Hacker News: mkbkn

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.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

mkbkn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:35:00 +0000

Postcrossing

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

mkbkn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:43:27 +0000

Jack up your price and offer a 5% discount if they you in full upfront before starting the work.

New comment by mkbkn in "White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit"

mkbkn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:52:38 +0000

What do you think of the Indian IT companies? Will they survive the AI onslaught? Where do you see them in the next five years?

New comment by mkbkn in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

mkbkn — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:19:59 +0000

Perhaps AI wrote the announcement.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?"

mkbkn — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:49:32 +0000

This is very smart. Thank you for sharing this.

I am not a developer. Could you explain the process in a bit more detail? I want to build the same command. I only have the $20 subscription for Claude. Do I need to create a project and create a learning profile.md file and feed what I already know? And then what do I do?

Sorry if that's too many questions.

New comment by mkbkn in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"

mkbkn — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:25:29 +0000

Non-tech guy here. How much RAM & CPU will it consume? I have 2 laptops - one with Windows 11 and another with Linux Mint.

Can it run on these two OS? How to install it in a simple way?

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Any International Job Boards for International Workers?"

mkbkn — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:23:32 +0000

Upwork

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place"

mkbkn — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:17:20 +0000

Plant trees.

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)"

mkbkn — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:32:05 +0000

Either a typewriter or a paper notebook

New comment by mkbkn in "Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages"

mkbkn — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:46:33 +0000

I am on Android. Could you make the app on this platform too?

How about a webapp that runs in desktop/mobile browser?

Does the AI store & train on my voice?

New comment by mkbkn in "From Stopping Osama Bin Laden to Killing Renee Good"

mkbkn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:27:09 +0000

Could you point me to the Navy Seal book and/or what happened to him?

New comment by mkbkn in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

mkbkn — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:36:01 +0000

Nothing much here, other than 5-6 blogposts. And nothing interesting for the HN crowd.

Here it is: https://webmohit.com

New comment by mkbkn in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

mkbkn — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:02:11 +0000

Can you release custom GPTs like ChatGPT has?