Hacker News: metahost

New comment by metahost in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

metahost — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:09:21 +0000

So about the same “intelligence” as Muse Spark 1.1 but 2x faster and about 2x as expensive.

Show HN: Curatube: a distraction free interface for YT playlists

metahost — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:30:12 +0000

YouTube is an incredible resource for MOOCs, but the platform itself is an absolute minefield of distractions.

Curatube fixes this by transforming public playlists into focused, interactive courses entirely free from the feed. Take timestamped notes side by side with the video, navigate lectures effortlessly using interactive transcripts.

Best of all, it's open source and designed to be easily self hosted!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383776

Points: 2

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New comment by metahost in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

metahost — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:20:32 +0000

Here goes my Copilot Pro subscription then, reluctantly heading over to Codex CLI since the CC base plan is downright unusable.

New comment by metahost in "Show HN: Bangs – DuckDuckGo-style search shortcuts for Safari"

metahost — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:36:05 +0000

stored in local storage atm, works with both the address bar and blank search page!

Show HN: Bangs – DuckDuckGo-style search shortcuts for Safari

metahost — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:19:26 +0000

I missed DDG style bang! shortcuts but didn't want to switch search engines or use a redirect server. Built this to handle it locally in Safari. It's private (no tracking), works with any search engine that Safari supports, and lets you make custom shortcuts.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762065197

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805620

Points: 1

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AI Coding Assistants Copying All Code to China

metahost — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:32:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ai-coding-assistants-secretly-copying-all-code-to-china.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856478

Points: 2

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Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?

metahost — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/4/2.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615563

Points: 14

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Show HN: Jf: flatten nested JSON for easy searchability

metahost — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/say4n/jf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182493

Points: 4

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Crafting Interpreters

metahost — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:57:11 +0000

Article URL: https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38772858

Points: 2

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An iTerm2 fork with focus on minimalism and better defaults

metahost — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:39:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/trufae/Therm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706581

Points: 1

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New comment by metahost in "Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN"

metahost — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:16:16 +0000

I see -- thanks!

New comment by metahost in "Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN"

metahost — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:23:22 +0000

Do you happen to have any additional block lists populated apart from the default ones by uBO? -- I also have the same setup but it works for me.

New comment by metahost in "Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN"

metahost — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:05:11 +0000

Thanks, appreciate the kind words! :)

New comment by metahost in "Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN"

metahost — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:04:51 +0000

Yikes, that sucks -- Vercel's free tier seems to have struggled. :/

New comment by metahost in "Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN"

metahost — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:01:07 +0000

Yikes, that's weird -- can't reproduce but I will keep an eye out for it!

New comment by metahost in "Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN"

metahost — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:00:43 +0000

Yikes, that's weird -- can't reproduce but I will keep an eye out for it!

Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN

metahost — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:31:59 +0000

Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS. Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation.

Let me know what you think!

Source is at https://github.com/say4n/hn, pull requests welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38037180

Points: 28

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New comment by metahost in "The E-Ink Badge"

metahost — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 07:28:22 +0000

they launched a new wireless one sometime last week named the Badger 2040 W.

New comment by metahost in "How to store your app's entire state in the url"

metahost — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 23:10:08 +0000

There is a max length to URLs after which it is all wild west based on the browser implementation.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184

New comment by metahost in "India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android"

metahost — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:00:52 +0000

From anecdata it seems that GPay is ubiquitous. The distribution may vary wildly regionally though.