Hacker News: nate

New comment by nate in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

nate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:01:37 +0000

ah. techcrunch must have alluded to you not having milkbones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/apple-plans-to-change-its-...

New comment by nate in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

nate — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:34:09 +0000

I guess I'll go back to mailinator. That thing has 100s of aliases by the way for some that don't use that yet. Great service. Not guaranteed private really so don't depend on it for that. (Though if you use a strong has for a hash@mailinator.com address, is it pretty secure for "email purposes"?)

New comment by nate in "Ask HN: How are you enabling your employees to do AI dev in the cloud?"

nate — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:59:34 +0000

Not sure I follow. I wasn't talking about local LLMs. I'm trying to identify how folks are managing their employees using essentially Claude Code local vs Claude Code web. The web seems to be the version you'd ask non-engineer type folks to use to "vibe code" but Clode Code web is so neutered from an environment perspective.

I'm assuming there's some OpenCode/OpenRouter kind of VM framework some folks here are using to power up Claude Code in VMs for their employees to get the best of both worlds while just being in the cloud.

Ask HN: How are you enabling your employees to do AI dev in the cloud?

nate — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:51:44 +0000

Sure, us engineers can Claude Code up a storm locally on our laptops these days. But now with everyone trying to vibe code everything, there's quite a few people that don't have a "proper" local dev environment to do that same kind of development. Let's just take running a test suite. Our devs need a pretty beefy environment to run that.

So ideally, these environments are just in the cloud. But Claude Code web, is so "environment lite" that it really isn't a substitute. Or are you all having Claude Code web install a bunch of dependancies and even API keys to do things there?

I've got a system of VMs that get deployed now that I'm encouraging folks use, because Claude can just use those cloud VMs directly to work on code, run tests and things without a full slow CI workflow. But it seems so fragile.

What are you all using to power up employees at your company with dev environments something like Claude can use without those employees actually having local dev environments?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543969

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by nate in "Apple Foundation Models"

nate — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:55:52 +0000

Ugh. It really is. I have allihat.com which is the only safari extension (i think still) that talks to claude. And it's well sought for. But you as a user have to enter a friggin claude api key. :( And I still don't grok their TOS around this. Like you can still type: ```setup-token Set up a long-lived authentication token (requires Claude subscription)``` but this seems like a trap? :) Whose using this? Doesn't this like insta break their TOS if you use that anywhere?

Right now for allihat.com I just let people use the Apple model locally if you don't feel like using the claude key. And my conversions to paying user shot up like 3x! But it really isn't a replacement obviously to claude. I was hoping Apple would make proxying to Claude some kind of thing they do for me so I also don't have to proxy to my own server just to try and manage API to Claude usage.

Einstein's Mirror

nate — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://sketchplanations.com/einsteins-mirror

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531422

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

nate — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2026/06/ollie-wagner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519723

Points: 121

# Comments: 83

New comment by nate in "How Comics Are Made"

nate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:53:42 +0000

Coincidentally and somewhat relatedly... I just saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe4nUZqX9Ec Roald Dahl predicted AI slop. and even coined "slop" in 1954!?

New comment by nate in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

nate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:41:25 +0000

Stuart Smalley (snl) must have written it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMRX-Wj2WOk

How Comics Are Made

nate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://howcomicsaremade.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503389

Points: 22

# Comments: 5

Have you bought a car lately?

nate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://ninjasandrobots.com/single-people-can-be-as-productive-as-whole-teams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494733

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nate in "Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out"

nate — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:54:37 +0000

I feel like this is just the start. There's going to be more and more legislation on the major LLMs to do this in their surface areas.

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

nate — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:53:30 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/google-ordered-to-put-clearer-links-in-ai-search-and-let-uk-publishers-opt-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389881

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by nate in "Now AI agents need what RSS does"

nate — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:55:50 +0000

That's why I reached for Apples own local LLM to fool with similar ideas like this: https://pageforth.com. Apple is better than I expected at this. Right now it filters through things like hacker news articles and whatever else you point it at to summarize and find things that match your interests. Apple's LLM reminds me of Claude like 3 years ago. It's weak for sure. But useful for small dose kind of problems.

New comment by nate in "Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months"

nate — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:53:39 +0000

It's funny the convos I now have with Sonnet that I wasn't having with Opus. I feel like most of us here are starting to be told to draw down some of our 1M Opus xtrahigh thinking tokens :)

Is anyone using a local router to deal with that? Something thats like "don't even bother with sonnet for this task, just go with Opus". I wonder if Haiku could even do that math and recommend the model you should be in?

New comment by nate in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

nate — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:52:24 +0000

The small stuff has their place. I have this safari extension and needed a way to quickly title people's chat histories. Haiku is the fast cheap thing to come up with decent titles of blocks of text. I feel like there's a bunch of those little things lying around you need a model for. I'm even finding Apple's Foundation Model is super useful for stuff like that. Even summarizing an article. It's like equally awful at doing it, but gets enough done to still be useful as a way to be like "oh yeah, this article is actually worth reading"

Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

nate — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://jasonzweig.com/three-ways-to-get-paid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373054

Points: 233

# Comments: 144

New comment by nate in "CNN sues Perplexity over 'verbatim' copycat articles"

nate — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:07:12 +0000

This makes me wonder if the LLM labs/Perplexities can figure out with CNN a proper revenue share model. I keep writing about this but it feels like we need something like AMP back (i hated AMP). but some kind of thing the publisher can declare: "if you use my content, you better show this ad because this is why that content was written. use my ad so we can still get paid."

New comment by nate in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

nate — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:31:48 +0000

I just had a maddening convo with Amazon's AI https://share.zight.com/o0udw54W (i had mentioned before that in 5 minutes it would be time to get my refund according to some other policy message they sent me). A convo before this Amazon's bot didn't even recognize the reply the forced me to give from their button. I clicked "Entire package is missing". and they replied "Couldn't understand your response". It's a brutal, antagonistic experience. The kicker is how Amazon keeps saying "we're passionate about customer experience". You were Amazon. You were. But you've given that up.

The silver lining is that the pendulum will swing. It's like all thee independent bookstores thriving again. Eventually enough of us will revolt hard with our dollars. And move back towards businesses that aren't employing all these bots they stick in front of us. We'll get there.

New comment by nate in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

nate — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:17:42 +0000

this is why I feel like we need some kind of "consortium" or government effort to be like "yo, llms, you need to honor some kind of source markup to give us people you mention more significant boost"? like if you mention my article, you better also show my ad partner?