Hacker News: poetril

New comment by poetril in "Back to Kagi"

poetril — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:25:53 +0000

I feel like half of what I do on HN is talk about Kagi. I switch to Kagi in 2023, and haven't looked back. Between vim keybinds for navigating search, explicit AI opt-in, the ability to curate search (block sites, increase others), and more. It really lets me feel like I can control my search tool, and at least so far its felt like our interests are aligned, I give them money and they make sure search is as good as possible for me.

New comment by poetril in "After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch"

poetril — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:31:59 +0000

I've tried a handful of smartwatches, and own a Pebble 2 Duo. While I'm interested in picking up a newer Pebble device (hopefully with a bit nicer build quality), I've found my sweetspot to be a Garmin. I bought a Forerunner 165, have never needed to pair it to my phone so I can be happy in the data privacy department. Additionally the battery life is fantastic and it gives me all the data I need for my health and fitness goals.

New comment by poetril in "Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts"

poetril — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:05:39 +0000

This is completely unusable on mobile.

New comment by poetril in "Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality"

poetril — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:12:29 +0000

I do think this style of working is where software engineering work is heading. This style is essentially exactly what my workflow is today using _insert agent harness here_ + plannotator[0]. Linear also recently rolled out something very similar for reviews[1]. The working style of spec driven dev, following by fast code reviews using tools like plannotator/linear/command center seems to be where we are headed, and more more tools like it are popping up nowadays.

0: https://plannotator.ai/

1: https://linear.app/docs/diffs

New comment by poetril in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

poetril — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:31:23 +0000

Kagi has been one of my all time favorite products. It has enriched my search experience drastically. One of my favorite features I don't see talked about enough is the keybindings. Using vim keys for navigating search results is such a fantastic user experience, and much like normal vim I'm not sure I could go back to navigating search any other way. I also really appreciate their AI quick-search feature is explicitly opt in and trigger by adding a "?" to the end of search. Their selection of widgets is also quite nice and I find my self reaching for them quite a bit.

New comment by poetril in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

poetril — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:54:00 +0000

I'll second climbing gyms. My entire core group of friends in my city (that weren't already friends prior to my moving here) are people I met from the climbing gym or yoga classes at the climbing gym.

Its a great space to meet new people, there are inherent breaks in the activity, shared problems to work on, and its a non-competitive space. Everyone just wants everyone else to send hard.

New comment by poetril in "Zed 1.0"

poetril — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:57 +0000

I quite like Zed, I've consistently driven it for months at a time. But there are two things that add enough friction that over that month or so I end up bailing back to one of my other editors (vscode/neovim). The search experience being a new tab with no sidebar option and the diff viewer being a multibuffer view with no option to see the entire contents of a file you are diffing.

That being said, I love the software and will continue to check back on it with the hopes that it sticks one day. Congrats on the 1.0!!

New comment by poetril in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

poetril — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:30:05 +0000

I’ve got nearly 10 months left on my yearly subscription, I wonder what that means for my access.

New comment by poetril in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

poetril — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:46:36 +0000

I grew up playing the games, and still have my copy of Yellow and Red. I fell of the wagon somewhere around Gen VI, the games just got to easy. It became clear to me that Gamefreak was just throwing in the towel and gave up making interesting games.

That being said, recently I started getting into the world of Romhacks and they have sparked new joy in me. The games are hard, fun, and have a lot of love poured into them. I'm going through Radical Red right now, and its been an incredible time.

New comment by poetril in "Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground"

poetril — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:22:59 +0000

I went down the same path last week, and found Zigbook to be a very poor resource for learning. +1 for ziglings, that's been my favorite so far

New comment by poetril in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

poetril — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:43:18 +0000

How does bun compare? Does it have similar features as well?

New comment by poetril in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

poetril — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:41:39 +0000

That's been my attitude as well. I'm not convinced they'll stay cheaper for long, and when I say "cheaper" its marginal. Cost of the ride is the similar, but it seems there is no tip built into the price yet.

New comment by poetril in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

poetril — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:16 +0000

I live in a city that has had Waymo's (via Uber) for a while now and I have done a complete 180 on them. Not only are they usually cheaper than a traditional Uber, but they drive far more defensively, and don't come with the social baggage associated with a traditional Uber either (tipping, small talk).

New comment by poetril in "Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts"

poetril — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:09:44 +0000

Fossabot[0] is also the name of an established Twitch/YouTube chat bot.

0: https://fossabot.com/

New comment by poetril in "Sequoia backs Zed"

poetril — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:34:56 +0000

You’re not. Everytime I see him on Twitch I have to do a double take.

New comment by poetril in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

poetril — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 03:13:22 +0000

I did not know this was a project that was in progress, and its quite exciting. I love Godot, and am quite fond a Zig as well. I'll be keeping my eye on this.

Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

poetril — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:55:59 +0000

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979916

Points: 138

# Comments: 30

Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

poetril — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:41:08 +0000

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817285

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by poetril in "Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux"

poetril — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:57:28 +0000

Kagi has been one of the biggest value adds to my online life in a long time. Paying for the Kagi ultimate plans gets me access to the latest LLM models, and an incredible customizable search engine with a large focus on privacy. The Orion browser has been my favorite to use on iOS, I’m not sure if I’d use the desktop version because of its web kit base. But I’m glad to see it’s moving forward.

New comment by poetril in "Ask HN: Svelte 5 devs, what's your preferred LLM?"

poetril — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:05:35 +0000

I've been using a mix of Claude and Deepseek via the Kagi assistant to great success. Usually adding relevant sections of the docs alongside my question and reminding it to use svelte 5 syntax.