Hacker News: stck

New comment by stck in "Google changes its search box"

stck — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:25:32 +0000

Probably after the Algorithm adds its own custom tailored preference weighing to the HN submissions and meaningfully summarizes the discussion.

New comment by stck in "Google changes its search box"

stck — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:24:18 +0000

LLM agent is the new browser.

We had internet before we had browsers, then the browser took over as the main method of consuming the internet. It has a lot of problems and e.g. mobile apps are trying to fill the void, but they have their own problems. Next stage is the personal assistant agent, which will be the single entry point to the internet.

New comment by stck in "GenCAD"

stck — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:28 +0000

If you can just take a pencil and draw a piece of furniture, press a button and get a semi-decent CAD drawing to tweak, that'd be a huge tool for carpenters and such.

New comment by stck in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

stck — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:35:04 +0000

I don't get it. It shows the intro paragraph of some articles in card list and that's it? Clicking the card takes you away from the feed, instead of creating e.g. some kind of a path of interest.

New comment by stck in "Valeant Sold Some Drugs Twice"

stck — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:04:56 +0000

Did you short them?

New comment by stck in "Show HN: Kevlar.io – Secrets that when accessed are deleted permanently"

stck — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:48:12 +0000

Tell your friend to store only an encrypted version of the message on their server and add the encryption key to the message url as a hash. Decrypt it in the browser for the reader.

Sending unencrypted text over http isn't what I'd choose for my top secret messages.

New comment by stck in "Linus as one of the top 14% most vulgar users on GitHub"

stck — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:13:15 +0000

mick is not on the list of recognized swear words: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/master/ghdata/static/swears...

New comment by stck in "Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine"

stck — Fri, 03 May 2013 05:55:43 +0000

Do you mean there's a need for https://wefunder.com/ ?

New comment by stck in " Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit"

stck — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:59:12 +0000

Where does the fact numbering come from?

Q1 - universe

Q2 - Earth

Q3 - life

...

Q24 - Jack Bauer

...

Q76 - Barack Obama

New comment by stck in "Just before Xmas - Holidize My Logo"

stck — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:10:37 +0000

Needs more automagic and a possibility to give urls (instead of file upload).

New comment by stck in "A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax and very few features"

stck — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:56:12 +0000

There's an explanation for everything: http://www.quora.com/Javelin-JavaScript-framework/best_quest...

New comment by stck in "Portable sunshine: Earbuds that shine light into your ears"

stck — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:51:09 +0000

At least there's a lot of pretty graphs on their website: http://www.valkee.com/uk/science.html#evidence

New comment by stck in "This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach"

stck — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:22:27 +0000

That's an interesting way to see taxation: as a possibility for a group of people to purchase something that otherwise would go unpurchased.

"sharing the value of common resources through taxation and public expenditure" is a related article: http://www.feasta.org/documents/feastareview/robertson.htm

New comment by stck in "In what language do deaf people think?"

stck — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:49:07 +0000

Drawbacks? The difference could also be positive. Think of toki pona, an artificial language with only 123 words and their compounds.

http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/What_is_Toki_Pona%3F

When you see a bug, you a bug, whether it's a cockroach or a spider. Thinking becomes clearer and simpler (or so they say).

New comment by stck in "[dead]"

stck — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:22:02 +0000

The difficult trick is learning how to actually take a break from HN && reddit.

New comment by stck in "Diaspora's Proposed Social Media Model"

stck — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:10:38 +0000

If this is enough details for raising $200,000 there's something seriously wrong with investors.

New comment by stck in "Ask HN: I sold my company last month for $5m. What do I do with the money?"

stck — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:07:11 +0000

Travel to Las Vegas and play roulette. Place one million dollars on number 17 and create a memory you'll never forget.

New comment by stck in "Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function"

stck — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:06:03 +0000

All we now need is a system for harvesting those geniuses. Who knows how many Srinivasa Ramanujans the world has lost.

New comment by stck in "Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function"

stck — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:01:26 +0000

That's roughly 38 square meters per person. For the most dense city, that's plenty of space.

New comment by stck in "I hate installers"

stck — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:14:07 +0000

Installing things is the single greatest improvement when switching to a modern Linux distribution. Click, click, done.