Hacker News: nickthegreek

New comment by nickthegreek in "Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection"

nickthegreek — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:23:30 +0000

There are way more astrology apps than browsers. Like the numbers aren’t even close. I would love to live in a world with that much browser choice!!

New comment by nickthegreek in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

nickthegreek — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:35:31 +0000

Instant uses Luna, not Sol.

New comment by nickthegreek in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

nickthegreek — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:34:47 +0000

The literally lowered Luna costs for codex users (and lowered the amount of quota it uses for sub users) earlier this week. This change came for Codex users first.

New comment by nickthegreek in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

nickthegreek — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:13:51 +0000

So instead of adding of addressing his point about User Agents, you decide its better to make a low level bullshit comment about the very last sentence to stand up for... checks notes... Corporations and dismiss everything else. Top notch quality content that for sure added to the conversation.

New comment by nickthegreek in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

nickthegreek — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:08:10 +0000

r/homeassistant

New comment by nickthegreek in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

nickthegreek — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:30:17 +0000

Agreed. I'd just have 2 chat pools, once you break rules, you get moved to the rule breaker pool with the other like minded individuals. Well behaved individuals wouldn't even know or care about the separation.

New comment by nickthegreek in "OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record"

nickthegreek — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:31:25 +0000

There are several states where they are in fact required to hold the liability forever.

https://www.ncsl.org/financial-services/gift-cards-and-gift-...

New comment by nickthegreek in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

nickthegreek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:41:18 +0000

I use searxng.

New comment by nickthegreek in "AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest"

nickthegreek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:39:11 +0000

Winner won $1,0000 and I think that is where the real rub is.

New comment by nickthegreek in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

nickthegreek — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:15:51 +0000

You define OPs post as "objectively correct information" even though it is an unknown future event for which they provided zero evidence?

China's MiniMax releases H3 video model

nickthegreek — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:54:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-minimax-releases-h3-video-model-2026-07-31/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123178

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickthegreek in "Substack writers, you need a website"

nickthegreek — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:27:16 +0000

Sure, but my comment was being given directly to a user who asked for a platform that allowed X, Y and Z. I was providing them with an answer that met their stated criteria. I don’t see how other people’s configuration is of any concern.

New comment by nickthegreek in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

nickthegreek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:43:59 +0000

LG monitor works perfectly fine on my mac studio. Feels like Microsoft should be doing business differently.

New comment by nickthegreek in "Substack writers, you need a website"

nickthegreek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:11:34 +0000

The author has the option to enable that or not.

Amazon Data Centers Hit in Iran Strikes, Satellite Images Show

nickthegreek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/amazon-data-centers-hit-in-iran-strikes-satellite-images-show

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089256

Points: 16

# Comments: 3

New comment by nickthegreek in "Substack writers, you need a website"

nickthegreek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:08:57 +0000

> What if I want people to read me without needing a subscription or email disclosure?

Medium is where you can post and get a bit of what substack offers while giving you the ability to make your post freely available via the web.

> What's the email for anyway? So that you can get sent notifications of new posts?

On substack, you get the whole newsletter in the email. you dont need to go to a website. I use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to put them in my rss though.

New comment by nickthegreek in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

nickthegreek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:54:59 +0000

on iphone - tap power button 5 times.

New comment by nickthegreek in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"

nickthegreek — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:40:30 +0000

> Please please please someone take over discord and their use base

This is one area where I can not muster the optimism to think that would improve the situation. You need someone else to somehow unseat them somehow.. they’re entrenched in this space so deeply though.

New comment by nickthegreek in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

nickthegreek — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:45:37 +0000

They cant push it too low. The license agreement it is released under wont allow it.

> If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or its derivative works for any commercial purpose.

New comment by nickthegreek in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

nickthegreek — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:24:17 +0000

PB.