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New comment by growt in "MacBook Neo"

growt — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:02:08 +0000

1) bully or bullys insurance 2) whoever sat on it Alternatively: Apple care? :)

Show HN: Ainb.dev a Jupyter inspired AI notebook that runs in the browser

growt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:25:29 +0000

Hey everyone,

a work a lot with different LLMs (local and remote) and have to test a lot of different prompts and approaches.

So to scratch my own itch, I build a small AI notebook that can run prompts, javascript and markdown in cells of different types (inspired by jupyter). It can connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Openrouter and Custom (including local) APIs and endpoints.

The Data never leaves your Browser (except for the LLM calls of course), as there is no backend and no accounts and everything is stored locally.

The whole thing is Open Source: https://github.com/grothkopp/ainb You can also host it yourself if you don't trust me (or github) with the instance on ainb.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121412

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by growt in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

growt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:36:53 +0000

That is just spec driven development without a spec, starting with the plan step instead.

New comment by growt in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

growt — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:01:57 +0000

The main difference could be that you have an existing code base (probably quite extensive and a bit legacy?). If the llm can start from scratch it will write code “in its own way”, that it can probably grasp and extend better than what is already there. I even have the impression that Claude can struggle with code that GPT-5 wrote sometimes.

New comment by growt in "A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck"

growt — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:47:15 +0000

An interesting fact about the early GTA games is that they owe their success to a bug. The cop cars were supposed to behave nicely like in every other game, but due to a bug in pathfinding they just drive straight into the players car. So at least to some extend the whole billion dollar franchise owes its success to a bug: https://medium.com/@bdunn313/the-psycho-cop-bug-de9121335cf9

New comment by growt in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

growt — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:02:01 +0000

After reading through the other comments about bending spoons and reading yours again: the bending spoons CEO is technically telling the truth! They intend to run the acquired companies forever. After cutting most of the staff, but he didn’t say that part of course.

New comment by growt in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

growt — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:19:49 +0000

I don't have any links but you can start with CLAUDE.md and/or AGENTS.md and put the basic instructions in there ( you can also google these filenames for examples and recommendations). I also put README.md's in every subfolder to describe which file does what, etc.

New comment by growt in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

growt — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:06:47 +0000

It might be 1), being an early adopter doesn’t help much with AI. So much is changing constantly. If you put a good description of your architecture and coding guidelines in the right .md files and work on your prompts the output should be much better. In the other hand your project being legacy code probably also doesn’t help.

New comment by growt in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

growt — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:16:44 +0000

Probably depends on where you are, but here in Europe I always joke that you should prepare for the exact opposite of what apple weather tells you. A lot of times I’m literary standing in the rain and Apple tells me the chance for rain is 0%

New comment by growt in "Clicks Communicator"

growt — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:12:11 +0000

From my experience as a parent, that market is also very small, because the time between “child is old enough to text and be away from parents for long enough” to “child wants to have a real phone” is not that long.

New comment by growt in "Clicks Communicator"

growt — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:08:06 +0000

If you’re aiming for the second phone market you don’t have to beat the iPhone. Probably the easier pitch.

New comment by growt in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

growt — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:44:58 +0000

I recently build a small framework to create JavaScript apps that use this kind of URL sharing and therefore don’t require a backend: https://github.com/grothkopp/lost.js

New comment by growt in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

growt — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:17:43 +0000

I think this is most likely what happened. The update/review process for extensions is broken. Apparently you can add any malicious functionality after you’re in and also keep any badges and recommendations.

New comment by growt in "Show HN: Lost.js is zero-dependency framework for building local, shareable apps"

growt — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:55:05 +0000

Lost.js – Local, Offline, Shareable Tools

Lost.js is a lightweight, zero-dependency framework for building shareable "vibe coding" apps and prototypes.

A week ago my wife asked me for a "wheel-of-fortune"-style app as a fun way to choose random climbing routes. I thought that's something I could "vibe-code" myself in a few minutes. But then, as always, comes the user-management, db setup, backend development, etc. So this time I thought I'll do it differently and the result is lost.js: a framework (or toolkit, or maybe just template? I can't decide) that is small, has zero dependencies and no need for any backend. The data/objects are stored in local storage in the users browser. But they are shareable, via special URLs containing the whole data in compressed form in the URL hash. The lost-apps are all PWAs by design and work offline once they're cached.

So if you want to code a small tool, that lives in a browser lost.js can be your starting point and allow you to focus on the tool itself without worrying about backends or user-management or sharing.

Show HN: Lost.js is zero-dependency framework for building local, shareable apps

growt — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:54:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/grothkopp/lost.js

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108860

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by growt in "An update on the Farphone's battery"

growt — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:23:25 +0000

I flashed it. Don’t know if always on works with the browser. But jailbreaking is easy and I think even reversible. Then you can ssh into it and even setup a cron to download a picture and refresh the screen.

New comment by growt in "An update on the Farphone's battery"

growt — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:32:07 +0000

For home automation, how much energy my solar system produces, birthdays, weather forecast. Stuff like that.

New comment by growt in "An update on the Farphone's battery"

growt — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:29:19 +0000

I have multiple devices with lithium batteries plugged in 24/7. A kindle that I use as a display for example. So far nothing exploded. If exploding kindles were a thing I guess I would have heard.

New comment by growt in "Overlord: AI accountability that watches over you"

growt — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:20:10 +0000

For something less dystopian take a look at pushscroll. It’s an app that tracks you visually doing push ups (or squats or planks) and gives you minutes of unblocking time for each repetition.

New comment by growt in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

growt — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:29:08 +0000

Wouldn’t be very platonic to take pictures.