Hacker News: pityJuke

New comment by pityJuke in "Blackholing My Email"

pityJuke — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:55:59 +0000

He also had blogs about those maps: https://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/

New comment by pityJuke in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

pityJuke — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:55:08 +0000

I mean Cash App is simply a workaround for the US Banking systems lack of a unified transfer system.

New comment by pityJuke in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

pityJuke — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:31:21 +0000

Ditto. I've found it pretty tolerable once I've used "ShutUp10!" to disable the annoying stuff. I've used harder tools than it, but I've then found it breaks useful stuff (like the Xbox Gaming stuff, which some MSFT games use).

New comment by pityJuke in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

pityJuke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:19:38 +0000

Haiku 4.5 is a reasoning model. [0]

[0]: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/7aad69bf12627d42234e01ee7c3630...

> Claude Haiku 4.5, a new hybrid reasoning large language model from Anthropic in our small, fast model class.

> As with each model released by Anthropic beginning with Claude Sonnet 3.7, Claude Haiku 4.5 is a hybrid reasoning model. This means that by default the model will answer a query rapidly, but users have the option to toggle on “extended thinking mode”, where the model will spend more time considering its response before it answers. Note that our previous model in the Haiku small-model class, Claude Haiku 3.5, did not have an extended thinking mode.

New comment by pityJuke in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

pityJuke — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:56:23 +0000

Yeah it’s become a mini-meme amongst the AI folk on Bluesky [0]

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/dame.is/post/3ltnty3gebs22

New comment by pityJuke in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

pityJuke — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:20:53 +0000

Don’t encourage his diaper fetish! [0]

[0]: https://bsky.app/search?q=from%3Aedzitron.com+diaper

New comment by pityJuke in "Sovereignty in a System Prompt"

pityJuke — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:22:48 +0000

it’s a dumb joke based on a video of an indian scammer being trolled [0]

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7mceb_t8EIs

New comment by pityJuke in "Nearby Glasses"

pityJuke — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:27:19 +0000

Yes look at this article showing all of the wonderful anti-social behaviour prevented by smart glasses: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go

(hint: smart glasses encourage anti social behaviour for online clout.)

New comment by pityJuke in "Facebook is cooked"

pityJuke — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:32:56 +0000

This is it - you’ve got to be deliberate in scrolling immediately past anything remotely thirst-trappy, otherwise the algorithm hyperfixates. And then overstay your welcome at the type of content you want to see.

In my experience, it has worked (my discover page is an amalgamation of classic Simpsons, Dropout.tv, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, while my Reels feed is unhinged in the right way.) But also I’ve stopped using it because my brain was melting.

New comment by pityJuke in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

pityJuke — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:29:52 +0000

Oh, Coristine was hired into the government by Elon as a part of DOGE.

New comment by pityJuke in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

pityJuke — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:51:27 +0000

Haha yeah if I scroll on my iPhone 15 Pro it literally doesn’t load until I stop.

New comment by pityJuke in "Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code"

pityJuke — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:56:45 +0000

Daniel is a smart man. He's been frustrated by slop, but he has equally accepted [0] AI-derived bug submissions from people who know what they are doing.

I would imagine Anthropic are the latter type of individual.

[0]: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997

New comment by pityJuke in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

pityJuke — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:32:00 +0000

Aha [0], that is neat.

[0]: https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html

New comment by pityJuke in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

pityJuke — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:27:13 +0000

As someone who has used Anki for a decade, a thank you to dae for everything. Best of luck in your future endeavours.

With that out of the way, some thoughts:

- Anki is in a really good position to work around enshitification. The app, at least to me, is "complete" - the only additional features that might pique my curiosity is a different scheduler (at the moment, they're integrating a newer one, although I don't follow enough to know the state of it). Additionally, modern Anki is really well architected: the core of it is a Rust library, that is used by all of the platforms [0]. You can write new front ends using that, or just fork the existing FOSS ones. Maybe dae does a gorhill and gives us Anki Origin.

- Really the only service-y part of Anki I use is AnkiWeb, which is basically a backup and sync system. Wonder how that'll evolve (if they do end up charging for it, I hope it is "Obsidian" reasonable). EDIT: Ooo, Anki has public server software for running your own version. Awesome! [1]

- The idea outcome in my opinion would have been some form of charitable organisation (Linux Foundation?), with people donating to support Anki.

- So, AnkiHub is a company that produces Anki flashcards, and they've scaled that quickly? Jeez. Obviously Quizlet proved there was a market for flashcards, but I didn't realise this was possible for Anki.

- No outside investment is... hopeful. Not quite sure what indicates that this company has the technical know-how to maintain it.

- I've heard too many stories of a maintainer or creative being "hopeful" about their new acquirers, only to regret it years down the line.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299897

[1]: https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html

New comment by pityJuke in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

pityJuke — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:14:15 +0000

> make a core lib with all the nuts and bolts which devs build clients around

That is modern Anki. The core is a Rust library, which all the clients (desktop, web, Android and iOS) use. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299897

New comment by pityJuke in "SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI"

pityJuke — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:49:25 +0000

So, somehow, Twitter will end up being (partially) public again!

What are we doing here

New comment by pityJuke in "Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk"

pityJuke — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:22:43 +0000

Wait, when the fuck did the Android app I used to play on-device videos with become a streaming app, that then got acquired by Amazon?!

(I know the literal answer is on Wikipedia, but I’m flabbergasted.)

New comment by pityJuke in "Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)"

pityJuke — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:06:16 +0000

Disagree, that trust relationship implicitly includes a "I can opt out of you seeing my status if I set my status to offline" contract, because that is my expectation of Steam.

New comment by pityJuke in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

pityJuke — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:54:48 +0000

I was caught off guard by how brutal this article was at points. I don't really follow Scott Alexander much, so I was pleasantly surprised by it. While I don't have the same relationship with Scott Adams... I can see parts of this in my relationship with Kanye.

New comment by pityJuke in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

pityJuke — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:48:55 +0000

The Holden Spark appears to just be a re-badge of a Chevrolet Spark, which was made by their South Korean subsidiary, and was discontinued three years ago [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Spark#Discontinuatio...