Hacker News: plutokras

New comment by plutokras in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

plutokras — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:13:36 +0000

https://en.nearbywiki.org is also excellent

New comment by plutokras in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

plutokras — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:02:26 +0000

AAA Pacman is also a good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVY_oJlv_Eo

New comment by plutokras in "Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years"

plutokras — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:27:57 +0000

What if Hacker News had topical sub-HNs so people could post things that aren't Hacker or News? (:

New comment by plutokras in "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"

plutokras — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:31:53 +0000

I was skipping Tahoe too after seeing all those posts about the differently rounded corners.

This time I took the plunge and upgraded, and I have to admit the whole system, especially Safari is much more snappy than before.

New comment by plutokras in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

plutokras — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:18:57 +0000

AFAIK Brave Search is also using its own index.

New comment by plutokras in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

plutokras — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:17:07 +0000

> It feels quite slow

It definitely is. The extension-based redirect in Safari is also unreliable. Furthermore, many of my searches (and others', apparently) unexplainably defaulted to Groningen in the Netherlands, even though I'm nowhere near the place.

I ended up not renewing my annual subscription. Since then, I vibecoded a small userscript that replicates domain ranking for DuckDuckGo – plus DDG already lets you turn off ads natively.

New comment by plutokras in "Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations"

plutokras — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:06:54 +0000

I remember them advertising Svelte as the framework that disappears in build time.

New comment by plutokras in "Kobo can run apps now"

plutokras — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:01:51 +0000

The SimpleUI plugin helps a lot with the clunkiness.

New comment by plutokras in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

plutokras — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:32:19 +0000

> Eventually, this arms race ends with a computer vision model that looks at the screen, classifies visual elements as ads, and draws a rectangle over anything that looks like an ad.

That would be a killer feature for AR glasses. Imagine no billboards, no political posters, no neon storefront clutter.

New comment by plutokras in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

plutokras — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:42:47 +0000

This feels like obvious setup for regulatory capture. It won't be long before missing "safety" watermarks are cited as the pretext for restricting Chinese models.

New comment by plutokras in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

plutokras — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:54:04 +0000

What specific technical signals make you think we're close to a shift like that?

New comment by plutokras in "LLMs reward expertise"

plutokras — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:12:52 +0000

> My friend didn’t have the vocabulary to ask the AI to write code

I had the exact same realization using Claude Design. It’s great that "anyone can design" now, but I don't have the domain knowledge to describe what a good design consists of. I know it when I see it, but that is far from enough.

New comment by plutokras in "Don't be a meat proxy"

plutokras — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:15:50 +0000

With the recent wave of posts about Claude rewriting entire codebases from Zig/Electron to Rust/Swift, I can't help but question the prompter's actual confidence in the final result. Gaining a thorough understanding of the generated output still demands an enormous amount of effort. I suspect the reality is that most people just chain a few review agents together, and if they output "LGTM", the code gets committed and pushed.

I have been doing daily agentic coding myself since last November, but lately Im having concerns. We are on the verge of becoming Warhammer 40k Tech-Priests: chanting sacred prompts to appease the machine spirit, praying for a good result. The foundational knowledge is lost, meaning that even if we do look at the code, we won't understand it anyway.

New comment by plutokras in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

plutokras — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:54:55 +0000

> I personally like the ability to filter my own results by promoting, demoting or blocking certain domains to filter lower quality results further.

I had an annual Kagi subscription that I let lapse not long ago. That was hands-down the best feature, so I vibecoded a small userscript that replicates it for DuckDuckGo. DDG also lets you turn off ads.

I'd gladly return once they fix the integration issues. In Safari, the redirect via the extension is a bit wonky at times.

New comment by plutokras in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

plutokras — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:41:06 +0000

What's the unique value proposition here? I checked it out and seems like yet another Chromium fork with some privacy added on top.

New comment by plutokras in "Grok 4.5"

plutokras — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:23:21 +0000

Applying an ostrich policy to Chinese models won't make their underlying geopolitics disappear. Much of China's innovation is state-funded specifically to compete with Western counterparts and erode their margins. By open-sourcing these models, China applies pressure on the US ecosystem. You enjoying free/cheap access to high quality models is the intended effect of that strategy.

New comment by plutokras in "The AirPods Effect"

plutokras — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:59:07 +0000

Can confirm. Traveling via public transport in Switzerland is remarkably uneventful. It's a stark contrast to my Eastern European home country, where it is a gamble due to a certain demographic's anti-social behavior.

New comment by plutokras in "macOS Container Machines"

plutokras — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:21:57 +0000

Enterprises would do anything to develop on Linux except using an actual Linux distro.

New comment by plutokras in "Claude Opus 4.8"

plutokras — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:15:21 +0000

I'm happy to report that this game is very fun for natural intelligence entities too. :)

New comment by plutokras in "[dead]"

plutokras — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:54:14 +0000

I see Claude's frontend skill is the new bootstrap.