Hacker News: saratogacx

New comment by saratogacx in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

saratogacx — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:07:07 +0000

Yes, I use that on my Shield(s) and my Xiaomi android TV boxes (4 in total). It can completely take over the home screen and you can strip everything out of it so it is just a list of exactly what you want to have available.

New comment by saratogacx in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

saratogacx — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:15:40 +0000

You may need to adjust your stack depending on the caliber of problem you're dealing with.

New comment by saratogacx in "Claude Duet"

saratogacx — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:19:31 +0000

Honestly, pretty high. Tech savvy users know how to do a lot of these things on our own and even to ask doesn't occur to us. The most creative users are those who are unaware of the limitations and will just try stuff.

New comment by saratogacx in "Claude Duet"

saratogacx — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:20:41 +0000

It really isn't that novel of an application. *claw and hermes have been around for some months, some Chinese providers offered this (minimax has on-demand hosted while z.ai has autoClaw BYOC). This just tosses it into a VM with some built in tools to do typical things. Perplexity computer has been around for almost a year and is similar.

This is just the big US guys fighting for attention (It is all you need after all)

New comment by saratogacx in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

saratogacx — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:44:57 +0000

I don't think it is the z.ai subscription that offers other models (at least I don't see any on mine). The Qwen token plan has a lot of chinese models including GLM and Deepseek and will probably be the one I use once my z.ai sub gets near the end.

New comment by saratogacx in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

saratogacx — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:06:00 +0000

As part of all the work being done I really hope the sidebar gets more user control. There is a bunch of stuff that I don't intend to use myself but take up first class space (designer is always there, I never need to bring up artifacts, etc). I'd like to reduce the sidebar to what I use most often.

Specifically around the work UX. Trying to bring up scheduled tasks is really painful and required a lot of clicking around instead of just seeing the task results under my project. I hope this is being looked at.

Lastly, and this is a real nit. Let me turn off the "tips" when stuff is being worked on. I'm already paying, you don't need to force a rotating feature advertisement into the interface.

New comment by saratogacx in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

saratogacx — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:53:31 +0000

On mobile, uBO has been able to get around the "use our app" block. It took a week or two for the filters to get updated but now it is a non-issue. Tested in Firefox and Vivaldi on Android.

New comment by saratogacx in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

saratogacx — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:36:39 +0000

When I tried OpenClaw it quickly turned into a lethargic mess which I really didn't see myself wanting to maintain long term. I looked at other alternatives which were similar enough to do what I was looking for (mostly scheduled tasks using data on my computer and some API data). I saw a mention of nanoclaw which I looked at but didn't try personally. I eventually settled on trying picoclaw[1] because it was extremely small, fast, and had enough features to do the job for me. It is under 10mb, fairly straight forward go codebase, and works with multiple model providers or locally hosted.

1 https://picoclaw.io/

New comment by saratogacx in "“It works better in the app”"

saratogacx — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:25:58 +0000

My android phone will put apps into "deep sleep" and remove all their permissions if I haven't opened it in a month or so. I just toss travel apps into a folder in my launcher and they are there if I need them but become just a consumer of drive space on their own.

New comment by saratogacx in "The turbulent AI era is here"

saratogacx — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:35:43 +0000

We have also seen this play out with WFH/Covid. The recall into centralized structures, regardless of the technology available to mitigate the need, was fast and broadly applied.

Our current social structure is actively resistant to decentralization and I don't see that changing unless there is some forcing function to break that hold and keep it broken for new norms to settle into expectations.

New comment by saratogacx in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

saratogacx — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:25:14 +0000

> No, they haven't figured out anything. Just vibe coding it with their bleeding dege models.

I'm sure you were saying "bleeding edge" but my first impression was to translate dege to mean degen/degenerate which made this so much more fun to read.

New comment by saratogacx in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

saratogacx — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:59:04 +0000

Samsung's 1 hand mode doesn't just shift the UI down, it downscales it to the left or right (swappable with a tap) so, for example, on my S24Ulta my one thumb can reach the entire screen height and width.

New comment by saratogacx in "Introducing Toast 1"

saratogacx — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:40:52 +0000

Looking through your blog it is very much keeping the brand baked in. It would be a nice little nod to toss a couple sentences about the branding on the about page or somewhere so if someone wants to know how you came to it they can. Leaving it to "wink, nod, inside joke you'll never know" is a bit off-putting when you are building a brand around the theme. It also makes it more memorable for those that read the blurb.

New comment by saratogacx in "Anime User Interfaces"

saratogacx — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:29:46 +0000

Right now I see you are 11 of 34 comments on this post and all follow this same dismissive tone. Lighten up and let people enjoy stuff.

New comment by saratogacx in "Claude Opus 5"

saratogacx — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:20:17 +0000

My understanding is that you get $20 in api credits each month and a one time $100 until mid September. So you can still use the model with a subscription but you aren't getting any kind of discount.

I burned through $45 in 3 prompts to fix some bugs in my code (Some kind of tricky to isolate). That thing burns through cash so fast I don't see myself using it outside of maybe building execution plans for other systems

New comment by saratogacx in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

saratogacx — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:05:17 +0000

I think it depends on how you use it. All things in moderation and all. I've had one for years but when I set it up it only allowed it a few notifications. When meetings start during my work day, getting e-mail to my personal account, and when I get messages from my wife, that's it.

So when I'm not working the watch is... just a watch.

New comment by saratogacx in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

saratogacx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:56:04 +0000

You don't need to put in a lot of effort to convince people that creepy, deceitful, generally unlikable, rich folks are doing things you won't like and are lying to get away with it.

New comment by saratogacx in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

saratogacx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:19:21 +0000

> That's the most annoying thing about password managers, and a major reason I still don't use them: there exists no password manager that is cross-platform (desktop/mobile in particular), local-first, and isn't sketchy or enshittified or otherwise on HN's current "don't use it, use instead" list.

I had the same frustration, I ended up with Keepass, the store is a open spec db[0] that has several clients, I use it across windows, android, and Linux without any issue and just sync with your favorite file sync tool.

0 - https://keepass.info/help/kb/kdbx.html

New comment by saratogacx in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

saratogacx — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:30:59 +0000

The thing about PC though is that there is no exclusivity. Steam built an extremely well respected brand but if that were to turn, the moat is shallow, install a competing client and buy games from there instead. The only internal competition for consoles is digital or physical retail (Or I guess buying game codes could be pseudo-digital).

New comment by saratogacx in "Grok Build is open source"

saratogacx — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:34:46 +0000

It has had one for months. The desktop app has a "code" mode which is Claude Code in GUI form