Hacker News: haute_cuisine

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?"

haute_cuisine — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:12:24 +0000

Post to HN/PH/reddit, buy niche newsletter or podcast ads, cold emails. Build domain authority with authentic backlinks.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?"

haute_cuisine — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:37:37 +0000

Setup 2-3 accounts to use codex. Claude requires at least max plan to avoid hitting limits constantly.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Anthropic vs. DoD: "Any lawful use" is a fight about control"

haute_cuisine — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:47:02 +0000

Snowden already showed what lawful use actually means.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?"

haute_cuisine — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:30:10 +0000

It's interesting that you frame the question as what is wiser. Here is a quote from Naval about making decisions, I hope it would bring more clarity.

Decisions:

- If you can’t decide, the answer is no.

- If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality).

- Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term.

Also, never outsource decision making to anyone who doesn't bear the consequences of the decision.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "OpenAI should build Slack"

haute_cuisine — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:16:54 +0000

You still need to register and put your credit card.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

haute_cuisine — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:14:34 +0000

Can someone explain why Dario is making a public statement about this? It's also interesting that they use abstract we / they without putting exact names.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

haute_cuisine — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:44:00 +0000

Not all projects are hosted at github. You also might want to receve relevant mail from fellow developers.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

haute_cuisine — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:39:41 +0000

Only free individual can have strong ethics. There are no free people in capitalism, money is debt after all. Think of applied pressure once you sign under VC money and amount of brainwashing / gaslighting. I sincerely hope my observation is wrong.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?"

haute_cuisine — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:07:55 +0000

I think the main problem is tech workers finally became a commodity. It was a brief time when hiring was hard and it was possible to get some sense of power because you could freely walk away or because you were a craftsmen.

Over the years, power slowly returned back to management and the industry figured out how to slice the creative role into small cogs: QAs, FEs, BEs, SREß, OPSs, POs, PMs. It's ten people now instead of three crafsmen. They can now follow a very strict process to produce average software with a lot of overhead. Customers don't care because one half is forced to use it and the other don't have a taste of what good software is. Partially, because they use abysmal MS products. Apple briefly showed to an average Joe what is possible when people care, but they're slowly losing it.

Now it's node/js everywhere and fierce competition being a ticket taker. People with no passion who are here just for the money and who don't care about the code. People who are here to play promotion politic games. Coding is a regular job now which pays decent and has low barrier to entry. You can fake it very far now with AI assistance.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

haute_cuisine — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:39:14 +0000

Personally, I find AI generated text disengaging. A also heard some professional writers immediately notice disorganized storytelling patterns. Have you found a way to fix this? Is there any soul in generated texts?

New comment by haute_cuisine in "OpenAI should build Slack"

haute_cuisine — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:26:37 +0000

email works, not everything has to be run by corporate greed

New comment by haute_cuisine in "OpenAI should build Slack"

haute_cuisine — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:21:59 +0000

Is landing page generated by AI?

New comment by haute_cuisine in "OpenAI should build Slack"

haute_cuisine — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:51 +0000

The problem here is that companies artificially limit integrations, so it's impossible to exchange messages between different providers like how email works.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "OpenAI should build Slack"

haute_cuisine — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:06:07 +0000

It's most likely already installed when you send an invite to someone and they already used to how it works. It just works most of the time, well, besides slightly buggy text editor and almost non-working calls.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Built and shipped an iOS app from my phone while traveling Japan"

haute_cuisine — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:42:59 +0000

Pangram says it's 100% AI generated.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP"

haute_cuisine — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:34:09 +0000

At some point social networks had XMTP servers, so it was possible for users to chat across social networks as protocol supports federation. It was even possible to use iMessage as a client.

Sadly, XMTP died once platforms gained enough users. The protocol itself is quite complex because of custom extensions (XEP) and different clients supporting different set of extensions.

I wasn't able to find a good desktop/mobile experience where I looked into self-hosting the XMTP server.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

haute_cuisine — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:08:41 +0000

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. What would be the elo gain for 4KB engine?

P.S. I assume 1200 elo in chess com scale (not lichess / fide elo) and bullet chess variant?

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser"

haute_cuisine — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:26:34 +0000

I love TUIs and spent some time exploring the project. I guess you posted it here to hear some feedback.

The landing page compares it to xtermjs as superior version. What I find strange, for example, FrankenTUI has a code explorer tab, but it's impossible to select any text or interact with a scrollbar. The "hotspots" section in the codeview misinterprets mouse clicks, highlighting line that is different from a click.

If it meant to be keyboard-first, I find focus management implementation unintuitive and shortcuts hard to discover.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser"

haute_cuisine — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:41:10 +0000

It'll be still broken as it'll be claude bugs + frankentui bugs.

New comment by haute_cuisine in "Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?"

haute_cuisine — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:06:13 +0000

I checked your website, it's quite impressive to release 1-3 opensource projects per day.