Hacker News: dcsan

New comment by dcsan in "Show HN: OpenWhisper – free, local, and private voice-to-text macOS app"

dcsan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:48:36 +0000

how does it compare to wispr flow?

which beats the pants off android or iphone transcription...

New comment by dcsan in "Yansu – The Serious Coding Plaftorm"

dcsan — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:49:39 +0000

I tried this and i like the 'spec driven' approach. its a bit like amazon's kiro, but who wants to give more data to amazon?

New comment by dcsan in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

dcsan — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:03:13 +0000

RIP financial regulation. CFPB was hit early on but the dump coins were launched even before that

New comment by dcsan in "Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system"

dcsan — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:38:18 +0000

Very cool like a text based crm. Like how obsidian keeps all your docs in local .MD files. Perfect for building agent automations without delving into lots of integrations. This does make it harder to collaborate though

Reminds me also a bit of

https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md

New comment by dcsan in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

dcsan — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:31:15 +0000

I've seen people but cpc campaigns and only place ads that don't convert. So they get the benefit of the branding instead. I guess more modern auction algorithms factor this in

New comment by dcsan in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

dcsan — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:27:56 +0000

Half my advertising budget is wasted, I just don't know which half... In many corporate cases vague metrics meets the KPI better than accurate ones

I worked for one of the mag7 doing customer support bot tech. Clients internal metrics around containment consistently showed better results than ours - even though you'd normally expect them to be putting pressure on their vendor. because it was a kpi for their internal team to look good to their bosses

New comment by dcsan in "Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks"

dcsan — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:43:57 +0000

nice launch!

Do you worry that AI browser agents (comet etc) will eat this market of light integrations? Since the user is already logged in to various services like linkedin/email etc it's easy for tasks to be scripted together - or fully prompted.

also what did you use to make the video? looks better than most looms.

New comment by dcsan in "Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows"

dcsan — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:23:16 +0000

I do like convex but do you support any other data stores?

New comment by dcsan in "Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels"

dcsan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:08:10 +0000

Were you using their embedded player or some other method to play the raw streams?

The embed links back to YT which is a major part of why they provide it for off-platform playback.

But if they somehow singled you out for overuse of the embed that seems rather arbitrary

New comment by dcsan in "Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database"

dcsan — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:32:32 +0000

does this work with cloudflare workers? I'm assuming if its using worker threads it might be some node specific API?

or at least the putting jobs into a queue side running within cloudflare?

New comment by dcsan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

dcsan — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:17:46 +0000

amazing posting, would be great if you had an extended network so people could collab with you, not just work there!

New comment by dcsan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

dcsan — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:37:07 +0000

https://podskim.com is for turning podcasts into knowledge graphs and making them visually skimmable. Keep adding features but need to shift to some user research and see how people are using it

New comment by dcsan in "eslint-config-prettier npm package compromised"

dcsan — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:33:59 +0000

why isn't this bigger news?

it looks like installing a dll so maybe it's windows only?

https://github.com/prettier/eslint-config-prettier/issues/33...

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

dcsan — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:23:36 +0000

https://Podskim.com is a way to skim through podcasts like a TikTok sans the brain rot. It also has some fact checking and topic monitoring behind the scenes. Haven't figured out a business model for it yet but has been fun to keep poking it

New comment by dcsan in "Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn"

dcsan — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:18:03 +0000

Maybe we could do this with just a voice recorder? writing stuff with a pencil seems unnecessarily laborious - unless the physical part is the point. you still get the mental exercise by trying to understand synopsize, and present the information

New comment by dcsan in "Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI"

dcsan — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:10:08 +0000

And the cost is often on the small business owner

New comment by dcsan in "How to negotiate your salary package"

dcsan — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:08:03 +0000

You had me until HFT...

New comment by dcsan in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

dcsan — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:57:37 +0000

LLMs have already replaced some code directly for me eg NLP stuff. Previously I might write a bunch of code to do clustering now I just ask the LLM to group things. Obviously this is a very basic feature native to LLMs but there will be more first class LLM callable functions over time.

New comment by dcsan in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

dcsan — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:00:38 +0000

So metaphorically speaking RN is an eye up over everything else?

New comment by dcsan in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

dcsan — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 01:45:51 +0000

850 people doing data labelling?