Hacker News: news_hacker

New comment by news_hacker in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

news_hacker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:18:48 +0000

> They're not going to struggle at all with things a 4-9 year old is learning

Children ask some incredibly deep questions, I would not sell them short.

New comment by news_hacker in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

news_hacker — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:52:52 +0000

The MacMediaKeyForwarder works like a charm:

https://github.com/quentinlesceller/macmediakeyforwarder

Psychosis-as-a-Service

news_hacker — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://tikiver.se/posts/psychosis-as-a-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477059

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

169 Substacks and Nothing to Read

news_hacker — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:04:15 +0000

Article URL: https://tikiver.se/posts/many-substacks-nothing-to-read/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393476

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by news_hacker in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

news_hacker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:30:22 +0000

LLMs are great at knowledge transfer, the real question is how well can they demonstrate intelligence with "unknown unknown" types of questions. This model has the benefit of being released after that issue became public knowledge, so it's hard to know how it would've performed pre-hoc.

New comment by news_hacker in "Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation"

news_hacker — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:09:57 +0000

That is indeed the current workaround, but IMO still unwieldy and inefficient. I find that the hotkeys alone allow you to fly around the comments and scan them way faster.

New comment by news_hacker in "Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation"

news_hacker — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:56:20 +0000

Appreciate the feedback! Agreed that on HN, even collapsing at L2 would be a significant improvement.

I'll keep brainstorming with the UX for the next version. I appreciate your perspective on how all the data disclosed on first load might be disorienting with unclear relationships. I'll play with either some sort of animation cue, colored or bordered visual indicators, or a default null selection as you've suggested.

Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation

news_hacker — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:11:20 +0000

Article URL: https://pratik.is/writing/essays/hn-comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377810

Points: 25

# Comments: 6

New comment by news_hacker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

news_hacker — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:17:05 +0000

https://hn-comments.netlify.app/

I got tired of the lack of ergonomics around HN comments, and built my own navigator/viewer.

New comment by news_hacker in "The highest quality codebase"

news_hacker — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:22:02 +0000

the "best practice" suggestion would be to do this in a sandboxed container

New comment by news_hacker in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

news_hacker — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:53:15 +0000

I've been using bkt (https://github.com/dimo414/bkt) for subprocess caching. It has some nice features, like providing a ttl for cache expiration. In-pipeline memoization looks nice, I'm not sure it supports that

New comment by news_hacker in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

news_hacker — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:15:41 +0000

I will never use Gemini for this reason. The enshittification of Search is so treacherously disgraceful and user-hostile, that I have no faith that the same fate won't occur with Gemini as well.

New comment by news_hacker in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

news_hacker — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:53:32 +0000

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20250725124140/https://pastebin....

New comment by news_hacker in "Hidden interface controls that affect usability"

news_hacker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:26:18 +0000

Spot-on article. What's especially aggravating is the "skill-issue" meme that folks retort with when you make mention of this.

New comment by news_hacker in "Engineered Addictions"

news_hacker — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:29:48 +0000

Absolutely not. People are not asking for dark patterns to engineer their behavior to maximize retention. This is like locking a kid in a room full of candy, and then blaming them for gorging themselves.