Hacker News: aosmith

Show HN: Type

aosmith — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:40:24 +0000

Article URL: https://type.thingg.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506762

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Flint

aosmith — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:11:05 +0000

Article URL: https://flint.thingg.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460500

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by aosmith in "Show HN: 18 Words"

aosmith — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:51:23 +0000

Nice, this is pretty fun!

New comment by aosmith in "An American Privacy Emergency"

aosmith — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:24:42 +0000

Yes, for the most part. P2P networks are hard... Merges and improvements are welcome.

New comment by aosmith in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

aosmith — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:34:04 +0000

He's a troll, carry on...

New comment by aosmith in "An American Privacy Emergency"

aosmith — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:05:53 +0000

Thanks mate... That's exactly why it's open source, merges welcome. If somebody finds a problem they can fix it and take credit.

New comment by aosmith in "An American Privacy Emergency"

aosmith — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:36:14 +0000

Got it thanks

New comment by aosmith in "An American Privacy Emergency"

aosmith — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:35:56 +0000

You're right and I'm generally not a fan of vibe coding but I'm not trying to make money and it's free YMMV.

New comment by aosmith in "An American Privacy Emergency"

aosmith — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:27:12 +0000

Huh? I'm pretty sure I'm a person. But AI would say that too...

New comment by aosmith in "An American Privacy Emergency"

aosmith — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:16:07 +0000

Multiple ways, some from the bittorrent / limewire days, some using public stun / turn servers.

New comment by aosmith in "Show HN: Gremlin"

aosmith — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:34:44 +0000

I'm working on it, I'm adding a site now at https://gremlin.thingg.co, there's a screenshot of the interface on thingg.co now. No intention to make money on this one but it's an interesting tool. Thanks for checking it out!

Show HN: Gremlin

aosmith — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aosmith/gremlin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116876

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by aosmith in "Show HN: Iceberg Map"

aosmith — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:50:41 +0000

Still working on that one... It fails over to others, or it should.

Show HN: Iceberg Map

aosmith — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:45:19 +0000

Article URL: https://icebergmap.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292648

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by aosmith in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

aosmith — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:40:00 +0000

https://thingg.co -- A group of very smart people working on an incubator for our pet projects in a co-op manner.

https://cipher.social -- Distributed / p2p, encrypted social networking so I can send baby pictures to my mom.

New comment by aosmith in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

aosmith — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:38:06 +0000

This is a huge theme (for lack of a better word) in Bangkok... I have seen countless condos with glass box bathrooms. My wife and I love each other deeply but we have 0 desire to make eye contact while pooping. Our daughter is another case but we both hope she will grow out of it.

New comment by aosmith in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

aosmith — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:20:52 +0000

That seems really high... Are we sure this isn't related to a small number of users trying to find jailbreaks?

New comment by aosmith in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

aosmith — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:34:27 +0000

https://thingg.co

Very very beta. No stated mission just working with smart people on interesting ideas.

New comment by aosmith in "Learn to play Go"

aosmith — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:52:41 +0000

Go is a great game, my wife and I always have a drive-by game going, we use 1 lid and swap it after we place a stone.

New comment by aosmith in "Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck"

aosmith — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:41:28 +0000

This resonates a little, it's problems that you need to consider... When I quit smoking I noticed my code quality dropped. It wasn't because I missed the cigarettes, it was the mental break with a solid social excuse I was missing. I started taking smoke breaks, without the smoke and things returned to normal.