Hacker News: halotrope

New comment by halotrope in "AI coding is gambling"

halotrope — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:09:12 +0000

idk it works for me it build stuff that would have taken weeks in hours ymmv

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Perchpad – Collaborative real-time Markdown editor backed by Git"

halotrope — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:19:09 +0000

no you can give github oauth access to a repo and then it will sync automatically.

Show HN: Perchpad – Collaborative real-time Markdown editor backed by Git

halotrope — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:08:45 +0000

I've wanted something like this for a long time and finally built it over the weekend after seeing a tweeet about LLM memory. Perchpad is a collaborative real-time Markdown editor where your workspace is just a folder of flat .md and .csv files, version-controlled with Git.

Key things:

Git-native storage, your workspace is plain files. git clone them, download as zip, or just edit locally. No proprietary format lock-in.

Deep LLM support. hook it up to Claude as persistent memory/context. The LLM integration is fairly capable for drafting and editing within docs.

Web based real-time multiplayer – full collaborative editing, multiple cursors, the usual.

Text-to-speech longform read-aloud with decent voice options.

The idea is that your notes and docs should be portable plain text first, collaborative second, and AI-augmented third — not the other way around. Would really appreciate any feedback. Happy to answer questions here.

https://perchpad.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919903

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by halotrope in "Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%"

halotrope — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:02:39 +0000

Linux Desktop got so much better in recent years but it also stayed the same. If you’re trying to be productive and not just switching between editor and terminal windows there are still endless frustrations that never end.

New comment by halotrope in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

halotrope — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:19:30 +0000

it works with a llm/visual model and is integrated with a control for the browser. it works surprisingly well i might do a shown if its interesting for other people

New comment by halotrope in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

halotrope — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:29:03 +0000

Yes many things actually.

- A mac app to generate to read text as playlists from openai tts api (my gf can't use the api)

- A automatic visual scraper that can get arbitray information from any website (e.g go to target and get the top 3 milk prices or get the licensing information from this opensource project)

- An ETL tool (called tabmaster) that can sync arbitrary json apis into postgres tables. with automatic schema inference and deduplication logic

- A really good OCR tool that enriches scanned PDFs with accurate words and not the bs that adobe ships

all really useful and used daily.

EDIT: formatting

New comment by halotrope in "Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?"

halotrope — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:41:53 +0000

cloud computing is way too expensive for what it is. you'll have most of the benefits with a managed database and a good cdn

New comment by halotrope in "OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership"

halotrope — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:51:51 +0000

yeah somehow it reminded me of the fb integration too. we‘ll see how well it works in practice. i was hoping for them to show the sky demo with the new voice mode that openai recently demoed

New comment by halotrope in "Ask HN: How to OCR a PDF and preserve whitespace?"

halotrope — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:02:12 +0000

we have an internal api at markets.sh for ingesting large financial reports and newspaper data. solves this exact problem. i‘ll be happy to give you test access. drop me an email at max at markets.sh

Intel details how Lunar Lake PC chips deliver 120 TOPS

halotrope — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/04/intel_details_lunar_lake_tops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570733

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: API for Stock Prices, News and Company Financials

halotrope — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:28:42 +0000

Hi, co-founder of markets.sh here.

While building our financial research and company database, we have gathered quite a bit of information on public and private companies.

Right now, it has basic data like descriptions, recent prices, financials, news (with summaries and sentiment), and some financial ratios.

We have limited the free points for now, but you can write in the support chat or via the contact form, and I'll credit some more.

I would appreciate any feedback or feature requests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40564307

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:49:41 +0000

Yeah totally! this was a bug as that i introduced when persisting langauges so that you don't have to always click. it's now fixed. thank you for reporting!

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Fri, 31 May 2024 10:09:35 +0000

ty! i'll be in touch once we need to scale it a bit more. right now we're still focussing on latency and reliability of the underlying signals

New comment by halotrope in "Ask HN: How do you personally stay fit?"

halotrope — Fri, 31 May 2024 09:56:22 +0000

Quick morning jog every other day, some weightlifting and Jiu-Jitsu. Fixed all back pains and is good for baseline fitness

Indexify – Open-Source Data Framework Featuring a Real-Time Extraction Engine

halotrope — Fri, 31 May 2024 09:55:21 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/diptanu/status/1793698454528721178

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40533127

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Fri, 31 May 2024 06:52:28 +0000

ty for the feedback! yeah, it’s more of a quick api doc right now. i’ll make a better version asap

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Fri, 31 May 2024 05:43:31 +0000

thank you!

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:15:34 +0000

we have a permanent stream of news running through the system, we are comparing this with the queries, determining if there are special extra sources needed and then check it as new i formation comes in. for things like stock price alerts we store those as sql with a different engine. it’s definitely work in progress but very useful fir us internally already. will be integrated in our chat system next week

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Thu, 30 May 2024 20:20:47 +0000

great! it's a pretty early version so please get in touch through the various channels (website chat, contact form or on twitter) if you have any questions or something does not work

New comment by halotrope in "Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event"

halotrope — Thu, 30 May 2024 20:04:58 +0000

ok solved, this is actually the usage so you have used 0 of 300 points. i will fix the ui to make this easier to understand