Hacker News: RayVR

New comment by RayVR in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

RayVR — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:58:38 +0000

Who cares?

I used Claude code to build a custom notes application for my specific requirements.

It’s not perfect, but I barely invested 10 hours in it and it does almost everything I could have asked for, plus some really cool stuff that mostly just works after one iteration. I’ll probably open source the code at some point, and I fully expect the project to have less than two stars.

Still, I have my application.

For anyone that’s interested in taking a look, my terrible landing page is at rayvroberts.com

Auto updates don’t work quite right just yet. You have to manually close the app after the update downloads, because it is still sandboxed from when I planned to distribute via the Mac App Store. Rejected in review because users bring their own Claude key.

New comment by RayVR in "The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers"

RayVR — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:40:30 +0000

These bear related sayings always make me laugh. The one I was told by a Russian: “don’t argue over how to skin the bear before you’ve killed it”

New comment by RayVR in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

RayVR — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:03:50 +0000

That’s hilarious

New comment by RayVR in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

RayVR — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:04:50 +0000

This is powerful. You’re finally saying the quiet part out loud.

New comment by RayVR in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

RayVR — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:01:56 +0000

Did you read the article? Author is talking about humans relying on chatbots to formulate all their responses for them without strict direction and refinement.

New comment by RayVR in "The Codex App"

RayVR — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:43:44 +0000

I'm sorry, but the music on the demo video is the most atrocious nonsense. I know it's crazy, but it makes me hate the app. openAI is falling off hard.

New comment by RayVR in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

RayVR — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:25:18 +0000

I have often found proton’s intrusive marketing campaigns annoying.

I use them for email and that’s all I want. Every time they market some new product to me, I get closer to moving to a new provider.

New comment by RayVR in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

RayVR — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:35:12 +0000

Every time I open threads it’s mostly ChatGPT garbage from wannabe tech or finance influencers.

New comment by RayVR in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

RayVR — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:19:17 +0000

I think the key thing here is in point 2.

I’ve wanted a good markdown editor with automatic synchronization. I used to used inkdrop. Which I stopped using when the developer/owner raised the price to $120/year.

In a couple hours with Claude code, I built a replacement that does everything I want, exactly the way I want. Plus, it integrates native AI chat to create/manage/refine notes and ideas, and it plugs into a knowledge RAG system that I also built using Claude code.

What more could I ask for? This is a tool I wanted for a long time but never wanted to spend the dozens of hours dealing with the various pieces of tech I simply don’t care about long-term.

This was my AI “enlightenment” moment.

New comment by RayVR in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

RayVR — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:45:45 +0000

Why should anthropic open source Claude Code CLI? I understand you and some others want it, maybe it would be better for the community, but is it what’s best for anthropic?

Why should subscribers get your specific discount rather than what anthropic has calculated the discount should be?

New comment by RayVR in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

RayVR — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:52:39 +0000

I saw that rootmy.tv works for some versions of webos.

New comment by RayVR in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

RayVR — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:22:22 +0000

I'm not arguing that human brains are magic. the current AI models will probably teach us more about what we didn't know about intelligence than anything else.

New comment by RayVR in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

RayVR — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:03:10 +0000

Are you a stream of words or are your words the “simplistic” projection of your abstract thoughts? I don’t at all discount the importance of language in so many things, but the question that matters is whether statistical models of language can ever “learn” abstract thought, or become part of a system which uses them as a tool.

My personal assessment is that LLMs can do neither.

New comment by RayVR in "The new calculus of AI-based coding"

RayVR — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:10:05 +0000

I feel terrible for anyone relying on anything you produce as a proompt engineer

New comment by RayVR in "J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange"

RayVR — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:49:41 +0000

This author obviously has no experience with investment banks.

OpenAI is massive, fairly risky, associated with Microsoft, etc. all true. What matters to JPM is potential future business. There’s potentially an enormous IPO in the future. The credit line is just good business. They are fostering the relationship.

New comment by RayVR in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

RayVR — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:19:30 +0000

Interesting. Not my experience at all. It makes mistakes that GPT-4 used to make: mixing languages (using Python syntax in C++ when I never asked any Python questions), imagining API calls that don’t exist in Google’s own products, writing 50 lines of C++ then inserting pseudo code or completely broken syntax.

New comment by RayVR in "Grok 4 Fast"

RayVR — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:55:57 +0000

A faster model that outperforms its slower version on multiple benchmarks? Can anyone explain why that makes sense? Are they simply retraining on the benchmark tests?

New comment by RayVR in "macOS Tahoe"

RayVR — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:15:22 +0000

I am a vim user. I map caps lock to super for a dead simple app shortcut system. I prefer being able to switch applications perfectly over a more convenient escape key. macOS app switching is broken by default.

New comment by RayVR in "Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese"

RayVR — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 05:43:45 +0000

You’re just wrong. There are multiple pieces to learning languages. I had immense success with wanikani, improving my listening and reading.

Speaking can only be improved by speaking. No amount of language intake will improve output.

New comment by RayVR in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

RayVR — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:50:04 +0000

As an American, using it for technical projects, I find it extremely annoying. The only tactic I’ve found that helps is telling it to be highly critical. I still get overly positive starts but the response is more useful.