Hacker News: boredumb

New comment by boredumb in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

boredumb — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:28:51 +0000

Launching just recently and having to think about how i'm marketing things more and more, the hardest parts to really market are the AI related features. Most of the real value AI provides isn't flashy its just eliminating the tedious work that sits between the interesting parts of a job: structuring messy data, extracting information from documents, validating it against references, filling out forms, routing it for approval, and preparing it for distribution. The exciting work was already exciting. AI just removes the friction between point A and point D. That's alot harder to demonstrate than generating an image or writing a paragraph. "Look, here's all the data you no longer have to enter manually" isn't exactly a compelling marketing headline, even if it's where users save the most time.

I sometimes wonder who AI marketing is really for. The people who would benefit from eliminating repetitive work, or other technical people who want to see interesting AI demos.. A lot of product launches end up looking like "Here's a prompt that bootstraps X," when the bigger story is that the prompt replaces an hour of repetitive work that nobody wanted to do in the first place.

Show HN: FlaskTrack – Laboratory operations software built for modern biotech

boredumb — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://flasktrack.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156078

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by boredumb in "You can't unit test for taste"

boredumb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:26:05 +0000

Don't work 12 hour days to get milestone X out, because there are dozens more milestones so don't get burnt on trying to get this one out yesterday. It would probably be more like, don't use 200% to get this out and then quit or burn yourself to 0% or a few % in a year when we want you to extend and maintain this stuff.

New comment by boredumb in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

boredumb — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:17:27 +0000

Cool, but I'm not sure the victims and the public are always thrilled when they see murderers get off by reason of insanity, despite it being a life sentence and essentially a medically induced solitary mental confinement. People were furious about Yates and Bobbitt despite not even living within a 1000 mile radius because they felt it was a miscarriage of justice and are aware that rehabilitating people who drowned their own children is naive at best or yet another grift to siphon public money into their own pet projects and feign moral superiority.

New comment by boredumb in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

boredumb — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:15:33 +0000

If someone kills a family member and the court gives them 6 years and a parole officer, the remaining family will and has taken justice into their own hands and that has a much higher blast radius and margin of error than executing a guy convicted of the murder in a court of law and sat on death row making appeals for 10-15 years.

If dylan roof was allowed to live his full natural life in jail, there would be race riots in the US by the end of the press conference.

New comment by boredumb in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

boredumb — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:45:44 +0000

https://birdsofpuertorico.com/

New comment by boredumb in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

boredumb — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:36:24 +0000

A few years ago I saw a vape with a full display that played a pac man clone aside from the state and settings, and now I have a drawer of random vape screens and components that I swear i'm going to use one of these years.

New comment by boredumb in "Please just try HTMX"

boredumb — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:48:54 +0000

please, just use html/css and some javascript where applicable.

Create a simple MCP based agent in Rust

boredumb — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://santurcesoftware.com/create-mcp-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313149

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by boredumb in "The Death of Arduino?"

boredumb — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:10:11 +0000

I thought this was going to be an article about the ESP-32s

New comment by boredumb in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

boredumb — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:56:48 +0000

just never upset the wrong person that knows they have leverage over you keeping your home.

New comment by boredumb in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

boredumb — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:08:34 +0000

There is a small sense of irony reading the first 3 sentences before the paywall pops up and stops me from reading it entirely.

New comment by boredumb in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

boredumb — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:02:42 +0000

as a pedantic aside Americans use the term washed or washing money interchangeably with laundering or laundered money

New comment by boredumb in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

boredumb — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:06:37 +0000

I've done exactly this with MCP { "name": "unshare_exec", "description": "Run a binary in isolated Linux namespaces using unshare", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "binary": {"type": "string"}, "args": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}} }, "required": ["binary"], "additionalProperties": false } }

It started as unshare and ended up being a bit of a yakshaving endeavor to make things work but i was able to get some surprisingly good results using gemma3 locally and giving it access to run arbitrary debian based utilities.

New comment by boredumb in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

boredumb — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:48:12 +0000

keep that energy when you and your family are starving in the dark with no running water.

New comment by boredumb in "Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)"

boredumb — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:08:34 +0000

Who knew the rural town of Remote, Oregon was such a startup hub these days.

New comment by boredumb in "Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic"

boredumb — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:22:05 +0000

Since it says "Translated by Nancy Qanqar" i'd be willing to bet they're training on some audiobooks with a transcript and somewhere in there it consistently has "Translated by Nancy Qanqar" in the transcript where there is dead air in the audiobook.

New comment by boredumb in "Nobody cares"

boredumb — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:53:43 +0000

I went inside and complemented the worker on their pumps being so easy to use, He. Did. Not. Care.

New comment by boredumb in "Making Beautiful API Keys"

boredumb — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:46:19 +0000

I really don't care about the aesthetics of a string but this is 100% my issue when interacting with UUIDs.

New comment by boredumb in "Ryugu asteroid sample colonized by terrestrial life despite strict control"

boredumb — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:03:17 +0000

I imagined that the space stations have the equipment to take all measurements and record evidence so you aren't having to return samples to earth except for a neat souvenir.