typon's comments

On: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

[typon]

Is this why Google Search has been getting better and better every year?

[stickfigure → typon]

Not fair - Google Search is under constant and escalating attack. If we replaced current Google Search with the 2000s implementation it would be immediately dominated by spam and SEO hacks. Simple PageRank doesn't work anymore.

[olyjohn → stickfigure]

It currently is dominated by spam and SEO hacks. Unless you're trying to find Amazon or Home Depot. They've done fuck all to make it better in the last few years.

[dzhiurgis → stickfigure]

DuckDuckGo index is just as good, but page itself isn't a piece of garbage like google. Heck even yahoo search has better ux now.

[codezero → typon]

It was, until Matt Cutts left.

[ATMLOTTOBEER → typon]

You actually bolster his point by using search as an example: search has been completely eaten alive by a better alternative (ai chat).

[carlosjobim → typon]

It's probably getting better and better every year for the customers, ie the advertisers.

[bobsmooth → typon]

It's why Kagi and DuckDuckGo exist.

On: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

[typon]

The website design and content are much nicer than the "ideas" here. Just standard LLM slop once if you actually have read some of these books.

On: Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

[typon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS_Office

500 million users. Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean an alternative doesn't exist.

[71bw → typon]

Issue is, the WPS office suite is more bloated with ads than even Microsoft's offerings are, and, overall, is quite a doozy to navigate.

If you want a true and good alternative, I'd recommend ONLYOFFICE[1].

[1] https://www.onlyoffice.com/

[dabockster → 71bw]

WPS Office is Chinese. OnlyOffice is Russian.

Those really only exist because of Western tech sanctions.

[reciprocity → 71bw]

OpenOffice is no longer actively developed. It was replaced by LibreOffice quite awhile ago.

[its_notjack → reciprocity]

The comment links to OnlyOffice, which is a different app suite from OpenOffice.

[reciprocity → its_notjack]

I appreciate the correction; I misread that. Thanks.

[tallanvor → typon]

It's not going to be a valid alternative in the west - certainly not something any government would even consider.

[caminante → typon]

"alternative" is doing a lot of lifting here.

While more efficient in some areas, it's missing a lot of quality of life tools plus legal/compliance/security tooling.

[G3rn0ti → typon]

While there does not seem to be a maintained snap or flagpole package available, the company behind WPS Office releases DEBs and RPMs it seems: https://www.tech2geek.net/how-to-install-wps-office-on-linux...

On: Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3

[typon]

ideally you should get a deduction in later years

On: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash

[typon]

have you considered not all ideas are good and maybe they shouldn't see the light of day?

On: What is intelligence? (2024)

[typon]

I often wonder whether neuroscience on LLMs is harder or humans?

On: ChatGPT Atlas

[typon]

This xkcd comic doesn't apply anymore due to AI making generating automation code trivial.

[TranquilMarmot → typon]

You're discounting the mental effort that goes into describing what you want to an LLM and then verifying the output, which is only worth it if it actually saves you time. Doing a simple search for a few DVDs does not seem worth the effort to me.

[mapontosevenths → TranquilMarmot]

It wasn't a few. There are literally thousands of films that never made the leap from VHS to DVD. My starting list was only a few hundred, but still it saved me hours.

On: Sora 2

[typon]

This is terrible

On: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

[typon]

Can't wait till ChatGPT responses look like this

On: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

[typon]

This looks amazing. I love tech in Lindy products that actually works well.