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3stacks··on I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers – This One Survived
My Ducky Zero keyboard has outlived several laptops in the last 10 years of abuse and it’s nice and portable. You can swap the switches when they die. I see this as a far better solution
3stacks··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
It’s the food equivalent of declaring bankruptcy. If you don’t fix the behaviours you’ll just end up in debt again.
3stacks··on Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice
This is awesome! I’ll be lurking for new data sources. I’m working on a self-hosted language app more focused around cloze and sentence mining into Anki. I love seeing more stuff happening in this space
3stacks··on Bible as RAG Database
It’s great to see more stuff like this. Thank you for your contribution
3stacks··on Identity verification on Claude
Maybe I'll try out a month on the usage plan and see how it compares dollar for dollar. I think I'm squeezing about as much as I can out of Anthropic under the plan
3stacks··on Identity verification on Claude
Fair. If you trust the stats on Codeburn I've used $6k USD of tokens in the last month with Claude as a very heavy user, so our situations may differ
3stacks··on Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
No problemo! I built almost the same app just with a web interface because I couldn't sell my tech illiterate fiancé on a TUI app. I'd have used micasa if I was rolling solo
3stacks··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Maybe there's a conversation to be had about how much is enough... Unless something beyond my imagination happened, I would be happy enough with Opus 4.5 levels of productivity
3stacks··on Show HN: KeyGhost – Keyboard app launcher for macOS
I’ll play around and see if it works with reduced permissions. I understand your concern.

FWIW there’s no outgoing network requests or telemetry, nor logging. Thanks for checking it out anyway

3stacks··on Show HN: KeyGhost – Keyboard app launcher for macOS
I originally intended for it to bind to the Hyperkey bind but had trouble getting it to play nice with existing binds. Any ideas of other key binds that might work? It occupies a lot of fingers
3stacks··on I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware
Is there even an option in the Android space that isn't entirely filled with Bloatware? I've always hated the Samsung Android skin so I've mostly written off the rest of the market
3stacks··on I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware
I think the Nexus 4 is still my favourite phone I've ever owned. Maybe it represents a period of techno-optimism I had, and how my relationship with phones have changed over the years. Now I despise my phone but am required to own it for my digital ID to pay taxes, receive work messages, etc.

Sounds like I've been very lucky with my Pixel 4 and 7 that I haven't had any hardware issues while running GrapheneOS.

3stacks··on Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
They rock. I've made a couple which act as proxies for previously web-only activities. e.g. a Github Issue manager app which generates a little kanban board for me locally. The barrier for entry feels much lower and doesn't have the same "spinning up a new next.js app" fatigue. And I echo your thoughts with design consistency, having it just inherit your terminal theme makes for a nice visual experience. My favourite in this new wave of tui apps is micasa.dev
3stacks··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
It falls under the "social outreach" line item I believe
3stacks··on Identity verification on Claude
What is stopping you from switching to GLM 5.2 now? Have you tried it out yet?

I'm playing with Deepseek a lot more via OpenRouter recently and the only major downside I can see is the usage billing over the monthly plan

3stacks··on Show HN: Evaluating Local LLMs as language translators for my app
Thank you! Running phrase translations through an LLM really helps with processing idiomatic phrasing, and also enables quite good output practice. Spoken output practice would be a game changer.

There's definitely a lot of potential in this space especially in generating learner content in languages where there's sparse content online.

3stacks··on Need guidance on Go-To-Market strategy
It's blocked in Australia as far as I can tell so I'm only going off your post.

This feels like something that Vanta, Drata, or Iru may just patch into their existing platforms that already have mass market adoption. Maybe if you get some traction a company like that would be willing to buy it, but most people using a GRC are pretty entrenched and likely won't want to add another platform like this.

I think an open-source self-hosted angle with optional paid cloud plans is becoming more common these days. Might work here

3stacks··on Ask every top AI at once. Compare. Pick the best
What precisely makes it "gangsta"?
3stacks··on Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML
Peter Attia figured heavily in a certain recent document dump, so I’m not surprised to see him swimming in these circles.

Tim Ferris is an interesting one to me. Feels like an outlier attendee but maybe he will be part of consent manufacturing for whatever is talked about here

3stacks··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
Unless it’s a Meta AI support agent, in which case it will bend over backwards for you up to and including resetting other people’s passwords for you. Now that’s service!
3stacks··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
And what are you going to do about it, Windows 11 users?
3stacks··on Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case
Scam Bankman-Fraud is just one of the few highly publicised cases they will use to pretend they are actually serious about tackling these issues. Wake me when someone gets prosecuted for front-running Axios' "Iran deal is imminent" articles in the oil market.
3stacks··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
This is really cool. I'm working on a reading app too, but specifically for language learning. Upload an epub and get language annotations, that kinda thing.
3stacks··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
This looks fun, I love sims like this. Don't suppose you can easily compile for MacOS? GL with the game
3stacks··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
To blow off steam I'm working on a self-hosted language learning app, primarily for Afrikaans, but soon expanding into German and Spanish down the line. I was sick of paying for Lingq and Clozemaster and resources for learning Afrikaans online are very sparse. I also wanted something that tightly integrated with Anki: https://github.com/heuwels/lector/

It's a lot of fun

3stacks··on Global population movements from 1990 to 2023
and it accurately displays the Earth (flat) globecels btfo
3stacks··on Global population movements from 1990 to 2023
Thoughts and prayers friend.
3stacks··on Global population movements from 1990 to 2023
I hope you aren't suggesting Russia is uniquely to blame in this when the United States has displaced tens of millions of people in the last 20 years
3stacks··on Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
Can anyone account for the wild inconsistency between people's reports of session usage? I would hear stories of people saying they burned their weekly quota in 30 minutes, and then there's this post. Yet I used Fable exclusively today across multiple work projects fairly extensively and haven't cracked 20%.
3stacks··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
This is essentially already a reality in Australia. I had to email identity documents + a photo of my face holding an ID to two separate companies just to shift eSIMs to my new phone.

They have to have your residential address for "emergency reasons" which is fairly defensible at least

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