Hacker News: anthonyko

New comment by anthonyko in "Show HN: Laser Graffiti"

anthonyko — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:15:50 +0000

triggered some memories of other fun projects:

- gray scale image made from laser and fading glow in the dark paint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUa9UgAZTIY

- i remember a version of this phosphorescent wall at the los angeles children's musuem. a strobe imprinted your shadow. https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/shadow-box

New comment by anthonyko in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

anthonyko — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:18:16 +0000

another example: https://bsky.app/profile/s.ly/post/3mlo7ajrqdk2o Jesse Vincent used a deburring tool.

New comment by anthonyko in "Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud"

anthonyko — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:51:59 +0000

This is great. I hadn't heard of MCP Apps — pulling an interface into the LLM could be really useful. I'll trying it.

Been finding some tasks are better inside Claude or ChatGPT chat window, like brainstorming names. I ended up building an MCP for domain lookups (https://namebrewery.com). It lets me go back and forth, branch on different preferences, and steer the LLM toward a name I like, and still available as a dot com.

The examples in your repo have given me some other ideas to try out.

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

anthonyko — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:22:00 +0000

- https://namebrewery.com: An MCP for looking up domain name availability. Brainstorming names within the LLM has been great and now I can have it do the registrar look ups from within the LLM too.

- https://altitag.com: A real estate photographer can upload a drone photo and get points of interest pins overlaid on the photo using EXIF data. The annotations help provide some nice neighborhood context without needing to open up Photoshop.

New comment by anthonyko in "iPhone 17e"

anthonyko — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:12:24 +0000

i send them an iphone mini request every once in a while through the feedback form hoping it will make a little bit of difference: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

still holding on to iphone 13 mini hoping they bring back the perfect size. also trying very hard not to accidentally fat finger a ios 26 update.

New comment by anthonyko in "Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen"

anthonyko — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 05:33:20 +0000

Also a big fan of the Uniball, perviously was using Signo DXs, but have switched over to the Uniball One. I think that slightly thicker barrel helps with my handwriting. Also love the wire pocket clip.

https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-One-F-Gel-Pen-0.5-mm-Faded-...

I do like the Rotring pencils over the pens, but still prefer Uni as I feel less bad about losing a Uni Kuru as it is cheaper and still has knurled grip. Also has a fun rotating lead.

https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Kuru-Toga-Roulette-Mechanical-Pe...

New comment by anthonyko in "Identify Birds by Their Chirp"

anthonyko — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 02:46:28 +0000

BirdNET Pi is a pretty fun project. I have one set up. Someone has also set up a map of various listening stations here: https://app.birdweather.com/

New comment by anthonyko in "NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat"

anthonyko — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:43:46 +0000

Been using this client for a few months and am pretty happy with it.

Have looked for a replacement for Adium for quite a while and Nova Chat is looking like it will be it. So much relief from not having to juggle multiple desktop chat clients and mobile notifications.

Looking forward to the upcoming features! App is getting some nice updates every few weeks.

New comment by anthonyko in "Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning front-end, how do I proceed?"

anthonyko — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:46:19 +0000

I had a lot of problems with front-end stuff as well. Turns out I didn't know Javascript well enough. Solved it by going through this course: http://watchandcode.com/p/practical-javascript

New comment by anthonyko in "Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review"

anthonyko — Tue, 17 May 2016 22:11:43 +0000

Office Code Pro Light has been pretty great: https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro

New comment by anthonyko in "Sketch 3.7 released"

anthonyko — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 03:51:47 +0000

A few people have recommended these to me, but I haven't gotten around to checking them out myself: https://designcode.io

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCayG894faBz8UIKFH6uOMvA

New comment by anthonyko in "Cruise"

anthonyko — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:24:01 +0000

Agreed. Sam and all the other YC partners will go out of their way to help, it's just often not public.