Hacker News: pprotas

New comment by pprotas in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

pprotas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:12:18 +0000

Yeah man, it's a grand scheme to skim 50 cents off you per year. All combined, that might be just enough to cover their website hosting costs.

New comment by pprotas in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

pprotas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:21:04 +0000

iOS has native support for SMB in the Files app

Turning on SMB is usually just a click of a button, even macOS supports it

Any user technical enough to be able to set up an S3 bucket, Syncthing, Nextcloud or this "Locker" tool from OP can also set up an SMB share

I was responding to the above thread, where sharing files on an offline network is being discussed. Backups were not mentioned as a requirement.

New comment by pprotas in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

pprotas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:45:23 +0000

Samba share?

Old technology still works, even if it is old!

New comment by pprotas in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

pprotas — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:55:32 +0000

This is intentional. Email verification is friction, so it gives users a chance to reconsider whether their purchase is really necessary. This is bad for business, because they’d prefer if you were impulsive.

Also, people usually type their emails correctly, especially these days with auto-fill. So not sending confirmation emails is optimizing for the happy path.

New comment by pprotas in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

pprotas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:17:21 +0000

Everyone is commenting how this regex is actually a master optimization move by Anthropic

When in reality this is just what their LLM coding agent came up with when some engineer told it to "log user frustration"

New comment by pprotas in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

pprotas — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:44:03 +0000

HomePod Mini is a waste of money, unless you like screaming at your dumb robot that never understands what you want it to do

Setting timers works well though

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

pprotas — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:18:21 +0000

One thing that makes OpenCode stand out to me is the web UI. I host it on my rPi 4B, serving as my AI assistant and remote mobile access to my homelab.

Since the homelab doesn't really have access to any risky data, I just gave OpenCode full Docker access and connect to it through Tailscale on my iPhone https://github.com/pprotas/homelab

New comment by pprotas in "Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety"

pprotas — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:26:47 +0000

It’s not incompetence, it’s malice

New comment by pprotas in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

pprotas — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:54:05 +0000

Monkey paw curls tight

Microsoft acquires Astral

Wish comes with a cost

New comment by pprotas in "Have a Fucking Website"

pprotas — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:27:24 +0000

This has always been the case, not sure why you’d frame it as a recent development. Not that long ago you even had to PAY for an SSL cert. Domains are nothing new. You always needed a server.

New comment by pprotas in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

pprotas — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:10:46 +0000

Another alternative (apparently the Logi software is so bad that it spawned many of these): BetterMouse. It supports my MX Master 4 https://better-mouse.com/

New comment by pprotas in "Shall I implement it? No"

pprotas — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:12:27 +0000

This comment is right, this screenshot is not Claude Code. It’s Opencode.

New comment by pprotas in "An important update on our team"

pprotas — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:26:49 +0000

Won’t even let em keep their laptop

New comment by pprotas in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"

pprotas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:19:31 +0000

Human greed knows no bounds

New comment by pprotas in "[dead]"

pprotas — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:36:11 +0000

AI slop article

New comment by pprotas in "Sizing chaos"

pprotas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:19:20 +0000

Women in my life often voice their frustration with badly fitting bras or pants. In reality, it really is a problem, but it's a problem everyone just accepts.

New comment by pprotas in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

pprotas — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:24:39 +0000

Food is perishable, clearly we can’t force manufacturers or shops to keep unsold perished stock.

Unsold electronics aren’t destroyed on a seasonal basis to make room for a new collection.

Same goes for books… and pulp from booms can create new paper to print new books on

New comment by pprotas in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

pprotas — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:35:10 +0000

Or the company just changes the definition of success, so that the metrics (that used to be bad last quarter) are suddenly good

New comment by pprotas in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

pprotas — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:10:49 +0000

Or just let them use whatever they want…

New comment by pprotas in "ClickHouse acquires Langfuse"

pprotas — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:36:52 +0000

Iterating on LLM agents involves testing on production(-like) data. The most accurate way to see whether your agent is performing well is to see it working on production.

You want to see the best results you can get from a prompt, so you use features like prompt management an A/B testing to see what version of your prompt performs better (i.e. is fit to the model you are using) on production.