Hacker News: halamadrid

New comment by halamadrid in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

halamadrid — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:52:20 +0000

This is quite amazing. I remember being on the original friendster way back in the day. They had so much potential. And there was also orkut.com that was even better because of the simpler UX. Then came Facebook and you all know the rest.

New comment by halamadrid in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

halamadrid — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:27:17 +0000

This is true. Speaking only based on personal experience. My team had started treating AI like a super intelligent being.

“AI suggested we do it that way”

And we’ve been degrading our systems rapidly for last several weeks. We’ve decided to pause and reflect and change how we use AI on tasks that are not dead simple.

New comment by halamadrid in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

halamadrid — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:12:56 +0000

Really hard to look at these images given how not human like the humans are. A few are ok, but a lot are disfigured or missing parts and its hard to find a raccoon in here.

New comment by halamadrid in "GitHub's fake star economy"

halamadrid — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:58:26 +0000

Buying stars explicitly is one mechanism. Another one is running Hackathons in India or lower cost countries with a prize, which is qualified by "Starring" said repo.

Easily 1-3k stars per hackathon from student or hackathon participants for a cost of $1-5k. And some free marketing comes with too since participants may post on LinkedIn or other social media if they win something.

New comment by halamadrid in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

halamadrid — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:18:54 +0000

"hundreds of calls per week" because the mechanic is under the hood every day seems a little off. Hundreds seems way too excessive. Perhaps an exaggeration to highlight the problem's seriousness?

With that kind of volume, I think even before AI could have helped, why not hire some staff and potentially even a receptionist. Given the volume, this seems like an easy choice.

New comment by halamadrid in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

halamadrid — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:44:12 +0000

This was such as interesting read, but I found this link via LinkedIn rather than hackernews.

I would have expected this to be somewhere at the top right now given how deep the article digs and evidence seems legit.

New comment by halamadrid in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

halamadrid — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:18:49 +0000

I pay $20 for OpenAI and codex makes me incredibly productive. With very careful prompts aimed at tiny tasks, I can review, fix and get a lot of things done.

I’ll happily pay up to $2k/month for it if I was left with no choice, but I don’t think it will ever get that expensive since you can run models locally and it could have the same result.

That being said, my outputs are similarish in the big picture. When I get something done, I typically don’t have the energy to keep going to get it to 2x or 3x because the cognitive load is about the same.

However I get a lot of time freed up which is amazing because I’m able to play golf 3-4 times a week which would have been impossible without AI.

Productive? Yes. Time saved? Yes. Overall outputs? Similar.

New comment by halamadrid in "AI-First Company Memos"

halamadrid — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:09:30 +0000

HubSpot CTO was very vocal about how AI is changing everything and how he is supporting by offering the domain chat.com to OpenAI etc. I say was because it has toned down quite a bit. I always thought HubSpot will transform into a true AI CRM given how invested the CTO was in the space from the early days.

Now the stock is down from $800+ to $200+ and the whole messaging has changed. The last one I saw on LinkedIn was "" No comment on the HubSpot stock price.

But, I strongly agree with this statement:

"...I don't see companies trusting their revenue engine to something vibe-coded over a weekend." ""

The stock dip is likely because of the true AI native CRMs being built and coming to market, but why couldn't HubSpot take that spot given the CTOs interest in the space.

Ask HN: Will crypto currencies survive past this market downturn?

halamadrid — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:11:27 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906109

Points: 8

# Comments: 7

New comment by halamadrid in "Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair"

halamadrid — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:16:03 +0000

If someone in the admin reads this, there is a chance this will be reversed and lead will be allowed in gas again :)

Ask HN: Do You Prefer Cursor over Codex or Claude Code? Why?

halamadrid — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:06:13 +0000

Switched to codex and the CLI experience has been amazing, and I used to be huge fan of Cursor before and I haven’t opened it for ages now. I’m curious if I am missing out on anything that works better with Cursor.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730232

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Japan deploys its military to stop bears

halamadrid — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:59:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600582/japan-bear-attacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843673

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by halamadrid in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

halamadrid — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:24:27 +0000

I don't think it was designed to handle the volume of traffic that HN generates.

New comment by halamadrid in "ChatGPT Pulse"

halamadrid — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:48:16 +0000

Code is probably just 20% effort. There is so much more after that. Like manage the infra around it and the reliability when it scales, and even things like managing SPAM and preventing abuse. And the effort required to market it and make it something people want to adopt.

New comment by halamadrid in "Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda"

halamadrid — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:11:04 +0000

Nice we haven’t faced this cold start problem. We like the idea of Lambdas being offered in a simple runtime platform where you can store and run the code as needed.

And chain it with other stuff as well which is where workflow engines like n8n or Unmeshed.io works better. You can mix up lambdas in different languages as well.

New comment by halamadrid in "Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler"

halamadrid — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:02:32 +0000

Unmeshed.io is another alternative. You don’t even need to write code for your schedules

New comment by halamadrid in "AI coding tools can reduce productivity"

halamadrid — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:47:11 +0000

For the sake of argument 20x means you have basically suddenly got access to 19 people with the same skill set as you.

You can build a new product company with 20 people. Probably in the same domain as you are in right now.

New comment by halamadrid in "Show HN: Obelisk – a WASM-based deterministic workflow engine"

halamadrid — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:17:12 +0000

We are using a workflow engine called Unmeshed - which has what you are asking about. Workflow definitions can be updated without running interfering with running instances and if you choose to you can patch updates on to running workflows. And you can also rerun workflows with the same input from an older execution.

New comment by halamadrid in "Show HN: I built a tool to detect scams"

halamadrid — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:13:23 +0000

Built on Lovable? Looks neat. If yes, how was your experience? Did you have to customize much by hand or did it take care of most of the work?

New comment by halamadrid in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

halamadrid — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:04:37 +0000

> After years of skepticism, you'll reluctantly become an AI evangelist, but will still add 'I'm still skeptical about how far it can really go' to the end of every recommendation.

Oh man, I feel seen :)