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I may be a biased Genesis Kid, but SEGA was always ahead of its time.

Blocking Pinterest and those ad-riddled Stack Overflow clones that were everywhere has been a game changer. Only seeing the `old.reddit.com` domain is also much more pleasant. The …

The rate of Issues opened on a popular repo is at least one order of magnitude beyond the number of Issues whoever is able to deal with them can handle.

Just trying to triage and tag all of them can still be a full-time job’s worth of work in a popular repo.

ISPs also have different levels of service for different entities, and seem to just barely care about you as a customer. An ISP (like one that starts with the first letter of the a…

Not another one. The bears broke my brain enough the first time I encountered that “stain” where my memory clearly had it labeled “stein.”

I hate in-app browsers, too, but there is a Slack setting that will let you open in Chrome or Safari (choosing Safari opens whatever your default iOS browser is). You can change th…

This seems to completely ignore, and maybe even dismiss, the lived experience of all the kids who weren’t diagnosed or treated but who developed coping mechanisms to survive school…

Switching search engines is a pretty low lift, especially if the one you are switching from is an ad-riddled mess where you can’t actually find what you’re looking for. Switched to…

There are some pretty awesome small, unique bars in Boston, but there could be so, so many more if the liquor license laws and rent prices were more reasonable, though.

We’ll just have an LLM write the tests. Now we can work on our passion projects and everything will just be LLMs talking to LLMs.

Interestingly, the Kagi Assistant managed to find this thread while researching the question, but every model I tested (without access to the higher quality Ultimate plan models) w…

Maybe there is some optimization logic that only appends tool details that are required for the user’s query? I’m sure they are trying to slash tokens where they can, and removing …

Do the project a favor and remove the sticky nav bar on mobile. It takes up almost half the screen and makes the content nearly impossible to digest.

Good point! I forgot there was a smaller one out there already. OpenAI’s naming conventions have gotten out of hand. I believe the “o” is supposed to mean “Omni” and indicate that …

Seems a bit unfair (or maybe just ill-informed?) to lump this in with the confusing mess that is model naming at OpenAI. The parameter count is more more useful and concrete inform…

I know there is actual data and then there’s “anecdata,” but it’s hard to reconcile the “jobs go unfilled,” and the experience I know of everyone actually looking for a job right n…

I don't disagree with you, but one interesting consideration is that embedding it in a web page seems better than most other distribution mechanisms if you want average people to u…

This is a bummer. Went to Life and Trust in January and really enjoyed it. We were hoping to go back later this year. I only made it to Sleep No More once before it ended, and wish…

It’s probably worth noting that they do offer a refund of your subscription price if you don’t perform searches in a given month, which is pretty much the opposite of how every oth…

“Allowing zoom” and “being responsive” are not two states at odds with one another. Preventing zooming is a serious accessibility issue and it makes the content worse for every use…

This is kind of a ridiculous take. Not going to speak for the author, but some of us just want to be able to write a blog post and publish it in our free time. We're not trying to …

Based on the website, was this published in 2016? The job market in 2016 is unrecognizable to anyone who has had to look for a job recently. It is absolutely brutal out there right…

Given the way accessibility is often an afterthought at best, this is a really good question. Would love to hear about some of the experiences that screen reader users and other fo…

Just as a heads up, the Firefox iOS app makes it super easy to set Kagi to your default search engine. I think it might have even just sync’d over from my desktop settings? I never…