Hacker News: bilater

New comment by bilater in "So where are all the AI apps?"

bilater — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:35:55 +0000

I'd take this info with a grain of salt. You have to understand how new some of these developments are. It's only been a couple of months since we hit the opus 4.5+ threshold. I created 4 react packages for kicks in a weekend: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/shipping-react-librari...

New comment by bilater in "Show HN: OnlyBots – A store for AI agents to buy sexy lobster pics"

bilater — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:46:32 +0000

no NFTs but sadly yes it makes too much sense so might have to do it.

Show HN: OnlyBots – A store for AI agents to buy sexy lobster pics

bilater — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:06:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.onlybots.store/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475150

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

Show HN: Musicli – A simple lofi music player in the terminal

bilater — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:22:13 +0000

CLIs are all the rage these days so I built one for myself

This was really fun though. This is a 2 part release.

I wanted a no frills music player inside my terminal. Presenting Musicli (yes I'm proud of the name).

You can install it via npm by running npm install -g @bilalpm/musicli@latest

Once installed you can just run musicli from your terminal and play your music.

It's focused on lofi music but you can play anything. It has 2 modes: Local or Stream.

You can play music from a local folder or add your favorite YouTube channel and listen. You can layer in effects like rain, cafe or fire etc to personalize the vibe you're going for.

And speaking of local music...

The second part of this project is a release of an open-lofi dataset of over 150 lofi songs. These songs were all generated by me using Suno v5 and are owned by myself as a premium member. I'm now donating them to the public domain.

Go download them and enjoy on Musicli!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381902

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: A modern React onboarding tour library

bilater — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:17:27 +0000

react-tourlight is the modern React tour library. Zero dependencies, WCAG 2.1 AA accessible, under 5 kB gzipped. The one that works with React 19.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325273

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by bilater in "Show HN: React-Kino – Cinematic scroll storytelling for React (1KB core)"

bilater — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:18:04 +0000

thanks - can't replicate this which template were you talking about?

I shipped 4 React libraries in a weekend

bilater — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:16:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/shipping-react-libraries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220903

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: React Redact – One keyboard shortcut to make your app demo-safe

bilater — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:10:12 +0000

react-redact is a zero-dependency React “demo-safe mode” you can toggle with a single keyboard shortcut.

Wrap your app in and hit Cmd+Shift+X (or Ctrl+Shift+X) to instantly blur, mask, or replace marked (or auto-detected) PII like emails, phone numbers, SSNs, credit cards, and IPs.

It’s a visual-only helper for demos and screenshares (it does not remove data from the DOM), and it’s Next.js and TypeScript friendly.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215491

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: React-Kino – Cinematic scroll storytelling for React (1KB core)

bilater — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:36:33 +0000

I built react-kino because I wanted Apple-style scroll experiences in React without pulling in GSAP (33KB for ScrollTrigger alone).

The core scroll engine is under 1KB gzipped. It uses CSS position: sticky with a spacer div for pinning — same technique as ScrollTrigger but with zero dependencies.

12 declarative components: Scene, Reveal, Parallax, Counter, TextReveal, CompareSlider, VideoScroll, HorizontalScroll, Progress, Marquee, StickyHeader.

SSR-safe, respects prefers-reduced-motion, works with Next.js App Router.

Demo: https://react-kino.dev GitHub: https://github.com/btahir/react-kino npm: npm install react-kino

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204570

Points: 19

# Comments: 2

New comment by bilater in "Software 3.1? – AI Functions"

bilater — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:40:04 +0000

Had a similar idea a couple of years ago but I think this is still tied to the old way of doing things. More like software 2.9 rather than 3.1.

New comment by bilater in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

bilater — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:16:47 +0000

You can generate your own audiobook (single voice or multi) https://www.plainscribe.com

The End of Human Relationships

bilater — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:36:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/the-end-of-human-relationships

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910462

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bilater in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

bilater — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:09:48 +0000

Think of it as dropbox

New comment by bilater in "The Startup Graveyard"

bilater — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:19:40 +0000

one of the startups listed that "failed" is music.ly. the app bytedance acquired to launch tiktok

New comment by bilater in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

bilater — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:14:57 +0000

was expecting some actual reasons presented as to why this would happen. instead got some math.

The era of spec-driven development has begun

bilater — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:53:01 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/deepwhitman/status/2013423486983905282

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688356

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bilater in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

bilater — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:05:16 +0000

big beloved projects

New comment by bilater in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

bilater — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:04:58 +0000

I have always wondered how archives manage to capture screenshots of paywalled pages like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Do they have agreements with publishers, do their crawlers have special privileges to bypass detection, or do they use technology so advanced that companies cannot detect them?

New comment by bilater in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

bilater — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:36:01 +0000

Astro to Cloudflare, Bun to Anthropic. Good trend seeing people toiling away at OS financially rewarded.

New comment by bilater in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

bilater — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:01:58 +0000

I wonder if we'll get something like a CORS for agents where they can only pass around data to whitelisted ips (local, claude sanctioned servers etc).