Hacker News: johnpaulkiser

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is"

johnpaulkiser — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:54:29 +0000

Oh, I thought the purpose was to to build a "copy this saas" app?

You give the agent a URL it records itself going through UX flows, give that video to a coding agent and you have quite a feature.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "The Codex App"

johnpaulkiser — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:14:37 +0000

interestingly opencode's first product was an IaC platform... seems to be where this is all going.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "The death of software development"

johnpaulkiser — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:43:45 +0000

Why not just share a video of the "bloomberg terminal" clone he prompted in 2 hours?

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

johnpaulkiser — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:56:54 +0000

How big were the lots? How far of a walk was the closest bar, grocery store, cafe? Do you have to walk onto someone's property to talk to them if they are sitting on the porch?

I lived in a car dependent burb for 20+ years and would rarely, if ever, run into my neighbors out on the town. Living in a walkable neighborhood in a medium-low density city for under a year and I regularly run into my neighbors.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

johnpaulkiser — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:31:51 +0000

This sounds like a stop loss? Are they losing money per token even through the api?

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "AI is a business model stress test"

johnpaulkiser — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:44:54 +0000

There will be no royalties, simply make all the models that trained on the public internet also be required to be public.

This won't help tailwind in this case, but it'll change the answer to "Should I publish this thing free online?" from "No, because a few AI companies are going to exclusively benefit from it" to "Yes, I want to contribute to the corpus of human knowledge."

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "AI is a business model stress test"

johnpaulkiser — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:52:36 +0000

> if you train your model on this, your weights and training code must be published.

This feels like the simplest & best single regulation that can be applied in this industry.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

johnpaulkiser — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:02:03 +0000

Tailwind should have bought shadcn and started pushing a better subscription model. Shadcn & vercel ate tailwind's lunch imo.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in ""Vibe coder" on X claims SaaS makes $60k while app is trivially insecure"

johnpaulkiser — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:30:41 +0000

Even if he did make the money he claims, he is selling the idea that "you too can make money by exposing all your users private info."

New comment by johnpaulkiser in ""Vibe coder" on X claims SaaS makes $60k while app is trivially insecure"

johnpaulkiser — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:54:55 +0000

I'm getting sick and tired of people on Twitter/X making wild claims that they can build a profitable app with 100% vibe coding so I started poking around and can almost always find a business destroying vulnerability.

In this case it was a user claiming their app is doing $60k MRR while, get this, building a vibe coding management platform & boilerplate. Quite the house of cards.

"Vibe coder" on X claims SaaS makes $60k while app is trivially insecure

johnpaulkiser — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jp_kiser/status/1994450874207236206

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080976

Points: 16

# Comments: 5

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "This website is for humans"

johnpaulkiser — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:55:19 +0000

Soon with little help at all for static sites like this. Had chatgpt "recreate" the background image from a screenshot of the site using it's image generator, then had "agent mode" create a linktree style "version" of the site and publish it all without assistance.

https://f7c5b8fb.cozy.space/

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "This website is for humans"

johnpaulkiser — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:25:53 +0000

I'm building a sort of "neocities" like thing for LLMs and humans alike. It uses git-like content addressability so forking and remix a website is trivial. Although i haven't built those frontend features yet. You can currently only create a detached commit. You can use without an account (we'll see if i regret this) by just uploading the files & clicking publish.

https://cozy.space

Even chatgpt can publish a webpage! Select agent mode and paste in a prompt like this:

"Create a linktree style single static index.html webpage for "Elon Musk", then use the browser & go to https://cozy.space and upload the site, click publish by itself, proceed to view the unclaim website and return the full URL"

Edit: here is what chatgpt one shotted with the above prompt https://893af5fa.cozy.space/

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack"

johnpaulkiser — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:51:42 +0000

You get all the money from the block rewards for those blocks if you reorg other miners blocks out.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

johnpaulkiser — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:03:49 +0000

I doubts thats what they want. They want a static fixed price, $5k a month for example and never have to think about it.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

johnpaulkiser — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:32:51 +0000

Are you saying "see the world?" or "seaworld"?

New comment by johnpaulkiser in ""AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing"

johnpaulkiser — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:18:11 +0000

Let me help you. An AI boss would be 100x worse.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills"

johnpaulkiser — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:07:56 +0000

Man, I must really suck at this stuff. This is not at all my experience. Asking LLMs to refactor almost always results in hasty abstractions that I want to keep out of my codebases at all cost. Am I not letting go enough?

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

johnpaulkiser — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:49:46 +0000

I think we need to be very careful & intentional about the language we use with these kinds of tools, especially now that the MCP floodgates have been opened. You aren't just exposing the users browsing data to which ever model they are using, you are also exposing it any tools they may be allowing as well.

A lot of non technical people are using these tools to "vibe" their way to productivity. I would explicitly tell them that potentially "all" of their browsing data is going to be exposed to their LLM client and they need to use this at their own risk.

New comment by johnpaulkiser in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

johnpaulkiser — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:36:08 +0000

> Private > Since automation happens locally, your browser activity stays on your device and isn't sent to remote servers.

I think this is bullshit. Isn't the dom or whatever sent to the model api?