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mfkp··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Yes, openrouter providers are all over the place (in a bad way): https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/

I've experienced this firsthand and now I generally pin to providers that I trust on openrouter, or just pony up and pay for the real thing.

mfkp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
For the avgeeks: Turning ads-b feeding into a game: https://adsb.win/
mfkp··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
The best part about Kagi is you can set it to redirect reddit links to old.reddit.com to avoid the enshittification
mfkp··on Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted
Looks interesting, but in order to actually compete with any e-signing platform you'll at the very least need to have templates with pre-filled information, an API to autofill docs with required information, and more field types. Right now for example, you can only add text, checkbox, and date/signature fields. Checkboxes are required to be checked (no making them optional), so if there are multiple checkbox options, they have to check them all to continue. Not very useful for actual e-signing flows.
mfkp··on Telegram Serverless
Probably doesn't cost much at all to run some servers to spin up javascript functions, compared to their massive storage costs. It's at best a fraction of a percent of total costs.

Whether or not they (or discord for that matter) can sustain a profitable business in the long term is another question.

mfkp··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Just had to look this up, impressive specs for a Subaru. They've had some pretty lackluster EVs in the past (along with Toyota), but this one actually seems like a good combination of range and performance (375hp equivalent and 281 miles of range). Doesn't have super fast charging, which isn't a dealbreaker at the pricepoint.

I've got a Volvo C40 currently which is 400hp and likewise impressively fast, but the range is absolute trash (230mi claimed, usually more like 200mi). Otherwise the vehicle is nearly perfect.

mfkp··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
I absolutely can't stand the suspension on Teslas, some of the worst ride quality of any modern vehicle.
mfkp··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
They used to, before they got bought out by private equity and started jacking up the rates. Moved all my domains to porkbun since then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243123

mfkp··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet
mfkp··on I Built a Telegram Client for Pi
This is awesome, I use telegram as my main chat app with all of my friends and coworkers. Now I need to figure out how to dockerize this and run it on my NAS so it's not reliant on my laptop being online.

Maybe can figure out a workflow to make a branch, deploy it and give me a cloudflare tunnel link to test it, and if approved merge the changes into main branch and deploy to prod. The vibes are off the charts.

mfkp··on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
Highly recommend setting up your own photo hosting and backup. People love Immich, but ente.io is also great! Much better than trusting your photos to a single microSD card which may die at any moment.
mfkp··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
Seems like it actually loads a PNG image now, maybe the npm script adds some additional headers to trigger the payload.
mfkp··on Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
Now it's showing "self registration is currently disabled, please contact customer support"
mfkp··on Southwest Headquarters Tour
This actually isn't the case anymore, plenty of non-US airlines allow beards and the new masks still provide perfect oxygen flow. It's more of a "professional image" thing in the US.
mfkp··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Also happy to test it out on Gnome
mfkp··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
I was a day after you, march 27th. #67730
mfkp··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
Yes, and my point is that the (supposedly) real human is also AI. You're chatting with a bot.
mfkp··on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
Yeah I think it's something like a 20+ year lifespan, I doubt I'll even be living in the same house in 20 years.
mfkp··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
Then please explain what you're talking about.
mfkp··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
If you don't think that OF models are using AI to reply to incoming chats from users, well I've got a bridge to sell ya.
mfkp··on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
I got an electric one so I never need to remember to replace mine!
mfkp··on Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
Yeah, it's only at a 6.355B market cap, complete failure!
mfkp··on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Wow, very angry and uninformed comment. No airplane owners are lobbying for lead. As a pilot with a personal airplane that runs on avgas, we all want lead to go away too. But it's a problem with FAA regulations, and an infrastructure problem where every airport nationwide needs to have separate fuel tanks/trucks with leaded fuel and the newer lead-free alternatives simultaneously, which is a massive expense. Plus, there is no consensus on which lead-free alternative is safest for old engines, so we're still waiting on data.

California has a few airports that are stocking the lead-free alternatives, but that's about it.

But yes, blame the small aircraft owners if it makes you feel better.

> "piston engine aircraft carry virtually no vital role in anything except people flying them for fun"

I guess we just shouldn't train new pilots then.

mfkp··on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
Just got a new OnePlus 15 last month and it has an IR blaster built in. Works great
mfkp··on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
Like what? I just checked and it shows that the system launcher on OnePlus has used exactly 0 data.
mfkp··on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
You know you can export your Nova configuration and import it on a new phone, right?
mfkp··on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
I recently switched to a OnePlus 15 and Nova Launcher had a really annoying 0.5-1 second delay every time you went back home.

I've been a paid Nova user and used it on every android device for the past 10 years or so.

I ended up migrating to the stock OnePlus launcher and it's actually surprisingly good, other than you have to disable the stupid google recommended page every time you reboot the phone, so I'm still open to alternatives.

mfkp··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Some cars do this. Audi and Porsche (if I recall correctly) use the disc brakes for the first couple stops each drive to knock off the rust if there's any build up. I think I remember reading that Ford uses the real brakes if you're under 5mph. I'm sure other manufacturers do something similar (other than Tesla which apparently doesn't do anything to help).
mfkp··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
- Reddit cutting off API access for third party clients
mfkp··on iCloud Photos Downloader
Or ente photos: https://ente.io/
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