Hacker News: saintfire

New comment by saintfire in "Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits"

saintfire — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:57:26 +0000

Ah you're right, my brain totally skipped over that sentence.

New comment by saintfire in "Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits"

saintfire — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:33:30 +0000

I intend to try this out later in the week, but are you aware ncspot exists?

I've been using it for a few years now and it solves similar issues, using librespot as well. Never had an issue with rate limiting and such. I do have issues where Spotify breaks the client all the time, which I'd imagine this suffers from as well.

New comment by saintfire in "I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change on video"

saintfire — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:14:34 +0000

Quoting a Kai Lentit video as Dario Amodei changing his mind on regulation is peak slop.

Cool idea, I guess, but its just more slop to track the slop.

New comment by saintfire in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

saintfire — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:58:06 +0000

Google maps makes money through its API as well as accepting sponsored results to appear before correct results.

I'd agree you have a choice with 3rd party stores but they're working on limiting/killing those tiny markets, already.

New comment by saintfire in "Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server"

saintfire — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:09:53 +0000

Or... Just buy indie games. They're usually better and not a law firm with a small games company attached.

New comment by saintfire in "Anthropic is in regulatory-capture financial loop"

saintfire — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:44:13 +0000

Really is for the best.

XCancel is a nice QOL but sends the message that using Twitter is fine. The more people that give up at the login screen the better.

New comment by saintfire in "Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them"

saintfire — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:43:34 +0000

Well I knew someone who did this ritual and they would send black photos of their leg so close to the camera. So I'd imagine nothing and its classic number go up social media.

New comment by saintfire in "The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway"

saintfire — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:37:18 +0000

What's going on in mechanical? Given this is based on the show that's painfully wrong. The generator seems to be in the wrong place AND the drill is upside down and an alien shuttle.

The scale of the silo is pretty cool to see, though.

New comment by saintfire in "I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user"

saintfire — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:54:51 +0000

Or when slop wastes everyone's time with nearly every submission, which is now.

New comment by saintfire in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

saintfire — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:57:37 +0000

In a linked article it said something like 77% of cases were deliberate consumption of mad honey for thereputic qualities.

New comment by saintfire in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

saintfire — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:05:02 +0000

Popping into a TUI from an existing terminal session to quickly do something without lifting my hand is the only reason I use and prefer a TUI.

If I have to open a browser which has, frankly mediocre, kb nav, then I'd rather it just be a GUI.

I guess I'm a browser detractor, though, because unless its a webserver used for quick configs then I dread using them.

New comment by saintfire in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

saintfire — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:53:30 +0000

The best thing about fibre rollout in my region is that the ONT appears to act as the modem so I don't need to set the modem/router into bridge mode any more.

I'm sure that'll end.

New comment by saintfire in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

saintfire — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:36:01 +0000

Assuming you mean RCS, to which Google built a proprietary E2EE extension, remains the only client with no API to build off of and if I recall requires play attestation.

Hardly a complete solution, it devolved into a Google power grab, in my opinion.

For once I half agree with apple when they say its less secure, as apple-to-google comms are not E2EE like they are for google-to-google. While that is fixable with a hack its still a hack, not part of the protocol.

New comment by saintfire in "VoxWork: Anonymous employer reviews before accepting a job offer"

saintfire — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:48:58 +0000

So it costs money per company and users submitting have no incentives? There's no network effect like the honestly terrible glassdoor.

Vague notions of moderation filtering "disgruntled employees" and HR teams. How is that proposed to work?

How do you separate a genuine 2 star review between a 2 star review of someone who got fired with cause. How do you filter HR teams without undue burdon on volunteered info from former/current employees.

Etc.. Etc..

New comment by saintfire in "AdNauseam – Clicking ads so you don't have to"

saintfire — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:00:14 +0000

Not to speak to the effectiveness, but I think the idea is to discredit advertising by invalidating the concept of paying for clicks.

New comment by saintfire in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

saintfire — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:13:44 +0000

To be fair, equipment is pretty enjoyable to run, especially if you aren't burned out of it as a job.

I miss running an excavator, all the time.

New comment by saintfire in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

saintfire — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:56:29 +0000

This was the real riddle all along.

New comment by saintfire in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"

saintfire — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:52:12 +0000

Nah, everyone I know isn't a fan of discord's UI.

I stand to gain nothing and I don't even think it's popular sentiment.

For a new user it's completely alien. Trying to get a coworker to try discord for the first time is a nightmare.

It tries to solve so much in such a condensed bar on the side. Why are DM listed "as" a server. I hate the notification system for transient server joins. I have no opinion of the channel system. Why can't you read discord threads of a public discord without joining the server and accepting the posting rules? They're trying to emulate forums but it's a huge PITA to just read (in a RO state, even).

Idk lots of complaints, network effect is a bitch.

New comment by saintfire in "TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access"

saintfire — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:04:55 +0000

How is that true if:

This project is not associated with Tailscale Inc.

However, one of the active maintainers for Headscale is employed by Tailscale and he is allowed to spend work hours contributing to the project. Contributions from this maintainer are reviewed by other maintainers.

New comment by saintfire in "A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]"

saintfire — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:00:09 +0000

I read that exact preface on his site before learning and adopting it (the secure knot, specifically, but the preface is on both).

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknottech.htm