Hacker News: qwertox

New comment by qwertox in "Veracrypt project update"

qwertox — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:42:51 +0000

~2015, "DevShare". They wrapped open-source software downloads with opt-out adware and PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), without the original developers' consent in some cases. They took over abandoned/unmaintained projects (like GIMP for Windows, VLC, etc.) and replaced the original download with their adware-wrapped version.

New comment by qwertox in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

qwertox — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:52:43 +0000

Maybe that will force the companies to not be allowed to just lock you out of the account.

New comment by qwertox in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

qwertox — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:46:25 +0000

> Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens.

What he said was that if he's paying 500,000 for an engineer, he expects that engineer to spend at least 250,000 in tokens, to get the most out of those $500,000.

Basically that it would be counterproductive to hire a top tier engineer and restrict his token usage to let's say $200 or $500 a month.

I think he's right on this.

New comment by qwertox in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

qwertox — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:55:15 +0000

This is very likely not true.

At a loss for words? Gen Z is outsourcing the hard conversations to AI

qwertox — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:54:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/health/gen-z-ai-conversations-wellness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298317

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine

qwertox — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290676

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by qwertox in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

qwertox — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:56:25 +0000

The use of thermal paper was surprising. Great idea, indeed.

New comment by qwertox in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

qwertox — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:33:08 +0000

@sama's did say: "[..] will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control". Law is what Trump decides.

New comment by qwertox in "Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction"

qwertox — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:50:55 +0000

> Putting a fake case report on GitHub wouldn't make it any less fake.

Much easier to review for whomever wants to review it.

New comment by qwertox in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

qwertox — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:14:52 +0000

"unstructured word slop markdown"

Where's the issue? In this case there's no difference between a structured markdown and a structured JSON document for an LLM.

What's wrong with a nutrient table in markdown?

New comment by qwertox in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

qwertox — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:12:48 +0000

How does my chatbot use the API if not through MCP?

New comment by qwertox in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

qwertox — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:06:31 +0000

I want my local dm shop to offer me their product info as copyable markdown, ingredient list, and other health related information. This could be a way to automate it.

New comment by qwertox in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

qwertox — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:57:47 +0000

> will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control

That says it all. Those laws get issued the same way the tariffs did.

New comment by qwertox in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

qwertox — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:54:38 +0000

Then reject any offer from the DoW until things are fair.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sam sucked up 100% to the DoW with an NDA and an obligation to lie. He and his pal Larry are absolutely in for these kind of deals. Zero moral compass.

New comment by qwertox in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

qwertox — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:20:11 +0000

Keep your user prefs minimal and use project memory instead: create a new project, it will only have access to your user prefs, everything else is fresh.

New comment by qwertox in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

qwertox — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:46:36 +0000

Yes, but just because it has version history doesn't mean it is closer to git than to Postgres. You can also do versioning in Postgres. You can even search more easily in the history.

New comment by qwertox in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

qwertox — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:42:10 +0000

It also won't replace Postgres, because that is also a different thing.

New comment by qwertox in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

qwertox — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:48:36 +0000

> The president of peace btw.

Europe is to blame, according to him.

New comment by qwertox in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

qwertox — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:12:40 +0000

Last time i pressed the button to delete all my chats it behaved odd afterwards, then all chats where there again. Just saying.

New comment by qwertox in "Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration"

qwertox — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:43:33 +0000

I was also impressed with Handy.

I played around with it this week, and when you enable advanced mode and add a post-transcription AI model to point to your own server which mimics a minimal ChatGPT-compatible behavior, then you can use it to modify the output, even return an empty string if you noticed that the transcript was more targeted to do other stuff ("turn the lights on"), if you then return an empty string, it won't inject keypresses.

So one gets the best for both worlds: transcription for dictation and transcription to trigger events.

If I now only could let it listen constantly and react to voice, so that no push to talk is active, that would be nice.

Maybe this project here could be used for that.

Also, this seems to support streaming transcription.