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New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)"

xdfgh1112 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:35:55 +0000

Before AI people would still say things like this. "The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is now". Among the set of such constructs, some are overused by LLM and have become a symbolic of it, but they will still show up in human writing with the same frequency as before.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)"

xdfgh1112 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:34:08 +0000

I guess AI is the new catchall term for "cliched or bad writing"

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Show HN: Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs"

xdfgh1112 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:07:28 +0000

There is also a meta level investment in your deck that comes from curating it by hand, and that pays off in long term motivation AND improves recall.

I'm sure some people can knuckle down and learn an LLM deck with random words, but they'd be a minority.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Show HN: Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs"

xdfgh1112 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:02:11 +0000

I have 15k learned. It's a question of timing. Can time spent making the card outweigh time saved learning it? I would say yes. It's easy to spend too long making a single card. A compromise is to make a small card at first and improve it whenever you fail it.

Personally I need some context in a card to hook it up to other things. Such as the sentence where I first encountered it. Without that I will often fail the card over and over and waste time - it would have been quicker to put some effort upfront making a decent card.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Claude outage"

xdfgh1112 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:39:16 +0000

Even if AI is down for 20% of the time it can still outcode you 100x.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone"

xdfgh1112 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:29:24 +0000

In Japan they are also pushing an app for vending machines, but you immediately get three free drinks (then nothing after). It got me to sign up anyway.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

xdfgh1112 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:10:17 +0000

I enjoyed the content of the video using the subtitles as delivered. It made sense and was informative. I doubt there were any egregious issues given the relative similarity of the two languages.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

xdfgh1112 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:49:36 +0000

Really good video. I don't speak German but the subtitles were fine.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

xdfgh1112 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:48:30 +0000

It used to cost money, it's now free but it's quite limited. I'm sure it'll get more expensive later, but it is great value at the moment.

Not sure how you can rug pull an open source project...

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

xdfgh1112 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:47:49 +0000

Just because something is overhyped doesn't mean it can't be useful. You can literally try it for free with vscode and figure out quickly where it saves you time and where it doesn't. I made a value judgement that it saves me more than 20usd of time. If it didn't I wouldn't pay for it. Developers are not idiots motivated by fomo.

Using it for vibe coding where you pay for every token - and end up paying hundreds over dozens of iterations, when it would have been easier to write it yourself - is probably closer to what you're talking about. That's a totally different use case.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB"

xdfgh1112 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:11:27 +0000

Abandoned for a new project. Kuzu is Japanese for unwanted/useless scraps or garbage, so I suppose it's still living up to its name.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

xdfgh1112 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:56:03 +0000

New phone came with no standalone music player only YouTube Music. But fair play to them you can click "local files only" at first launch and it keeps out of your way.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

xdfgh1112 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:23:34 +0000

You live in a bubble. 299 is a crazy amount of money for me. I am currently debating whether to pay for copilot at 20/mo or keep using the free version.

Even if I was paying for that, there's no comparison between AI and a web framework that has many free competitors.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

xdfgh1112 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:40:22 +0000

I bought a new Motorola phone and there are no less than three ways to open Google assistant (side button, hold home button, swipe from corner). Took me about 10 seconds before I triggered it unintentionally and quickly figured out how to disable all of them...

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

xdfgh1112 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:51:54 +0000

I think the pro version and charging stuff is totally fine. It's the lack of transparency that bothers people. I shouldn't have to figure out their profit model from HN comments. If you want to be paid for your work, charge for the whole library or make the free/pro distinction very clear to people. Don't try to hook them in with a free offering while locking features behind a paywall that they discover later.

Or if you want to be altruistic (as you keep referring to nonprofit) make it free and solicit donations/patreon.

The current approach is certainly a new one and I am interested to see if it pays off.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

xdfgh1112 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:31:31 +0000

I'm sorry people didn't immediately take to this financing model as well as you did. The average person is not as invested as you and most people are going to immediately switch off if they hear part of the functionality costs money and this isn't mentioned anywhere on the front page. Doesn't matter how "unnecessary" these features are, it's a bad look.

Plenty of other open source projects make money without attracting this kind of negative feedback. It's curious to me that you suggest everyone is intentionally being negative or malicious here, instead of looking at why the project caused such a response.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

xdfgh1112 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:20:39 +0000

I appreciated it. If I'm going to consider a framework I want to know if some of it costs money. Especially like 299usd.

Frankly your response seems very hostile and makes me wants to avoid them more.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS"

xdfgh1112 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:01:45 +0000

Depends how private...

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS"

xdfgh1112 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:39:28 +0000

Private trackers have no open registration. If they ban you at the account level then it's pretty hard to get back in.

New comment by xdfgh1112 in "Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS"

xdfgh1112 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:38:15 +0000

Although the identification is literally just a string you send when connecting, easy to spoof.