Hacker News: zzleeper

New comment by zzleeper in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

zzleeper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:05:44 +0000

I created pages with Claude before and it's very very obvious when you see one. From the font choice to the color palette, and the style of the boxes. In fact if anyone has an effective prompt that says "please don't make this look like the average Claude page" please post it!

New comment by zzleeper in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

zzleeper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:43:38 +0000

It's increasingly obvious that the only safeguard we got is open models and semi open ones like from China. Crazy world

New comment by zzleeper in "Claude Fable 5"

zzleeper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:27:27 +0000

Exactly.. a bit of a red flag for me..

New comment by zzleeper in "Claude Fable 5"

zzleeper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:25:19 +0000

How credible is this benchmark? does it correlated with others real world experience?

New comment by zzleeper in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

zzleeper — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:51:05 +0000

Holy F.. $3 .. once I'm done with my base cursor allocation, each nontrivial question costs $5 . And yes, I'm now switching to a mix of codex and ds4pro

New comment by zzleeper in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zzleeper — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:50:41 +0000

Sorry that's confusing cash flow with profits, where things get amortized

New comment by zzleeper in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zzleeper — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:42:45 +0000

I'm looking at Schwab (and saw a few others) and couldn't find anything: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/primer-on-wash-sales

I would assume this is not an ETF but sth else?

New comment by zzleeper in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zzleeper — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:32:59 +0000

Let me know if you find one! I'm at a loss. (And even then, if I switch I have to pay $$$ taxes on capital gains)

New comment by zzleeper in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

zzleeper — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:32:50 +0000

Same. Whenever I see a PE acquisition, I immediately shift my purchases (eg namecheap last year)

New comment by zzleeper in "Qwen 3.7 Preview"

zzleeper — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:24:51 +0000

There's a Grok 4.20 at #10? Maybe they just skipped version numbers for the 420 luls (are we 15 or what? wtf)

New comment by zzleeper in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

zzleeper — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:05:53 +0000

What if we just inflate away the debt? Sure, ppl will hate dealing with very high inflation for a few years, and pensioners and whoever buys those trillions of debt will get screwed, but besides that we should be ok?

New comment by zzleeper in "Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s"

zzleeper — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:57:47 +0000

Great! Was thinking about PP but because I only ran an order of magnitude fewer articles (under 1mm pages; by piggybacking on Dell's OCR) I relied on Arcanum ( https://www.arcanum.com/en/newspaper-segmentation/about/ ) which was cheap enough (but I think not cheap enough at your scale).

Cheers!

New comment by zzleeper in "Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s"

zzleeper — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:05:40 +0000

Looks cool, congrats!

I've also worked with this data, but only for research purposes:

https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/episodes/13895.html https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/index.html

Surprisingly, I found out that layout was the trickiest thing, as newspaper articles often had multiple layers of headers, spanned multiple columns, etc.

Do you have a preferred solution on that?

New comment by zzleeper in "Trump evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner after shots fired"

zzleeper — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:56:40 +0000

Hard to have any idea of what happened due to the FOW. There's some grainy footage (posted by Trump) of someone running past the SS checkpoint; where you can see some shots fired by the SS. Then Blitzer who says this person might have had multiple large guns, etc.

New comment by zzleeper in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

zzleeper — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:34:36 +0000

So, Thiel, Musk, and?

New comment by zzleeper in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

zzleeper — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:43:37 +0000

I'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which is why I stuck with Cursor even when it felt more expensive)

New comment by zzleeper in "Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes"

zzleeper — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:47:29 +0000

Wow this is amazing. Did you write all those MD files by hand, or used an LLM for the simple stuff like extracting abstracts?

New comment by zzleeper in "Show HN: Wordif.sh – word-by-word text comparison in color, output to HTML/PDF"

zzleeper — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:29:35 +0000

Found it interesting but would have been easier to see an example of how the html looks in the github page!

Show HN: Locro – Fast and accurate local OCR through Chrome's screen_ai

zzleeper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:29:57 +0000

A month ago, @Stagnant posted in this thread about how Chrome ships with a open source OCR tool that is only available from the browser:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977802

This looked incredibly useful but sadly there were no Python wrappers, so I followed his instructions and built one.

It's incredibly fast and accurate (I had my doubts but wow!). I tested the Windows and Linux implementations, and I'm sure expanding the wrapper for macOS should be trivial for a decent LLM.

Hope it's also useful to other users, and thanks again Stagnant for mentioning it in the first place!

Hacker News: zzleeper

New comment by zzleeper in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

New comment by zzleeper in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

New comment by zzleeper in "Claude Fable 5"

New comment by zzleeper in "Claude Fable 5"

New comment by zzleeper in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

New comment by zzleeper in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

New comment by zzleeper in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

New comment by zzleeper in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

New comment by zzleeper in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

New comment by zzleeper in "Qwen 3.7 Preview"

New comment by zzleeper in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

New comment by zzleeper in "Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s"

New comment by zzleeper in "Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s"

New comment by zzleeper in "Trump evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner after shots fired"

New comment by zzleeper in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

New comment by zzleeper in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

New comment by zzleeper in "Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes"

New comment by zzleeper in "Show HN: Wordif.sh – word-by-word text comparison in color, output to HTML/PDF"

Show HN: Locro – Fast and accurate local OCR through Chrome's screen_ai

New comment by zzleeper in "Some things just take time"