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New comment by growt in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

growt — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:19:19 +0000

So smol is your agent? Do you have a GitHub link?

Show HN: Present of Time – gift someone your undivided time,phone in an envelope

growt — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:32:42 +0000

My phone kept winning against my kids at the dinner table, so I built a countermeasure.

The idea: you gift someone an hour of undivided time. To redeem it, you launch this ap, put your phone in airplane mode and into a white paper envelope and seal it. The screen stays on, it glows through the paper like a small lantern, showing an hourglass in which luminous sand flows upward (time doesn't run out, it collects!).*

There is deliberately no app blocking. You switch to airplane mode yourself, and the sealed envelope does the rest. I think any programmatic lock can be circumvented anyway. This whole thing runs on cooperation, which is exactly what a gift assumes. Pulling the phone out early means visibly breaking a promise to a person, not to an app.

The "product" is not technical, but I try to establish a "ceremony" or "ritual", where the user conciously decides to not use their phone and to spend time with a loved one.

Technically it's one self-contained HTML file: canvas animation, Screen Wake Lock, works offline once loaded, no accounts, no analytics (none at all, the app has no backend, hosted on github).

My goal would be, if this gets any interest, to maybe sell some envelopes with printed instructions, stickers to seal and a link to the app. But anyone can use it for free as well. The code is MIT licenced and you can find it here: https://github.com/grothkopp/presentoftime

*Standard paper weights might be a little to thick, so "transparent" envelopes might be necessary for the full effect.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884493

Points: 2

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New comment by growt in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

growt — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:02:14 +0000

Wishlisted! Looks great

New comment by growt in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

growt — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:45:10 +0000

I wouldn't mind if similar _common_ words are mixed up. But the current state of the iOS keyboard and also gBoard is that it sometimes just makes really unhinged suggestions (at least in my native german). Words I never used before and that I didn't even know existed. I think a small AI layer on top would probably fix that, just the likelihood of next words multiplied somehow with what I possible could have swiped.

The Agentic Team Manifesto

growt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:27:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/grothkopp/agentic-team-manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492521

Points: 2

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Manifesto for Agentic Teams – reorganizing engineering around AI agents

growt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://agentic-team-manifesto.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476888

Points: 3

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New comment by growt in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

growt — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:34:35 +0000

Where and how do you run that? I tried it but somehow I always ran out of context or generation was incredibly slow (mbp m4 pro 48gb).

New comment by growt in "Accelerando (2005)"

growt — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:11:13 +0000

Even more fitting is the part of the story where a collective of uploaded lobster minds are involved. I wonder if that was an inspiration for the "OpenClaw" name somehow or just pure coincidence.

New comment by growt in "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?"

growt — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:58:56 +0000

There is a similar experiment where a famous violinist plays in a subway station. Nobody really notices or appreciates him and his music. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw&ra=m

New comment by growt in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

growt — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:41:12 +0000

I just did a quick check: a 2022 Macbook pro M1 with 1tb and 16gb ram goes for 1119 euros on eBay. A new M5 mbp with the same ram and disk is 1899 euros, so 709 difference. And you get a whole new machine not just a cpu upgrade.

New comment by growt in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

growt — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:31:01 +0000

Well you can sell your old MacBook. And they hold their value pretty well. So I don’t know if framework would actually come out ahead financially.

New comment by growt in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

growt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:07:25 +0000

Wasn’t cache time reduced to 5 minutes? Or is that just some users interpretation of the bug?

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

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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.