Hacker News: wackget

New comment by wackget in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

wackget — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:14:53 +0000

How come it's presented as paid software when the binaries are available on GitHub?

Also naming your company "__slop" is a bold move!

New comment by wackget in "Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie"

wackget — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:06:54 +0000

No browser version? :(

New comment by wackget in "A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines"

wackget — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:27:41 +0000

I was very skeptical but apparently the Caraway machine uses a glass reservoir and stainless steel pipes.

New comment by wackget in "The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data"

wackget — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:56:05 +0000

> What does Ford use connected vehicle data for?

The answer to this question is simply "money". Ford uses your data for money.

New comment by wackget in "Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data"

wackget — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:06:39 +0000

I use RESTer, a Firefox extension, to test APIs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rester/

It's an in-browser equivalent of Postman.

I much prefer the approach of being able to use the browser for things like this. It feels much more lightweight than installing a piece of desktop software.

New comment by wackget in "Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data"

wackget — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:04:24 +0000

That sounds all sorts of illegal, and all sorts of immoral.

Did you flag it / create an issue?

New comment by wackget in "OccupySaaS"

wackget — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:18:30 +0000

They are aiming for 100% parity with existing SDKs and APIs. Most FOSS alternatives won't get anywhere near that.

New comment by wackget in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

wackget — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:10:44 +0000

Oh it's not free. You're paying with your data.

New comment by wackget in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

wackget — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:06:57 +0000

For 99% of users who want to download TV shows/music/movies, The Pirate Bay is enough. I don't understand why you'd ever pay for a private tracker or Usenet unless you're looking for obscure/old stuff.

New comment by wackget in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

wackget — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:04:10 +0000

For what it's worth I agree with you. I've never understood the appeal of these bloated apps.

New comment by wackget in "Firefox Enterprise"

wackget — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:32:07 +0000

I'm a developer and have never considered the need for an alternative file explorer.

Can you please briefly describe the features you think make it worth it?

New comment by wackget in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

wackget — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:46:18 +0000

How the fuck is it 20 years later and browsers still struggle with downloading files?!

New comment by wackget in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

wackget — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:45:30 +0000

There's no doubt JDownloader is impressive but I absolutely hate using it. It feels like an absolute hog. Slow to open, slow to process links, slow to start downloading, insanely slow to extract archives, and for my money it tries to do far, far, far, far too much.

New comment by wackget in "An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust"

wackget — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:00:24 +0000

All the apps claim to run in the browser via WASM but no links are provided. Are there any live demos of these hosted somewhere?

New comment by wackget in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

wackget — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:38:38 +0000

By all means, show us the endless network of cavernous tunnels you've hand-dug under your own home, then.

New comment by wackget in "AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares"

wackget — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:20:35 +0000

Any mirrors which don't require giving clicks to neo-Twitter, please?

New comment by wackget in "The death of web development education"

wackget — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:06:47 +0000

Out of interest, how do you know that Anthropic has ingested your books? Is there a way to prove it? And how do you calculate the compensation figure? Finally, why just Anthropic? Did OpenAI not do the same?

New comment by wackget in "Asking Authors About Their Own Papers"

wackget — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:23:48 +0000

I'm not familiar with the world of academic publishing, so I want to ask: how is the industry making sure that submissions aren't at least partially AI-generated?

Is it standard practice for authors to have to defend their submissions via interview like this? If not, why not?

Does the vetting process vary with the quality of the publisher?

As an outsider, it's extremely worrying that anyone would even attempt to submit an AI-generated paper for publication in an academic journal. At that level I would have assumed literally everybody should know better than to even try.

New comment by wackget in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

wackget — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:56:01 +0000

> "Endeladyze said she felt terrible that she had upset her customers, but she was also frustrated at the idea that she should have been paying a real artist. Making these signs was a job only she had done herself or with employees in the past, never hiring outsiders."

This seems like the wrong attitude to take after experiencing such a backlash. If she'd made the signs herself for years then why resort to using AI to produce what is so obviously a generic slop result?

The article says she paid $150 for printing and $200 for a stand. Why not throw another $200 towards an artist?

New comment by wackget in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

wackget — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:52:21 +0000

The actual saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste."

It is misquoted on a criminally large scale.