Hacker News: skoskie

New comment by skoskie in "Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)"

skoskie — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:57:26 +0000

Came here for this. I hate it too. When I make a site with dark mode, I make sure the dark color loads by default and then changes to light if needed to address this specific issue.

New comment by skoskie in "California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget"

skoskie — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:26:20 +0000

I've always heard it called the Pregnancy Principle – or maybe it's just a corollary.

"Nine women cannot do in one month what one woman can do in nine months".

New comment by skoskie in "Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?"

skoskie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:19:43 +0000

That's helpful insight. My prediction is that as it keeps getting more expensive for the big players to run these models, we will start to see some kind of hybrid workload where they offload some of the work to your computer for smaller agents while keeping the orchestration and planning running in the data centers.

So I think the investment in the extra hardware is worth it, even if you don't currently plan on running LLMs locally.

New comment by skoskie in "Curious. anyone here allow agents to make purchase decisions of >$100?"

skoskie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:11:52 +0000

I don't yet know how to give it money to spend. I could give it a small crypto wallet, but few places accept that as currency. I was thinking of using one of those virtual credit card services that lets me set limits and block certain merchants. I will treat it like an intern. If it can show responsibility and reliability with small amounts then I will slowly increase its spending limit over time (and depending on the nature of the tasks it's performing).

New comment by skoskie in "Pomelli"

skoskie — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 01:08:53 +0000

There’s a video right on the landing page that shows it in use. Played fine on mobile for me.

But to answer the question, it looks a lot like a Canva competitor.

New comment by skoskie in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

skoskie — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:07:43 +0000

Thinking this through… I spent around $3500 and $4500 on my last two MBPs, but got 9 years of use out of each of them. That’s only $450/yr.

But where I used to get a new iPhone every other year, I’m now on the fourth year of my 13P and it still works great. That’s only $300/yr.

It’s interesting to think about.

New comment by skoskie in "Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership"

skoskie — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:03:55 +0000

That is not at all what they said. Your interpretation seems disingenuous.

New comment by skoskie in "Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership"

skoskie — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:01:47 +0000

This is too cute.

New comment by skoskie in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

skoskie — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:03:08 +0000

Good times. I used to fire it up, go eat breakfast, and come back just in time to see the weather forecast.

New comment by skoskie in "Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election"

skoskie — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:05:55 +0000

And in my state I needed more documentation for an ID than was required for my passport. It varies wildly.

New comment by skoskie in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

skoskie — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:37:45 +0000

That’s why we have classes and namespaces.

Anyone can write good or bad code. Avoiding new functionality and syntax won’t change that.

New comment by skoskie in "Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)"

skoskie — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:38:09 +0000

Is this not the logical result of fighting spammers? It’s easier to trust messages coming from mega corp when you know mega corp has invested in mechanisms that ensure their systems aren’t being used to send spam. I certainly don’t like the negative impact on people who choose to self host, but I also don’t see it as an intentional effort to shut out legitimate emails.

Case in point a bit further down in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43902653

New comment by skoskie in "FBI Warns iPhone, Android Users–We Want Lawful Access to All Your Encrypted Data"

skoskie — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:34:38 +0000

I’m bothered by the UK thing because beyond just the marketing, we had Tim declare that “Privacy is a human right.”

Marketing is BS, and I expect companies to screw customers and ideals (“Do no evil”) whenever it’s convenient. But I really thought Tim understood the assignment and would keep Apple on track for at least the duration of his tenure.

Now every nation knows they can pass similar laws and Apple will do nothing.

New comment by skoskie in "Prism – One Card, Endless Rewards"

skoskie — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:14:05 +0000

The idea is pretty brilliant. I hope it takes off. Good luck.

New comment by skoskie in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

skoskie — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:26:21 +0000

This product looks awesome and the mobile app looks exceptional. But if it’s not self-hosted and in some kind of standard format,you’re SOL when the company shuts down. Even though you can export your data, where are you supposed import it to?

Here are some possible alternatives: https://selfh.st/alternatives/notion/

New comment by skoskie in "Apple to Debut 'Passwords' App, in Competition with 1Password, LastPass"

skoskie — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:51:00 +0000

I still generate random passwords for the questions. I don’t like that someone who knows me well could use them to gain access to an account.

… but yes we definitely need extra fields for storing that and lots of other related data.

I’m a 1Password user and one of the features I really like is that it saves ALL of the fields from a signup form along with the password. That has saved me a couple of times where I needed to know some value I had entered at the time I created an account.

New comment by skoskie in "Google's Bard hallucinates that it was trained on Gmail"

skoskie — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:25:30 +0000

Google responded to this: https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/16382985371956019...

New comment by skoskie in "Drupal Is Dying"

skoskie — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:56:59 +0000

Since Guttenberg WP has become a complete mess and most devs I know are migrating away from it. It’s definitely on the chopping block.

New comment by skoskie in "Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud"

skoskie — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:44:21 +0000

Enter team C, the US government.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/senate-judiciary-commi...

New comment by skoskie in "Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud"

skoskie — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:30:46 +0000

The slippery slope argument is no doubt a valid one. But Apple specifically implemented (almost) the CSAM scanning after being threatened by multiple politicians - notably Lindsey Graham - that if they didn’t find a solution that they would legislate a backdoor into the OS for law enforcement. I think Apple was doing everything they could to appease the demand without actually violating users’ privacy. While it’s clear they failed to please end users, the solution itself was pretty ingenious.

Edit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/senate-judiciary-commi...