Hacker News: port11

New comment by port11 in "The Future of Email"

port11 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:05:46 +0000

“The inbox of the future will be faster, smarter, and more capable than what most of us use today.”

There you go. They don’t know how to get there, but email’s getting faster and smarter and stuff.

New comment by port11 in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

port11 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:51:33 +0000

The analysis at the bottom directly contradicts the statement.

New comment by port11 in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

port11 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:45:27 +0000

I wonder if they’re truly subsidised or if the API pricing is just massively inflated. Genuine doubt.

My CC stats show me using almost 300$ of Sonnet tokens on the 20$ plan. Is Anthropic willing to forgo 93% of the profit? A bit less than that but API is priced, say, 3x what it should be?

CC is great, but Sonnet (my main model) isn’t worth the API pricing. The cheap-but-good models arrive at similar results for much less (for context I’m using Aivo with CC).

New comment by port11 in "Tailwind and slop apps"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:04:50 +0000

In a way, Httpster would be a counter-example; but then some would claim that over-design landing pages are annoying in other ways.

You can either please the Greeks or the Trojans, I guess.

New comment by port11 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:58:21 +0000

Touché. I was about to say that Things looks great, but it’s unchanged since I’ve bought it. I’m very fond of Things, it’s full of clever little things and doesn’t try to get in your way.

New comment by port11 in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:54:59 +0000

We can be non-absolute about this, providers like Brave and Carbon have shown that it can be done with reason. Of course it’s still something of an intrusion… but we haven’t modelled tech in better ways.

Either we help build new ways to do this, or we have to accept that some advertising has always driven media/knowing about the new blacksmith/the internet/whatever.

I’m gonna get downvoted to hell — and I use uBlock Origin almost all the time with strict filters —, but I’m getting old and thinking that idealism hasn’t been working, maybe if we’re all reasonable we might just get some stuff improved. Dunno.

New comment by port11 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:51:52 +0000

Not an expert, but Claude doesn’t seem to be running with my ZSH profile? Really, anything that isn’t a terminal and tries to use global commands, such as utilities that expect Node to be available and so on. I always have to prefix commands, unless using the terminal myself.

New comment by port11 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:50:17 +0000

I remember Instapaper, that made text look good. Apple’s Read Mode settings are a bit lacking.

New comment by port11 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:48:36 +0000

It’s easy to make a wow-factor release after years of putting out bad design.

New comment by port11 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:47:43 +0000

Perhaps they can add a ‘macOS Classic’ option, in the style of Windows letting you show 98-themed UI, and the many attempts at bringing back an XP-ish look to modern versions.

I’d pay… 30€ for my Mac to again look like the cat-named versions.

New comment by port11 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:45:30 +0000

Many good settings are ‘hidden’ in Accessibility, notably to increase contrast, differentiate without colour, etc.

The wonderful ability to control music playback on your Mac? It’s in Accessibility on iOS.

Thinks like Reachability, Shake to Undo, and Require Attention for Face ID are all accessibility features.

Evidently, Accessibility is the new Advanced Settings for Apple, and anything goes in there. I’d argue many of these should be On by default.

New comment by port11 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:36:48 +0000

Good point. I imagine that other labs also restrict access to frontier models, but less publicly so. Do we know that, say, Gemini lets you develop a competitor product without any safeguards?

In general this appears to be par-for-the-course with tech. Many Google products are notoriously slower or even unusable in Safari and Firefox, but we can't know for sure whether that's due to Chrome optimizations or purposefully wasted code cycles in other browsers.

New comment by port11 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:38:55 +0000

Mise’s refusal to make global packages globally available is off-putting. I keep using it for specific Node versions and the integration with fnox.

The big drawback: having Claude complain every couple of hours that the new worktree is untrusted; or having to prefix a bunch of commands with `mise exec …` is annoying as well. A global alias for all shells would be nice.

New comment by port11 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

port11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:35:31 +0000

Ask mode being the default is stellar. Thanks Mike!

Apple could’ve made something like this, or at least pay you handsomely for making Macs better to use.

New comment by port11 in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

port11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:10 +0000

You’re free to allow scripts as per the linked docs for NPM 12. But the vast majority of us will appreciate the reduced attack surface.

New comment by port11 in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

port11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:58:47 +0000

I chuckled, but this is more about the history of NPM.

In retrospect, allowing an ES consortium seat (Microsoft) to own the largest package repo for the language… might have been a bad idea? Google is one of the worst members of the language board, but Microsoft might be a close second.

Given their ownership of GitHub came with a general community unease, perhaps it’s not surprising that NPM isn’t dating much better. 16 years later we are getting good security controls. Okay.

I’m happy with Deno for most of my needs!

New comment by port11 in "Claude Fable 5"

port11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:17:00 +0000

I wrote the spec and did the implementation :D

New comment by port11 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

port11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:15:59 +0000

It’s not pretty, but if Anthropic is the E Corp of this timeline, we’re not being creative enough. There’s better targets out there for this comparison.

New comment by port11 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

port11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:13:20 +0000

I guess people would just game the system and find ways around these guardrails.

New comment by port11 in "Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released"

port11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:03:15 +0000

We’re also on Alpine for our home server, and it’s been great. The major issue is that I refuse to use systemd, and therefore miss out on a lot of ‘assumed simplicity’ from projects that depend on it. I’m always having to find a work-around to do something that could’ve been easy. But the init and service system of Alpine is great to use compared to the systemd can of worms.