Hacker News: milofeynman

New comment by milofeynman in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

milofeynman — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:47:02 +0000

I use https://github.com/johnste/finicky

New comment by milofeynman in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

milofeynman — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:46:22 +0000

There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls.

[0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky

New comment by milofeynman in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

milofeynman — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:38:52 +0000

It's likely against the ToS rather than illegal. But if they're deleting IDs correctly after verifying I guess you just have to get past 30 days

New comment by milofeynman in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

milofeynman — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:51:50 +0000

We have this also. https://coppellchronicle.substack.com/

Article about it: https://simonowens.substack.com/p/this-local-newsletter-cove...

40%+ conversion rate on substack.

New comment by milofeynman in "Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025"

milofeynman — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:51:12 +0000

It's load shedding, but it's weighted towards people abusing their quota usually over some rolling weighted average. The benefit is that they are dropped immediately at the edge rather than holding sockets open or using compute/resources. It usually takes 30s-1m to kick in.

New comment by milofeynman in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

milofeynman — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:18:04 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Leaning towards yes now!

New comment by milofeynman in "The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety"

milofeynman — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 04:31:08 +0000

You can just order brand new ones from China for even cheaper I imagine. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703472647/saying-i-do-to-lab-...

New comment by milofeynman in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

milofeynman — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:13:29 +0000

Is it a kid friendly event for a 8 year old who doesn't know any YouTubers? Like we he have fun seeing all the maker stuff?

New comment by milofeynman in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

milofeynman — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:02:15 +0000

The problem here is the infrastructure required to demo the changes to the user. Like yeah you made a code-change, but now I have to pull it, maybe setup data to get it in the right state, check if it's functioning how I want it to. Looking at the code it produced in a diff can waste a lot of your time if it doesn't even work as expected.

New comment by milofeynman in "Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival"

milofeynman — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:17:36 +0000

I've found the same. I actually enjoy Instagram ads. I despise almost every other ad I can think of.

New comment by milofeynman in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

milofeynman — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 04:59:22 +0000

Using cline for a bit made me realize cursor was doomed. Everything is just a gpt/anthropic wrapper of fancy prompts.

I can do most of what I want with cline, and I've gone back from large changes to just small changes and been moving much quicker. Large refactors/changes start to deviate from what you actually want to accomplish unless you have written a dissertation, and even then they fail.

New comment by milofeynman in "The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger"

milofeynman — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:33:57 +0000

I think a reasonable thing folks want is to not have their art or design used to train these models without permission.

New comment by milofeynman in "ElevenReader"

milofeynman — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:23:20 +0000

This raises an interesting question around the rights of the author/publisher and who they sold their ebook rights to. If in 3 years we have a perfect AI voice that can read any book as good or better than mid-level narrators, why would you ever buy an audiobook when you could just buy the ebook and pick your voice(s). What a time to be alive

New comment by milofeynman in "Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 4"

milofeynman — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:21:50 +0000

Kind of answered in part 1 intro: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/15/optimizing-rub...

New comment by milofeynman in "Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview"

milofeynman — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 04:39:55 +0000

That reminds me of https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1156804295/shopify-delete-mee...

New comment by milofeynman in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

milofeynman — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:49:28 +0000

Lets not kid ourselves. This wasn't a random reviewer giving you a hard time, your extension is definitely being "reviewed" way up the chain in order to find any menial reason to not allow you.

New comment by milofeynman in "Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024"

milofeynman — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:29:41 +0000

I started a small service recently in rails. I'm forcing sorbet with typechecking (you can still set things to false like tests which sometimes are a pain to get to pass). It feels almost like a typed language with LSP jump to etc. It's getting there.

New comment by milofeynman in "Meta 3D Gen"

milofeynman — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:17:31 +0000

Autodesk has been building practical 3d models for years with generative design. I have to imagine it's only getting better with these recent advances, but I'm not immersed in the space.

New comment by milofeynman in "FedEx launches new e-commerce platform"

milofeynman — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:36:39 +0000

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/shopify-offloads-logistics-b...

New comment by milofeynman in "Generalized K-Means Clustering"

milofeynman — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:39:25 +0000

I applied to a certain scraping fintech in the Bay Area around 5 years ago and was asked to open the Wikipedia page to k-means squared clustering and implement the algorithm with tests from scratch. I was applying for an android position. I still laugh thinking about how they paid to fly me out and ask such a stupid interview question.