Hacker News: friendly_chap

New comment by friendly_chap in "You know more Finnish than you think"

friendly_chap — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:37:10 +0000

Absolutely, think "lick" vs "leak". I think the author means Hungarian maybe uses very similar looking letters to denote this (ie "lik" and "lík").

In Hungarian also every vowel comes in pairs of short-long: a-á (what vs high), e-é (ever vs eight), "o-ó" (moss vs most), "u-ú" (put vs you), "ö-ő" (fur vs ... well long version has no English equivalent I think but German does: schön).

New comment by friendly_chap in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

friendly_chap — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:29:05 +0000

I can imagine that happening when the motivation is external (praise). When I write open-source it's because I have to write it out of myself.

Do I expect praise, kudos, fame, whatever? I do and that happens, I have been hired countless of times because of open-source. Even my friends (!) have been hired because of open-source stuff I wrote and they contributed to.

But the main motivation is internal - I just have to see it take shape. Like a writer who can't resist painting or a writer who can't stop writing.

Do I have regrets still? Yeah because I could have used the time for better things. But that can be said about any hobby.

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

friendly_chap — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:14:41 +0000

Repo: https://github.com/1backend/1backend

After some 12+ years of collecting microservices platform ideas in my head and implementing them at various companies and open-source projects, I decided to create a system that contains all of them.

1Backend is the result. Mostly built it for myself so I have a foundation to build projects on but I'd love if others would also use it!

The Mystery of the Third Shaker (2024)

friendly_chap — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://nowiknow.com/the-mystery-of-the-third-shaker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159893

Points: 2

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New comment by friendly_chap in "Ask HN: DAO startup with shares based on commits"

friendly_chap — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:59:39 +0000

I think that makes sense, AI could be used to evaluate and score the importance of contributions imho. In fact this is probably a business idea in itself...

New comment by friendly_chap in "Ask HN: DAO startup with shares based on commits"

friendly_chap — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:31:33 +0000

I think the idea is fairly cool, although it's hard to come up with a way to judge contributions. How would you solve the legal part? In the end a business entity would still need to own things.

Would you perhaps sync ownership from time to time from the DAO to the real world?

Humans Will Be DJs, Not Track Producers, in the Age of AI

friendly_chap — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:28:57 +0000

Article URL: https://singulatron.com/blog/choice-ceding-in-the-age-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844249

Points: 1

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

friendly_chap — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:43:48 +0000

I'm working on a few closed source projects that are all built on https://github.com/1backend/1backend, my dream microservices platform I've had in mind for 12 years before starting to implement it.

On the frontend I'm rather happy with Angular but backend-wise I was never really happy. So it was time to build it. Been developing it for more than a year now.

1Backend: AI-native microservices platform

friendly_chap — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:14:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/1backend/1backend

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43424516

Points: 1

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Why Are There No Good Back End Platforms?

friendly_chap — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://singulatron.com/blog/why-are-there-no-good-backend-platforms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321766

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by friendly_chap in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

friendly_chap — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:12:04 +0000

> If you want to be fair, you could add that information. Otherwise, readers will assume you mean that we nefariously censor negative posts about YC, when the truth is the opposite.

I'll do that, sure! Dang, I have deep respect for both you and HN for many-many reasons (HN literally changed my life and made it 1000x). So don't take this as me having a grudge. I just like accountability.

> but it does sound like you noticed something that should not have been there.

I don't follow this, sorry.

New comment by friendly_chap in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

friendly_chap — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:36:54 +0000

If anyone is reading from YC, I'm happy to review their submissions, I was perhaps the first who raised concerns and was on top of the thread with my comment.

(See this post I made on LinkedIn about this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crufter_today-y-combinator-de...)

New comment by friendly_chap in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

friendly_chap — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:20:03 +0000

That post was pulled partly because of my comment. I commented this:

"While I see the economical usefullness, this sounds like the worst possible application of AI.

Using AI to surveil is building hell on earth. AI should be used to help people work less/easier, not whip them into working more."

Which ended up on the top of the thread. Was surprised to wake up this morning and see it gone.

LinkedIn post I made about this:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crufter_today-y-combinator-de...

Show HN: OpenOrch – microservices platform for building AI apps

friendly_chap — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openorch/openorch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws [video]

friendly_chap — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZB81jCGj4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058110

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by friendly_chap in "Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?"

friendly_chap — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:30:04 +0000

Hey! Email is not public on HN, if you want to publish it you gotta include it in your about section :). Also how are you with German? I used to speak some but forgot most. Can you get by with English?

New comment by friendly_chap in "Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?"

friendly_chap — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:04:03 +0000

Why is it miserable? I left in 2020. Life was pretty good there at the time, I just got bored of London. What changed?

New comment by friendly_chap in "Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?"

friendly_chap — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:25:21 +0000

I'm thinking about moving from Hungary (Eastern Europe). I used to live in London in my twenties but came home (what is home? I miss the UK) to settle down. But the leading right wing party is poisoning this country for Chinese money so I'm forced to move.

I think with all its problems US is still the best country in the world, but moving there is not an option for me. Even with a H-1B visa or whatever that's called, I don't like the idea of being tied that tightly to my employer. The US is still the source of innovation (imho for cultural reasons). I feel like my spirit is closest to the American one. Love for freedom, self-sufficiency etc.

Since the USA is not an option I'll settle for one of the European countries. Candidates are Spain, Switzerland or Austria.

Reasons are: Spain has cheap properties and amazing nature, Switzerland has an extremely high quality of life and wealth, and Austria is close to my home country.

New comment by friendly_chap in "Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs"

friendly_chap — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:35:06 +0000

I feel personally attacked ; ) I'm also building a tool to run/build on top of LLMs (https://github.com/singulatron/superplatform) and I opted for containers too. TBF I'm mostly targeting backend developers (who am I kidding, I'm mostly building this for myself).

The desktop version has its own configuration management software to install docker or WSL and all the dependencies you talk about, so I feel your pain.

/self plug

New comment by friendly_chap in "Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end"

friendly_chap — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:13:27 +0000

Hah! Nice idea! I built something with a similar mindset but instead of calling cloud AI providers my aim is to provide a self-hostable complete AI platform: https://github.com/singulatron/singulatron

I know that might sound like putting the server back to serverless. But I would say it's being your own serverless provider - once you have the platform installed on your servers you can build frontend-only AI apps on top.

Hope you don't mind the self-plug. Your approach definitely a ton of advantages when starting out (no infra to manage etc).