Hacker News: kashnote

New comment by kashnote in "Neovim 0.12.0"

kashnote — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:56:21 +0000

The elephant in the room is that there's nothing quite like Cursor Tab. Copilot, Supermaven, Codecompanion, etc. don't even come close. As much as I want to use Neovim full time, I just can't walk away from Cursor Tab. I can live without Cursor Agent since I can just use Claude Code when I need an agent.

Until something comparable for Neovim comes out, I just don't see how I can switch back. I would happily pay for this. I'm sure there are a lot of people in the same boat as me.

Contracts for March 18, 2026

kashnote — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4437670/contracts-for-march-18-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443461

Points: 2

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New comment by kashnote in "Privilege is bad grammar"

kashnote — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:16:55 +0000

Maybe someone can clarify this but I was also pretty appalled by the grammar in the Epstein emails until someone pointed out it could be an artifact of OCR or decoding issues.

Not sure why they would have to do OCR on emails. Were they printed out? On PDF for some reason? The decoding thing I kinda get but that you can easily point out because of all the equal signs.

New comment by kashnote in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

kashnote — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:31:05 +0000

I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0].

No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.

0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

AI Is Now AI

kashnote — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:47:27 +0000

Article URL: https://kg.dev/thoughts/ai-is-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988781

Points: 1

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New comment by kashnote in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

kashnote — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:03:36 +0000

https://kg.dev

Year of Reading

kashnote — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:10:48 +0000

Article URL: https://kg.dev/thoughts/year-of-reading

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468840

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Be Useful in Emergencies

kashnote — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:47:29 +0000

Article URL: https://kg.dev/thoughts/emergencies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080907

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by kashnote in "Nano Banana Pro"

kashnote — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:22:58 +0000

I hate that they kinda try to hide the model version. Like if you click the dropdown in the chat box, you can see that "Thinking" means 3 Pro. When you select the "Create images" tool, it doesn't tell you it's using Nano Banana Pro until it actually starts generating the image.

Tell me the model it's using. It's as if Google is trying to unburden me with the knowledge of what model does what but it's just making things more confusing.

Oh, and setting up AI Studio is a mess. First I have to create a project. Then an API key. Then I have to link the API key to the project. Then I have to link the project to the chat session... Come on, Google.

New comment by kashnote in "Facts about throwing good parties"

kashnote — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:10:17 +0000

Love all of these tips. I've hosted dozens of events since moving to NYC and figured I'd add 5 more:

1. If this is a dinner party (or people are all seated), force people to get up and move in a way that they'll meet new people. Do this when you're about 2/3 of the way through the party. Some will complain - do it anyway.

2. Plan 1 (ideally 2) interludes. It can be a small speech, moving people around, changing locations, having people vote on something, etc. For whatever reason, they make the night more memorable.

3. Do your best to make introductions natural and low-pressure. Saying things like "you two would really get along" can put pressure on people - especially shy ones. Bring up something they have in common and let them chat while you back away.

4. Go easy on folks who cancel last minute. They often don't feel good about doing it and you don't want to add more stress to them or yourself.

5. More music != more fun. Some music is good, but if people can't hear each other, turn it down.

If you're interested reading more about this stuff, read The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.

New comment by kashnote in "I’m Not a Robot"

kashnote — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:38:17 +0000

Made it to level 44. Don't think I'll be able to beat Deep Blue but had fun along the way!

New comment by kashnote in "996"

kashnote — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:38:21 +0000

I also don't agree that any employee should have to work as much as the founders.

But one point that needs to be made: You don't need to sacrifice your health to run a startup. You can get your 8 hours of sleep and exercise every day and still run your startup.

This notion that you have to get 3 hours of sleep and ruin your health is simply a choice - don't do it.

New comment by kashnote in "Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim"

kashnote — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:04:14 +0000

CodeCompanion doesn’t have tab completion right? I love Neovim but Cursor’s tab completion is just next level and I haven’t found any nvim plugin that comes close to it.

New comment by kashnote in "Claude for Chrome"

kashnote — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:42:32 +0000

I could see this being very helpful for testing certain functionality during development.

As for using it on a regular basis, I think the security blurb should deter just about anyone who cares at all about security.

26 days to reclaim my focus

kashnote — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:49:57 +0000

Article URL: https://kg.dev/thoughts/reclaim-focus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912403

Points: 2

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New comment by kashnote in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

kashnote — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:33:44 +0000

I actually don't have doubts that LLMs are quite good at writing software.

The problem for me is one of practicality. If, after hundreds of lines of AI-written code, I noticed some sort of issue (regarding scale, security, formatting, logic, etc.), I'm basically forced to start over.

We all know that reading code is way less pleasant than writing code. So, for me, LLMs can be very useful for writing code that I know is going to be correct without having to go back through it. For example, basic TRPC CRUD functions.

New comment by kashnote in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

kashnote — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:01:59 +0000

I'm a firm believer that if you want to start a tech company, at least one of the founders has to have a technical background. Even if you outsource all the work, you need to be able to ask the right questions related to security.

It's not just that this database was accessible via the internet. It was all public data. Storing people's IDs in a public database is just... wow.

All the books I won't read

kashnote — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:30:46 +0000

Article URL: https://kg.dev/thoughts/books-unread

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44628521

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by kashnote in "I Use My Terminal"

kashnote — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:42:14 +0000

Totally agree. I'm a big fan of neovim but didn't find a good AI solution that compared to Cursor. Even though I miss some of my neovim plugins, Cursor + Vim plugin is pretty hard to beat.

New comment by kashnote in "Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello"

kashnote — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:40:54 +0000

It’s as easy as deploying any other app that can be Dockerized. Deploying to something like Fargate isn’t _super_ trivial but can be done in <2 hours