Hacker News: stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stonecharioteerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:54:55 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes"]]>I was approached by people trying to get me into a pyramid scheme at least thrice in my life.

One was a friend who got into it in high school and said I could get in on it too for 100 USD (~2004). Another was a random stranger I struck up a conversation with at a bookstore in around 2011. The last was an old boss, who attributes his drastic weight loss to a strange drug that he's peddling and says I can get in on.

It's crazy. I was 17, 24 and 37 and all 3 times I knew there was something super suspicious about these and never engaged.

]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:25:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421126stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421126https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421126<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users"]]>Conflated numbers. Show me counts of returning users and session lengths.

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:07:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267070stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267070<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"]]>I just got an iPhone as a secondary phone and hate the keyboard so much. How are people putting up with this BS?

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:39:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192150stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192150https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192150<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "How to Do Great Work"]]>Because uhm, he doesn't have time?

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:50:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133174stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133174https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133174<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>The best damned ebook reader you'll ever use. Ready anywhere, ask anything.

We have been building https://merrilin.ai for 6 months now. Open to public access right now.

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:40:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901647stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901647https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901647<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"]]>Yohohoho.

Going to bring Binks' Brew.

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:06:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750033stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750033https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750033<![CDATA[Who Logs You in When You Use Tailscale SSH?]]>Article URL: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/tailscale-ssh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735404

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:46:26 +0000https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/tailscale-ssh/stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735404https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735404<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Renting vs. Buying – A case study for Bangalore"]]>The biggest problem with this and I say this being someone who is adamant about renting and not paying 3C for a house in Bangalore is that people around you will constantly be emotional. No one will be convinced by numbers if they've made up their mind to buy a house. People still think buying a house is an investment or they think it's security. They don't realize it'sore anxiety inducing to pay a loan. I gave up trying to convince anyone else and just keep my suggestion to myself now. I'm only going to buy a house in a tier 2 city one day. Or a village. I don't want to live in Bangalore if I can get the privilege to move out.

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:29:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596244stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596244<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"]]>You're in luck. I built this especially to target series and you can ask questions across books whether they're in a series or not. I wanted to be able to ask questions of books that aren't even related to each other together.

Royal Road looks cool. Do you know if you can extract them into an epub? I have a user who extensively reads Web Novels and I wrote a blog post about that just today. He converts them to epubs AFAIK and uses them.

https://blog.merrilin.ai/engineering/2026/translation-drift/

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:49:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542134stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542134https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542134<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Write for One Person"]]>I've always written my blog for myself. I keep it as a record of what I'm working on, I suppose, or what I'm interested in. I was mildly surprise to find I had 279 blog posts on https://tech.stonecharioteer.com. I only ever write for myself. Whenever I try to write for an audience, I am not satisfied.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:44:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538919stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538919<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: How do you handle browser tab overload?"]]>Do you mean overload to your senses? I always close most of my tabs. My policy is that if you don't bookmark, you don't care enough. Same goes for my local data. If I don't remember what's on my disk, or haven't backed it up periodically, I don't care about what's on it.

If you mean about RAM usage: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-suspender/fiabc... is a good extension.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:42:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538907stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538907https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538907<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Saving Money on Inference"]]>Thanks for reading it. At this point we are trying to balance technical vs showcase blog posts. Revealing too much for a product makes it easy for someone to reengineer with one prompt these days.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:40:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538888stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538888https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538888<![CDATA[Translation Drift in Web Novels: Answering Vague Questions in the Moment]]>Article URL: http://blog.merrilin.ai/engineering/2026/translation-drift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538680

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:17:02 +0000http://blog.merrilin.ai/engineering/2026/translation-drift/stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538680https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538680<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"]]>That's a good point, but our harness right now is very fine tuned towards kimi2.6, it's something we want to improve but it's just 2 broke dudes working on it right now.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:16:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538667stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538667<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"]]>As someone who loves FoxIt reader, I'm building https://merrilin.ai to be the best damned ebook reader out there, to support PDF and epub. FoxIt's annotation system is one of the best I've experienced and I want to design one that is just as good if not better.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:16:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536526stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536526https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536526<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"]]>Yay! Registrations to https://merrilin.ai are open and you can enjoy a free account for as long as I can afford to give it (I have no funding lol). The android app is ready for closed testing too, if you have an Android device, mail me at mail [at] stonecharioteer.com and I'll add you to the beta testing. ios is still a pain.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:12:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536500stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536500<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"]]>Yay! Please do, or email me at mail [at] stonecharioteer.com

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:11:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536487stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536487https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536487<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"]]>Could we talk and exchange notes? I have a calendar link on my profile. Or I'd be glad to book something on your calendar if you could share.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:07:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535740stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535740<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"]]>Hello, I'm building https://merrilin.ai, could I pick your brain about the problems you faced?

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:05:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535726stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535726<![CDATA[New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"]]>https://merrilin.ai, the best damned reading app for every platform with an AI chat that's spoiler safe by design. BYOB - bring your own books.

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:21:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515219stonecharioteerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515219https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515219