Hacker News: okuntilnow

New comment by okuntilnow in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

okuntilnow — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:44:56 +0000

Only with an extension, at least in the UK.

New comment by okuntilnow in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

okuntilnow — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:24:31 +0000

Yeah, that’s fair.

New comment by okuntilnow in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

okuntilnow — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:07:32 +0000

I really like their pdf viewer. It can be slow on complex documents, but I find it much easer to navigate around compared to the one on Supernote and Boox devices.

Their ebook reader though.. that really does suck. It’s had basically zero improvements in as long as I can remember, despite B obviously being a core feature for many people.

New comment by okuntilnow in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

okuntilnow — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:44:53 +0000

There are images in geminispace, and audio, and (probably) video. It's just not inline. One of constraints of the protocol is that pages cannot load content without your express say-so.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Remarkable Pro Colors"

okuntilnow — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:07 +0000

The good thing about the Remarkable is that it’s basically just a Linux machine and you have root access. There’s a great community of folk building extra functionality and tools / apps for it.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

okuntilnow — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:20:15 +0000

It’s another good example of internet sentiment being far different to popular sentiment.

Polling shows around 70% supported it, though far fewer thought it would be effective. Pretty much matches my views on it.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs"

okuntilnow — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:25:01 +0000

Is an SUV needed for two children? I can accommodate my two children (and the dog if required) in my smallish hatchback.

New comment by okuntilnow in "ReMarkable: The Tool I Use to Enhance My Productivity – Cal Newport [video]"

okuntilnow — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:29:56 +0000

Possibly, but it's not really sync anyway. You can pull and push documents, but there's no synchronisation.

Not worth paying extra for.

New comment by okuntilnow in "ReMarkable: The Tool I Use to Enhance My Productivity – Cal Newport [video]"

okuntilnow — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:28:46 +0000

Writing latency on the current generation of eink devices is good enough not to be noticeable.

New comment by okuntilnow in "ReMarkable: The Tool I Use to Enhance My Productivity – Cal Newport [video]"

okuntilnow — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:26:37 +0000

If you buy the accessories third-party, the cost of the device is cheaper than most other 10" eink writing pads.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors"

okuntilnow — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:32:24 +0000

Huginn is an another useful tool that allows you to wrangle CSS selectors and XPath nodes to create RSS feeds.

I use it quite successfully to get data out of undocumented APIs and out into RSS.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

New comment by okuntilnow in "Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?"

okuntilnow — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:36:46 +0000

I use, like and pay for Pinboard. I don't use the archiving feature though - it's just a dump for links, and it does that very well.

I do worry that it's going to go kaput from neglect at some point, so it would be nice to see a bit of development and get these issues fixed. But either way the level of outrage here is a bit OTT. It's not life or death, it's just bookmarks.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons"

okuntilnow — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:34:59 +0000

And socks!

https://www.aivanet.com/2013/09/evernote-gets-physical-why-a...

New comment by okuntilnow in "Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?"

okuntilnow — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:32:26 +0000

Personally, I don’t think we need a twitter replacement. Mastodon is nice, but ultimately suffers from the same problems but at smaller scale.

I think it’s more likely that users will move to smaller communities - Discord, Telegram & WhatsApp groups etc.

I’m surprised that Whatsapp hasn’t developed better community functions.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Ask HN: Meal Planning App?"

okuntilnow — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:33:47 +0000

I use Grocery on iOS for recipes and shopping lists. It does inventory management, but I don't use that so can't tell you how well it works.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grocery-smart-shopping-list/id...

New comment by okuntilnow in "The mesmerising murmurations of Europe’s starlings"

okuntilnow — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:39:40 +0000

I'm just north of you, and they are the most common bird in my garden. Perhaps there is something about Lincoln that they don't like? Though I can't imagine what, because it's a lovely place.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy"

okuntilnow — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:10:48 +0000

Solar takes up quite a lot of space, but most importantly only works for a portion of a 24 hour cycle.

New comment by okuntilnow in "Ask HN: Is there any RSS app with a blacklist / mutelist?"

okuntilnow — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:05:17 +0000

You’ve got a few options on the self-hosted front. TT-RSS and FreshRSS both have quite advanced filtering systems that allow you to highlight or mute articles.

Most of the paid options have similar functionality, including Feedly, NewsBlur & Feedbin.