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czottmannon Vista is a Marathon 2 museum

Quoting the maker (https://bsky.app/profile/daniloc.xyz/post/3mwi4bpttxs23):

> VISTA is a Marathon 2 museum > > revisit the planet Lh'owon from your browser, read all the terminals > > Marathon 2 was so successfully atmospheric despite the technical limits of the day, it's really cool to be reminded

Love it!

czottmannon US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

Also "oil-timer".

czottmannon DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

I think they meant it's 0.3c (= $0.003), not 0.003c.

czottmannon Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

It's good, and my agent is using it just fine (explicitly told it to prefer it over just grepping randomly). I use it in Swift, Go, and Node projects. If you use worktrees, make sure to run `codegraph init` post-setup to avoid confusing the robot :)

czottmannon The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

Archive: https://archive.is/4haHj

czottmannon GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

Because it's doubly good.

czottmannon Grok Bot

Upvoted. Nobody else seems to be fine with the White Supremacy site, but you aren't. Thanks for making me feel less alone.

czottmannon Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing made permanent

The moat is shrinking, and shrinking fast.

czottmannon A week in Matrix

Came here to say that. https://chatto.run/

czottmannon Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

I really liked her 2024 Bloomberg series, "The Future with Hannah Fry".

https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLqq4LnWs3olV_z1ZXBSDTbcXEBNO...

czottmannon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.

Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)

czottmannon Chatto is now open source

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

czottmannon Chatto is now open source

You asked a number of good questions there on the live call just now! I agree, you having Hendrik on would probably make for quite an ep.

czottmannon Chatto is now open source

I second that. I've personally known him for almost 30 years by now, and he's still one of the smartest, most experienced, and most curious devs I've ever met. All around good guy, would work with him again any day of the week.

czottmannon Chatto is now open source

It's a first-class PWA currently but no native desktop apps yet.

czottmannon Last.fm is now independent

Excellent timing. I am currently working on a macOS scrobbler that (also) works with Last.fm, and supports music recogs from iOS, Apple Watch, and macOS.

https://actions.work/listening-post

(AFAIK, the official Mac scrobbler is dead by now.)

czottmannon Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

Look around for EU LLM routers. There are some, but none are as big as OpenRouter. Still, Cortecs (Austria) is quite good and offers a couple of recent models through its EU-based providers. Zero data retention, GDPR compliant, etc. Really nice.

https://cortecs.ai/serverlessModels

czottmannon Operation: Epic Furious

Stop with the logic and whatnot

czottmannon I've Sold Out

czottmannon Anthropic's Existential Negotiations with The Pentagon

Archived: https://archive.is/l5PuV

czottmannon Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

Archive: https://archive.is/20260224182829/https://www.axios.com/2026...

czottmannon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

I'm working on a macOS app that identifies music playing around you, constantly. You can scrobble them to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, LB-compatible sites, a Mastodon account, local Shortcuts workflows, and/or or local files. It also support Apple Music and Deezer.

I built it because most scrobblers only keep track of Apple Music or Spotify plays, but I have streaming stations on all day long, or the radio is on, and those never make it into my playing charts or recommendations etc.

Early days, more to come, public beta is ongoing, and I am looking for testers :)

https://actions.work/listening-post/?ref=hn

czottmannon Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

It's 2026. If you still host your newsletter on Substack, YOU ARE AN ENABLER. At this point, you're either complicit or plain lazy, neither of which is an excuse. You make a choice every goddamn day.

czottmannon The New Collabora Office for Desktop

I had to look that up, found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice#Organization:

> Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.

czottmannon Voxtral Transcribe 2

I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.

czottmannon Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

There's also Beans, doing MD-based ticketing in your project. It's really good. (Disclaimer: I've contributed a few of the agent rules.)

https://github.com/hmans/beans

> Beans is an issue tracker for you, your team, and your coding agents. Instead of tracking tasks in a separate application, Beans stores them right alongside your code. You can use the beans CLI to interact with your tasks, but more importantly, so can your favorite coding agent! > > This gives your robot friends a juicy upgrade: now they get a complete view of your project, make suggestions for what to work on next, track their progress, create bug issues for problems they find, and more.

Much, MUCH less invasive than beads (basically just a CLI tool and a `.beans.yml` & `.beans/` in your project, and a joy to work with. CLI, TUI, labels, status, types (epic, feature, task etc.), GraphQL query interface (agents love that).

It's good.

czottmannon Google is dead. Where do we go now?

Hugged to death right now, therefore: https://web.archive.org/web/20251229204141/https://www.circu...

czottmannon Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

Here's the magnet URL to the torrent, can't hurt:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/

czottmannon Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

What the AF are you talking about. Stop spreading lies.

czottmannon Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document

My German keyboard has umlaut keys: üäö. I use them daily. I was told that in other parts of the World, people don't have umlaut keys, and have to use combos like ⌥U + a/o/u.

Boy, I sure hope they don't think me an AI.

Just because many people have no idea how to use type certain characters on their devices shouldn't mean we all have to go along with their superstitions.