Hacker News: cachvico

New comment by cachvico in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

cachvico — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:19:13 +0000

Didn't they add name pronunciation guidance a few years ago?

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/correct-siri-pronunciation-...

I'm curious though if that affects recognition as well as audio generation.

New comment by cachvico in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"

cachvico — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:01:59 +0000

Floods - remove "Don't drown" and add "Stay out of the attic". Plenty have died trying to seek shelter in an attic.

New comment by cachvico in "Skip is now free and open source"

cachvico — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:09:14 +0000

And if we're talking Expo, that's only for prebuilds of course; once you've got the native app installed then you can absolutely code and see updates in near real-time on both Android and iOS devices.

New comment by cachvico in "Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)"

cachvico — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:20:36 +0000

Quick plug for https://pistepal.app/ - that's my own contribution to the space. Features location sharing and nav/directions, and priced lower than the competition yet with perhaps a richer / more focussed feature set. Interested to hear feedback and ideas!

New comment by cachvico in "Archiving Git branches as tags"

cachvico — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:45:45 +0000

You can accidentally push to a branch. You can't accidentally push to a tag.

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:29:56 +0000

Hey Dan, I think you're going to love what I've built.

The next release (a couple of days out) displays the relative altitude for all of your buddies - so you can immediately see who's above or below you.

On the iPhone, that info also lives in a Live Activity on the lock screen so you don't have to take your gloves off to see that essential info! (Android lock screen support will be coming right after).

If you'd like to help test the feature out, I'd really appreciate it - just drop me a message via https://pistepal.app/support and I'll link you up with an annual subscription.

Cheers!

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:38:26 +0000

That's a great idea. A lock screen widget could work really well here, showing the relative elevations of your buddies. You'd have to take your phone out - but you wouldn't have to take your gloves off!

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:02:37 +0000

Specifically above or below? Or you're after "give me directions to my pals".. what's the use-case for above/below?

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:30:06 +0000

https://pistepal.app/ - a ski map app - built at breakneck speed over the last few months. I believe this is the only ski map app that offers turn-by-turn navigation!

Screenshots in the App Stores, e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pistepal/id6754510927

Still a little bit rough around the edges but hopefully will be / is in decent enough shape for the start of the ski season (just about happening now..)

Currently figuring out the right balance of free tier & daily trial. Priced at $10/month and therefore significantly undercutting the competition, hopefully this is enough to gain entry into the market. (May need a more generous daily trial though, admittedly 10 minutes is not really enough to actually try it out on the mountain).

Seems ad spend is necessary to get any kind of traction...

Feedback welcome!

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

cachvico — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:08:38 +0000

Here's one - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pistepal/id6754510927

The app is definitely still a bit rough around the edges but it was developed in breakneck speed over the last few months - I've probably seen an overall 5x acceleration over pre-agentic development speed.

New comment by cachvico in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

cachvico — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:50:46 +0000

That's not the issue at hand here.

New comment by cachvico in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:28:37 +0000

Add "Without compromising quality then"!

New comment by cachvico in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:26:49 +0000

Terrible analogy. I don't commit jank. If the LLM comes out with nonsense, I'll fix it first.

New comment by cachvico in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:21:52 +0000

I use it all the time, and it has accelerated my output massively.

Now, I don't trust the output - I review everything, and it often goes wrong. You have to know how to use it. But I would never go back. Often it comes up with more elegant solutions than I would have. And when you're working with a new platform, or some unfamiliar library that it already knows, it's an absolute godsend.

I'm also damn proud of my own hand-crafted code, but to avoid LLMs out of principal? That's just luddite.

20+ years of experience across game dev, mobile and web apps, in case you feel it relevant.

New comment by cachvico in "Debugging PostgreSQL More Easily"

cachvico — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:42:37 +0000

If you don't know which table your ID came from you're probably doing something wrong to begin with. (Why hey there you overly normalized schema..)

New comment by cachvico in "Developing inside a virtual machine"

cachvico — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 02:42:57 +0000

Does it though? I've developed in remote VMs before and the advantages are clear, but having a fully containerized development environment is really nice too because you can tear the whole thing down and rebuild at the drop of a hat. You can achieve that with a VM and scripts, but a Dockerfile is very lightweight and standard.

Edit: Unless you literally mean "editing code in a container with vi". In which case yes I'd go for the VM too!

New comment by cachvico in "The era of open voice assistants"

cachvico — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:22:50 +0000

Google Home's Nest integration is recent and top-notch though.

Hopefully in a year they'll have rolled out the Gemini integration and things will be back on track.

New comment by cachvico in "Show HN: Musoq – Query Anything with SQL Syntax (Git, C#, CSV, Can DBC)"

cachvico — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:21:23 +0000

Ironically I think I'd rather query a database with anything other than SQL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by cachvico in "CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`"

cachvico — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:48:28 +0000

It's incredibly ironic

New comment by cachvico in "An embarrassingly simple approach to recover unlearned knowledge for LLMs"

cachvico — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:45:29 +0000

I think it's fair and reasonable to assume that the AI companies will at some point start licensing their source content. Through gov/legal oversight or not remains to be seen, but OpenAI are already beginning to do so:

https://searchengineland.com/openais-growing-list-of-partner...