Hacker News: Cilvic

New comment by Cilvic in "We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall"

Cilvic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:50:32 +0000

I wonder if one clear sign is so much custom language that makes me wonder "is this lingo used in that field" but more often than not it's just the LLM trying to sound hyper-professional?

New comment by Cilvic in "Remote work is bad for you"

Cilvic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:28:32 +0000

I couldn't let it rest, I was kind of sure that something so profound was thought and spoken before. So here is a finding that other might find equally interesting:

https://genius.com/Kurt-vonnegut-joe-heller-annotated

Kurt Vonnegut: True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel 'Catch-22' has earned in its entire history?"

And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."

And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"

And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."

Not bad! Rest in peace!

New comment by Cilvic in "Show HN: Models Pie – LLMs ranked by fast / cheap / good tradeoffs"

Cilvic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:59:45 +0000

Super cool, I'm always interested in super high speed + quality. So I picked 50-50.

I'm trying cursor/composer mostly because it seems way faster than azure/aws/gcp

Anyways I'm probably doing, because most peers tell me the pick for intelligence and then let it run unattended "for ever" so ...

New comment by Cilvic in "Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves"

Cilvic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:41:34 +0000

Cool to see that you did transcription AND LLM for the diagram with "in-browser" / local.

Tangent: But I'm wondering whether there would be something from the browser side to enforce this?

Like a sandbox so that my browser allows me to launch this via "download" only so that after I download everything there is no way for the website to get any of my data.

As a (non-technical) user what kind of guarantee do I have that the prompts, transcript etc. are treated only local?

New comment by Cilvic in "Remote work is bad for you"

Cilvic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:38:03 +0000

Beautifully said about having enough. Thank you

New comment by Cilvic in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

Cilvic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:14:27 +0000

Best release notes I have seen in a while. I don't even work with movies/pics, but this was so easy to understand. Well done

New comment by Cilvic in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Cilvic — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:20:05 +0000

+1 for 1) I started to notice this problem when going from harness to harness (pi.dev/omp/dirac) I'd be eager to try out others, but I can't leave all my plugins behind!

New comment by Cilvic in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Cilvic — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:23:48 +0000

What's the url?

New comment by Cilvic in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Cilvic — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:50:19 +0000

Super cool, I'm not on mac so I can't try. But I work on something similar for niri on linux. Trying to keep my projects separate.

One additional level I see appearing are the worktress when having multiple AI agents run in paralell. So while they belong to the same project, each worktree has theire own ide + browser etc.

New comment by Cilvic in "Show HN: Git for AI Agents"

Cilvic — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:36:32 +0000

quite interested in this but I'm working pi/omp only at the moment.

Inspired by entire.io I've vibed a super small extension that seems similar to this: https://github.com/janmechtel/pintire

I expect this feature to eventually end up in the harness

New comment by Cilvic in "Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview"

Cilvic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:49:20 +0000

I assume that this benchmarks where done without any modifications to the default open-sourced harness. treesitter CLI would be an extra plugin for pi-mono, put I'd be equally curious about whether it would accomplish the task.

New comment by Cilvic in "Claude Brain"

Cilvic — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:50:58 +0000

I'm looking for something like this to use per project for pi.dev or oh-my-pi

edit: oh-my-pi has https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/blob/main/docs/memory.md which seems pretty close maybe i should try to use that more

New comment by Cilvic in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

Cilvic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:20:15 +0000

I can relate to this, in the past I felt like I could write down pages of projects to try if only I had time. Now my mind immediately goes towards "do I want to manage this long term after the initial spark".

New comment by Cilvic in "Is there any "cursor for excel / sheets""

Cilvic — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:46:13 +0000

I'm working on https://kontext21.com/x21 also Claude has their own add-in + shortcut ai + endex ...

New comment by Cilvic in "The Sami Paradox"

Cilvic — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:59:30 +0000

New comment by Cilvic in "Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything"

Cilvic — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:35:59 +0000

I was really intrigued by the title but "without installing anything" means "installing an extension" or not?

New comment by Cilvic in "AI Music Playlist Creator"

Cilvic — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:01:13 +0000

I'm waiting for this! But I'm to consumer / usage is rare for me to build from repo

how often did I pickup my phone and just want to say "Hey my parents are over for my 5yo's birthday can we have something upbeat while we eat cake" and then be able to follow up "less vocals and a bit slower" to adjust the mood.

New comment by Cilvic in "Why deterministic output from LLMs is nearly impossible"

Cilvic — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:16:42 +0000

So could SaaS LLM or cloud/api LLMs not offer this as an option? A guarantee that the "same prompt" will always produce the same result.

Also the way I usually interpret this "non-deterministic" a bit "broader".

Say i have have slightly different prompts "what's 2+2?" vs. "can you please tell me what's 2 plus 2" or even "2+2=?" or "2+2" for most applications it would be useful if they all produce the same result

New comment by Cilvic in "Ask HN: Cursor-like AI tool for Excel power users"

Cilvic — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:13:24 +0000

- write formulas for me (single cell but let me say in english what I want then give me the formula) - do more complex things like "add another week" (1) insert new column (2) copy all formulas (3) adjust the fixed date - Explain a sheet / formula / section - Help me understand where this value comes from - do large scale formatting adjustments/alignments - find discrepancies / inconsistencies

Ask HN: Cursor-like AI tool for Excel power users

Cilvic — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:14:55 +0000

I'm looking for a "real" "Cursor for Excel/Google Sheets" kind of tool.

All my tries with Gemini/MS Copilot where just bad so far.

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