Hacker News: npilk

New comment by npilk in "macOS needs its grid back"

npilk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:03:17 +0000

I feel like Arc nailed this perfectly with the vertical tabs and multiple "spaces", and since almost everything happens in-browser these days, this was 99% good enough. I can't understand why more power users don't find this setup ideal. I'm hoping Zen Browser can become a solid replacement.

New comment by npilk in "Chipotlai Max"

npilk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:57 +0000

They make custom chips with a model's weights and parameters "hard-coded" which allows for much, much faster inference.

Profile of Tilly Norwood, an AI 'Actress' (Gift Link)

npilk — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:33:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345981

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by npilk in "The dead economy theory"

npilk — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:03:24 +0000

Human-slop is a new one for me. How would you define it? Low quality work written by a human? Human writing that sounds like an LLM? Something else?

New comment by npilk in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

npilk — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:01:01 +0000

Love chatting with an agent via iMessage for the right use case - it feels very natural and human. I hacked my own together with an old laptop and BlueBubbles.

How would you compare your offering with Spectrum (https://photon.codes/)?

New comment by npilk in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

npilk — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:32:39 +0000

I've been using DeepSeek Flash to replace Sonnet once the subscription stopped working. Haven't really noticed a difference, although I don't usually have it doing anything very complicated.

Show HN: Generate free golf yardage books from OpenStreetMap data

npilk — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:36:25 +0000

Hey HN, I'm sharing a tool I made to create yardage books for golf courses.

I'd originally written a Python tool a few years ago that pulled data from OpenStreetMap, auto-calculated relevant distances, and then created imagery for a yardage book. If you want to see the original, it's here: https://github.com/npilk/hacker-yardage

But Python was a pretty big technical barrier for most casual golfers. Then recently I realized most of the same functionality could be bundled into a JS app. Claude did most of the port for me.

The result is OpenYardage. You can search for a golf course and the tool will auto-generate a yardage book for you.

I'd welcome any feedback or ideas! The Python version still has some features I haven't been able to port yet, the main one being topographical data to visualize slopes.

The source is available here: https://github.com/npilk/openyardage-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239676

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by npilk in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

npilk — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:23:47 +0000

Do you have an example of a 4th grade problem in mind that isn't "American-style"?

Random.website

npilk — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://random.website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155869

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by npilk in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

npilk — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:03:34 +0000

Yep, clearly written by AI. Seems like an SEO-type play where they just have AI do deep research and write these reports on as many categories as possible to get traction.

Pretty smart business idea as I imagine people love ragebait about why products aren't as good as they used to be.

New comment by npilk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

npilk — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:40:39 +0000

I'm trying to make it easier for non-technical folks to publish websites: https://weejur.com

82 sites published so far, with a really weird and wide range of content.

Working on a simple WYSIWYG website editor to go with the current functionality.

New comment by npilk in "Am I Meant to Be Impressed?"

npilk — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:46:58 +0000

I admittedly didn’t take the time to read all 10,000 words of him shouting into the void in detail. But the capex complaints seem trivially misguided?

Current revenue is being generated from capex investments in the past; the most recent capex hasn’t begun to pay off at all. That’s expected.

Now, I don’t know if those investments ever will pay off and there are reasons to be skeptical. But if you assume the capex doesn’t lead to any revenue, then you’re just assuming the conclusion that the investments are bad…

New comment by npilk in "Am I Meant to Be Impressed?"

npilk — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:42:23 +0000

“I’m ending this with a rant” made me laugh. What was the rest, then?

Opposition to AI Data Centers Is a 'Bipartisan Issue'

npilk — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:43:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/liberals-conservatives-data-centers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021732

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by npilk in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

npilk — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:58:09 +0000

Still missing 49 - humans are safe, for now!

New comment by npilk in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

npilk — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:31:05 +0000

https://archive.is/7LHeN

("This is your brain on kids!")

New comment by npilk in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

npilk — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:25:48 +0000

I'm surprised people have been getting it to reliably guess names. I have a really hard time getting it to give a specific name (perhaps for privacy reasons?) - maybe I'm not prompting effectively.

Interestingly, it is able to reliably determine my age from my writing. I suppose this is a mix of stylometry and references in the text itself that date the author (me).

New comment by npilk in "Show HN: A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website"

npilk — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:24:09 +0000

Basically as you see on the website - “Connect to GitHub and publish”, “GitHub Pages is a free service to host websites”, etc.

I do think the target user for this would probably have needed to heard of GitHub to really “get it” - but maybe they just know it’s something developers use, and not any more than that.

New comment by npilk in "Show HN: A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website"

npilk — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:10:07 +0000

Sweet, didn’t know about this - yes, this is very similar.

New comment by npilk in "Show HN: A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website"

npilk — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:05:48 +0000

Sure, Lovable/v0 free tier is a good option, although I’m not sure how many non-tech people use them for things like personal sites or to quickly publish something they want to share. It feels like they’re going more after “builders”, and regular folks would be more using ChatGPT free tier, etc.

Mainly it’s always bothered me that Squarespace etc can charge so much for simple static sites. I just don’t think most people realize you can host websites for free if you don’t need a database.