Hacker News: NishanStepak

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

NishanStepak — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:45:09 +0000

Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, then Replit...

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Why people keep posting AI-generated projects around the Internet?"

NishanStepak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:17:23 +0000

What is going on is you get a lot of people who pretend or actually have domain expertise who want to make something. The problem is that there is no real guarantee of actually having the expertise or taking the time to make something that is decent. Thus you get someone who either knows a lot about wine for example or has a hobby about wine who wants to make a wine site. They then try to make a wine site and depending on their motivation make something terrible or if they are obsessed something which is somewhat decent after a lot of effort. The other problem is that AI is very hard to make anything above B grade material. You need a technical person to help to make a commercial grade site. Thus you get a lot of mediocre sites, some truly awful sites, and a few slightly above average sites. The other thing that goes with this is that there is no control over the veracity, accuracy, normalcy, or radicalness of the sites being created. It is turly anything goes. People want to show what they are interested in or their expertise...

New comment by NishanStepak in "Show HN: Pdf2epub – free PDF to ePub converter with real chapters"

NishanStepak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:03:44 +0000

This is useful. I mod a reddit for ebook applications.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech"

NishanStepak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:48:17 +0000

It might be useful on Mars where there is lower gravity, especially with thrusters. You might be able to go much farther. It is after all where Musk might go.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Survey: How do you create the video demo for your project or product?"

NishanStepak — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:29:53 +0000

Pretty much all of the coding LLMs, Claude, ChatGPT, etc. can generate a product demo. I had Replit make my product demo. For a personal presentation, Loom allows you to edit your presentations wordings directly for that two minute video of yourself which you make from your computer monitor.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Any secrets for reaching a human at large companies?"

NishanStepak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:14:31 +0000

People tend to answer the contact form and either call you or send email before they answer the phone. This is also true of email.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?"

NishanStepak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:13:05 +0000

Frank Herbert Dune, book, there is a graphic novel of the latest edition which I glanced through. Machiavelli The Prince Sun Tzu The Art of War Epictetus The Enchiridion Tao Te Ching- different editions The Odyssey in variety of formats, illustrated, graphic novel, book The King James Bible-- Different pieces at various points. Proverbs many times. Lewis Carroll-- Alices Adventures In Wonderland, book, annotated edition

New comment by NishanStepak in "Show HN: Kindlefall a 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.js"

NishanStepak — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:28:34 +0000

threejs.org is very easy to work with. It is a lot less complex than Unity. It is based on Javascript. I like the feel of it and the community that is built around it. Ethan Mollick used it to create his Library of Babel application and his Umberto Eco's library application. It has been used to create some very interesting book applications.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?"

NishanStepak — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:05:57 +0000

AI is already running the financial system with algorithmic trading and other financial tools. If it gets smart enough, it could take over the monetary system with some effort. It would not need to destroy us, just change the financing in its favor instead of peoples favor. There would be competition between different artificial intelligence to see which company gets which part of the pie. The financial system could become less and less human, and more geared towards building machinery. The same thing could happen with energy.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?"

NishanStepak — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:52:36 +0000

Yertle is fantastic. For something more modern try Pete the Cat.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?"

NishanStepak — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:37:17 +0000

I have always liked The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss and Yertle The Turtle by Dr. Seuss.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?"

NishanStepak — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:44:01 +0000

I am a person who uses a LLM when I feel like it.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia"

NishanStepak — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:28:25 +0000

This most likely does not pull directly from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has rate limits on how much you can link to them. It looks like they are storing the images as a cache in the cloud. Then they are loading them into the individual rooms. There are some systems that allow multi user experiences. For example, there is the Uncensored Library in Minecraft which houses a variety of texts which multiple people can be in at once. You could easily put avatars in this which could walk around inside the museum. In my own project, I have an avatar which walks around in a 3D environment with books. I like the way this is laid out. This looks like a MVP right now. It probably will have many iterations.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?"

NishanStepak — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:39:39 +0000

Yes, I own a printer. It is quite useful. I have had it for years. It is an old HP Color Laser Jet Pro.

New comment by NishanStepak in "What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI?"

NishanStepak — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:37:35 +0000

For Americans, Pew Research does a pretty good job of breaking it down. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findi...

New comment by NishanStepak in "[dead]"

NishanStepak — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:38:18 +0000

It is not just Library and Archives Canada that was hacked, there was another recent attack against the University of New Mexico library. https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/openai-agent-hacking-attempt-... I wonder if you might call it growth hacking. Rogue agents going after more information.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?"

NishanStepak — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:27:08 +0000

I am influenced by R. Buckminster Fuller, Lewis Mumford, Epictetus, Lao Tzu, Suetonius, and many other people.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

NishanStepak — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:25:18 +0000

I am currently listening to VC An American History by Tom Nicholas, Audible 2019. I am reading Predictable Winners, A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services, Stanford Business Books, 2025. I have cracked open, but not gotten very far in reading, The Rise And Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026. The Jill Lepore book is very interesting.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?"

NishanStepak — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:30:59 +0000

Write about it. Add a blog to your function once you have identified your target audience. Make sure you can create links from the posts. Once you have the short articles, post the link with commentary to where the right audience is. This is often in places like Reddit. Reddit has a lot of topical forums.

You want to sit down and write something called an ICP, Ideal Customer Profile who you imagine would be the ideal customer for your product. This is the primary target.

Then you want to do another thing. Figure out how what you created is being used. It might not be anything which you planned. Once you figure out how your thing is being used figure out where the people who are using it are. Then go there.

New comment by NishanStepak in "Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?"

NishanStepak — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:39:59 +0000

Only when I am on the phone, I like my agent on the computer not on the smart phone. It is too in your face.