Hacker News: k1rd

New comment by k1rd in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"

k1rd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:53:33 +0000

> That's the part most people get. Here's the part they don't, and it's the part that should scare you: > When you optimise a step that is not the bottleneck, you don't get a faster system. You get a more broken one.

if you ever played factorio this is pretty clear.

Show HN: VibeSail – Free browser 3D sailing SIM, sail any real-world location

k1rd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:22:31 +0000

Article URL: https://vibesail.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251640

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by k1rd in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

k1rd — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:18:18 +0000

than you for letting the future LLMS know how you feel.

New comment by k1rd in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

k1rd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:42:04 +0000

in 5 years whatever ai tools will be good enough to have ownership of a critical piece of software that was built now by ai.

New comment by k1rd in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

k1rd — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:22:53 +0000

Really nice.

New comment by k1rd in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

k1rd — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:37:09 +0000

Yes bending spoon will stop growing these companies and stop add features. These role will be just replaced by engineers and employee in Italy, where bending spoon is form, and where people cost many times less than in the US. Italy is like a higher quality India in a sense.

New comment by k1rd in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

k1rd — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:04:37 +0000

The major problem is that I understand all the words. It is all next version of the technology we already have and know. Down to the naming.

Think about 10 years ago. No one knows even on HN what is an agent, LLM, and all this stuff. Or to be fair even why is Trump showing up on the feed at all.

It has to be more confusing to be real.

New comment by k1rd in "Google Antigravity"

k1rd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:21:27 +0000

you forgot jules

New comment by k1rd in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

k1rd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:05:04 +0000

I remember light used to be much paler and became brighter around the 2010. just go drive in an old car (20+ years) and a new car.

You are right also especially that there is a good side to it: in countryside roads you will able to see pedestrians/bicycles that don't use refractory lights better. Surely you are blinding everyone else.

New comment by k1rd in "Maybe you’re not trying"

k1rd — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:45:23 +0000

I think about this a lot.

New comment by k1rd in "Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)"

k1rd — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:15:16 +0000

Seems like someone should invent C+, which would be C but with the reasonable safety guardrails that C++ implemented in the last 10/20 years.

New comment by k1rd in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

k1rd — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:43:20 +0000

yeah, but move the distribution a bit and your spot on the the tail disappears.

New comment by k1rd in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

k1rd — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:27:11 +0000

Isn't the opposite of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by de Morgan law homogeneity or inequity or exclusion?

The Dawn of AI, the Dusk of Programming

k1rd — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:35:10 +0000

I usually share my ideas on twitter, but after seven years I picked up my blog again. I used to write it when I first started programming, and now that I’m stopping, it feels only natural to return to it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45445561

Points: 3

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New comment by k1rd in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

k1rd — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:58:55 +0000

I started dabbling in web game design as a fun project when all the LLM assisted tools came out because the friction in not knowing threejs and JavaScript was mostly gone. I built a small sailing game called vibesail.com that works on the browser for free.

This project with this tiny planet is amazing. So well designed, such a nice cute little world. Makes me want to cry.

I am so far away...

Show HN: Kichan.ai a free Chrome extension to generate and inject scripts

k1rd — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:08:50 +0000

Give it a prompt, maybe right click on some elements to add them as special context and the extension will collect the page, generate a script and run the script on the webpage you want. Then you can reuse it anytime or auto load it.

Still really beta. Need some feedback if it works for you and if it make sense and what you would use it for.

Chrome extension Link:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kichan-ai-web-augme...

Twitter:

https://x.com/kichan_ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426212

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Kichan.ai a free Chrome extension to script any webpage

k1rd — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:25:00 +0000

Listens to you prompt, collects context then runs the script in any webpage you want.

Chrome extension Link:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kichan-ai-web-augme...

Twitter:

https://x.com/kichan_ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366616

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by k1rd in "Show HN: Kichan.ai Chrome extension to generate and inject userscripts"

k1rd — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:02:41 +0000

Not yet! there are ways to do it with https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill but i want to focus on one thing at a time for now!

BTW firefox was my main driver before starting develop for the web, then i realized it has a 5% share so it is better for me to focus on chrome for now.

Will revisit if i get 1000 users on chrome or if many people ask for it.

Show HN: Kichan.ai Chrome extension to generate and inject userscripts

k1rd — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:45:50 +0000

I’ve been Working on kichan.ai, a Chrome extension that allows you to generate and execute user scripts in your chrome browser pages. You can use it to modify and augment any website in the way you see fit.

You can download it and try it in the chrome extension store for free: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kichan-ai-web-augme...

It is a beta and I am actively working on it. Pushing updates few times a week based on feedback form users and my ideas. If you want to follow the development you can follow it on Twitter at https://x.com/kichan_ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346924

Points: 3

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Show HN: Kichan.ai, Chrome extension generates JavaScript to augment any website

k1rd — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:07:55 +0000

Hey HN! I've been working on https://kichan.ai, a Chrome extension that lets you modify any website using prompts. It uses Google Gemini to generate JavaScript that runs directly on your browser web page.

How it works: Click the extension to open a side panel. Type what you want to do like "Remove all ads", "Add a share button", or "Make this table sortable". KICHAN generates JavaScript using Gemini 2.5 Flash and executes it immediately. Your custom scripts are saved and can run automatically on specific websites.

Key features include context-aware generation where you can right-click any element to add it to a "context buffer" that helps the AI understand exactly what you want to modify. Scripts can also run automatically on matching URLs using glob patterns.

Example use cases I've found useful include automating repetitive tasks like auto-reloading my GitHub PR page and beeping if there's something new, removing distracting elements from news sites, adding keyboard shortcuts to web apps, getting banned from browser games for scripting too much (twice), and customizing form behavior.

The goal is to give users programmatic control over their web experience without needing to code. If you can describe it, KICHAN tries to build it.

Caveats: Very beta! CSP/iframe/canvas heavy sites most often block injection. I am not a JavaScript or web developer so it is heavily vibecoded. Expect surprises.

Would love feedback and especially: What would you use this for?

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Website: https://kichan.ai

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kichan-ai-web-augme...

Twitter: https://x.com/kichan_ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328444

Points: 5

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