Hacker News: numbers

New comment by numbers in "Googlebook"

numbers — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:12:04 +0000

yeah, any of the AI bots are bad at helping me find clothes b/c they don't even consider my size, gender, or anything when suggesting things after like 3 back and forth messages (this is both ChatGPT and Claude).

I went to the apple.com homepage, literally zero mentions of Apple Intelligence, just a dropdown option under iPhone's menu items.

New comment by numbers in "Googlebook"

numbers — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:02 +0000

Chromebook, Pixelbook, Googlebook.

Google loves to just remake the same-ish thing again in hopes of adoption.

New comment by numbers in "Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026"

numbers — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:42:55 +0000

every once in awhile I'm reading a Pulitzer winner (esp. fiction) and at the beginning I'm thinking "how did this win that year?" and then by the end of the book I think "wow, I've never read anything like this before"

New comment by numbers in "Grok 4.3"

numbers — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:29:35 +0000

:D that's like my Claude where it loves to point out that I have an ADU in the backyard in unrelated situations.

New comment by numbers in "GPT-5.5"

numbers — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:31:25 +0000

I've stopped trusting these "trust me bro" benchmarks and just started going to LM Arena and looking for the actual benchmark comparisons.

https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code

New comment by numbers in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

numbers — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:00:12 +0000

it seems like Slate might be trying that but there's no real cars from them yet so they're just renders at this point. but yes, same concept but printers is my wish.

New comment by numbers in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

numbers — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:23:14 +0000

does anyone have recommendations on replacing CC with something else for around $20-30 / month?

New comment by numbers in "Cursor 3"

numbers — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:06:05 +0000

I left cursor and went back to VS Code b/c the editing experience is basically the same and cursor was adding more and more agentic features which don't appeal to me. I'm a happy Claude Code user and having my code separate from the planning/brainstorming part of the task makes implementing its own step with me driving/writing the code.

New comment by numbers in "How to defer US taxes"

numbers — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:31:33 +0000

but you'd wait only long enough for a version that's good enough, not forever.

New comment by numbers in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

numbers — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:30:28 +0000

because they're brand fonts, none of them feel great to write more than a headline with

New comment by numbers in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

numbers — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:29:05 +0000

Is your phone connected to the router through a cable or wirelessly?

New comment by numbers in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

numbers — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:20:57 +0000

I want something like this for Plex, where I can just turn it on and have some of my favorite shows play random episodes, and I wish Plex made that easy to do.

New comment by numbers in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

numbers — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:13:15 +0000

I was using Wisper Flow and had a pretty bad experience with their support related to billing and so I started building my own version of a speech to text app, it's very doable with Parakeet and Whisper models available now. I've got the app working on mac and it's been so much easier to make progress on it with AI available now.

I'm not sure I'll be putting it out there because it feels like there's already 100s of these apps out there so I don't feel strongly about it.

New comment by numbers in "GPT-5.4"

numbers — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:38:04 +0000

interestingly, Claude has been doing this for me a lot but most often just saying this like "Looks like your coworker was misunderstanding this feature..." not really shifting blame but more like pointing out things

New comment by numbers in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

numbers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:01:59 +0000

yeah, ~1B active users + when non-tech people think of AI, they think of "ChatGPT" not many of the competitors.

New comment by numbers in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

numbers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:59:09 +0000

Wait till you move over to something like Kagi. It's really like an elevated experience when it comes to search. At first it's just less ads and none of that Google BS, but then eventually you start to use their other features. You realize, search could have moved in this direction a long time ago if Google wasn't motivated by ads.

New comment by numbers in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

numbers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:46:24 +0000

I'm color blind, and those colors look very similar to me. I could not tell if it was green or red or something else. Please use something like blue and red.

New comment by numbers in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

numbers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:26:32 +0000

and no ai fluff to start or end the answer, just facts straight to the point.

New comment by numbers in "Layoffs at Block"

numbers — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:24:04 +0000

A few thoughts about Block as I've worked there before:

- the company thrives on long term projects that seem to fizzle out as engineers get frustrated and leave

- there are way too many MBAs and finance people now compared to the early years where building was prioritized.

- jack is only doing part time at Block, early days he was around to chat and work with varying levels of hands on

- they've overhired and over-committed to losing projects, worst of all they've de-prioritized projects that were pretty innovative because traction wasn't there quick enough for them to justify them, e.g. terminal, POS specifically for restaurants, localization for EU

- they operate on docs and in the time of AI, the workforce is inundated with slop

- also, I hate that jack can't be bothered to capitalize anything like it's cool. come on man, you're firing 4000 people, not tweeting memes

New comment by numbers in "Facebook is cooked"

numbers — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:49:52 +0000

Yeah, I have a Facebook that's about 2-3 years old now, and I use it mainly from Marketplace. But man, if I just accidentally go to the feed, it's just a bunch of spam and some sort of bait, whether it's rage bait or thirst traps or anything like that. Facebook is maybe trying to see if I'll engage with it, but mainly because I use the app for Marketplace, it just continues to recommend garbage.