Hacker News: Footprint0521

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

Footprint0521 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:02:29 +0000

At some point I should post it, I got deepseek to fully reverse engineer the d2 tala engine binary (the sota for diagrams to code with ER ones), and I’m pretty close to an open source looking Go build with 1:1 parity

Once that’s done I guess I can just clean room design it to wasm and post it on npm lol

Goals for someday

New comment by Footprint0521 in "AI coding at home without going broke"

Footprint0521 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:29 +0000

I’ve been doing this too, it’s a cheat code! 1/100th of the price of Claude/openai prices for 95% of the quality. Site is platform.deepseek.com for that. No image generation, just text, but if you use it right it works great

New comment by Footprint0521 in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

Footprint0521 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:13:02 +0000

I wasn’t planning on it, but it could be kind of fun to do a write up

New comment by Footprint0521 in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

Footprint0521 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:12:25 +0000

Oh 100%! But this still ended up being super fun, and I did mine differently with micro python and a knock off raspberry pi pico (cheaper on Amazon plus usb c) not to mention custom modes (keytar, strum)

It’s definitely not rocket science, but I have enjoyed having more control of it directly, as a musician, to tune it to what actually makes it make sense and be legitimately playable

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

Footprint0521 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:06:11 +0000

$10-15k in tokens??? Holy frick someone tell this man about deepseek-v4-pro and quick

New comment by Footprint0521 in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

Footprint0521 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:49:02 +0000

This makes me so happy, because I have totally made my new side project lately lol

I just recently turned an old guitar hero controller into a fully functioning midi controller and it took so a little time. It actually makes me laugh

I swear the bar with AI now is just the craziest things that you can think of

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

Footprint0521 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:35:28 +0000

Made a fully autonomous Facebook marketplace scraper so that I get telegram notifications of car deals

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

Footprint0521 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:59:30 +0000

The video url is down? This sounds super interesting!

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Footprint0521 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:04:31 +0000

Why not just 2captcha it and go on with your life?

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

Footprint0521 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:51 +0000

We should talk! I have a cli that does exactly this, I was able to reverse engineer the MainStage concert format

New comment by Footprint0521 in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

Footprint0521 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:04:45 +0000

Buying it now to test this out, I’ve been looking for a model that doesn’t treat me like a child lol

New comment by Footprint0521 in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

Footprint0521 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:40:39 +0000

Dude I was thinking exactly that, might have to mod my f0 momentum firmware

New comment by Footprint0521 in "We accepted surveillance as default"

Footprint0521 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:13:43 +0000

Use signal and disable notification previews… Apple saves even cleared notification text previews on device, which the feds just used in a recent case…

New comment by Footprint0521 in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

Footprint0521 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:26:10 +0000

Say what you want but the layoffs of people who don’t use these tools getting replaced with those who can have and continue to happen; I miss manual coding just as much as the next man but this seems like a hot take

New comment by Footprint0521 in "AirPods Max 2"

Footprint0521 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:25:24 +0000

I had this exact problem on my AirPod pros too! It is the internal mic, but if you forcefully suck the air out from the black mesh microphone openings, it gets rid of it.

There’s some random form of someone out there who figured this out, so credit to them, but this fixed mine (I couldn’t bear transparency mode for the longest time lol)

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

Footprint0521 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:26:50 +0000

changes sleep schedule

New comment by Footprint0521 in "FrameBook"

Footprint0521 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:16:40 +0000

Scrolled down just to find this comment

I was initially so happy to see a Linux build that looked so much like macOS, but then saw windows 11 pro on the about, and died inside..

I guess that’s why it has 64 gb of ram, so that there’s 10 left for applications after windows is done lol

New comment by Footprint0521 in "LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy"

Footprint0521 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:00:53 +0000

40 year old software dev in Detroit Michigan?

Not that I care, and that could be wildly off, but opsec is a wide term… and Claude one shot that… so safe out there bro, AI is wild

New comment by Footprint0521 in "Facebook is cooked"

Footprint0521 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:05:49 +0000

This is why I gave up on social media

New comment by Footprint0521 in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

Footprint0521 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:30:41 +0000

Thanks!! Had to at least ask lol