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bottlero_cketon The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

Next to the price tag, it should include the warranty. Similar to how calories are listed next to the price tag for food. Just a thought, not sure if it would work.

bottlero_cketon Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

When I asked it to call my cable company I got this response. I am wondering how this response comes out… why does it say lights twice and not mention door? LLMs are a mystery to me but I suppose this reasoning is at the heart of the model and it’s only 40% confident in it

  {
  "function_calls": [],
  "reasoning": "No tool for making phone calls or initiating a call. The available tools are limited to smart home lights, thermostat, and lights.",
  "confidence": 0.4096
  }

bottlero_cketon The Lua community needs to learn to move on

Lua versions are more like flavors. Not only are all the major versions continuously getting patch updates, but the code targeting those versions can be easily translated to one another using lua-compat.

bottlero_cketon Voxatron

I’m a huge fan of lexaloffle. And while I’m more of a 2D guy, I have used voxatron in the past. It’s a great editor, it runs on almost any hardware requirements, and is versatile enough that you can program anything you want with it. Besides lua, you can also program in a no-code paradigm that I found incredibly clever. Your games can be quite lengthy and feature-full, and you build them easily for web.

bottlero_cketon Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

* It dramatically improves the speed and context your agents need when working on serious projects: 50% fewer VCS-related tokens and 90% faster per operation.

Sounds like a good optimization to me. VCS is a waste of tokens for sure. I’m intrigued to hear more.

bottlero_cketon Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025

This article is an absolute treasure trove of real problems I too have encountered on my own journey of creating an html game, and excellent solutions that I was completely unable to find on my own! I give real props for the depth of this analysis.

I would like to re-emphasize the author’s point that the mobile web begins to struggle with anything beyond a Wikipedia page about raccoons. I feel this point was understated!

Consider realtor.com (and many others) where zooming in a picture causes everything but the picture to zoom! Insane when you consider how much houses cost. What about on shopify—type websites, where everything scrolls left when you try to swipe left to activate the carousel of pictures. How often I wish they would design these sites as they would a Wikipedia article on raccoons — as bare bones as they can get!

bottlero_cketon Neopets.com changed my life (2019)

There must still be a use case for this in the modern web. TikTok with custom HTML perhaps…

bottlero_cketon We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

Lesson learned, just avoid the hard bugs, I don’t think that is feasible for most of us!

bottlero_cketon Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

I always wonder if anyone deploys this stuff to prod…

bottlero_cketon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

An eBook sever on raspberry pi running nodejs. I had a lot of issues with iCloud not being able to download my books, plus my entire library is almost 1 GB. So, my solution is to serve a list of PDFs over node and allow download of a specific page range.

bottlero_cketon Moving fast with the core Vim motions

Indent? Use a code formatter or just select the lines with visual mode and press >

bottlero_cketon Moving fast with the core Vim motions

f I use second most. It has so many uses all of which could be done with / command, but definitely you come to prefer f. I use f( to scan forward to the next open paren. Then I use di( to delete in parens for example to remove the arguments. Uppercase F does the same but backward up the text. Often I use f, to go to a comma. df, to delete up to the next comma as in removing just 1 argument. The only draw back is that f does not have any repeat shortcut like n for next or . for reapply, those do nothing for f. I should mention also that f works on a single line at a time unlike /

bottlero_cketon Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

> Nobody has the data

https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/ever-wondered-why-plum...

“But the main reason plumbers are well paid is because they know the arcane secrets of plumbing fittings.”

bottlero_cketon Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

Cameras are quickly becoming as ubiquitous and boring as light bulbs. I’m actually more interested in how a light bulb works than some of these projects that are targeted at software developers for learning purposes.

There are tons of these dev hardware projects you can buy which usually are centered around having a camera. “Did you ever want to see in slow motion? Now you can.” “Never miss a moment.” Go ahead a miss the moment. Big foot is fake. There is not much point to this anymore.

I see a lot of projects that hunt out developers as customers, but I can’t get excited for them most of the time. I think Playdate is one of the highest quality of this type of product. Behind that is some of the holographic 3D displays they are making now that use 3D pixels. They can go for $200. Pretty cheap.

Augmented reality is very lame to me. I think most of the hope for useful AR applications has been snuffed out long ago. Its the same question asked a different way, “Why can’t you just google the answer? Why do you need to do x,y,z (go to college, call plumber, whatever)” The answer is, invariably, nobody has the data! A lot of good data is being held hostage or destroyed by greedy corporations. Its a winner take all world. Companies are reluctant to have a brand new game.

bottlero_cketon Programming as Play

You can do all of that already from immediate mode in both pico 8 and tic 80.

bottlero_cketon Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1435827240286109702?s=46...

there’s a good example of 25 seconds of constant bombardment for InfoWorld visitors. I cant count the popups.

bottlero_cketon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

Xah has written a lot of great informative and opinion content on his blog. There is like a decade of posts covering a large span of topics like math, emacs, web dev, etc.

This is just one post I bookmarked, but you can link dive wikipedia-style.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.htm...

bottlero_cketon I would happily ditch the selfie camera for a full-screen phone

Yeah “the notch” has been around for a long time now. Anyway, the notch is very functional and very useful. Without it, you can only handle the phone by its sides. With it, you can easily pass the phone by placing your thumb on the notch. A full screen phone would be very cumbersome especially with how big phones are nowadays.