Hacker News: rkapsoro

New comment by rkapsoro in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

rkapsoro — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:49:37 +0000

Argh. I was really excited for this. I'm a YouTube Premium user, and I get a lot of value from YouTube, but I can't get rid of the nicotine-tastic home feed and shorts. I go to YouTube for useful (especially, long-form) stuff, and get sucked into garbage.

On desktop you can manage this with extensions. Not so much on mobile.

Profound product misalignment.

New comment by rkapsoro in "I quit. The clankers won"

rkapsoro — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:34:38 +0000

I think you're agreeing with him. All of the things you just listed are key senior developer skills.

New comment by rkapsoro in "Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model"

rkapsoro — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:58:42 +0000

I say, those chat logs read like Wodehouse.

New comment by rkapsoro in "A Eulogy for Vim"

rkapsoro — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:37:59 +0000

I'm sure certain people accustomed to hand assembly were saying this when compilers emerged on the scene.

New comment by rkapsoro in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

rkapsoro — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:12:23 +0000

> The plate reader company touts “Accurate residency verification does more than protect the financial health of public schools—it safeguards the trust and equity at the heart of public education.”

There is so much wrong with that sentence it boggles the imagination.

New comment by rkapsoro in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

rkapsoro — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:15:47 +0000

Wait until you hear what kind of vehicles the CAFE regulatory framework has incentivized US automakers to build.

New comment by rkapsoro in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

rkapsoro — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:32:26 +0000

There is one use case that is brilliant: comedy and meme videos.

Bigfoot comes to mind.

New comment by rkapsoro in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

rkapsoro — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:17:39 +0000

This is the wrong attitude to take to the problem.

While I grant there were many who were disposed to be irrational skeptics, lots of skepticism was generated by dishonest messaging, coercive mandates, and punitive limitations on dissenting speech. Institutions took an end-justifies-the-means strategy, and many smelled a rat.

Even now, online, you see right wing users continuing to lament over vaccine injuries, and on the left, long COVID. Ironically the injuries are often similar. They are, of course, both right.

New comment by rkapsoro in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

rkapsoro — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:58:58 +0000

fwiw I've noticed that Omarchy[1] uses some terminal-based screensavers, using something called tte[2] to do so.

1: https://omarchy.org/

2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

New comment by rkapsoro in "The Swift SDK for Android"

rkapsoro — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:22:16 +0000

They didn't port SwiftUI to windows; they wrote a Swift wrapper for WinUI. Impressive in its own right, but not SwiftUI.

New comment by rkapsoro in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

rkapsoro — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:46:42 +0000

Timely sponsorship, downloading the Omarchy 3 ISO last week sat at about 600 KiB/s. Appreciated!

New comment by rkapsoro in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

rkapsoro — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:57:37 +0000

The use case I always think of is the developer experience for regular hobbyist and workaday devs writing their apps with local-first sync.

Apple comes close with CloudKit, in that it takes the backend service and makes it generic, basically making it an OS platform API, backed by Apple's own cloud. Basically cloud and app decoupled. But, the fundamental issue remains, in that it's proprietary and only available on Apple devices.

An open source Firebase/CloudKit-like storage API that requires no cloud service, works by p2p sync, with awesome DX that is friendly to regular developers, would be the holy grail for this one.

Dealing with eventually consistent data models is not so unusual these days, even for devs working on traditional cloud SAAS systems, since clouds are distributed systems themselves.

I would be very happy to see such a thing built on top of Iroh (a p2p network layer, with all the NAT hole punching, tunnelling and addressing solved for you) for example, with great mobile-first support. https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh

New comment by rkapsoro in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

rkapsoro — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:31:26 +0000

This seems equivalent to Notarization on macOS. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...

New comment by rkapsoro in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

rkapsoro — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:39:49 +0000

Something like 15 years ago I once went to a Less Wrong/Overcoming Bias meetup in my town after being a reader of Yudkowsky's blog for some years. I was like, Bayesian Conspiracy, cool, right?

The group was weird and involved quite a lot of creepy oversharing. I didn't return.

New comment by rkapsoro in "The Epochalypse Project"

rkapsoro — Sun, 11 May 2025 14:49:35 +0000

I've been planning for decades to have a party on that day.

Only 13 years left!

New comment by rkapsoro in "Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine"

rkapsoro — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:17:33 +0000

https://startingstrength.com/get-started

New comment by rkapsoro in "Air quality reporting on iOS"

rkapsoro — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:04:41 +0000

Yeah, I've noticed this too.

It looks like the air quality models that iOS Weather is using are integrated into a single system, and then that system is asked to render maps in any of the different regions' AQI systems.

Which means, as OP has observed, if you open the map from one region, and then navigate the map viewer to another region, you can see how the AQI scoring system from the first region would evaluate the second. Which is rather interesting.

Also fwiw I've reckoned that these AQI models are clearly highly algorithmic, extrapolating and synthesizing data where sensors are not available.

New comment by rkapsoro in "OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March"

rkapsoro — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:59:45 +0000

Perhaps the evolution of this story is an interesting example of confirmation bias?

New comment by rkapsoro in "DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS"

rkapsoro — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:53:36 +0000

Man. The filesystem and disk features look particularly awesome. I would have definitely got mileage out of it back in those days. Alas!

New comment by rkapsoro in "DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS"

rkapsoro — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:51:42 +0000

This was my first (tiny) taste of a non-MS-DOS/Windows environment for PC.

Back in middle school, circa 1997 or 98, with the tiny scraps of time I could get on an Internet connection with a web browser, I ended up using Infoseek (or similar) to look for software I could run on my 486 at home. Amusingly, I think this was on a Mac.

One of the first things I found was Desktop2, but alas I never got it to run because the installer I downloaded ended up corrupted. Probably on account of using the Mac to download it and save it on a floppy (probably using the PC Exchange Mac extension?)

Never actually saw the thing run until I YouTube'd it more than 20 years later.

Shame I never got it to run - it looks like it actually would have been pretty useful and interesting.

Not long after I found FreeBSD, got dialup at home, and embarked on a project to download and run that.