Hacker News: mkbkn

New comment by mkbkn in "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB"

mkbkn — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:31:55 +0000

Does the AI processing work fast or consume less resources on 4-5 years old laptops with 8GB RAM?

New comment by mkbkn in "Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode"

mkbkn — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:17:02 +0000

Firefox/Zen is best

New comment by mkbkn in "Anyone miss a flip phone with buttons? Anyone?"

mkbkn — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:28:12 +0000

I miss the phones with physical QWERTY keypad buttons.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Alternative to Proton Mail?"

mkbkn — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:09:09 +0000

There's Kagi Mail.

New comment by mkbkn in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

mkbkn — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:34:01 +0000

.gl works for me.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?"

mkbkn — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:40:15 +0000

How about using a dedicated paper notebook to log everything that comes to your mind related to this illness?

And also, if the illness is somehow related to food/habits, more or less, then that could also be tracked - like what you're eating and how your body responded afterwards (I mean, within, let's say, 24 hours).

New comment by mkbkn in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

mkbkn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:10:00 +0000

> The important thing to keep in mind is that there's no prompting needed, just upload the PDF and voila!

I'm sorry, noob here. I have a special book that I bought which I can open only inside the Kindle app (Windows/mobile). I have been meaning to screenshot the pages and convert them into a document/PDF. What do I have to do to make it fast? Just upload all the screenshots one by one and tell Mistral "Chat" to OCR them?

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"

mkbkn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:19:51 +0000

Zen browser - based on Firefox.

Brave browser - when things don't work on Zen/Firefox.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?"

mkbkn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:14:48 +0000

$20 for Claude on my personal email - fully reimbursed by my company.

Personal use is much greater than use for company purposes.

New comment by mkbkn in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

mkbkn — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:31:10 +0000

Entire public Meta suite of products are cancer to the society.

New comment by mkbkn in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

mkbkn — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:18:05 +0000

As soon as I realise it's a spam call, I just put myself on mute and let the spammer blabber himself/herself. They get frustrated and never call me again.

New comment by mkbkn in "Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf"

mkbkn — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:09:41 +0000

Is there a simple tool to download YouTube transcripts with speaker identification?

New comment by mkbkn in "One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens"

mkbkn — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:07:28 +0000

And how much water?

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars"

mkbkn — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:21:45 +0000

Plant fuckingmore trees. As many as one can imagine and then some more.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?"

mkbkn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:23:22 +0000

It satisfies my intellectual curiosity.

Plis, I can't stand low-value/unproductive discussions/trash talk that is omnipresent elsewhere.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?"

mkbkn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:21:16 +0000

I don't remember but probably it was StumbleUpon. Around 2012.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?"

mkbkn — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:18:51 +0000

Step 1: Stop using Google. You can try Kagi for web search.

Ask HN: Learning path for aspiring software developer (my nephew)

mkbkn — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:41:35 +0000

This isn't for me but for my nephew. He is going to start his undergraduate studies in a few months, and I would like to suggest some to-dos, some not-to-dos, things to avoid, etc.

With information at one's fingertips, I don't want him to watch a random YouTube video and fall down the rabbit hole of "trendy" things.

For now, the only advice I gave him was to NOT use AI to write programs. Think on paper, then type on the computer. Avoid LLMs as long as possible to develop logical thinking.

He grew up watching YouTube (random TV comedy programs) during his free time. Thankfully, he has no addiction to it or to his mobile. He has rarely read any books (fiction or non-fiction), so I'm not sure how to suggest the importance of reading and writing.

I would also suggest Anki SRS.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048698

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New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?"

mkbkn — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:15:48 +0000

Zen browser - based on Firefox

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?"

mkbkn — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:14:39 +0000

I skip if I realise or come to know it's an AI-generated text or image. Especially images.