Hacker News: quietfox

New comment by quietfox in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

quietfox — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:18:04 +0000

Oh this is that this was called. A long time ago, like in Googles earlier stages, I tried so hard to find this from my memory, but I failed and over the years forgot about it. Thanks for bringing it up again.

New comment by quietfox in "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"

quietfox — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:40:27 +0000

I'll be honest, I read "Google de-indexed my Bear Blog" and was looking forward to discovering an interesting blog about bears.

New comment by quietfox in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

quietfox — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:05:10 +0000

That's interesting. I think besides the hard facts (like numnber of possible tokens before throtteling happens) the perceived quality differs from use case to use case. In that sense, ChatGPT is my daily driver, in terms of helping with coding problems or debugging Claude feels far superior to me. And when it comes to ideation and creativity (product idea validation, etc.) Gemini surpasses both of the other in my opinion.

New comment by quietfox in "Roc Camera"

quietfox — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:13:16 +0000

I really need to get back to that mindset. I keep catching myself unconsciously checking my hobbies and abilities for marketability. I've been playing guitar for almost three decades, one of them spent in a touring metal band. When I started, I used to enjoy making music so much that I played and composed so often an album would just come together naturally. And then another one and another one, I just couldn't stop. These days, I no longer sit down to play just for myself and the moment — instead, I catch myself thinking, “Can I sell sample packs from this? Record a course? Should I code a VST plugin for it and sell that?” And after weeks of moments like this, all I have are three random riffs and frustration.

New comment by quietfox in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

quietfox — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:10:42 +0000

I'm a Discord user myself, in private as well in job context. But we all have been here long enough to know that the only reliable constant is change.

New comment by quietfox in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

quietfox — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:17:43 +0000

"The text disappears..." And my eyesight with it

New comment by quietfox in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

quietfox — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:16:16 +0000

Let's revisit this assessment in a few years.

New comment by quietfox in "DOOMscrolling: The Game"

quietfox — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:52:44 +0000

Wow, that was stressful, good job!

New comment by quietfox in "Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking"

quietfox — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:39:37 +0000

It worked for me in Safari for a while, but then the entire browser stopped working.

New comment by quietfox in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

quietfox — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:21:13 +0000

It seems to try to check if you are using the Burp Suite on their web application.

New comment by quietfox in "Show HN: I made an online financial modeling platform for stocks"

quietfox — Fri, 03 May 2024 19:21:35 +0000

Congratulations on launching your first product. Which stock markets does it cover? I wasn't able to look up BMW or adidas for example.

New comment by quietfox in "Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo"

quietfox — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:02:41 +0000

Scalability and ease of use are the scary factors here. The barriers to getting involved with geoguessing were certainly a threshold for some people with bad intentions. These have now been removed or are considerably lower.

New comment by quietfox in "Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo"

quietfox — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:00:27 +0000

Investigative journalism like the OSINT based researches conducted by bellingcat would be one example, as long as the AI results get doublechecked for accuracy.

New comment by quietfox in "AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store"

quietfox — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:40:40 +0000

I subscribed some days ago, but still can’t get the download to work, even in Safari as suggested.