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New comment by veb in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

veb — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:09:43 +0000

Try Cline, a vscode plugin that's been around since the start and has really active development. You can also use most providers as well.

New comment by veb in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

veb — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Same thing here. I took a picture of some gravel/grass and asked it to show me what it'd look like with tiles. I showed it another part of the property, and asked it to show me what it would look like with a raised lawn. Super impressive to be able to see a cloudy idea in the physical realm like that.

New comment by veb in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

veb — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:54:07 +0000

I just wanted to say that's a pretty cool demo! I hadn't realised people were using it for things like this.

New comment by veb in "Claude's new constitution"

veb — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:45:53 +0000

I've run into this before too, when playing single player games if I've had enough of grinding sometimes I like to pull up a memory tool, and see if I can increase the amount of wood and so on.

I never really went further but recently I thought it'd be a good time to learn how to make a basic game trainer that would work every time I opened the game but when I was trying to debug my steps, I would often be told off - leading to me having to explain how it's my friends game or similar excuses!

New comment by veb in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

veb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:13:08 +0000

Some more info I noticed over on X which might shed some more light: https://x.com/shortl2021/status/2008554842332225705

New comment by veb in "How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface"

veb — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:23:29 +0000

I'm assuming it's because nobody can just leave something alone. It's always gotta change, it's always gotta be made "better". And it probably generates a lot of marketing, good or bad.

New comment by veb in "How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you"

veb — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:54:28 +0000

That makes it worse! Then people can sneak up on you :(

Jailbreak Kindle: WinterBreak

veb — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:21:11 +0000

Article URL: https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953686

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by veb in "US detects H5N1 bird flu in swine for the first time"

veb — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:53:58 +0000

There's been a bigger outbreak in Washington it seems - https://nitter.poast.org/richardhirschs1/status/185164171224...

New comment by veb in "Enumerate all the subdomains for a domain name"

veb — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:18:32 +0000

How strange. I just tried this out and I see two unauthorised subdomains, with one being an actual "spam" website. However, I don't even know how to delete a subdomain that doesn't show up in my domain registrar or cloudflare!

Thanks for the tool.

New comment by veb in "Kagi Assistant"

veb — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:07:12 +0000

How bizarre. I'm not in the US either - I'm in New Zealand, and have been using Kagi since their beta I think and currently pay for Ultimate, and to me it's a lot faster than Google.

The other day I was using someone else's computer and used Google, and my goodness, the results were just awful and ... bloated?

New comment by veb in "RouteLLM: A framework for serving and evaluating LLM routers"

veb — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:05:07 +0000

From what I understand, it's from people using it in their workflows - say, Claude but keep hitting the rate limits, so they have to wait until Claude says "you got 10 messages left until 9pm", so when they hit that, or before they switch to (maybe) ChatGPT manually.

With the router thingy, it keeps a record, so you know every query where you stand, and can switch to another model automatically instead of interrupting workflow?

I may be explaining this very badly, but I think that's one use-case for how these LLM Routers help.

New comment by veb in "Adventures Making Vegemite"

veb — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 22:50:47 +0000

NZ Marmite ftw!

I had to tell my mum off for having Vegemite in her pantry the other day, but she had a decent enough excuse that made me giggle. "I buy vegemite because it comes in glass jars and I can reuse them!"

oh... I guess that's... practical, Mum!

New comment by veb in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

veb — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 00:00:44 +0000

Totally sounds like Spark :D

New comment by veb in "Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one"

veb — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:27:19 +0000

Go Garmin! You won't regret it.

New comment by veb in "Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says"

veb — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:22:01 +0000

This also works in _so many different work environments too_! I like how you term it "intellectual humility" but I wonder if "professional intellectual humility" is more suited.

New comment by veb in "Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing"

veb — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:15:00 +0000

Thanks mate, I really wanted to see some demos myself, but OPs link didn't show me much. This is pretty exciting, I know it's in its infancy but still... exciting times!

New comment by veb in "Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019)"

veb — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:00:19 +0000

I have seen these turbines within city limits (in NZ): https://www.powerhousewind.co.nz/thinair-wind-turbine/ apparently they make a lot less noise. I'm sure some intelligent people will keep iterating on these technologies.

They do an awesome solar+wind deal too: https://www.powerhousewind.co.nz/powercrate/

New comment by veb in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

veb — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:48:34 +0000

People tend to post interesting jobs that they find in the #jobs channel on the DevelopNZ Slack if it's something you're interested in.

New comment by veb in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

veb — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:46:17 +0000

this city is so damn small, I didn't even need to know your real name to know who you were :D

All you other NZ devs should join the Slack server I founded for IT people in NZ. https://dev.elop.nz/ a lot of us work remotely. We have a dedicated jobs channel and all - we also have some very good recruiters. (700ish people)