Hacker News: andrewfromx

The Chevy Nova That Wouldn't Go: This Commonly Told Tale Is Just an Urban Legend

andrewfromx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:13:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thoughtco.com/chevy-nova-that-wouldnt-go-3078090

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351978

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by andrewfromx in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

andrewfromx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:11:07 +0000

Chevy "no va" https://www.thoughtco.com/chevy-nova-that-wouldnt-go-3078090

New comment by andrewfromx in "Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance"

andrewfromx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:16:43 +0000

from a few months ago but interesting insights:

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-availa...

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

New comment by andrewfromx in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

andrewfromx — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:23:00 +0000

I don't understand when he says "the job has changed to using agents but human judgement is still required" and then goes on with that assumption will remain true for our lifetimes basically. But the elephant in the room is that's going away very soon right?

Think back to 2024 and how your job has changed over the last two years. It went from science fiction to reality. And as engineers surely we understand the concept of expotential growth. It's not just us outsiders using claude to make our code but internal anthropic engineers are using it to make claude itself better. (Probably they also use openai and gemini to double check stuff!) And that's the expotential loop. Does anyone really believe in 2028 human judgement will still be the thing?

New comment by andrewfromx in "Proving a human wrote something"

andrewfromx — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:56:09 +0000

There is https://trulytyped.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125186

Building my own embedded WebKit macOS browser with dark reader

andrewfromx — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:51:52 +0000

Article URL: https://wkdomains.com/2026/may/on-the-dark-side/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050891

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrewfromx in "Show HN: Hora, a native Google Calendar app for macOS"

andrewfromx — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:29:26 +0000

Oh i see. funny just read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021417 and it talks about how making the product open source is key.

New comment by andrewfromx in "Show HN: Hora, a native Google Calendar app for macOS"

andrewfromx — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:03:06 +0000

huh, github says TypeScript 46.3% JavaScript 19.3%

New comment by andrewfromx in "The boring way to build a startup"

andrewfromx — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:44:09 +0000

Nice, how is it different from:

https://github.com/umami-software/umami

https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

https://github.com/swetrix/swetrix

https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch

New comment by andrewfromx in "Show HN: Hora, a native Google Calendar app for macOS"

andrewfromx — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:39:52 +0000

Why ts and not swift? this is a native macos app right?

New comment by andrewfromx in "Show HN: EmergingRepos – finding repos that are just starting to get momentum"

andrewfromx — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:52:55 +0000

yeah totally. product hunt for repos is perfect way to describe it. Maybe that’s the name. Repohunt.dev ?

New comment by andrewfromx in "Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?"

andrewfromx — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:31:34 +0000

this gave me an idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010902

what do you think? If this site helped you find exactly the repo where you could jump in and contribute would that like solve the itch you are trying to scratch?

Show HN: EmergingRepos – finding repos that are just starting to get momentum

andrewfromx — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:28:27 +0000

Hi HN,

  I’m working on an idea called EmergingRepos (working name) a site for finding repos that are just starting to get momentum. The kind of repo I’m interested in is not brand new with 0 stars and not already famous. The sweet spot is something like:

  - small star count

  - small fork count

  - recent commits

  - more than one contributor

The idea is that this could be a win-win. Maintainers get thoughtful early attention, and readers get to discover repos where they can jump in, make a PR and get that joining an active team feel. i.e. the days of just making your own new repo and trying to get it going might be over. There’s just too many! Here are a few examples:

https://github.com/Integral-Healthcare/robin-ai-reviewer

Stats: 62 stars, 4 forks, 4 contributors

https://github.com/cpulvermacher/lgtm

Stats: 28 stars, 11 forks, 4 contributors

https://github.com/yoda-digital/mcp-gitlab-server

Stats: 48 stars, 19 forks, 4 contributors

https://github.com/tmseidel/ai-git-bot

Stats: 37 stars, 6 forks, 3 contributors

https://github.com/holgerleichsenring/agent-smith

Stats: 14 stars, 3 forks, 3 contributors

https://github.com/wshm-dev/wshm

Stats: 39 stars, 4 forks, 2 contributors

https://github.com/jonit-dev/night-watch-cli

Stats: 42 stars, 4 forks, 2 contributors

What do you think of the idea? Is this good data you don’t see anywhere else?

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010902

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by andrewfromx in "H4ckf0r0day/obscura: The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping"

andrewfromx — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:04:15 +0000

have you seen https://lightpanda.io ?

https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser

New comment by andrewfromx in "Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?"

andrewfromx — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:33:05 +0000

ask yourself the tough question: why am I trying to make a brand new repo and get people to look at that vs. contributing to an existing repo that already has momentum?

https://ossinsight.io/

And there are tiers within all the repos there. You can find small niche ones and make PRs with your ideas. Much more likely to get use.

New comment by andrewfromx in "Ask HN: Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network?"

andrewfromx — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:42:39 +0000

decentralized is a funny thing. people often say they want decentralized and say that’ll be great! No one person/company in charge. But is that what people want? Usually they want some kind of benevolent dictator instead.

New comment by andrewfromx in "HN: RechnungNova – XRechnung and ZUGFeRD e-invoicing for German businesses"

andrewfromx — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:40:41 +0000

what does HN: mean? is that different from Show HN?

New comment by andrewfromx in "Ask HN: Any examples of useful AI agents?"

andrewfromx — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:07:38 +0000

Checkout dialtoneapp.com list of top sites

New comment by andrewfromx in "OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war"

andrewfromx — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:20:30 +0000

Not to mention how many times it gets it wrong and you have to redo. If gpt 5 makes you do many things twice…

OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war

andrewfromx — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/08/openai-priced-gpt-5-so-low-it-may-spark-a-price-war/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846778

Points: 4

# Comments: 2