Hacker News: hmartin

New comment by hmartin in "Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex"

hmartin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:47:29 +0000

Spoiler: half the time, that unknown file format is a zip containing a sqlite db

New comment by hmartin in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

hmartin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:49:28 +0000

Site got hugged? Is there a torrent?

New comment by hmartin in "Lego building instructions through time"

hmartin — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:02:33 +0000

Good call thanks! Added screenshots:

https://github.com/hbmartin/pyldraw3-tui

New comment by hmartin in "Lego building instructions through time"

hmartin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:35:20 +0000

Might as well mention a couple of lego projects I've been working on, a parts browser TUI and a 3D model (eg .stl or .obj) to lego model (ldraw) converter:

https://github.com/hbmartin/pyldraw3/

https://github.com/hbmartin/legolization/

I'm actively trying to get good instructions out of the legolization project now

New comment by hmartin in "Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker"

hmartin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:22:55 +0000

Neat to see, brings back some great memories! And sorry on behalf of the decent people of HN for the weird haters who don't know ant species names or want to crap on the AI-ness.

Show HN: Howmuchwater.ai

hmartin — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:08:47 +0000

Tired of the noise and FUD around AI water usage, created a little site for comparing AI usage with common daily activities.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708624

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hmartin in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

hmartin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:46:14 +0000

Wish I could fail hard enough to have a (nearly) $1T startup with some of both the smartest models and smartest people.

New comment by hmartin in "Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity"

hmartin — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:14:38 +0000

But... does it clone Antigravity's commitment to storing keys at well known locations on disk in plain text?

New comment by hmartin in "Be Alexandra Elbakyan"

hmartin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:02:56 +0000

Um......

New comment by hmartin in "Claude for Creative Work"

hmartin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:23:09 +0000

"Available on Pro plans. Maybe. The only thing I can tell you for sure is that Terms and Conditions will change tomorrow. Still can't differentiate tabs and spaces[1]."

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11447#issue...

New comment by hmartin in "Generative AI Vegetarianism"

hmartin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:24:50 +0000

Is it a bit ironic that, while I certainly believe the author did not use gen AI to create this post, it reads like the most mindlessly AI generated post ever?

New comment by hmartin in "Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API"

hmartin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:37:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing a cool project! Just fyi, more idiomatic English would be "eager to have your feedback" since "impatient" implies frustration.

New comment by hmartin in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

hmartin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:02:18 +0000

What kind of OI slop is this?

5.4 Extra high >> Opus 4.6

New comment by hmartin in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

hmartin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:33:53 +0000

Could you explain more about how the signing setup works?

(That's what held me back most for spending more effort on shortcuts.)

New comment by hmartin in "Improving Composer through real-time RL"

hmartin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:01:31 +0000

Step 1: take an open source model with zero acknowledgement.

Step 2: build on someone else's infrastructure innovations with zero acknowledgement.

Step 3: Write a blog post with "unprecedented" and "100x" and "trillions" in the first paragraph.

Seriously, this seems like cool work and enjoyed the post. But my basic trust in them has completely tanked.

New comment by hmartin in "Flighty Airports"

hmartin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:36:54 +0000

Love Flightly, one of the best apps ever. Beautiful design + incredibly useful info.

New comment by hmartin in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

hmartin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:42:31 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by hmartin in "Waymo Safety Impact"

hmartin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:06:20 +0000

"words" is plural...

New comment by hmartin in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

hmartin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:51:37 +0000

It's a fair point but iff you neglect that the overwhelming revenue drivers for these services are large corps who are already locked-in. Devx doesn't matter at all once you're there.

The myopathy among us "online people" is assuming number of voices here and elsewhere correlate to revenue.

It does not.

New comment by hmartin in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

hmartin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:16:18 +0000

They should... put work into sacrificing revenue?