Hacker News: outofpaper

New comment by outofpaper in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

outofpaper — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:52:51 +0000

AGREED! Its sheer insanity to call the AGPL toxic. The license is actually quite simple if a little wordy. They should have accompanied it with a preamble that was super clear and to the point.So here it is in our 170 words for you to read, share, and use:

Permission is hereby granted to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files, to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies of the software, including for commercial purposes, subject to the following conditions:

If you distribute this software, or any work derived from it, you must release the complete source code under this same licence. If you modify this software and users interact with your version over a network — as a web application, an API, or a hosted service — you must offer those users the complete source code of your version, at no charge. All copies must include this copyright notice and this licence. You may not impose additional licence restrictions beyond this.

These permissions are irrevocable and royalty-free for the term of copyright. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. This is a plain-language summary. The full legal text of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, governs all use for you.

Same rights. Same freedoms only a little more opiniated delivery. Same business card. The only difference: when someone takes your code, tweakes it and builds a service on it, the tweaks, the improvements must come back.

New comment by outofpaper in "Which streaming service was that on again?"

outofpaper — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:59:00 +0000

The real answer is always Jellyfin.

New comment by outofpaper in "Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept"

outofpaper — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:52:23 +0000

Is your autocomplete passing you disco instead of Discord and you're just going with it? Or are you implying that before the creation of disco music people had grown tired of MUDs?

New comment by outofpaper in "Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different"

outofpaper — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:28:31 +0000

Worse than that is the fact that the article completely ignores how SoundCloud now is prioritizing the ears of older listeners.

New comment by outofpaper in "Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise"

outofpaper — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:57:55 +0000

Yep. Most phones are doing computational photography mining images creating things that never where quite there.

New comment by outofpaper in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

outofpaper — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:30:36 +0000

Why not just allow it to grep ~/.claude

New comment by outofpaper in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

outofpaper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:34:48 +0000

It's got a target audience.

New comment by outofpaper in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

outofpaper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:32:17 +0000

It's almost as though someone was put in charge of AI growth and all they care about is token burn.

New comment by outofpaper in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

outofpaper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:19:45 +0000

Time to fork and move on...

New comment by outofpaper in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

outofpaper — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:08:08 +0000

Notepad++ is not registered with the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). Searches around will turn up nothing in the U.S. database. The name is trademarked in France (via INPI, the French patent office), which is why the maintainer has been able to send cease-and-desist notices in recent cases (e.g., the unauthorized “Notepad++ for Mac” site).

In the U.S. its only covered by common-law trademark rights from long use, as there’s no federal registration.

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

outofpaper — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:33:53 +0000

What's amazing is that they even can fairly reliably appear to count characters. I mean we're talking about systems that infer sequences not character counters or calculators. They are amazing in unrelated ways and we need to accept this so we can use them effectively.

New comment by outofpaper in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

outofpaper — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:04:40 +0000

That's why open models are going to win in the long run.

New comment by outofpaper in "Claude Code Routines"

outofpaper — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:52:35 +0000

Yes but much less efficiently. Having LLMs handle automation is like using a steam engine to heat your bath water. It will work most of the time but it's super inefficient and not really designed for that use and it can go horribly wrong from time to time.

New comment by outofpaper in "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'"

outofpaper — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:29:35 +0000

It's just hard for us to see its grand plans.

New comment by outofpaper in "CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git"

outofpaper — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:04:54 +0000

If anything a CLU, a Command Line Utility would be the best thing to call the small programs that both van be run as one offs from the command line and have their output piped to other Command Line Utilities... I don't know why the term isn't being used more. CLU keep it simple. CLIs are a catch all from every single CLU up to MidnightCommander, Zork, Mosh, and OpenCode.

New comment by outofpaper in "The human.json Protocol"

outofpaper — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:58:50 +0000

To the average person ab public key is about as comprehensible as JSON.

New comment by outofpaper in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

outofpaper — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:48:17 +0000

Why would anyone test in production???!!!

New comment by outofpaper in "History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design"

outofpaper — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:26:16 +0000

It's sucrose to being a good sweet article. Really though it should be used as a draft for something that wasn't just vibed. Eg fix the mice and loose the sparks from cutting wood.

New comment by outofpaper in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

outofpaper — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:12:08 +0000

A harness is a collection of stubs and drivers configured to assist with automation or testing. It's a standard term often used in QA as they've been automating things for ages before Gen Ai came on to the scene.

New comment by outofpaper in ""Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name"

outofpaper — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:41:33 +0000

??? I'm pretty sure you know what the differences are. Go touch grass and tell me it's the same as looking at a plant on a screen.

Dealing with organic and natural systems will, most of the time, have a variable reward. The real issue comes from systems and services designed to only be accessible through intermittent variable rewards.

Oh, and don't confuse Claude's artifacts working most of the time with them actually optimizing to be that way. They're optimizing to ensure token usage. I.E. LLMs have been fine-tuned to default to verbose responses. They are impressive to less experienced developers, often easier to detect certain types of errors (eg. Improper typing), and will make you use more tokens.