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New comment by kredd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

kredd — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:59:51 +0000

Ah sorry, should’ve clarified, it doesn’t have tracking capability (kinda on purpose, semi-because hard to maintain battery/accuracy balance properly, for now). It syncs your old workouts synced into HealthKit, and displays them. I also added options for “manual check in” and “track through photo locations” as they were requested by my friends.

New comment by kredd in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

kredd — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:12:19 +0000

It’s not as cool as most of the other projects, but I have a little app (Ato on AppStore - https://apps.apple.com/app/ato/id6757285141) for basically tracking all walks/bike rides I’ve ever been and visualize it on a single map. I’ve had the app for a couple of years, but redid it with “hexes”, instead of just routes. It has a bit of coop, competition and ranking feeling to it nowadays as well.

I started the original project as an excuse to learn SwiftUI, then been using it as an excuse to test all the frontier models and etc. to see how much better we’re getting at AI-coding. Kinda fun to see a couple dozen weekly users semi-competing with each other. Obviously nothing big, but the feeling you get seeing someone else use your app is very nice.

New comment by kredd in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

kredd — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:47:30 +0000

We both know I didn't write it down with the hopes that I'll act on the at some point in the near future, and want to avoid my imaginary competitors. Even though, in reality, I will ponder about it for another week or two, give up without actually getting anything done, then regret for never trying :)

New comment by kredd in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

kredd — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:30:28 +0000

A bit tangential, but I think we will see a good chunk of small teams building competing products in different software business segments, by just doubling on productivity and offering a cheaper option due to less operational overhead (reads: paying engineers). I can think of at least two businesses that can be competed in costs if the team can automate a good chunk of it.

New comment by kredd in "The decline of the working musician"

kredd — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:52:36 +0000

I’ve talked to hundreds of people at bars around the world, and although I don’t remember their names, I can recall general conversations with each of them. I can’t recall anything that I’ve tapped-liked off the top of my head, because it’s very short and one-sided interaction.

New comment by kredd in "The decline of the working musician"

kredd — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:47:57 +0000

> But these businesses get it all wrong because they lack the communal kitchen and eating areas.

The problem as I see, given a choice, people rather eat/do/listen/feel things that they want, not the things they’re being forced on. In the past, you didn’t really have a choice and was forced to do what everyone is doing. Now, to live in such communities, you’ll have to get rid of the choice. Which also sucks.

New comment by kredd in "Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16"

kredd — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:15:08 +0000

Doesn’t really matter when the percentage of childless adults is growing every year. I just scoff and move on.

New comment by kredd in "The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan"

kredd — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:09:48 +0000

You’re thinking about power and money, but also should consider culture exports. I’d say it’s a combination of being a friendly nation to the west, being different, actively promoting culture internationally through media and, you know, still 3rd/4th largest economy. An extreme amount of recent travel in Japan also shows people some unique perspectives that people haven’t seen in their home countries (cleanliness, public infrastructure and etc.). I understand you can experience some of it in China as well, but there’s a massive difference between visiting Tokyo and Shanghai/Hong Kong.

Also add millions of people who grew up with anime in 1990s/2000s who are professional adults now. That helps as well.

New comment by kredd in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

kredd — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:10:57 +0000

Meh, I personally like it. It's a bit of liberating feeling to never, ever think about health insurance here in Vancouver. Obviously has ups and downs (especially for non elective surgeries), but it's my personal preference.

New comment by kredd in "Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation"

kredd — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:03:06 +0000

I totally agree, but I’ve also worked on a project with 0 customers spending about $2M/year on AWS, and there was absolutely zero incentive from the stakeholders to reduce the cost. There’s a certain disconnect between boots on the ground engineers, and decision makers when it comes to infra management.

New comment by kredd in "ChatGPT Search"

kredd — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:36:58 +0000

Why make $1 when you can make $100?

New comment by kredd in "Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade"

kredd — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:44:24 +0000

We've had legal marijuana since 2018 up here in Canada, and from the statistics it looks like the market has almost caught up. The closest comparison I can think of is piracy and beginning of streaming wars (like Spotify and Netflix). Sure piracy is free, but a significant chunk of people started subbing for the services because of the convenience. If you'll only save about $5 per purchase, but have to get cash, arrange everything and etc., that might be just enough friction for you to just go to one of the billion stores nearby.

New comment by kredd in "Apple iPhone 16 Is Now Illegal in Indonesia, Ban Leaves Tourists in the Lurch"

kredd — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:41:11 +0000

If 5% of population (14M people) can afford an iPhone, it's already bigger than a lot of potential markets around the world. I'm sure they do a much more thorough analysis at Apple though.

New comment by kredd in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

kredd — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:55:56 +0000

You can argue that, but there are legitimate "AI" workflows that have already been adapted in workplaces where things function well enough. I'm sure 99% of it is just slop, most companies will fail, but some things will survive, become commoditized and taken for granted in about 5 years.

New comment by kredd in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

kredd — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:53:31 +0000

I definitely agree, but again, if you look at the app usage times across every single demographic, those type of use cases are such a minuscule portion that it's just some noise. In my opinion, GPT/AI will cause more changes in workplaces, than in casual consumer spaces.

New comment by kredd in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

kredd — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:08:46 +0000

The problem is, vast majority of smartphone usage is done for entertainment and social networking purposes (IG, TikTok, Twitter, HN, gaming, Netflix and etc.). If you’re mostly scrolling and consuming, I can’t imagine how current AI tooling can help you other than some summarization of texts. Sure, for productivity cases it might be legitimate, but that’s not what supermajority of people use a phone for.

New comment by kredd in "Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability"

kredd — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:17:08 +0000

Still not a problem for Meta/TikTok/YouTube though, as people go there to consume content on purpose. But I agree, will be fun to see how Google and others will deal with it.

New comment by kredd in "What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?"

kredd — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:35:29 +0000

They require completely different levels of viewing patterns and complexity. It’s such a reductionist take.

New comment by kredd in "StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5"

kredd — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:37:49 +0000

Like again, I get what you’re saying, and I agree with it. But my point was, once everyone can generate Pixar-quality movies, they will simply lose the appeal. Maybe it should be that way, maybe it shouldn’t, but crowded market just desensitizes people and makes them shrug.

There will be winner-takes-it-all productions, and that’ll come mostly from the companies with the highest marketing budgets.

The biggest uphill battle that AI content creation companies will have to fight is kind of societal. They’ll need to change public’s perception that AI=“low effort”.

New comment by kredd in "StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5"

kredd — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:22:42 +0000

The counter point is, if it makes it so easy to make it, it’s just… meh. We get used to things extremely fast.

Even in traditional art. The Black Square was revolutionary in its specific way, but the copycats aren’t talked about.

I think the AI Seinfeld will be remembered for a while, but random spin offs will be forgotten. Just like how Twitch Plays Pokemon was huge, but follow ups got forgotten. AI art will need to find uniqueness angle at each step, because the complexity aspect will never be there.