Hacker News: erikpau

New comment by erikpau in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

erikpau — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:48:41 +0000

I'd hate to be that guy, but Opus not a very smart model when the effort is set to anything below high. I think, given the feedback from the community, this would be an obvious signal. However, moving the effort to anything beyond medium is a huge token burn. These issues didn't exist, or at least not this persistent, before the last 2 weeks. I, and perhaps a million or so other developers, would ask you to reconsider this thinking. I understand you need to run a business, but so do we, and Claude Opus is genius with a drinking problem, and you never really know upfront if it's drunk or not, but it's generally quite clear after a few minutes.

Other models, such as K2, GLM-5.1, and "the other one" seem to far less drunk than your approach, and you're losing fans quickly if you keep making these kind of changes to the tools or models.

New comment by erikpau in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

erikpau — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:28:10 +0000

thanks. You can read the dev blog here: https://allscreenshots.dev

New comment by erikpau in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

erikpau — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:59:27 +0000

Working on https://allscreenshots.com - a screenshot API for developers.

I got frustrated with existing screenshot services choking on cookie banners, rendering half-loaded pages, and serving bloated images. So my co-founder and I built one that auto-dismisses cookie consent dialogs using Playwright heuristics, serves AVIF-first from Cloudflare R2, and supports geo-distributed rendering so you can capture pages as they'd appear from different regions.

Spring Boot + React + PostgreSQL. Bootstrapped after selling a previous ecommerce SaaS.

Currently documenting the whole build in a 30-day series on the blog if anyone's into that sort of thing.

Show HN: Built an AI powered image editor for IntelliJ

erikpau — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:52:43 +0000

Hi all, I always missed having an image editor in the Jetbrains products (PyCharm, Webstorm, IntelliJ), so I built a plugin to handle most image editing capabilities. Also added Gemini and OpenAI support, which lead to some surprising capabilities.

Not gonna lie, took a while to build, even with AI tools, and I have a long list of features to add, but I'm super happy its on the market place now, and I even did a first sale, and I'll probably never be able to express how happy that made me!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744068

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New comment by erikpau in "Calculate your reach on X/Twitter"

erikpau — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:57:48 +0000

Based on this post https://x.com/retardmode/status/2013481448838164799?s=46 and the https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm repo, we've built a small calculator to visualise the score calculation on X.

Calculate your reach on X/Twitter

erikpau — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:55:39 +0000

Article URL: https://allscreenshots.com/tools/x-algorithm-calculator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690886

Points: 1

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New comment by erikpau in "Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed"

erikpau — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:58:21 +0000

Yes, that's why we built it. iTerm has https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html, and Kitty has the Terminal Graphics Protocol.

This is also a good library which show the image display in action https://github.com/atanunq/viu

New comment by erikpau in "Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed"

erikpau — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:53:29 +0000

That's absolutely a side effect indeed, though the level of interaction with the website is quite limited. But glad you find it useful!

Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

erikpau — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:10:35 +0000

I built a CLI tool for capturing website screenshots directly from your terminal. It displays images inline using Sixel, iTerm2, or Kitty protocols, so you can preview sites without leaving your workflow.

Built in Rust, it's open source, you can find the code here: https://github.com/allscreenshots/allscreenshots-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513238

Points: 4

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Show HN: Allscreenshots – a developer focused screenshot as a service API

erikpau — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:56:27 +0000

Hey, all! I used to spent a lot of time trail running, but my body said no. So, with extra time on my hands, I built a screenshot as a service API to capture screenshots of one or multiple URL with a lot of different options: I provide single screenshots, batch screenshots, and compose screenshots (which can combine multiple URLs or multiple viewports into 1 single screenshot). I also provide caching, custom headers, adblock, tracker blocking, auto hiding of cookie banners, etc.

The platform is built on top of Playwright running on a low cost Hetzner instance, and can scale up and down as required, either horizontally or vertically. It's also possible to run the service on-prem if anyone requires.

You can use this service for several use cases, such as:

Link previews, QA testing of deployments (I use it for that myself), checking which part of your site is "under the fold", etc

It's not a unique service, but I'm building a few features on it in the upcoming weeks which will hopefully make this platform a bit more unique. I would love to hear feedback, and I've setup a dev blog at https://allscreenshots.dev where I build in public and talk about the choices I've made, what works well, and what doesn't. I will provide updates every day on the dev log for the next 30 days on this project.

I've built 8 SDKs and sample apps so far (did I mention Rust? Or PHP?) to make it even easier to use the API (I haven't published the SDKs yet, I just built them today) , feel free to check them out here: https://github.com/allscreenshots/allscreenshots.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454143

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