Hacker News: righthand

New comment by righthand in "Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust"

righthand — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:05:48 +0000

Sure it is useful, the bitching is canary in the shit software mine. How do you know the software isnt shit if the Readme is shit?

New comment by righthand in "The Amazon tax"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:45:21 +0000

I havent bought anything on Amazon for 10 years. Sure the local prices are infrequently higher but with 20%+ inflation over the last half decade comparison shopping is pretty much dead. Glad to support my local places or find an alternative or just live without whatever.

New comment by righthand in "Who owns the code? AI code == no author == no copyright"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:06:11 +0000

Well gee golly is it a tool for the author or not? When’s it’s in their favor of 10000x performance increase or some kind of notoriety it’s “I built this!” when it’s time for responsibility it’s “the machine did this”.

New comment by righthand in "Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:30:09 +0000

The "...aaaand it's gone" meme now applies to tokens and money at the same time. Clever AI future we live in!

New comment by righthand in "Finger: Social network that never died"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:18:42 +0000

All of this is addressed in the article. The protocol doesn’t address this stuff because it’s meaningless in the context of the protocol. If you want the extra features then there are other protocols and social networks.

Also if you wanted a .plan for different people you would code your own server as in the article and tie it to a different “user”. The original server ties .plan files to username home dirs but there’s nothing stopping you from changing how that effectively works on your own server.

New comment by righthand in "An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:52:29 +0000

> even though the system had existed the whole time.

But it didn't. Isn't that the point of someone inventing it? If the system existed the whole time then it would most likely be much more realized.

Also people don't use this system because 99% of people don't right things down in tables. I know not many people hand write things anymore but even typing up ingredient lists on a machine I don't begin by creating a table.

Also this article format of numbered tweet responses as images is just terrible. What am I reading Buzzfeed? I had to stop reading.

Also isn't "viral" 100k or more? Not 10's of thousands? This is a clickbait article. But it brings up a bigger question: why claim that something is viral with 100,000+ views/likes/shares/responses/whatever when we know damn well Twitter is full of bots?

New comment by righthand in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:29:26 +0000

The evolution of low effort copy+paste LLM response. Now Google can track everyone who wants that information and people can be just as rude as before when they copy+pasted LLM responses into conversations, but now it's sly.

New comment by righthand in "Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:30:19 +0000

There were Nazi practicing/voting Jews. One is a political party, another is an ethnicity. It's definitely possible.

New comment by righthand in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

righthand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:49:48 +0000

If you want to be tagged and tracked in that way then there is no better platform than Google services for sure.

Ask HN: Svbtle Nudges?

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:15:10 +0000

I have a dormant blog on Svbtle which I unpublished all the posts years ago. Today I received this email from them:

> Hey ,

> Someone has nudged you to post on Svbtle. Write something!

> https://svbtle.com

> If you need anything at all, just respond to this email.

> — Svbtle

Who nudged me? Svbtle automated reminders? I don't even see a nudge button on Svbtle blogs generally. It's not like Svbtle has "follow/subscribe" functionality or a list of content they host. The only thing that remotely comes close is the Kudos button which is not available on my blog because there are no posts. I don't even have the domain redirecting correctly (if you were to visit .svbtle.com it would try to redirect to the FQDN I setup previous which isn't pointed at Svbtle currently). Is anyone familiar with this feature or is it just marketing?

What a weird thing to do for a site that seems opposed to that type of thing at least functionally.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338991

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New comment by righthand in "Incident with Github.com"

righthand — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:59:47 +0000

No but it demonstrates a disinterest in building software products and a bigger interest in playing business cost economics and securing their moat. Part of their strategy to force as much money into AI-hype as possible.

New comment by righthand in "David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post"

righthand — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:56:36 +0000

https://xcancel.com/DavidSacks/status/2089227290769080656

New comment by righthand in "The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]"

righthand — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:22:11 +0000

Contracted out like the healthcare.gov original launch fiasco for the AHCA?

New comment by righthand in "Claude: System Prompts"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:44:12 +0000

Language forums (ocaml for example).

New comment by righthand in "Asus Bike Booster"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:53:00 +0000

The majority of ebikes people are riding are going to be pedal assist bikes like Citibike ebikes. It is very clear to me that you do not want to acknowledge the substantial decline in health benefits with ebikes compared to standard bikes and do not fully understand that while convenient for longer distances they are slightly less healthy than walking. But okay continue to claim that I’m ignorant of the magic of ebikes. Typical “you just don’t get it” response when pointing out obvious falsehoods. I’m glad you found something that gets you around and isnt a car and does give you a bit of healthy benefits as well (heavy emphasis on ‘a bit’). Maybe I’m being aggressive but I’m hardly wrong or lacking understanding.

New comment by righthand in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:37:44 +0000

Do you need that analysis every time from an LLM? Those are things I’d expect anyone to grow out of pretty quickly once you get used to understanding code. Especially someone with Senior in their title.

New comment by righthand in "Asus Bike Booster"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:24:27 +0000

Not only does it remove the steepness and length, it removes practically any physical benefit you get from using a bike. As is stated in my original point.

New comment by righthand in "Asus Bike Booster"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:23:10 +0000

I have ridden a pedal assist ebike and the amount of push I apply to a pedal is 100x less effort than I would to a standard bike. There is no way the physical benefits are remotely the same. Good for you for avoiding exercise though. Also I live in Brooklyn with plenty of long hills. I also have plenty of friends with ebikes here who swear by them like you do. They struggle with health issues related to physical activity. Obviously having some sort of engine, pedal-assist or not is convenient but do you really understand the cost. You might as well drive and move the non-gas pedal foot up and down for the same benefit.

New comment by righthand in "Asus Bike Booster"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:19:44 +0000

How can they be the same? One requires much more physical effort. That sounds like junk science. Perhaps they are similar type of gain but the difference in actual result must be a canyon wide.

New comment by righthand in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

righthand — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:11:20 +0000

Unrelated but:

Firefox on iOS has a terrible problem with its autocomplete (I think they replaced the algo with a janky Llm-style autocomplete). When I type “news” into the url bar, it will suggest one of it’s marketing partners (or whatever) but incorrectly such as: newsyorker.com

I dont ever visit The New Yorker but even after clearing caches and site data the problem still persists. I can delete the app and the problem goes away for a short while.

I left a review on the App Store about this and the person (bot?) they hire to respond to reviews asks me to open a ticket. No! How about you port my review over as a ticket and fix your damn software.