Hacker News: qq66

New comment by qq66 in "United Wizards of the Coast"

qq66 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:09:10 +0000

You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result. It will be from an entirely different cultural framework.

New comment by qq66 in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

qq66 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:01:58 +0000

There are business models that work for the extraordinarily popular open source projects (Linux, SQLite, etc.) that don't work for the "well-used piece of infrastructure" projects, even though that category is very important in aggregate

New comment by qq66 in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

qq66 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:35:31 +0000

Nothing in this article is wrong, but worth noting that pre-AI, the companies that most significantly transformed the way we use our computers (Slack, Spotify, VS Code, etc.) did ship desktop apps.

New comment by qq66 in "Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units"

qq66 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:48:56 +0000

It makes no sense? When the companies have the same CEO?

New comment by qq66 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

qq66 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:48:27 +0000

This is the backdoor way of raising prices... just inflate the token pricing. It's like ice cream companies shrinking the box instead of raising the price

New comment by qq66 in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

qq66 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:21:28 +0000

Being a good band isn't nearly enough to be a famous band.

New comment by qq66 in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

qq66 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:36:33 +0000

How does someone's dating site password end up in Fiverr?

New comment by qq66 in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

qq66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:29:23 +0000

I'm speaking for >1 minute and including bulleted lists, etc. WisprFlow gets all of the bulleted lists formatted correctly, and I'm not saying things like "Bullet 1" -- just speaking as I'd speak to a person.

New comment by qq66 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

qq66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:29:19 +0000

I don't like it but I like that you did it.

New comment by qq66 in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

qq66 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:31:51 +0000

This is why I love iOS in many ways: it's very difficult for an app to have "action at a distance" inside your OS. If you force-quit the app it's pretty much like it never existed.

New comment by qq66 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

qq66 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:57:29 +0000

I can think of a benefit of having 1Gbps. I can't think of anything that a home user would benefit from 25Gbps that is something a government should actually care about (watching 10 different 8K Netflix streams at the same time is not a human rights issue)

New comment by qq66 in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

qq66 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:56:17 +0000

I haven't used this one but WisprFlow is vastly better than the built-in functionality on MacOS. Apple is way behind even startups, even for fundamental AI functionality like transcribing speech

New comment by qq66 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

qq66 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:37:47 +0000

What is the benefit of 25Gbps home internet?

New comment by qq66 in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

qq66 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:40:54 +0000

Why is it garbage? If you want something to block YouTube shorts, here's something that does it. It won't work forever, but you won't pay forever. Not all software needs to be high-craft and high-quality. Sometimes it can be just something a guy sells you off the back of his truck.

New comment by qq66 in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

qq66 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:43:23 +0000

Why does it have to work long term? Claude Code probably built it in 2 hours. Sell it for as long as it works. If it provides some value to some people during that time, good for them.

New comment by qq66 in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

qq66 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:42:30 +0000

Isn't making it a subscription more honest? Don't pay an outright price for this, just pay monthly until it stops working

New comment by qq66 in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

qq66 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:55:58 +0000

That's an unreleased product in closed beta. Might not any name conflict with some unreleased product in closed beta?

New comment by qq66 in "Personal Encyclopedias"

qq66 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:09:24 +0000

He put many of the photographs right there in his blog post - he obviously does not see them as secrets

New comment by qq66 in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

qq66 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:17:15 +0000

I entered the prompt:

> Write me a stanza in the style of "The Raven" about Dick Cheney on a first date with Queen Elizabeth I facilitated by a Time Travel Machine invented by Lin-Manuel Miranda

It outputted a group of characters that I can virtually guarantee you it has never seen before on its own

New comment by qq66 in "LLMs can be exhausting"

qq66 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:15:53 +0000

I mean, you could make that judgment in some cases, but clearly not all. If you use AI to ship 20 additional features but accidentally delete your production database you definitely have not come out ahead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1m4lqvh/replit_ai_w...