Hacker News: leftouterjoins

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request"

leftouterjoins — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:36:23 +0000

IMHO, more people need to grow a spine and never tip via a screen.

I never tip at my local Starbucks counter. They ask for it before any service has been rendered. That’s not how a tip is supposed to work. And who knows how the tips are getting to the workers.

I tip in cash after a service is rendered. If it’s on a screen there are renter seekers between you and the person who helped you.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer"

leftouterjoins — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:07:41 +0000

Maybe he could convince some by picking up a cigarette habit.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

leftouterjoins — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:13:44 +0000

Yes this is spot on. Apple & Google mobile platforms are locked down tight for this reason. Try installing okta verify on graphene OS. You cannot.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

leftouterjoins — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:28:44 +0000

everything on Reddit is so locked down it’s useless. even if you do get to post something useful some basement dwelling mod will block it for an arcane interpretation of one of the subreddits 14 rules.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?"

leftouterjoins — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:38:58 +0000

I have been doing full stack web dev since 2003 and iOS apps since 2008. I do not write code anymore. At my day job I don't think I get more done over time because the code is rarely ever the bottleneck at that place. I do have more time to experiment and try things and say yes more to asks from colleagues.

Outside of work, I have just launched an iOS app I've wanted to build but has been outside my current skillset. I was able to "vibecode" this app in about 4-5 months.

The application has a tiny bit of moat because it involves a ML model (also vibecoded) trained on my own data set.

When I say vibecoded, I never reviewed or read code in detail. I really only ever saw snippets claude code shows here and there. I asked a lot of questions, much more than asking it to make changes. I only gave it high-level architectural guidance like "use MVVC", etc. I did a lot of manual testing and reading logs.

I won't name the app out of fear of shilling my vibeslop, or whatever, check my profile for the domain in an email address if you want to know more.

A macOS dictation app based on Apple's modern, on-device models

leftouterjoins — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:38:21 +0000

Article URL: https://leftouterjoins.github.io/voicewrite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543911

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by leftouterjoins in "AI sycophancy panic"

leftouterjoins — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:24:49 +0000

At least with Opus 4.5 that magic phrase that has worked for me for it to understand something that has happened since it was trained is to explain the situation prefaced with "This happened after your knowledge cutoff" It understands this and often will spawn web searches to fill itself in on the matter.

Show HN: Private voice-to-text for macOS using Apple's SpeechAnalyzer

leftouterjoins — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:36:00 +0000

  I built a menu bar app for voice typing on macOS that's 100% on-device. No cloud, no subscription, no data collection.

  It uses Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer framework (macOS 26 Tahoe), which means:
  - Speech models are system-managed, not bundled – the app is just 1.5MB
  - Models run outside your app's memory space
  - Automatic punctuation and optional emoji conversion

  Press a hotkey, speak, and your words appear in real-time in whatever app has focus. An audio-reactive screen border shows you're recording.

  MIT licensed: https://github.com/leftouterjoins/voicewrite

  I built this because I wanted voice typing that doesn't send my audio to someone else's servers. The new SpeechAnalyzer API made it possible without bundling a 1GB+ Whisper model.
  
  Its also very fast, IMO.

  Happy to answer questions about the SpeechAnalyzer API or the implementation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485258

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial"

leftouterjoins — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:10:59 +0000

It never existed in the first place. You just were unable to see the machinations behind the scenes when all of media was a newspaper and 3 TV stations.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

leftouterjoins — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:22:43 +0000

I can second this. I am nearing launch on an app that uses both the new SpeechAnalyzer and on device LLM and it has met or exceeded my expectations. A longer context would always be nice but then I remember its running on a phone.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

leftouterjoins — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:18:25 +0000

This is the same, nonsensical argument against monero that is used against end-to-end encrypted messaging. "app of choice for criminals" "makes enforcement harder" etc.

It completely ignores the benefits of Monero. Crime exists. Its not going anywhere. It is not societies job to make the crime fighter's job a walk in the park. Crimninals use cars to commit crimes, we don't outlaw cars. They use masks, the store sells masks.

The benefits of a global, decentralized and truly private and free medium of value exchange would be massive to the average person, but deterimental to those in power so they must use FUD to squash it.

New comment by leftouterjoins in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

leftouterjoins — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:12:18 +0000

I was saddened when crypto took this direction and became an industry. To me the interesting part was always the idea of someday having a digital medium for value exchange that cannot be controlled by any one or groups of government, billionaire, or corporate entities and to be able to transact privately and anonymously if needed.

Monero is still in this game but the entities listed above are doing everything they can to kill it so they can retain power. They claim we should think of the children and worry about crime, but they really only care about their power. The benefit to the economy if money could flow freely around the globe instantly would far outweigh any real harms.