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totaldude87··on Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC
great game, love it. for some reason the mouse gets locked in safari and only option is to hit esc - would suggest to point this out - even more nunaced so that folks are aware
totaldude87··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Most of us are missing the point. This gives a direct access to my machine with just one tool and no setup ( apart from Coded setup)

Now I can run scripts as hoc or stop my loss making stock market script without going through the hoops

totaldude87··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
alapaca papaer trading automated on a raspberry pi - algo trading is there for a while and this would help me test my strategies
totaldude87··on 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
So instead of scrapping all webpages, one just has to pay Archive and get all the data?
totaldude87··on Ask HN: What newspaper are you paying for these days?
I have been using Particle app for all my news now. My Problems with newspapers or any published media is that they push opinion as news and to me news is news(without any lean towards anything)
totaldude87··on The Small World of English
I was looking for a similar app for my upcoming book! At times it’s very hard to get the word that we are looking for and hope this solves it!

I know this is not related to the app but still wanted to appreciate the thought

totaldude87··on AWS Q for VSCode is having issues
https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/issues/7258 more issues
totaldude87··on Everything wrong with MCP
isnt langchain doing the exact same thing? (sorry ai noob here)
totaldude87··on Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI
care to elaborate? is this like an engineer/innovator thing?

|CEO who isn't Sundar.

totaldude87··on Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI
The problem for Google is, people who are not familiar with tech has started seeing AI as a different product than google(search)!

Instead of searching (google) , let me ask AI( chatgpts) and google is on the losing side of this perception war. This cannot be solved that quickly .

Especially with what google has done in the AI space(to a layman) it was Bard(anyone remembers) and then it was something and then its Gemini now.

what is the differentiator now? is google offering more free stuff than its peers? a layman doesnt care about whether it succeeds in solving a math problem or not! As long as people think these two are separate things(ai v search) , google is gonna have a problem

totaldude87··on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Gitlab's search just sucks..
totaldude87··on Apple Shakes Up AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri
Contrary to the popular belief, outside of the core tech spectrum, i dont think a normal user gives a damn about Siri, let alone use it regularly to notice any difference (it still sets timers ) , as long as the iPhone does its job Tim cooks job is safe. But to your point, if its deteriorates further, then yeah
totaldude87··on AI-powered app building beyond no code
Couple of things

1) Please advertise your free tier at the top, however limited it could be - seeing the bill first is a big turn off for those who are looking to try 2) The name has to resonate to something , or at least should give a hint about what this does and how it differentiates

totaldude87··on MacBook Air M4
Also to note, a typical macbooks' life span is more than ~5years - so are the target audience
totaldude87··on JPMorgan CEO: "I don't care how many people sign that f—ing [WFH] Petition"
The way i see it as a intricate dance between layoffs and attrition.

In a way both are forced.

totaldude87··on Show HN: I made a price aggregator to find the best PC parts deals across eBay
This is good start, i guess to make it more helpful, you can also do a pre configured builds so folks who just want to check the overal price can do that.

Also , why not do it for more things? like cellphones are hot on ebay, and i would love to use this kinda of a tool

totaldude87··on Nobody cares
Mindfulness of others is a very rare trait.

but once you start accounting for what the other person is going through, none of these may look as bad as they are.

A person could've lost his dog and want to free his mind by working out and forgets to put the weights back! one time its fine! few times its OK! happens every day, someone has to intervene!

totaldude87··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025
Get ready for your AI Smart Toaster.. On a serious note 2025 will be year of AI and Tools. Prepared to have AI on every damn thing that you visit digitally.

Another step towards autonomous driving. Short content becoming more popular.

totaldude87··on What made Dostoevsky's work immortal
His works will live on regardless of the culture or the time it was written. As long as there is Poverty, Guilt consciousness, Morality his works would be relevent.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

This cannot be put an expiry at..

totaldude87··on Trump wins presidency for second time
For many this ended up with

"Have i felt better over the past 4 years" .

Imagine coming out of covid, without a recession, only to be hit with inflation (both parties to blame) and sky high interest rates coupled with all other stuff like illegal border crossing to lack of majority support from Women to Harris to Harris being a silent VP for 4 full years and thrown to lime light.

totaldude87··on Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
Copilot could easily scan and auto generate the read me.
totaldude87··on Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
This is just getting worser and worser. Boeing needs to get its shit in place or stop doing moon shots. Imagine if this happens on mars, #BringbackBoeing
totaldude87··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
I hope the narrative of , install crowd strike and pass the audit or else changes after this .

but being in the industry for so long , I don't expect any changes whatsoever, it's either CS or some other tool

totaldude87··on Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
This is Gold - but also Ticketmaster is a evil monopoly

Disclaimer: This isn’t from a real SafeTix barcode. I don’t want TicketMaster to be able to identify and harass me.

Bullshit, TicketMaster. It’s a CSS animation. Get over yourself.

I think we can all agree: Fuck TicketMaster

totaldude87··on Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools
A smart watch can easily solve the contact problems
totaldude87··on Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
At oracle-

Hey, what if they do - what we do to other companies ... to us ...

presses a red button

totaldude87··on Veo
Could also be the doing of google. if Veo screws up , the weight falls on Alphabet stock. While open AI is not public and doesn't have to worry about anything . Like even if open AI faked some of their AI videos(not saying they did), it wouldn't affect them the way it would affect Veo--> Google-->Alphabet

being cautious often puts a dent in innovation

totaldude87··on Veo
its 2024 and AI is taking over and yet, to signup for this, it take way more clicks and Google form entry(1)

Sigh. I still have hopes for VEO though

totaldude87··on Show HN: Visualize eBay laptops in bulk with laptopscout
i wish if you have one for any of our searches :) , this is better than the ad filled ebay search! , thank you
totaldude87··on Ask HN: Create a Simple Website/Blog?
i run a website via http://hostinger.com at like $1 a month, i know how to setup all these but dont want to go through the hassle of maintaining it etc and can concentrate on just writing
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