Hacker News: barapa

New comment by barapa in "Startup Anti-Patterns"

barapa — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:36:05 +0000

A startup is not the code

New comment by barapa in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

barapa — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:03:28 +0000

Every conceivable thing 'may be about to' happen.

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

barapa — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:18:45 +0000

Word game I play with my family and wife. Very addictive.

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

barapa — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:52:09 +0000

https://wordknots.barapa.dev/

Show HN: Wordknots

barapa — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://wordknots.barapa.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093476

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by barapa in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

barapa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:23:48 +0000

I find it useful to have goons on payroll that make these kinds of problems go away

New comment by barapa in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

barapa — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:32:13 +0000

I promote people for simplicity

New comment by barapa in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

barapa — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:06:06 +0000

how is this a company?

New comment by barapa in "AI will make our children stupid"

barapa — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:12:41 +0000

I don't find this all that compelling. Different technologies can have different effects. And why would future effects be influenced by the accuracy of random people's predictions of other events in the past?

New comment by barapa in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

barapa — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:10:32 +0000

I think mine confabulated criticism of a point of view as espousing that point of view.

New comment by barapa in "Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]"

barapa — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:03:57 +0000

don't loving these

New comment by barapa in "Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark"

barapa — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:57:57 +0000

We have done a lot of work solving this exact challenge at legaide.ai. I was both sad and relieved when gemini 3 didn't deprecate our startup.

New comment by barapa in "The Parallel Search API"

barapa — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:32:57 +0000

I don't really understand this. You can and should tell the llm the source of the search results.

New comment by barapa in "Show HN: Butter – A Behavior Cache for LLMs"

barapa — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:36:21 +0000

We often will repeat calls to try again. Or sometimes we make the same call multiple times to get multiple answers and then score or merge them.

Is this used only in cases where you assume the answer from your first call is correct?

New comment by barapa in "Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS"

barapa — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:57:50 +0000

Smart invisible regex makes it fast and prevents it from crashing? What does that mean?

New comment by barapa in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

barapa — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:26:50 +0000

I implemented copy to clipboard in datastar in maybe 1 minutes with an AI agent. What exactly are you providing to the world for free?

New comment by barapa in "Talk Python in Production"

barapa — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:07:43 +0000

Chill dog

New comment by barapa in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

barapa — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:10:19 +0000

Yes, things change. In fact, change is basically the only thing you can confidently predict.

New comment by barapa in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

barapa — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:37:19 +0000

If things disappear, that is ok. Everything is fleeting.

New comment by barapa in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

barapa — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:26:03 +0000

They are training on your queries. So they may have some exposure to them going forward.