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

davidanekstein — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:08:49 +0000

What did you use for visualizing at the top, webgl?

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

davidanekstein — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:53:55 +0000

I’m making an iOS app [1] that allows you to track and analyze your life. It’s all local to your device and was created to help me learn more about myself and my habits.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

New comment by davidanekstein in "A Recipe for Steganogravy"

davidanekstein — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:29:46 +0000

now to decode the blog post’s hidden message

New comment by davidanekstein in "Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter"

davidanekstein — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:04:28 +0000

Thank you for writing this up, it was great to see all of the comparisons. Very well put together!

New comment by davidanekstein in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

davidanekstein — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:25:55 +0000

My experience is that it is much more terse and realistic with its feedback, and more thoughtful generally. I trust its positive acknowledgements of my work more than claude, whose praise I have been trained to be extremely skeptical of.

New comment by davidanekstein in "How We Synchronized Editing for Rec Room's Multiplayer Scripting System"

davidanekstein — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:24:19 +0000

I’m surprised there was no mention of operational CRDT’s, or CRDT’s generally.

New comment by davidanekstein in "I put my whole life into a single database"

davidanekstein — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:07:07 +0000

The language you use to describe this is fun, I make an app for self tracking called Reflect and would love your opinion of it, even if it doesnt suit your needs exactly.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

New comment by davidanekstein in "I put my whole life into a single database"

davidanekstein — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:02:32 +0000

If anyone is interested in doing this sort of thing themselves, I make an iPhone app called Reflect meant for this exact purpose

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

Solving Soma

davidanekstein — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:45:40 +0000

Article URL: https://anekstein.com/posts/2026-02-01-blocker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933776

Points: 3

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New comment by davidanekstein in "Claude 4"

davidanekstein — Thu, 22 May 2025 23:37:14 +0000

o4-mini-high got it on my first try after 9 seconds

New comment by davidanekstein in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

davidanekstein — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:36:01 +0000

Is installing Rust any different?

https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

New comment by davidanekstein in "K Set Cover Solving Algorithm"

davidanekstein — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:53:37 +0000

Isn’t this an NP hard problem?

New comment by davidanekstein in "Ask HN: How to transition into Robotics"

davidanekstein — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:09:23 +0000

I’ve worked in robotics before. Since you mentioned backend I think getting familiar with ROS and LCM and other middleware would be helpful to you. If you have spare time, you could play around with writing drivers for motors that you buy, but it’s less specific to your skill set which in my opinion probably consists of sending and ingesting data, especially event-based systems.

New comment by davidanekstein in "The Bitter Prediction"

davidanekstein — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:26:04 +0000

I think in the workplace this is true, and a bummer, because the workplace demands the benefits that AI augmented programming offers. As a hobby, though, like music, the need for productivity isn’t as high and you can go to the proverbial practice room and program.

Overall I think you have a good point and the bummer for me is that the practice room isn’t as available for the day job.

New comment by davidanekstein in "The Bitter Prediction"

davidanekstein — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:40:56 +0000

I think AI is posing a challenge to people like the person in TFA because programming is their hobby and one that they’re good at. They aren’t used to knowing someone or something can do it better and knowing that now makes them wonder what the point is. I argue that amateur artists and musicians have dealt with this feeling of “someone can always do it better” for a very long time. You can have fun while knowing someone else can make it better than you, faster, without as much struggle. Programmers aren’t as used to this feeling because, even though we know people like John Carmack exist, it doesn’t fly in your face quite like a beautiful live performace or painted masterpiece does. Learning to enjoy your own process is what I think is key to continuing what you love. Or, use it as an opportunity to try something else — but you’ll eventually discover the same thing no matter what you do. It’s very rare to be the best at something.

New comment by davidanekstein in "Roo or Cline? We're building a superset"

davidanekstein — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:41:36 +0000

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

New comment by davidanekstein in "Salvador Dalí's Rare 1969 Illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

davidanekstein — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:02:43 +0000

This is a nice compilation of the work, it was great to see in one place

New comment by davidanekstein in "The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively"

davidanekstein — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:15:04 +0000

Great job, thanks for breaking it down the way you did

New comment by davidanekstein in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

davidanekstein — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:07:03 +0000

This sounds amazingly cool, would love to read about the process after you’re done if you have an intention to write about it.

New comment by davidanekstein in "Finding the Best Sleep Tracker"

davidanekstein — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:55:04 +0000

If anyone wants a tool to show you this analysis automatically, I make an app that links with Whoop and Oura and Apple Health and it shows you all of those relationships: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...