Hacker News: justinzollars

New comment by justinzollars in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

justinzollars — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:04:05 +0000

Start with a problem. I'm building https://helppet.ai, a voice agent for Veterinarians. I didn't know anything about AI programming other than absolute fundamentals I learned in 2017 through Stanford AI course - this was just theory and a lot has changed. I followed startups doing solving similar problems, and I asked detailed questions to everyone I could. I went to AI hack events to learn techniques others are using. Eventually I ended up with something pretty great and had fun doing so. So start with a problem and then work backwards.

New comment by justinzollars in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

justinzollars — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:50:44 +0000

Has anyone noticed the whole of the Western World has gone tyrannical paranoid police state?

New comment by justinzollars in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

justinzollars — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:11:17 +0000

someone needs a Jump to Conclusions Mat

New comment by justinzollars in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

justinzollars — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:07:52 +0000

Thats not how private equity works.

A Six-Story Apartment Building Is Tearing This Small California Town Apart

justinzollars — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/a-six-story-apartment-building-is-tearing-this-small-california-town-apart-59f924ae

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162460

Points: 22

# Comments: 9

New comment by justinzollars in "Historical Tech Tree"

justinzollars — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:08:23 +0000

Reminds me of the tech tree featured in the game Civilization. Pretty cool stuff

New comment by justinzollars in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

justinzollars — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:09:50 +0000

I support this and am willing to help.

New comment by justinzollars in "Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS"

justinzollars — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:45:29 +0000

I'm excited to run Systemd on mac!

New comment by justinzollars in "VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech"

justinzollars — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:24:18 +0000

The AI could monitor the AI!

New comment by justinzollars in "California has got good at building giant batteries"

justinzollars — Fri, 30 May 2025 14:21:22 +0000

Who cares? Electricity is literally the flow of electric charge, typically measured in terms of current (amperes). China has substantial baseload capacity. China adds an America of capacity every 18 months. Batteries connected to the grid, imply shortages. A need to balance supply and demand, manage variability in energy sources. They are also very expensive. So we have net on net, less power, that's unreliable, that's more expensive. Nothing to brag about.

New comment by justinzollars in "California has got good at building giant batteries"

justinzollars — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:25:00 +0000

Yes. My energy costs have exploded over the last decade.

Show HN: Open-source Rust implementation of Turbopuffer

justinzollars — Tue, 27 May 2025 01:52:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/fogonthedowns/vbfold

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103252

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by justinzollars in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

justinzollars — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:38:33 +0000

We love throwing cash at Jony Ive!

New comment by justinzollars in "Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent"

justinzollars — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:59:16 +0000

Jules was unable to complete the task in time. Please review the work done so far and provide feedback for Jules to continue.

New comment by justinzollars in "Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down"

justinzollars — Sat, 10 May 2025 17:10:58 +0000

Wrong, Its literally defined as a tier one asset by our banking system.

New comment by justinzollars in "Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down"

justinzollars — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:46:12 +0000

Gold. Which qualifies as a tier 1 asset in our Banking System.

New comment by justinzollars in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

justinzollars — Thu, 08 May 2025 22:33:13 +0000

Turns out 2 companies do exactly this thing:

1. https://www.stack-ai.com/ 2. https://www.intercom.com/

pivoting to something else closing down ticketsidekick after a customer brought up stack-ai.

New comment by justinzollars in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

justinzollars — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:29:28 +0000

Yup we are big fans.

New comment by justinzollars in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

justinzollars — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:04:12 +0000

https://www.ticketsidekick.com/

I'm working on TicketSidekick having lots of fun with pinecone, chromadb, llms, aws serverless and golang!

TicketSidekick is a smart support agent that manages tech support automatically across the entire incident lifecycle.

New comment by justinzollars in "A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn"

justinzollars — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:31:00 +0000

We are currently fundraising - and we consider this a valid path if VCs don't bite. We have customers and no matter what - we are building something valuable. Nice post!