Hacker News: asar

New comment by asar in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

asar — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:07:40 +0000

Always thought of this as two cars driving faster than you on the road. After a certain distance it's clear both are faster than you, but really hard to say which one is the fastest.

New comment by asar in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

asar — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:35:46 +0000

In the same boat and ready to downgrade. But this must be on their radar, or they were/are losing money with opus...

New comment by asar in "Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere"

asar — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:56:21 +0000

I see, thanks for explaining and congrats on the launch! After re-reading the description, the ability to use other frameworks might become a USP too.

Just a random remark, what's annoying and a pain point in my workflow are definitely proper development environments for agents . Not just runtimes but also managing secrets etc. Maybe an avenue to explore and use in marketing copy.

New comment by asar in "Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere"

asar — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:13:29 +0000

I agree with the general sentiment here that this is the future of coding for a lot of tasks. But in terms of a business case for your product I'm really struggling to see how this beats Claude code action? Which integrates directly with GitHub, at no additional cost, and I can use an oauth token to use my subscription.

New comment by asar in "How I Program with Agents"

asar — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:51:56 +0000

Haven't used Windsurf yet, but in other tools this is called 'Agent' mode. So you open up the chat modal to talk to an LLM, then select 'Agent' mode and send your prompt.

New comment by asar in "Cursor 1.0"

asar — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:26:14 +0000

Yes, they've updated the docs since last week, I guess. Before, it didn't mention the 20% markup.

New comment by asar in "Cursor 1.0"

asar — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:22:53 +0000

thanks! i never set this up properly. did it now though, really cool!

New comment by asar in "Cursor 1.0"

asar — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:07:21 +0000

Cursor recently lost me as a customer. Too many updates that disturb my workflow and productivity, no easy way to roll back versions, super sparse changelogs, lots of magic in context building, really untransparent pricing on max mode. I recently made the switch to Claude Code on the Max plan and I couldn't be happier. The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across files, but I assume it's just a matter of time until that's properly implemented in Zed or VSCode.

New comment by asar in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

asar — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:35:09 +0000

Amazing, really excited to try this out. And thanks for the time you took to write this up!

New comment by asar in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

asar — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:06:19 +0000

Personally, I've been using Cursor since day 1. Lately with Gemini 2.5 Pro. I've also started experimenting with Zed and local models served via ollama in the last couple of days. Unfortunately, without good results so far.

I've created a list of self-hostable alternatives to cursor that I try to keep updated. https://selfhostedworld.com/alternative/cursor/

New comment by asar in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

asar — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:51:31 +0000

This sounds really cool. Can you explain your workflow in a bit more detail? i.e. how exactly you work with codex to implement features, fix bugs etc.

New comment by asar in "Suno v4.5"

asar — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:59:18 +0000

I love this analogy.

New comment by asar in "The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done"

asar — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:40:35 +0000

Really interesting method. I've been calling a similar strategy the library effect. Whenever I work in an environment where other people are productive (or at least look productive) I can focus much better and get in the zone. It's now gotten to a point where I'm actively seeking desks with my screen exposed to the room, so people would be able to see me procrastinate, guilt tripping me to limit this sort of behavior.

New comment by asar in "Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI"

asar — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:53:35 +0000

This looks really cool, thanks for sharing!

I recently tried to implement a workflow automation using similar frameworks that were playwright or puppeteer based. My goal was to log into a bunch of vendor backends and extract values for reporting (no APIs available). What stopped me entirely were websites that implemented an invisible captcha. They can detect a playwright instance by how it interacts with the DOM. Pretty frustrating, but I can totally see this becoming a standard as crawling and scraping is getting out of control.

New comment by asar in "Ask HN: Using LLMs for Better Design in Front End Development?"

asar — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:48:17 +0000

It depends on what your setup looks like. If your using tailwind and a headless component library like radix or shadcn. LLMs can provide you with pretty decent looking layouts from very simple prompts. If your using plain CSS outputs can vary widely in quality, at least from my own experience.

New comment by asar in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

asar — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:46:45 +0000

This is amazing, thanks for sharing. I'm implementing some of these techniques myself right now, but being able to try out different algorithms and having plugins etc available immediately is really cool! Can't wait to try it out.

How are you dealing with structured outputs?

New comment by asar in "Why World War WordPress Will End with a Zombie Fork"

asar — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:20:09 +0000

WPE's core business is "hosting for WordPress websites". If they were to change this to "ForkPress", they'll have to rebuild the brand and search volume behind it. So I'm not convinced that this is a viable solution to their current problem.

Ask HN: Strategies against AI voice and video scams?

asar — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:16:52 +0000

With the advancements in generative AI, especially for voice and video, I've been wondering for a while how to effectively protect against scams. For now I feel like I can personally still tell that a video or audio is generated/fake, but I'm getting increasingly worried that as these things develop it will become impossible to identify fakes.

What I'm currently thinking is to establish a code word in my family to at least protect against the scenario where a caller claims to be me (it's so easy to train a voice on recordings nowadays). I was wondering if the HN Community can think of other ways to protect against this threat?

Looking at the recent realtime voice release of Open AI and combining it with Diffusion Models, the opportunities for scammers are becoming endless and I'm deeply worried that there are no real protections at this point.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41752576

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Strategies against AI voice and video scams?

asar — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:19:45 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729184

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by asar in "Vanilla OS 2: an immutable distribution to run all software"

asar — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:51:34 +0000

+1 for Fedora Silverblue and Bluefin.

Recently made the switch after having a terrible upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04, very happy so far with the use of brew and flatpaks in the OS.