overall thought it was good. Claude shit all over it and after validating it's suggestions, I realized Claude was what I needed.

I haven't looked back. I just use Claude at home and ChatGPT at work (no Claude). ChatGPT at work is much worse than Claude in my experience.

New comment by majora2007 in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

majora2007 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:35:27 +0000

I never knew about this either and it's been very frustrating as I've been converting my Manga library over to webp (savings are insane) and doing any spot checking opens Edge.

Edit: After reading the comments, this doesn't seem to open in Photos App.

New comment by majora2007 in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

majora2007 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:12:28 +0000

There is a brand new plugin for KOReader that offers a richer experience and uses Kavita's API. I don't have a link handy, but it was shared in the Kavita discord (and will be on the wiki once I write a new page for it).

Koreader's OPDS implementation is VERY rough around the edges. It doesn't support much of the metadata and doesn't follow the spec very well. I had to write hacks in Kavita to give users better support for it. (My understanding is Koreader isn't too hot on OPDS in general).

New comment by majora2007 in "Vite 8 Beta"

majora2007 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:49:55 +0000

Some nice performance improvements, really looking forward to their new bundler mentioned at the end for large codebases. My Angular app is quite large and I would appreciate the speedup.

New comment by majora2007 in "Show HN: A crazy fast website built with Cloud flare workers"

majora2007 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:42:31 +0000

Loaded very fast, but after reading, I refreshed and got an error....

New comment by majora2007 in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"

majora2007 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:37:36 +0000

I haven't seen this in the real world or the tooling to back it up. Currently, Calibre is the only software that writes metadata that pulls from online sources.

I'm sure Adobe Acrobat also supports, but that's not used in the scene.

New comment by majora2007 in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"

majora2007 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:36:19 +0000

Very true, I just rolled out annotations for Kavita (a self-hosted book/comic server) and epub doesn't have the ability to store it in the file (although Kavita has a no-modification policy).

Although for cases like Kavita, storing in the file would be problematic if multiple users want their own annotations without concerns of data leaking.

New comment by majora2007 in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"

majora2007 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:14:28 +0000

I don't know much about webp other than you get about 50% savings in compression vs png/jpeg, but it does have some hard limits on sizes of images. It doesn't do well with webtoon reading formats (long strip format).

Otherwise, I love webp and use it for all my comics/manga.

New comment by majora2007 in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"

majora2007 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:12:06 +0000

That's interesting, I absolutely hate PDF. Lack of metadata for collecting, format is difficult to support, doesn't layout well on mobile, and very limited customization (like dark mode, changing text size, etc).

Only benefit is browsers have built-in support for the format.

New comment by majora2007 in "Angular v21 Released"

majora2007 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:44:16 +0000

Some amazing enhancements in here, the MCP AI tutor is very interesting and Aria Components look excellent.

Angular v21 Released

majora2007 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:44:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v21-57946c34f14b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993062

Points: 3

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New comment by majora2007 in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

majora2007 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:31:59 +0000

I've had good results saying Do not code, focus on architecture first.

New comment by majora2007 in ".NET 10"

majora2007 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:11:59 +0000

There are a few non-paid PDF libraries, but that is the biggest pain point in .NET, anytime you need advanced features for PDF, you're better off paying for a license (it's just insanely expensive unless you're a large company).

Having worked on some basic parsing of metadata from PDF spec, I would rather pay than have to code something myself. PDF is such a PIA.

New comment by majora2007 in "YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started"

majora2007 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:09:40 +0000

I'm constantly being pushed hard left or hard right videos. I am subbed to nothing political and while I've watched a few before, no matter how much "Not interested" or "Dont recommend channel" I've done, I consistently get pushed these videos.

Personally drives me off the platform, but hard since my subs are so unique and great.

New comment by majora2007 in "YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started"

majora2007 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:21:41 +0000

Add sponsorblock to skip those sections automatically as well.

New comment by majora2007 in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"

majora2007 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:46:34 +0000

I'm not sure, but when I was working with UX years ago, they designed everything for a fixed width and centered it in the screen.

Kinda like how HackerNews is, it's centered and doesn't scale to my full width of the monitor.