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mkbknon Anyone miss a flip phone with buttons? Anyone?

I miss the phones with physical QWERTY keypad buttons.

mkbknon Ask HN: Alternative to Proton Mail?

There's Kagi Mail.

mkbknon Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

.gl works for me.

mkbknon Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?

How about using a dedicated paper notebook to log everything that comes to your mind related to this illness?

And also, if the illness is somehow related to food/habits, more or less, then that could also be tracked - like what you're eating and how your body responded afterwards (I mean, within, let's say, 24 hours).

mkbknon Mistral OCR 4.1

> The important thing to keep in mind is that there's no prompting needed, just upload the PDF and voila!

I'm sorry, noob here. I have a special book that I bought which I can open only inside the Kindle app (Windows/mobile). I have been meaning to screenshot the pages and convert them into a document/PDF. What do I have to do to make it fast? Just upload all the screenshots one by one and tell Mistral "Chat" to OCR them?

mkbknon Ask HN: What browser do you use?

Zen browser - based on Firefox.

Brave browser - when things don't work on Zen/Firefox.

mkbknon Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?

$20 for Claude on my personal email - fully reimbursed by my company.

Personal use is much greater than use for company purposes.

mkbknon Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

Entire public Meta suite of products are cancer to the society.

mkbknon France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

As soon as I realise it's a spam call, I just put myself on mute and let the spammer blabber himself/herself. They get frustrated and never call me again.

mkbknon Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf

Is there a simple tool to download YouTube transcripts with speaker identification?

mkbknon One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens

And how much water?

mkbknon Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars

Plant fuckingmore trees. As many as one can imagine and then some more.

mkbknon Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?

It satisfies my intellectual curiosity.

Plis, I can't stand low-value/unproductive discussions/trash talk that is omnipresent elsewhere.

mkbknon Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

I don't remember but probably it was StumbleUpon. Around 2012.

mkbknon Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?

Step 1: Stop using Google. You can try Kagi for web search.

mkbknon Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?

Zen browser - based on Firefox

mkbknon Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?

I skip if I realise or come to know it's an AI-generated text or image. Especially images.

mkbknon Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

Postcrossing

mkbknon Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?

Jack up your price and offer a 5% discount if they you in full upfront before starting the work.

mkbknon White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit

What do you think of the Indian IT companies? Will they survive the AI onslaught? Where do you see them in the next five years?

mkbknon Claude Sonnet 4.6

Perhaps AI wrote the announcement.

mkbknon Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?

This is very smart. Thank you for sharing this.

I am not a developer. Could you explain the process in a bit more detail? I want to build the same command. I only have the $20 subscription for Claude. Do I need to create a project and create a learning profile.md file and feed what I already know? And then what do I do?

Sorry if that's too many questions.

mkbknon Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

Non-tech guy here. How much RAM & CPU will it consume? I have 2 laptops - one with Windows 11 and another with Linux Mint.

Can it run on these two OS? How to install it in a simple way?

mkbknon Ask HN: Any International Job Boards for International Workers?

Upwork

mkbknon Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place

Plant trees.

mkbknon Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)

Either a typewriter or a paper notebook

mkbknon Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages

I am on Android. Could you make the app on this platform too?