Readit Newsadamkochanowicz commented on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image bitbytebit.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/recroad
Kagi is worth every penny.
adamkochanowicz commented on Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling · Posted by u/angelochecked
If your addiction has gotten this far, it's time to start labeling it as just that, and there's no shame in it.
At a certain point you need to accept that you will not be able to willpower your way out of it. You need systems and strategies in place that cut you off from your addiction.
That can look like a lot of things that I'm not going to try to stuff into an HN comment but here's what works for me:
- Leaving the house with a dumb phone. I recommend using an old smartphone that is meticulously stripped away from bad things over purchasing a flip phone. You're eventually going to need to call up an uber, scan a QR code, and other such smartphoney things you need a dumb phone to do. Leaving your environment is also key. If you must, bring your actual phone with you, but fully powered off.
- Using a feature on your phone to cut yourself off from YouTube on a scheduled basis. Most phones have something like this by default, but there are also some third party apps that take it a step further.
- Have something you enjoy to take the place of YouTube. Entertainment is healthy to an extent. Taken too far, it becomes a distraction from cognitive processes you need to be regularly engaging in, to say the least.
adamkochanowicz commented on Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar · Posted by u/nehasuresh1904
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Huh? What relation does that have to do with setting email filters?
adamkochanowicz commented on Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar · Posted by u/nehasuresh1904
The only reason I'm not downloading it is because 3 days not enough for me to evaluate it and I don't really want to have to add another reminder to cancel yet another subscription.
I never set reminders. I just cancel right away. 99.9% of the time, it will just end when the trial is over, or if I just want to pay for a month, when that period is over.
From what I can see, this just boils down to a system prompt to act like a study helper?
I would think you'd want to make something a little more bespoke to make it a fully-fledged feature, like interactive quizzes that keep score and review questions missed afterwards.
For those asking how this is different from a simple text based memory archive, I think that is answered here:
--- Unlike most memory systems—which act like basic sticky notes, only showing what’s true right now. C.O.R.E is built as a dynamic, living temporal knowledge graph:
Every fact is a first-class “Statement” with full history, not just a static edge between entities. Each statement includes what was said, who said it, when it happened, and why it matters. You get full transparency: you can always trace the source, see what changed, and explore why the system “believes” something. ---
adamkochanowicz commented on Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal itter.sh/... · Posted by u/rrr_oh_man
It didn't get much attention when I posted it earlier this week, but I made an SSH movie player:
ssh ansi.rya.nc
(currently shows Sneakers, complete with subtitles)
It looks completely garbled on my end
What an understatement. It has me thinking „man, fuck this“ on the daily.
Just today it spontaneously lost an entire 20-30 minutes long thread and it was far from the first time. It basically does it any time you interrupt it in any way. It’s straight up data loss.
It’s kind of a typical Google product in that it feels more like a tech demo than a product.
It has theoretically great tech. I particularly like the idea of voice mode, but it’s noticeably glitchy, breaks spontaneously often and keeps asking annoying questions which you can’t make it stop.
With Gemini, it will send as soon as I stop to think. No way to disable that.