Hacker News: purplecats

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript"

purplecats — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:09:26 +0000

doesnt work. https://lightwave.so/undefined

New comment by purplecats in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

purplecats — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:56:24 +0000

shrinkflation

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub"

purplecats — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:03:13 +0000

seems trivial for antigravity to do

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

purplecats — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:30:36 +0000

this is unironically useful bc if it works well, can use that algo to instead of serving ads, enrich ai responses by adding image and media previews appropriately at the right spots (layout modifications)

New comment by purplecats in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

purplecats — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:45:18 +0000

does this work on people

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus"

purplecats — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:59:53 +0000

watch link?

New comment by purplecats in "Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study"

purplecats — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:41:22 +0000

its all a scam. every year everything gets more energy efficient but the cost of energy gets jacked up so u never win

New comment by purplecats in "Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud"

purplecats — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:26:32 +0000

yes, you are an outlier, and one day (presumably <50 years) your hands will be cold and dead, along with your representation in the holdout resistance movement. you must make a bigger impact than standing your (individual) ground

New comment by purplecats in "Google Gemini will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube"

purplecats — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:15:49 +0000

isn't this expensive for them

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage"

purplecats — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:36:45 +0000

why do u need my number? why not just a webapp

New comment by purplecats in "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"

purplecats — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:10:44 +0000

https://ytmp3.ai/

New comment by purplecats in "Rats Play DOOM"

purplecats — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:45:31 +0000

i think its just people being out of touch with reality. perhaps engineering minds not thinking enough product. its too commonplace for me to even complain about. someone builds something primarily visual - a robot, a GUI application, etc. and links to their github/etc but they ensure that there are no visuals included.

New comment by purplecats in "AI generated font using Nano Banana"

purplecats — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:08:09 +0000

why dont they show you it in use? seems like an obvious thing.

New comment by purplecats in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

purplecats — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:24:58 +0000

congrats! fun little story. how much did you make from it?

New comment by purplecats in "Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas"

purplecats — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:42:00 +0000

> not sure why it's not linked that I can find in the article from the same source?

the point is not news, its to keep you on their sites as long as possible with no escape

New comment by purplecats in "Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker"

purplecats — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:26:10 +0000

this is really cool! can you make it interpolate and smoothly animate based on velocity and trajectory?

New comment by purplecats in "Microsoft forms superintelligence team under AI head Mustafa Suleyman"

purplecats — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:49:43 +0000

his video stream texture is odd

New comment by purplecats in "The Parallel Search API"

purplecats — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:11:24 +0000

> I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine

if you say it for long enough, i'm sure you will be right!

New comment by purplecats in "Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri"

purplecats — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:27:37 +0000

> wound Apple's pride

do businesses really "think" in a personified manner as this? isnt it just what the accounting resolves to as the optimal path?

New comment by purplecats in "Responses from LLMs are not facts"

purplecats — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:24:20 +0000

each claim should be individually cited, not left to the user to investigate where in all the further reading each claim corresponds to