Hacker News: pixelmelt

New comment by pixelmelt in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

pixelmelt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:30:20 +0000

I opened this thread expecting a bunch of "kids these days..." posts, kind of surprised not to see any. People have been raising themselves up by putting down other generations since the very first I assume, the temptation towards the fallacy of composition is too irresistible.

New comment by pixelmelt in "The Last Quiet Thing"

pixelmelt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:25:21 +0000

I liked this, reminds me of some other discussion on recycling/global warming etc being pushed as the comsumers fault

New comment by pixelmelt in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

pixelmelt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:05:45 +0000

I've been getting into making and breaking these antibots recently and it's funny to me how the person who wrote this post gave so much attention to what LinkedIn was doing and left the other antibots on the page as a footnote. They grab way more, they just don't let you see it. I haven't reversed PX or Recap yet but the antibot on twitch and Nike similarly checks if you have any of these 53 apps installed (when loaded on a WebKit browser) https://pastebin.com/raw/KACvjpTK

New comment by pixelmelt in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

pixelmelt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:03:02 +0000

And so did everyone else, making it... Dead? If you've got some good alternative communities then do tell!

The Webs Digital Locks Have Never Had a Stronger Opponent

pixelmelt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:32:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/the-webs-digital-locks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577254

Points: 7

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New comment by pixelmelt in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

pixelmelt — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:17:44 +0000

I've already been doing this haha, got Claude to install VR mods into a game that most certainly should not have been working with VR mods on linux

New comment by pixelmelt in "Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records"

pixelmelt — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:04:35 +0000

It sounds weird because Claude wrote it

New comment by pixelmelt in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

pixelmelt — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:45:47 +0000

Some of the more recent versions of it had memory leaks so you couldn't just leave it on in the background

New comment by pixelmelt in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

pixelmelt — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:47:23 +0000

As one of said generation, I would chalk it up to instant communication creating innumerable shallow remote relationships that significantly replace time spent with others in person.

New comment by pixelmelt in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

pixelmelt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:54:12 +0000

maybe not overrun by spam, but the amount of bots I see on popular subs is definitely not 0

New comment by pixelmelt in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

pixelmelt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:35:11 +0000

I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."

New comment by pixelmelt in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

pixelmelt — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:48:26 +0000

Wow this is big, what's the best device/remote stack to use it with?

New comment by pixelmelt in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

pixelmelt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:32:19 +0000

Hoarding/archiving/collecting is quite fun. I don't think it's a stretch to say he likely read more then the average person, and from his own collection too!

New comment by pixelmelt in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

pixelmelt — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:44:16 +0000

They have a support article on how to fix this!

New comment by pixelmelt in "Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine"

pixelmelt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:41:22 +0000

Relevant username

New comment by pixelmelt in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

pixelmelt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:42:12 +0000

Had a friend who worked on designing systems to pick these signals up around airports

New comment by pixelmelt in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

pixelmelt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:49:53 +0000

Its effectiveness is even more apparent with older smaller LLMs, people who interact with LLMs now never tried to wrangle llama2-13b into pretending to be a dungeon master...

New comment by pixelmelt in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

pixelmelt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:24:54 +0000

Check out Unsloths REAP models, you can outright delete a few of the lesser used experts without the model going braindead since they all can handle each token but some are better posed to do so.

New comment by pixelmelt in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

pixelmelt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:12:40 +0000

You should add an RSS feed so I can follow it!

New comment by pixelmelt in "The only moat left is money?"

pixelmelt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:05:54 +0000

I've been enjoying smashing through those panes of glass with LLMs. Just spin up a browser, go and export all the requests to undocumented user endpoints to curl commands, specify what you want out of it and after a few minutes you have an api endpoint up and running!