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New comment by stevenkkim in "Arguing with Agents"

stevenkkim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:16:36 +0000

"Broetry" See: https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...

New comment by stevenkkim in "The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics"

stevenkkim — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:18:12 +0000

AltTab works well for me on macOS https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

New comment by stevenkkim in "Most websites don't need cookie consent banners"

stevenkkim — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:12:54 +0000

GA is free while Fathom and Plausible are not. I think that's the main reason why GA is so popular and therefore why most sites need cookie consent banners.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Amazon's dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets"

stevenkkim — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:14:27 +0000

I wonder if Amazon's differing pricing by region is just an Amazon business problem or whether it applies to regular consumers as well. If the latter is the case, how does camelcamelcamel.com keep track of pricing?

Amazon's dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets

stevenkkim — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:14:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/838491/amazon-dynamic-pricing-school-supplies-islr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152370

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by stevenkkim in "Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions"

stevenkkim — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:19:06 +0000

I suspect Dropbox doesn't care about b2c customers anymore... only b2b

New comment by stevenkkim in "Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions"

stevenkkim — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:37:55 +0000

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's in the cloud and not local. Still useless to me.

I use AI all the time when coding (very useful) and ChatGPT in general is also very useful. Never found Windows co-pilot or Office co-pilot useful for anything.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions"

stevenkkim — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:33:29 +0000

Yes, here's the email. No mention of the $99 no-AI option.

Thank you for being a valued Microsoft 365 subscriber. To reflect the value we’ve added over the past decade, address rising costs, and enable us to continue delivering new innovations, we’re increasing the price of your subscription.

Effective February 14, 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase from USD 99.99* per year to USD 129.99* per year. To continue with the new price, no action is needed—your payment method on file will be automatically charged. To make changes to your subscription plan or turn off recurring billing, visit your Microsoft account at least two days before your next billing date.

By maintaining your subscription, you’ll enjoy secure cloud storage, advanced security for your data and devices, and cutting-edge AI-powered features, along with all your other subscription benefits. Thank you for choosing Microsoft.

Learn more about how to manage your subscription, including how to cancel and switch your subscription.

* Subscription prices listed do not include any discounts, promotions, or special offers that may be available.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions"

stevenkkim — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:28:26 +0000

This happened to me in the U.S. too. Family plan went from $99/yr to $129/yr. I was going to just going to resentfully accept this, when I just got annoyed and said, "you know what? we don't use word and excel enough to justify this and there are definitely alternatives." Only when I went to cancel did I find out that they tried to force me onto the $129 "with AI" plan (who actually thinks AI features are worth anything? I've never used them in office or really any MS product) and that the "without AI" plan is still $99.

I decided to cancel anyway because I was still resentful.

Thing is, either $99 or $129 for the Family plan is actually quite reasonable, our family has 5 users. I just don't like giving money to deceitful or disrespectful companies.

If Microsoft had just kept the pricing the same as they had for many years, I almost certainly would have re-subscribed.

New comment by stevenkkim in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

stevenkkim — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:35:57 +0000

I'm still keeping my iPhone 8 Plus and MacBook Air M1 for the exact same reason. I'm not buying any more Apple products until the notch goes away.

New comment by stevenkkim in "I'm absolutely right"

stevenkkim — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:48:11 +0000

For me, a really annoying tick in Cursor is how it often says "Perfect!" after completing a task, especially if it completely fails to execute the prompt.

So I told Cursor, "please stop saying 'perfect' after executing a task, it's very annoying." Cursor replied something like, "Got it, I understand" and then I saw a pop-up saying it created a memory for this request.

Then immediately after the next task, it declares "Perfect!" (spoiler: it was not perfect.)

New comment by stevenkkim in "Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids"

stevenkkim — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:02:11 +0000

Same for me.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation""

stevenkkim — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:05:58 +0000

This is gold.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Keep uBlock Origin in Chrome for another year by enabling Enterprise policy"

stevenkkim — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:29:15 +0000

Nice! I hope the sidebar can be disabled (I'm not a fan) but everything else looks much better.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Keep uBlock Origin in Chrome for another year by enabling Enterprise policy"

stevenkkim — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:04:04 +0000

If I recall, I think the same thing is going to happen to the Microsoft Edge browser, which is built on chromium, which is a real shame because this could've been a point of differentiation for them. Windows has always asked me to switch from Chrome to Edge without giving me a compelling reason. This would have been a compelling reason.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Keep uBlock Origin in Chrome for another year by enabling Enterprise policy"

stevenkkim — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:58:52 +0000

As a longtime Chrome user, I just switched to Firefox because of this. Everything seems fine so far. I just wish Mozilla would invest some time to polish the UI a little – it feels a bit dated and rough.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Ask HN: What keyboard and keyboard layout are you using?"

stevenkkim — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:16:42 +0000

Apple Wired Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (MB110LL/B) + Colemak

New comment by stevenkkim in "A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library"

stevenkkim — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:15:26 +0000

Could you share a link to your game? I'd love to check it out.

New comment by stevenkkim in "Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor"

stevenkkim — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:39:46 +0000

On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember Nuance used to be quite litigious, using its deep patent collection to sue startups and competitors. I'm not sure if this is still the case now that they're owned by Microsoft, but you may want to look into that.

New comment by stevenkkim in "I shouldn’t have to try so hard to make multitasking work on a Mac"

stevenkkim — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:59:00 +0000

I use both, about 50/50. I have a windows desktop and a mac laptop. Perhaps that's why I have difficulty adjusting because I am switching between the two. But I find the windows approach more intuitive since I use a combination of chrome web apps in separate browser windows and desktop apps, I don't like having to think about what type of windows switching I need to do, I just want to switch windows.