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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:55AM (#49693389)
https://nonofocus.com/
I’ve always had the same problem with website blockers: I might need YouTube for a tutorial related to what I’m working on, but allowing YouTube also means allowing every unrelated video. Same with Hacker News - I might need to look something up for work, but I shouldn’t end up reading the front page for the next 30 minutes. Most blockers operate at the domain/app level, but whether something is distracting really depends on what you’re trying to do.
With Nono, you describe what you intend to work on at the start of a focus session. It then uses an on-device model to look at the active window in that context. So a relevant YT video can stay open, while an unrelated video gets blocked.
The tricky part right now is the model. It needs to be small and fast to run continuously, while still being capable enough to understand the context and not annoy you with false positives.
Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it withou...
on Friday August 21, 2026 @09:00AM (#49387453)
“ The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” is a must watch documentary.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:17AM (#49257816)
I’ve always had the same problem with website blockers: I might need YouTube for a tutorial related to what I’m working on, but allowing YouTube also means allowing every unrelated video. Same with Hacker News - I might need to look something up for work, but I shouldn’t end up reading the front page for the next 30 minutes.
Most blockers operate at the domain/app level, but whether something is distracting really depends on what you’re trying to do.
With Nono, you describe what you intend to work on at the start of a focus session. It then uses an on-device model to look at the active window in that context. So a relevant YT video can stay open, while an unrelated video gets blocked.
The tricky part right now is the model. It needs to be small and fast to run continuously, while still being capable enough to understand the context and not annoy you with false positives.
Re:Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5...
on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:56AM (#48976534)
This might help https://chatgpt.com/cyber ease the guardrails a bit.
Re:Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:16PM (#46903728)
ClawHavoc: 341 Malicious Clawed Skills Found by the Bot They Were Targeting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901092
Re:Why Vector DBs Are the Wrong Abstraction – and What We Built Instead
on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:02PM (#43333817)
Multi-tenancy: how do you keep it fair? If some dude in another team runs a crazy expensive query, does that just wreck everyone else’s perf? We’ve seen this happen in other distributed systems where ‘fair scheduling’ is more of a wish than reality.
Re:GitHub Incident History
on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:09AM (#35358374)
They had outage on 15 business days this month. January and February weren’t much better. We don’t want to migrate due to a lot of history on Github, but it is starting to have a significant impact on productivity.
Re:Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 ...
on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:20AM (#22441800)
Vehicles like this one are usually targeted at young people that can't yet get a license for a standard car (usually you need to be 18 in EU), but can get a license for vehicles with max speed of 45km/h from ±15 (depending on country).
Re:JavaScript debugging with semantic highlighting
on Sunday May 25, 2014 @11:24AM (#7796532)
Great ideas! Do you plan to support node.js?
Bitcoin is experiencing its longest stretch of price stability
The world’s first Facebook Grill
Volkswagen Website Redesign
Re:Interactive map of all scientific papers from the arXiv
on Monday September 02, 2013 @10:30AM (#6315300)
On http://scicurve.com/ you can visualize networks of papers based on biomedical data.
The Windows Store Crosses 50,000 Available Apps For Windows 8 And Windows RT
Re:git playback
on Monday May 14, 2012 @02:23PM (#3972400)
I think fade effect would be better, because it's easier to see what changed.
Thesis about security readable only under UV light
Twitter client for R
Register your domain from space
Re:Ask HN: free online tool for project coordination?
on Friday January 27, 2012 @01:22PM (#3519392)
If you need mainly to discuss your project or track changes, please drop me an email at [email protected] and I'll create you an account and we can get in touch.
Re:Ask HN: Where to get dedicated or cloud Solid State Disk based server
on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @06:24AM (#3479094)
How I imagine Launch pages to look like
Re:What is Microsoft’s vision?
on Saturday December 31, 2011 @03:55AM (#3410512)
Launch an experiment, plant a flag
Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @04:25AM (#3395254)
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Ask HN: Naming service
Do you know any good alternatives to http://startupgods.com/ naming service?
Animated CSS3 buttons
Re:Show HN: Guided Recipe Creation
on Monday November 21, 2011 @01:17PM (#3262110)
Cooking + statistics = ♥
Design is really nice, I'll just make hover menu font little bigger and changed the color of "ask a question" btn.
Re:Ask HN: What on earth does "start-up" mean these days?
on Monday November 21, 2011 @05:51AM (#3260681)
Today, startup is everything you want that has something with entrepreneurship.
Re:Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
on Monday November 21, 2011 @05:37AM (#3260656)
It's same in Outlook and other mail apps.