Hacker News: theletterf

When docs become performance art, everybody loses (2025)

theletterf — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://passo.uno/documentation-theater-everybody-loses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773355

Points: 2

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Show HN: Microsoft Comic Chat (1996) for ChatGPT

theletterf — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:26:00 +0000

I love good old Microsoft Comic Chat (1996-1998). Since the source is now public and archived, I made a fork and added support for ChatGPT, so that you can have a comic chat with GPT itself. The LLM is instructed to emote using the UI convention.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725890

Points: 3

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Project NOPE: An observatory for human – AI relationships

theletterf — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://nope.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663076

Points: 3

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Ask HN: How do you kill time while LLMs work for you?

theletterf — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:29:04 +0000

I know Pi has a Doom plugin. I've heard some folks watch ads to get some money (Kickback). Others spin more agent sessions. What's your strategy, if any? How do you make that time more productive?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640293

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Tech Needs Humanists More

theletterf — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:48:09 +0000

Article URL: https://passo.uno/tech-needs-humanists-more-than-ever/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613870

Points: 3

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New comment by theletterf in "Keep Our Servers Running"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:14:59 +0000

Logged in to Archive.org profile, where you're supposed to manage "subscription". The site lets you donate recurrently even when unlogged, obviously.

Tech needs humanists more than ever

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:45:18 +0000

Article URL: https://passo.uno/tech-needs-humanists-more-than-ever/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597727

Points: 6

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New comment by theletterf in "Keep Our Servers Running"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:01:13 +0000

They do, but require that an incident is raised claiming fraud, etc. I guess they want to avoid misuse of this feature.

New comment by theletterf in "Keep Our Servers Running"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:33 +0000

Not if Google Pay has been used as the transaction agent. It's not a Google Play subscription.

New comment by theletterf in "Keep Our Servers Running"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:50:44 +0000

Just did. Not possible in Spain.

New comment by theletterf in "Keep Our Servers Running"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:11:39 +0000

Well, you can't if you paid using a debit card, like I did. Silly me.

New comment by theletterf in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:37:54 +0000

It clones the skills repo if not present and relies on the git last commit as the "version".

New comment by theletterf in "Keep Our Servers Running"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:31:04 +0000

Be careful: paying with Google Pay is extremely easy and the default setting is monthly recurrence. If you're not logged in, the only way to cancel (as far as I know) is by sending an email, which is incredibly precarious.

New comment by theletterf in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

theletterf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:22:52 +0000

We keep the skills in a repo, where an agentic workflow runs biweekly to check if their content drifted compared to the docs and opens PRs if they did. The repo is also a Claude plugin. The biggest problem is keeping skills up to date across users, so I developed a small Go binary that takes care of that across harnesses.

Gompertz–Makeham Law of Mortality

theletterf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:22:17 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_of_mortality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586316

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Writing Docs in LLMese

theletterf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:40:41 +0000

Article URL: https://passo.uno/write-docs-llms-language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584160

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by theletterf in "Praearcturus gigas: giant scorpion from Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Britain"

theletterf — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:36:56 +0000

Ah, a fellow thalassophobic. Yeah, no, I'm not going to swim in the vast ocean at night, thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia

New comment by theletterf in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

theletterf — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:05:22 +0000

Docs engineer here. Nice to read about writing style: would you consider creating a writing benchmark at some point? I guess y'all are painfully aware of the load-bearing issues (pun intended).

Model Intelligence, Cost, and Speed

theletterf — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://model-pareto-frontier.pages.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510269

Points: 1

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Write the Fucking Manual

theletterf — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:21:57 +0000

Article URL: https://wtfmbook.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498424

Points: 2

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