Hacker News: chocks

New comment by chocks in "Local LLM App by Ente"

chocks — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:56:41 +0000

This looks amazing! As I learn and experiment more with local LLMs, I'm becoming more of a fan of local/offline LLMs. I believe there's a huge gap between local LLM based apps and commercial models like Claude/ChatGPT. Excited to see more apps leveraging local LLMs.

Show HN: Sleuther, a ohmyzsh plugin for local LLM debugging with Ollama

chocks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:47:32 +0000

Recently, I noticed my debugging workflow had become: copy error into ChatGPT/Claude -> go back and repeat (while being cautious not copying over sensitive stuff like paths, names etc.)

So, I built Sleuther, a Oh My Zsh plugin that asks a local LLM via Ollama to explain and debug errors directly in the terminal. Right now I am using Qwen2.5-Coder.

At a previous job, I used warp.dev extensively and was missing its agent mode. Sleuther is inspired by warp and zsh-copilot.

No copy paste, no cloud, no context switching.

Also, has a small trick: if the local LLM cannot help after a couple attempts, it suggests a sanitized version of the error, stripping usernames, paths, and hostnames before sharing with ChatGPT or Claude. The sanitization is rather rudimentary right now but something I want to improve.

Curious if anyone else is experimenting with local LLMs for dev workflows?

https://github.com/chocks/sleuther

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491133

Points: 2

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New comment by chocks in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

chocks — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:57:23 +0000

Fantastic for the team, huge fan for Ruff and Uv. Hope OpenAI continues with the OSS tooling and not introduce restrictive licensing.

New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

chocks — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:05:20 +0000

Experimenting with: https://github.com/chocks/locode Local-first AI coding CLI. Routes simple tasks to a local LLM and complex tasks to Claude.

also just posted a Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310543

Show HN: Locode, a local first CLI that routes tasks to local LLMs or Claude

chocks — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:43:18 +0000

Hey HN, For the past few months, I have been working a lot with Claude code and a huge fan of the tool. When working on some tasks, I noticed Claude spending tokens for simple local tasks like find, grep etc, so I wondered: what if simple local tasks could run on a local LLM and route complex reasoning Claude?

To help answer that question, I started building Locode, a open source CLI that tries this approach.

The idea is: • run simple tasks locally • route complex reasoning to Claude • reduce inference cost and latency • keep the workflow local first

This project is still very early and mostly a fun learning experiment for me. The entire project was built using Claude Code (not vibe coded). I really love the workflow and it inspired a lot of the design. I’m also a huge fan of Ruff, so I took some inspirations from that as well (no rust yet though).

There is a short demo video in the README if you want to see it in action.

Please take it for a spin if you are interested and let me know what you think and/or if you have experience with cli tools and suggestion on improving Locode, I’m happy to learn.

Cheers! Chocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310543

Points: 4

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New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project"

chocks — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:53:37 +0000

Nice, pretty cool site!

New comment by chocks in "I have a itch to build HR tech product but I dont know how to get started"

chocks — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:35:20 +0000

Heya (also from TO ), I had something similar in mind when I built https://www.producthunt.com/products/hitechjobsca , had to shut it down during covid but happy to connect and brainstorm ideas in the Hrtech space if you are up for it. Contact in profile.

New comment by chocks in "Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes"

chocks — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:34:56 +0000

This is pretty fun, I tried the two free mysteries and was fun solving them. One nit, would be nice if the SQL editor supported comments so we can comment out old queries before running new one so as keeping a history esp if we need to run the same queries again. Good stuff :)

New comment by chocks in "Happy New Year 2025"

chocks — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 05:33:51 +0000

Happy new year folks!

New comment by chocks in "Show HN: Chrome extension to create calendar events"

chocks — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:44:11 +0000

Thanks! My dentist sends my appointments as text in email and I wanted something to add to my calendar, so I ended up building this tool :)

Show HN: Chrome extension to create calendar events

chocks — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:33:49 +0000

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/calendar-event-creator/capijkoneacppaolnpjhjgpccldniabl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42328578

Points: 2

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New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

chocks — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:30:57 +0000

Direct link in this post works but looks like the one linked from the careers page is broken. https://supabase.com/careers#positions titled "Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres" goes to a broken link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/ba5e5848-0ef7-430d-b773-94...

New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

chocks — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:23:01 +0000

hey Fred, just a heads up - the career page links to a greenhouse board that seems inactive. https://tandemai.com/careers/#currentopening goes to https://boards.greenhouse.io/tandemailimited which says "The board you are looking for is no longer open."

TTC union leader warns workers are 'ready' to strike Friday

chocks — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:05:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-union-strike-update-thursday-1.7226322

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599804

Points: 1

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New comment by chocks in "Show HN: No-bs "HN: Who is Hiring?" job picks straight to your inbox"

chocks — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:04:51 +0000

Also use safari on ios, I started typing my time zone (New York) is the search box and it pulled up and I selected it.

At least 261 dead in India's worst train accident in over two decades

chocks — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:46:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-train-crash-death-toll-jumps-233-900-injured-2023-06-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176637

Points: 6

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New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)"

chocks — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:45:01 +0000

heads up - seems like there's a typo in the url, has a %7C appended to it so can't open the link.

New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: Tier 1 software engineering employers in Toronto"

chocks — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:38:34 +0000

There’s Amazon, Instacart, Snowflake, Doordash, Shopify

New comment by chocks in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"

chocks — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 03:41:48 +0000

Perfectly cooked eggs every single time, bought this in 2014 still going strong: KRUPS F23070 Egg Cooker with Water Level Indicator, 7-Eggs Capacity, White https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00005KIRS/

New comment by chocks in "Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9"

chocks — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:48:21 +0000

Snowboard looks great. Congrats on the launch! At my work we currently use this open source tool https://www.amundsen.io/amundsen/ mostly to search schemas and tables. Curious to see the differences with Snowboard.