Hacker News: brauhaus

New comment by brauhaus in "Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme"

brauhaus — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:25:05 +0000

Is a dark mode available? That's the bit I struggle the most with this style.

Show HN: Cashzilla – a local-first finance app (Android)

brauhaus — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:58:41 +0000

There's a point in every developer's life when they build their own finance app. It's a rite of passage. Mine has arrived. I built Cashzilla for three reasons: I wanted it to be genuinely free — not free-until-the-useful-parts. It's local-only: no accounts, no server, no cloud, no bank sync. Your data lives on your device and never touches mine. That's also why it's free — there's nothing running that costs me money, so there's nothing to monetize by locking features away. If that ever changes, I'll be upfront about it. I don't want a budget. I've never stuck to one and I don't want an app that makes me feel bad about that. My vision was to build a coach: something that tells me what my money is actually doing and whether it's working for me. Opening a finance app should feel give you some pleasure; if it feels like a chore, I just won't open it. It's early, but usable: manual entry (or CSV import), accounts, scheduled/upcoming transactions, and a set of charts. I'm dogfooding it daily and releasing features every week. Right now I'm building stock/position tracking so net worth reflects everything, not just cash.

For the React Native folks: understanding expo-router and dealing with the charts pwas disproportionately painful I burned more time than I'd like to admit bouncing between libraries before landing on a Skia setup (react-native-skia + Victory Native).

I'd love feedback. You've almost certainly tried a pile of these — I'm curious what actually made you stick with one, and where you can spot friction or obvious gotchas in mine.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pluckd.cas...

(Play Store screenshots are a bit outdated, sorry.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957761

Points: 2

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New comment by brauhaus in "Training our own AI models"

brauhaus — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:45:21 +0000

Every day I'm more glad about EU legislation, that's all I have to say for now

New comment by brauhaus in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

brauhaus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:45:29 +0000

Even today, I'm still astounded that there are people capable of building a gorgeous and interesting site like this in less than 2 days...

New comment by brauhaus in "Who is using Ollama day-to-day?"

brauhaus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:23:00 +0000

I went ahead and did it... XP

At the start, I was curious to see if I could. It ended up being a rabbit hole, of course.

I can see some use cases for it. The plan is to dogfood it and validate them.

New comment by brauhaus in "Who is using Ollama day-to-day?"

brauhaus — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:34:03 +0000

I'm curious what the workflow actually looks like for people running Ollama day-to-day.

Do you mostly use it through the terminal, a UI like Open WebUI, or via integrations with other tools?

I’m trying to understand where a browser integration would actually fit - if at all

Who is using Ollama day-to-day?

brauhaus — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:32:14 +0000

I maintain a Chrome extension that adds an AI support to any input field online.

One of my favorite reviews is a 2-star review asking for “local model support”.

My first reaction was: who installs a 100KB Chrome extension to talk to a 10GB model running locally?

But it did make me curious. Are people actually running Ollama or LM Studio as part of their daily workflow?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396057

Points: 3

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New comment by brauhaus in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

brauhaus — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:18:51 +0000

Only if the company is headquartered in EU/UK, right? Proton, for example, is headquartered in Switzerland. Even if it wanted, there would be no legal entity in EU to be fined.

New comment by brauhaus in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

brauhaus — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:16:19 +0000

This is not an AI problem, it's an "data privacy + lack of consequences problem". It happens everywhere. I mean, have you ever tried making an airline company to stop sending their shitty miles newsletters?

Only way to stop is to start fining these companies.

Show HN: Chrome Extension to access the OpenAI API from any textbox

brauhaus — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:26:36 +0000

Type /ai + your prompt in any textbox and the ChatGPT will do the job

I've made this project so I could learn how to create Chrome extensions.

I know there are already a lot of alternatives for it, but this was a learning project and I would love some feedback on the code.

( I was unable to make it work on sites that use the React Lexical editor, i.e Reddit, Facebook, etc :( )

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033608

Points: 6

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New comment by brauhaus in "Ask HN: How do you fairly split donations among an open source team?"

brauhaus — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:55:50 +0000

I find this sensible. Kinda like a bounty system, right?

Ask HN: How do you fairly split donations among an open source team?

brauhaus — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:28:11 +0000

Imagine you have an open source project that got a major sponsor. What's the best way to fairly distribute this money among the team? Should it be based on contribution levels, time spent, or something else? What models have worked well for you?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000711

Points: 9

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New comment by brauhaus in "Ask HN: Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?"

brauhaus — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:25:59 +0000

I know SQLite is popular with no-backend native mobile apps BUT I read somewhere it's not safe: if a malicious app is granted the ability to read your phone files, it can access the data from the SQLite of other apps.

Can anyone confirm (or deny) this to me?

New comment by brauhaus in "Every Dunder Method in Python"

brauhaus — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:18:00 +0000

There's no __mifflin__ method. Such a missed opportunity

New comment by brauhaus in "Show HN: Workflow orchestrator in Golang"

brauhaus — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 01:53:59 +0000

It's the opposite. Without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that the author retains all rights to their source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from their work.

Source: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...

New comment by brauhaus in "Stack Overflow and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership – Generative AI"

brauhaus — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:25:16 +0000

Reddit first, now SO. Google is sure getting a lot of data... And probably on the cheap.

Coyote Time: What Games Can Teach Us About Forgiveness in Learning

brauhaus — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:14:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.bsu.edu/teaching-innovation/2023/11/15/coyote-time-games-teach-forgiveness-learning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39536503

Points: 1

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New comment by brauhaus in "A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)"

brauhaus — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:28:01 +0000

Great work! Now do Safari.

How to waste time building a skill matrix

brauhaus — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:05:10 +0000

Article URL: https://pluckd.co/en/blog/5-skill-matrix-fails-and-how-to-avoid-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401617

Points: 2

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New comment by brauhaus in "Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck"

brauhaus — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:08:39 +0000

Sometimes it's hard to communicate technical problems to non-technical people. They article calls that as going for the neck, but I think of it as effective communication.