Hacker News: Tsarp

New comment by Tsarp in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

Tsarp — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:53:12 +0000

Hmm please share more. I have had the max CC sub since it came out. Religiously follow all of Boris/Cats advice but still struggle with it. Meanwhile a really badly written AGENTS.md will still get the work done.

New comment by Tsarp in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

Tsarp — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:36:29 +0000

Wondering if enterprises have a modified version of CC that doesnt have to optimize to stop bleeding on fixed cost subscription plans.

The article really does not align with the current sentiment. Everyone with a choice has mostly moved on to codex (ofc in this world all it takes is a model update/harness update to turn things around).

CC is great at a lot of things, but repeatedly misses out reading on crucial parts of the code base, hallucinates on the work that was done and a bunch of other issues.

New comment by Tsarp in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"

Tsarp — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:08:32 +0000

Would be nice to see if this number dipped from before. International students typically end up paying out of station tuition and is a huge source of income for the univs.

New comment by Tsarp in "Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM"

Tsarp — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:54 +0000

Docker can be small too. In this example I was able to compile a full server (rust binary) and package it in a docker (scratch image base) and the total was < 5MB.

https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod/pkgs/container/kurpod-server

wasm version compiles to under a MB though!

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

Tsarp — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:42:55 +0000

Markdown based voice note taking

https://voicebraindump.com

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

Tsarp — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:42:25 +0000

https://carelesswhisper.app

New comment by Tsarp in "Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources"

Tsarp — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:49:36 +0000

Hmm, hoping this isn't a generic LLM generated response.

Skills have the scripts folder and you can precisely describe when and when not to use a script. This can end up directly wrapping API(s), CLIs, generic scripts or even other MCP servers.

CC and codex both have the skill creator and you can have them build the skill for you.

Havent run into any scenarios where skills were missing tools. 1-2 iterations and its usually taken care off quite quickly.

New comment by Tsarp in "Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources"

Tsarp — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:42:16 +0000

Doesn't Skills solve all of this?

OpenClaw, Hermes and other agents have already made skill adoption mainstream?

Are you guys still seeing a future where people are dumping entire MCP tool defs into context?

New comment by Tsarp in "Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection"

Tsarp — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:43:35 +0000

I indulge in coffee quite a bit too.

But the funding chain here is -

Major coffee companies illy | JDE Peet's | Lavazza | Paulig | Tchibo

↓

Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC)

↓

UCC/APC Microbiome Ireland study

↓

UCC press release → ScienceDaily article

New comment by Tsarp in "Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web"

Tsarp — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:22:25 +0000

RNNoise has a VAD inbuilt that works much better than silero.

https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise

New comment by Tsarp in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

Tsarp — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:16:36 +0000

https://voicebraindump.com

New comment by Tsarp in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

Tsarp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:29:03 +0000

One negative side to this is the time taken to review apps has gone up drastically.

New comment by Tsarp in "Veracrypt project update"

Tsarp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:29:11 +0000

Its not just a web interface. It creates a storage container that can grow and be compacted on the fly is fully portable.

New comment by Tsarp in "Veracrypt project update"

Tsarp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:10:58 +0000

For folks looking for a much simpler single binary alternative.

https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod

New comment by Tsarp in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

Tsarp — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:06:07 +0000

https://carelesswhisper.app

New comment by Tsarp in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

Tsarp — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:34:25 +0000

ASR has already proved its usefulness. Dictation tools are a prime example. Ever since whisper came out, usefulness for AST models running locally suddenly became a thing. Opened up soo many variants

https://superwhisper.com

https://carelesswhisper.app

https://macwhisper.com

New comment by Tsarp in "Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium"

Tsarp — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:44:52 +0000

lanceDB and underlying lance works well as append only right? Wont you have to do index maintenance often for a chat access pattern?

New comment by Tsarp in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

Tsarp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:18:13 +0000

Not sure how that was the take away from both the posts above.

I read the blog post and your website but unfortunately didnt help change my perspective.

Thanks for the share

New comment by Tsarp in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

Tsarp — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:23:51 +0000

"LLMs themselves are a graph database with probabilistic edge traversal" whaat?

Do you have any good demos to showcase where graph DBs clearly have an advantage? Its mostly just toy made demos.

vector embeddings on the other hand no matter how limited clearly have proven themselves useful beyond youtube/linkedin thought leader demos.

New comment by Tsarp in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

Tsarp — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:15:56 +0000

Did it start around the covid/ WFH time? There are a few theories

1. Airpods or ANC

2. WFH ->. Less movement -> stiff muscles around neck and head -> head trasnfer frequencies changing

3. Covid vaccine