Hacker News: ciaranmca

New comment by ciaranmca in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

ciaranmca — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:38:28 +0000

Don’t think I have ever came across a queue to buy a laptop before but congrats to the framework team.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

ciaranmca — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:52:45 +0000

I actually really like that inverse Kickstarter idea, makes a lot of sense especially if you did some kind of enter some pain/problem, search through existing idea markets and you can throw money towards ideas that would solve whatever pain point you have. Builders would essentially just have a market of validated ideas and could submit a ‘bid’ before a set deadline and the finders would vote on which is best then the funds would resolve to whatever builder made the best product.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases"

ciaranmca — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:01:00 +0000

I would say Sent2 but there is examples of recent censorship with that as well (https://hntrbrk.com/eu-satellites/)

New comment by ciaranmca in "Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window"

ciaranmca — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:03:39 +0000

Never thought about the impact of comments, perhaps there is value in stripping those out of read file tools

New comment by ciaranmca in "Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple"

ciaranmca — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:34:10 +0000

It’s a really interesting project, worth checking out the video where he merged it with a companion computer to do computer vision tasks and inject controls straight into the flight controller https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaY2G5Kbj_g

New comment by ciaranmca in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

ciaranmca — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:44:03 +0000

True, certainly something you could do with Tailscale+tmux but if this makes that a lot easier then it could end up being popular, increasingly the people who are pushing the most money into the likes of Anthropic are not rhe people focusing too much on the amount of money being put towards achieving their goal, rather the progress(tbh more realistic to say perceived progress) towards that goal in the shortest amount of time.

Obligatory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

New comment by ciaranmca in "Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – An AI-native notebook for data analysis"

ciaranmca — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:07:41 +0000

Fair enough but the examples shown could surely just display some pre-cooked examples to give a demo of how rhe product works with no real cost to you or barrier to potential users.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"

ciaranmca — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:56:30 +0000

Confused me at first as when I saw mention of local + the single file thing in the GitHub I assumed they were going to have llamafile bundled and went looking through to see what model they were using by default.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

ciaranmca — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:59:37 +0000

100%, trying a bit of an experiment like this(similar in that I mostly just care about playing around with different agents, techniques etc.) it has built out literally hundreds of tests. Dozens of which were almost pointless as it decided to mock apis. When the number of failed tests exceeded 40 it just started disabling tests.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Poison Fountain"

ciaranmca — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:52:50 +0000

And most of the big players now have some kind of browser or bowser agent that they could just leverage to gather training data from locked down sources.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Professional software developers don't vibe, they control"

ciaranmca — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:41:57 +0000

^This 100%. Junior SWE here. Agentic coding has kinda felt like a promotion for me. I code less by hand and spend more time on the actual engineering side of things. There’s hype in both directions though. I don’t AI is replacing me anytime soon(fingers crossed), but it’s already way more useful than the skeptics give it credit for. Like most things the truth’s somewhere in the middle.

New comment by ciaranmca in "FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter"

ciaranmca — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:00:46 +0000

That’s why I like how OC handles sharing sessions https://opencode.ai/docs/share/

Wish other tools would copy this functionality(and maybe expand it so colleagues can pick up on sessions I share)

New comment by ciaranmca in "Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes"

ciaranmca — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:31:04 +0000

In terms of training your own models, is there enough COBOL available for training or are you going to have to convince your customers to let you train on their data (do you think banks would push back against that?)

New comment by ciaranmca in "WriterdeckOS"

ciaranmca — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:53:00 +0000

Yea, that’s something that stuck out to me as well. Seems like auto save and version control could be done in a minimalist manner whist improving QOL

New comment by ciaranmca in "Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader"

ciaranmca — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:04:33 +0000

Actually seems like a really cool product, not sure if it would be that useful for any serious reading due to the small size but probably useful for displaying a calendar and other widgets.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Introducing architecture variants"

ciaranmca — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:59:53 +0000

Out of interest, what reader is this? Sounds interesting

New comment by ciaranmca in "OpenRouter Introduces Exacto Precision Tool-Calling Endpoints"

ciaranmca — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:16:40 +0000

“ These endpoints are focused on higher tool-calling accuracy by routing requests to providers that demonstrate measurably better tool calling performance.

Exacto endpoints are available for: - Kimi K2 - DeepSeek v3.1 Terminus - GLM 4.6 - GPT‑OSS 120B - Qwen3 Coder ”

OpenRouter Introduces Exacto Precision Tool-Calling Endpoints

ciaranmca — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/models?q=exacto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674600

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ciaranmca in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

ciaranmca — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:50:23 +0000

Agreed, “ Popularity as a better indicator”. Hypothetically you could look at popularity over time to filter out viral rot content and work out if people feel the content is useful.

New comment by ciaranmca in "Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat"

ciaranmca — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:22:57 +0000

Ryanair is probably a better comparison.