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Another Vibe Coding Story

nelblu — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://moneyplus.in/building-aventryx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437626

Points: 2

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New comment by nelblu in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

nelblu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:22:34 +0000

https://archive.ph/LdA0d

New comment by nelblu in "Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)"

nelblu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:59:21 +0000

caste system will likely never die in India. I once even joked to my friend that one day when Indians will start accepting gay marriages they would post a matrimonial ad something along these lines - "Looking for an intelligent, well-behaved, educated, fair coloured gay groom for our son (Brahmin only)".

New comment by nelblu in "JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)"

nelblu — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:44:04 +0000

tangential comment, but if anyone is interested in one of the best (imo "legendary") audio books on LOTR look no further than Phil Dragash : https://archive.org/details/tlotrunabridged.

New comment by nelblu in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

nelblu — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:52:11 +0000

As much as the UI was fluid, smooth and probably best for a touch interface, I distinctly remember I hated it and frantically wanted my Start button back on my PC. It is kinda funny reading all the comments about its nostalgia, when all I could think was how annoying it was. I guess to each their own :-).

New comment by nelblu in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

nelblu — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:29:53 +0000

> Also, sitting around doing nothing feels so much better when it's either before work or after work.

This comment reminded me of a book I read recently - Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anne Lembke. She talks about how pleasure and pain and experienced by the same region of the brain and they need to be balanced. I'd highly recommend reading that book.

How examining our regrets can make for a more meaningful life

nelblu — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:13:33 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/1087010308

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502448

Points: 2

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New comment by nelblu in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

nelblu — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:01:09 +0000

This is correct, but it is still a slippery slope. At some point the dev ends up adding internet permission (might be for legit reasons too), and lo and behold you are sharing your data. For something as sensitive as notifications, I really can't trust anything but open-source app which is vetted by a few seasoned people and hosted on F-droid.

New comment by nelblu in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

nelblu — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:28:57 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this. I can totally see where the author is coming from. I have a dog, and this holiday season my wife went away to her parents for a month and I was all alone with my dog. My daily routine was to just take him for a hike in the morning, workout in my basement gym, cook some breakfast then do some mundane activities at home then prepare cooking for lunch (always prepare extra lunch for the neighbours or the random friend that shows up at my door), then again take the dog out to the dog park and enjoy conversation with regulars and or new ones. Come back enjoy lunch, read some book, then around 4pm before it gets too dark, take the dog out again for a hike. Stop by at a friend's house or just come back home watch a Disney movie then read again until you fall asleep.

All this time, I would intentionally forget my phone at home and all my notifications except calls were turned off.

EDIT: I must say having a dog made a lot of difference, I don't know if I would feel the same being just alone. That might be an experiment for another time :-).

New comment by nelblu in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

nelblu — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:04:00 +0000

> and use a wireless keyboard with integrated touchpad to control it.

Which wireless keyboard do you use? I've pretty much exact same setup - TV + Linux Mint + Logitech K400+. I'm just looking to see if there are better options for K400+

New comment by nelblu in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

nelblu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:27:32 +0000

Long time ventoy user. For someone who loves to flash or try out different Linux distros all the time, this is a godsend.

I would also highly recommend iventoy, if you want to just boot using network device : https://www.iventoy.com/en/index.html. It came in very handy when I had a machine which only had a CD/DVD ROM, floppy and netboot option. I didn't want to waste a DVD-R so just booted via network.

New comment by nelblu in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

nelblu — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:20:06 +0000

During my college days (2000~2004) KDE (I think it was Fedora/RH 8) was hands down my favourite desktop. After that when I joined the corporate world, I lost touch with Linux. Few years ago (thanks to a ton of dark patterns in Windows), I moved back to Linux. This time I chose Linux Mint with Cinnamon / XFCE. When Linux Mint (officially) starts supporting KDE, I would love to try it again. Until then I am really rooting for YOU KDE developers, I have really fond memory of your tools (especially Konqueror browser/file manager it was way ahead of its times then!)

New comment by nelblu in "Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion"

nelblu — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:45:24 +0000

https://archive.is/824JT

New comment by nelblu in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

nelblu — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:39:53 +0000

Another happy mailbox.org user here who dumped gmail since a little over 4 years now. I'd highly recommend them to anyone who prefers more control on the client app they can use to access emails, calendars etc. Their web interface may not be the best/fastest, but their video conferencing web app is really good. I rarely use their office suite, but good to know it exists.

New comment by nelblu in "Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription"

nelblu — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:37:05 +0000

> I’d like to believe there’s a market for smaller, simpler, EV-based “retro-inspired” cars that aren’t jam-packed with modems and sensors to phone home. Maybe someday I’ll be proven right.

This might come close: https://www.slate.auto/en

New comment by nelblu in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

nelblu — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:49:56 +0000

> LLMs should also use citations.

Mojeek LLM (https://www.mojeek.com) uses citations.

New comment by nelblu in "Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access"

nelblu — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:29:05 +0000

> “It is regrettable that we now have to spend time and resources strengthening the security of a popular service rather than further developing functionality for the benefit of our customers.”

Based on all the data leaks that happen constantly on cloud connected, data harvesting services, I have zero faith that these companies care about security. These companies couldn't care less if they leak personal data online, but god forbid someone is trying to root our device or flash another OS, now suddenly we need to strengthen our security. Fuck these people frankly.

New comment by nelblu in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)"

nelblu — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:54:23 +0000

This really saddens me. The fingerprinting even works when using Mullvad browser with VPN. I am so tired of this new internet, I hope someone is working on figuring out an alternative to this type of fingerprinting. I understand it is a cat and mouse game, but whatever, this is absolutely shitty.

I was wondering why can't browsers just fake the hardware (assuming that is what it is using to recognize)? I understand sometimes these javascripts run some type of algorithm to detect how fast it was processed to fingerprint, but even those could potentially be faked by the browser. Is anyone working on such stuff?

New comment by nelblu in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

nelblu — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:43:01 +0000

This is all nice while the AI overview has no ads in it. Wait until it gets enshittified, and I have a feeling AI overview would be so infested with ads that people would rather block it and proceed to reading the actual links.

All this said, I am guilty of using this a lot these days - while it is still ad-free. I just ask chatgpt.com to give me a recipe of "XYZ" and it gives it immediately without any annoying repetitive content.

New comment by nelblu in "Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom"

nelblu — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:50:37 +0000

Happy GrapheneOS user here since 3+ years now. What's next now? People can't fucking use Linux because Microsoft or Apple can't spy on it?