Hacker News: jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamesponddotcoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 20 May 2026 06:51:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"]]>This seems pretty awesome; being able to use an 8B model for tool calling would be perfect.

Interested in using this for Home Assistant using a Mac Mini as my server. Does it run on MacOS?

How is the latency when using the proxy? I’m using Claude Haiku 4.5 for my voice assistant right now and it’s pretty fast, but if I could keep the LLM local, it’d be even better.

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:07:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200330jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200330<![CDATA[GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation]]>Article URL: https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780

Points: 691

# Comments: 253

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:57:56 +0000https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"]]>The software seems pretty interesting. Is any integration with Home Assistant planned?

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:22:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459370jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459370https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459370<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)"]]>This looks amazing, I'd love to try the Home Assistant version! Email is on my profile :)

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:48:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975618jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975618<![CDATA[Some Thoughts on AI]]>Article URL: https://mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/some-thoughts-on-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753395

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

]]>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:08:42 +0000https://mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/some-thoughts-on-ai/jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753395<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>Thanks, I’ll take a look at that!

]]>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:52:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662480jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662480<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>Mind pointing me to an example book in Wikidata? I managed to find a few, but not if I search by ISBN, which makes it hard to find.

Unless you mean the fact you can find the identifier for a book in several different websites in there, in which case, I did find it.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:10:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580111jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580111<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>I’ll definitely discuss this with Drew, as he’s the one working on the database refactor. Thank you for the feedback!

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:15:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576416jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576416https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576416<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>I haven’t created a ticket for OpenLibrary yet, but it’s on my mental todo list. I’ll create the ticket for multiple new extractors today.

I’d love to help improve other services. I plan on charging for Librario at some point, but I’ll offer a free version and offer free API keys for projects like Calibre and others.

At least that’s the plan.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:13:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576399jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576399https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576399<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>Right now the meeting happens on the fly and then is cached. In the future I imagine the finished merge will be saved as JSON to the database, depending on which is more expensive, the merging or a database call.

Merging on the fly kinda works for the future too, for when data change or for when the merging process changes.

No idea what the future will hold. The idea is to pre-warm the database after the schema has been refactored, and once we have thousands of books from that, I’ll know for sure what to do next.

TLDR, there is a lot of “think and learn” as I go here, haha.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:11:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576376jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576376https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576376<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>No, I decided pretty early on to make it database specific instead of more generic, so we do use some PostgreSQL features right now, like their UUIDv7 generation.

But once the database refactor is done, I wouldn’t say no to a patch that made the service database agnostic.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:11:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575919jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575919<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>Can you provide an example?

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:22:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574255jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574255https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574255<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>No, right now you need an ISBN to search for a book. At a later date I'll implement search by title or author, which should help with this use case.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:21:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574250jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574250<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>Not gonna lie, I didn't even know Wikidata existed until now. I'll look into it today and create a ticket for a new extractor.

Thanks for letting me know!

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:20:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574242jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574242<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>I didn't look into it yet because I assumed the current extractors had the information from them, but it's in my list of future extractors!

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:19:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574236jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574236https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574236<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>It seems someone found a bug that triggered a panic, and systemd failed to restart the service because the PID file wasn't removed. Fixed now, should be back online :)

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:18:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574230jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574230https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574230<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>No hug of death, the server is sitting at 3% CPU usage under current load; it seems someone found a bug that triggered a panic, and systemd failed to restart the service because the PID file wasn't removed. Fixed now, should be back online :)

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:06:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574171jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574171<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>Thanks! It's a compilation of several random comments I made for a few months, haha.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:54:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571999jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571999<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>We don't support POST, PATCH, and whatnot yet so I didn't take that into account yet, but it's in the plans.

Still need to figure out how this will work, though.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:36:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571906jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571906https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571906<![CDATA[New comment by jamesponddotco in "Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more"]]>I only tested English and Brazilian Portuguese so far, and Brazilian Portuguese worked, with translator information included.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:34:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571897jamesponddotcohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571897https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571897