Hacker News: knlam

New comment by knlam in "Native all the way, until you need text"

knlam — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:24:04 +0000

Thanks for this post. This will be my bible for the "electron bad" crowd

New comment by knlam in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

knlam — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:54:06 +0000

you know what is the hard part about local ai? Supporting it cross platform. The OP get it easy by playing in Apple ecosystem but when you need to support local AI to both iOS/Android the approach is completely different. Even get the users to download the smallest models can be a challenge

New comment by knlam in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

knlam — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:27:29 +0000

Yearly reminder that Adobe CC is malware. Open your Activity Monitor on your Mac and see how much craps CC run on your computer

New comment by knlam in "Don't Build Multi-Agents"

knlam — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:37:57 +0000

The best one is google ADK, I must say they are quite thoughful of all the use cases

New comment by knlam in "Don't Build Multi-Agents"

knlam — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:36:43 +0000

You want to use multiple providers, so if I am not happy with result from gpt, I can switch to perplexity or something else. The power of plug and play is very powerful when you are building agent/subagent systems

New comment by knlam in "The current state of LLM-driven development"

knlam — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:32:55 +0000

Opening the essay with ~~Learning how to use LLMs in a coding workflow is trivial.~~ and closing with suggestion ~~ Copilot ~~ for AI agent is the worst take of LLM coding I ever saw

New comment by knlam in "How we built Bluey’s world"

knlam — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:32:48 +0000

Thank you, such a good episode. I adore bluey writing

New comment by knlam in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

knlam — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:30:29 +0000

Copilot is just plain bad. The result is day and night compare with cursor + gemini 2.5 (of course with good prompting)

New comment by knlam in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

knlam — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:28:29 +0000

Actually you can via private API, which Apple app use all the time but forbid other app to use

https://blog.verichains.io/p/technical-analysis-improper-use...

Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode

knlam — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:58:07 +0000

Article URL: https://til.secretgeek.net/google/chrome_design_mode.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833820

Points: 19

# Comments: 10

New comment by knlam in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

knlam — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:36:18 +0000

In the other thread, HN said Israel can only pull this trick only once and they just did it the second time

New comment by knlam in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

knlam — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:28:59 +0000

Working with GraphQL over 6 years, I have seen (and created) many mistakes mentioned in the article. GraphQL is not great but it has worked well for me, you just need to adapt & change mindset to create better interface for your graphQL endpoint.

For example, having nested queries more than 2 levels is a no go for me (just like having nested inheritance is basically anti pattern)

Focus more on your interface. One way to avoid N+1 and nested query is to required parameter for related fields. For example

```

user(id: $userId) { {

  id

  friends {

    id

    ...

  }

```

user(id: $userId) {

  id

  friends(id: $userId) {

    id

    ...

  }

```

New comment by knlam in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

knlam — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:51:41 +0000

I love crypto. I even built an SDK to make crypto payment easy [0] However, KYC is there for a reason. Personally, I don't touch any crypto on/offramp service without proper KYC

[0] https://1pay.network

New comment by knlam in "StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation"

knlam — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:53:26 +0000

Now as a frontend developer I understand how folks complain the frontend landscape change so fast that it is impossible to keep up

New comment by knlam in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

knlam — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 06:56:29 +0000

Love this! You just need to add auto evaluate code and done

New comment by knlam in "Welcome to the ad-free internet"

knlam — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:12:41 +0000

This is something crypto can solve. There I said it

New comment by knlam in "Show HN: Add stablecoins payment to any product. No signup required"

knlam — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:36:42 +0000

Typo is my bad. Thanks for pointing it out!

Regardless, there are callback and analytic, webhooks are being considered without compromising user identity. Sure, there are a lot of things to do

Show HN: Add stablecoins payment to any product. No signup required

knlam — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:19:14 +0000

Article URL: https://1pay.network/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613273

Points: 12

# Comments: 9

New comment by knlam in "SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange"

knlam — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 02:40:14 +0000

At least in the case of Bernie Madoff, the SEC can say "no, it is illegal to run a ponzi scheme and in this case it should say what law the exchange broke to make it valid

New comment by knlam in "Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman"

knlam — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:53:13 +0000

It 's aggressive passive