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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.

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

plutokras — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:55:32 +0000

My annual Kagi subscription lapsed last week, so I decided to see how DuckDuckGo is doing these days.

The feature I missed most from Kagi was domain filtering, so I had Claude write a quick userscript for DDG that lets me boost, pin, and block specific domains. uBlock Origin aside, DDG even lets you turn off ads natively.

Kagi is good, but the redirection felt a bit flaky lately, and I was dealing with an annoying bug where my localization kept defaulting to Groningen for no apparent reason.

I’ll stick with this DIY setup for a bit, though I might well end up back on Kagi once I realize how good I had it.

New comment by plutokras in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

plutokras — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:25:00 +0000

Last time I looked into it, I realized how severely it's limited by memory bandwidth. Only the M5 Ultra compares to a dedicated graphics card, but it still falls short.

New comment by plutokras in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

plutokras — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:32:11 +0000

This is my exact plan too, if I ever have to leave the Apple ecosystem.

New comment by plutokras in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

plutokras — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:58:47 +0000

At my company, devs were the ones pushing for the Claude subscription. Left to management, we would have only had GitHub Copilot – we already have an existing relationship with them and the tool is good enough.

If Anthropic is intent on losing the goodwill of the devs, they might not be happy with the consequences. Their product is quite commoditized at this point – the latest GPT, Gemini or GLM is just as good for most enterprise tasks.

New comment by plutokras in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

plutokras — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:34:50 +0000

They tick all the boxes I care about – desktop & mobile app, cli – but for the same price I might as well just go for the leading providers.

New comment by plutokras in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

plutokras — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:48:43 +0000

We are in a thread about hamburger tops...

New comment by plutokras in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

plutokras — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:06:12 +0000

Git wins by not needing to be replaced badly enough. Latley you can just ask an agent to "amend the last commit" so even that is being abstracted away.

New comment by plutokras in "AI will never be ethical or safe"

plutokras — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:59:11 +0000

I do hope the rare earth metal in my calculator is also ethically sourced.

New comment by plutokras in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

plutokras — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:09:13 +0000

In high school I kept a USB drive full of portable apps. This was one of them. I can still recommend it.

New comment by plutokras in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

plutokras — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:27:03 +0000

They can train on the outputs i.e. distillation attacks.

New comment by plutokras in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

plutokras — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:41:53 +0000

I’m also fine with the change. Claude is my go-to for research as the standalone app and shortcut are very convenient.

The Kagi team should focus on the core product; that’s what I’m paying for. I stopped being a ProtonMail customer once they began chasing side projects instead of polishing their actual offering. I hope Kagi doesn't go down that same route.

New comment by plutokras in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

plutokras — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:46:59 +0000

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by plutokras in "Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS"

plutokras — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:02:02 +0000

I have my own hobby RSS server built around the Google Reader API. Two of my plugins are pretty similar to what you described: one checks a page’s current state against the last saved version and publishes an entry if anything changed, the other is basically a CSS selector-based feed builder. Always good to see RSS content here, thanks for posting!

On your questions: some people prefer RSS, others email, and services exist to convert between the two in both directions. My own rule of thumb is email for things that need actual attention and RSS for everything that can wait. If you’re thinking about turning this into a service, supporting both would make sense since people are pretty split on this.