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Re:Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase? on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:24AM (#48058919)
Sometimes I do wonder about this. Some companies might get people used to AI first and then raise prices later, which could put many of us in a difficult position. But I also think Linux came out in a similar kind of environment, and in the end the community will find a way through it.
Re:Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:30AM (#48046506)
Because Rust deserves a blue-screen IDE from the olden days and someone had to do this...
Interesting zig rust combine.I like it.How is the performance?
Re:Ask HN: What to Expect in 2030s? on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:33AM (#47918370)
i will be farmer.
Re:GPT-5.5 on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:35AM (#47887389)
The '.5' models are always the actual production-ready versions. GPT-5 was for the mainstream hype, 5.5 is for the developers. I don't need it to be magically smarter; just give me lower latency, cheaper API tokens, and reliable tool-calling without hallucinations.
Fool me once... I still haven't forgiven him for Godus or the Curiosity cube. Now he's just sprinkling the current 'AI' buzzword on top of his usual over-promising. Wake me up when the actual game is out and reviewed.
Re:Can you review my online toolbox website? on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:57AM (#46525914)
I’d really like some blunt feedback on the UX + “what is this site even for” part. It’s basically an online toolbox of small utilities (networking stuff, text/data converters, encoders/decoders, lookup tools, etc). I’m trying to make it actually useful and easy to navigate, not just a random list of tools.

Questions (answer any subset, whatever you feel like):

In the first ~10 seconds, is it obvious what the site is for and who it’s for?

Does the homepage/categories feel too much / overwhelming? what would you simplify first?

How would you expect to find a tool on a site like this (search, tags, categories…)? what’s missing?

Trust/privacy wise: what would you need to see to feel comfortable using it (especially for paste/upload type tools)?

Anything that feels useless or duplicate that I should just remove/merge?

If you’d bookmark it: what 1–2 things would need to stand out?

Thanks in advance — genuinely appreciate any honest feedback.

Show HN: Omnvert Network Toolkits Ping/MTR,DNS,Headers,TLS,RDAP,PCAFlowsP→JSON

https://omnvert.com/en/category/network

I built Omnvert as a fast, privacy-first toolbox for the checks I repeat during incidents and deployments: ping/MTR, DNS propagation (recursive vs authoritative), redirect chains + headers, TLS handshake details, RDAP/WHOIS, ASN/prefix, subnet math — plus a small PCAP toolkit to turn captures into scriptable output (JSON/NDJSON), top conversations, and flow exports.

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