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New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

lovehashbrowns — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:23:29 +0000

Sure so there’s a command in telegram you do /study and you can either tell it a subject or it’ll randomly generate one. I did /study ring buffers last time. So then opencode / GLM 5.1 or whatever write an entire site for me explaining the concepts, tradeoffs between things like infinite read write pointers, memory mirroring, how to tell if the writer looped the reader when the pointers are not monotonically increasing and instead get modulo’d, and bit masking with powers of 2 etc etc. then it wrote a ring buffer with various features in pseudo code so I can’t cheat. I also got papers to read from ACM and such. So I pickled it all over a week and came back with an Odin implementation, submitted to the site running on docker, and the ai reviewed it for me, telling me mistakes I made or areas where code isn’t really professional or I missed something. It’s genuinely super helpful. And the idea is whatever the AI tells me isn’t my only source of info so for example if the ai says infinitely increasing pointers will overflow but for example if I’m using Python, Python integers are basically bounded by memory and practically on most systems “infinite” so shut up AI I can do that or if it gives wrong info about something I’m getting published journals or websites as reading material that (hopefully lol) isn’t hallucinated. But really it’s the classic college style learn it then do a lab type of loop. Except it’s topics I’m genuinely interested in in the moment so the energy flows perfectly into it. My only wish would be to have it be cooperative working actively with others for the more accurate college experience bouncing ideas off other people seeing where we’re all confused or just me etc

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

lovehashbrowns — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:14:39 +0000

I made myself a silly ai-chungus it works as a series of containers that communicate over mqtt. I have an ollama shim for other services to talk to a model on my other machine, telegram shim that acts as a ui, a study component that will give me a random subject for me to study over the course of a week and I give a proper implementation (let’s say a ring buffer) and it reviews the code I wrote. It has some minor gen things using comfyui like a card pull system with cards, card text, rarity system, and special card effects like holo. And my favorite bit has been tying my todo system into it so I have a thermal receipt printer which will print a task I have to do for the day, prints a barcode, and when I finish the task I scan it with an iOS shortcut. It’s beautiful. What’s been the most fun was designing the mqtt topics in a way that makes everything else flow perfectly. Oh and there’s a tts system that uses kitten-tts which will produce audio for certain messages and an esp32 that gets those sound files and plays them on a speaker, or I can play the messages on telegram. Like if I do an /overview command on telegram i get an overview of my incomplete tasks and the ollama model helps prioritize. It’s my favorite use of ai junk at the moment

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

lovehashbrowns — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:54:14 +0000

Ain’t that one of those North Korea “scam” things where they need an intermediary due to sanctions lol I could be very wrong though

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

lovehashbrowns — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:17:07 +0000

And yet kids take Java server components and mod components and assemble them into Minecraft servers for their friends, and there’s a whole industry around providing pre-configured servers for games like Minecraft, project zomboid, rust, etc. and those services have been around for decades. So I don’t know what the issue is.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

lovehashbrowns — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:13:22 +0000

Should’ve thought of that before accepting significant amounts of money in exchange for a game they plan to kill when it’s no longer financially advantageous for the publisher. They’re so happy to rake in what, $60, now $70, soon $100 for a product they can disable access to for any reason at all or no reason at all, with no notice? How’s that fair? Why’s it only unfair when the hardship goes the other way around?

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:14:04 +0000

I'm trying Hermes right now. I can't really find a good use for it. I tried to use it for research type stuff but Google Scholar literally by itself is faster, better, doesn't get rate-limited. Idk. I am pondering connecting it to my other bot I built that has more useful things like access to my thermal receipt printer and task management stuff but even that is kinda dumb because it already does everything I need, so I don't really know where I'm going with it. Honestly, I don't get the idea behind openclaw and hermes.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:22:06 +0000

This was so unbelievably obnoxious when I first started trying to use Cursor last year at some point. Also because if you tried to not use tailwind the AI would eventually try to force it in anyway. I don’t know how it is nowadays but that was so frustrating and funny at the same time. And! When I setup Tailwind v4 ahead of time, got it working, and told the AI about the v4 changes, it would “correct” it to v3 anyway. Another fun “metric” was to ask an AI how to setup react because it was still recommending create-react-app though nowadays I’m sure it’ll be harder to find any model that still has that in its training set.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:29:06 +0000

On the platform at my work they scrape the same page multiple times, over and over. They do not care to cache anything. And it’s ridiculous to account for because for example for our properties, everything is news-based so warming the cache was as simple as loading the first X articles to get them into cache. But with AI that is not viable because they scrape as much as possible, articles from 2018, 2017. Management doesn’t want to block them though. It’s just suffering through the endless barrage. I was able to do a lot for this like heavier caching even with pgpool but it’s so crazy that this small subset of bots effectively accounts for like 60%+ of our spend.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

lovehashbrowns — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:59:05 +0000

The 8-ball joker is even more BS. I think I’ve only seen it trigger once ever.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:18:34 +0000

No it was someone playing a street car drifting game idk which. They were doing car reviews of people’s designs

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:46:37 +0000

really fun! already found an MLB stream, someone streaming Age of Empires 1 no talking and chat in emote mode, someone going absolutely crazy on a racing game I think multi-streaming with their audience primarily on YT. and now I'm on a BG3 playthrough I'm pretty sure.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

lovehashbrowns — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:13:45 +0000

Oil fires cause immense damage to property and life! I don’t know why stoves are allowed in homes at all. Worse yet, they don’t implement any age verification, so a child can just turn on the burner! It’s crazy!

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:43:24 +0000

I became a super fan for a brief second during the Napster days, that’s literally what got me into metal in the first place. Decades later and I’m still soured on them too. Napster days were so good for music discovery. I mean, they’re better now with all these algos, obviously, but it was weirdly fun to download a track with tons of random strings in the name and end up with some parody Weird Al track and that’s how you discovered something new.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:31:33 +0000

My first pc I built was with an AMD athlon 64 4000+ and a GeForce 6600GT. Going to that from an e-machines piece of junk was INSANE. It’s so hard to come up with a similar experience shift nowadays. Even websites seemed to load instantly with the same DSL connection. Everything felt soooooo good.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:18:27 +0000

Happy to be a paying Anthropic customer right now.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:24:28 +0000

I love this decision from Bandcamp. If you have seen sites like DeviantArt collapse because of AI generated trash you’ll know what it’s like for these services to completely collapse under the flood of inauthentic AI slop. They become unusable. I ended up deleting my DA last year and it looks like I’ll continue to be a Bandcamp user for many more years. I’ve found a bunch of my favorite bands from Bandcamp! No Point in Living, Iapetus, Unreqvited! Just to name a few.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

lovehashbrowns — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:27:48 +0000

Which is why LLMs are so much more useful than SO and likely always will be. LLMs do this even. Like trying to write my own queue by scratch and I ask an LLM for feedback I think it’s Gemini that often tells me Python’s deque is better. duh! That’s not the point. So I’ve gotten into the habit of prefacing a lot of my prompts with “this is just for practice” or things of that nature. It actually gets annoying but it’s 1,000x more annoying finding a question on SO that is exactly what you want to know but it’s closed and the replies are like “this isn’t the correct way to do this” or “what you actually want to do is Y”

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:04:54 +0000

Pewdiepie’s linux video alone is almost at 8 million views. There’s another 3-4 million views in reaction videos to it. I think primagen also stayed on archlinux after his ricing experiment

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI"

lovehashbrowns — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:02:28 +0000

Should’ve gone the art-industry route instead of this. Posting any kind of ai-generated art in an art community gets hostile pretty quickly.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]"

lovehashbrowns — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:16:50 +0000

This piece is my favorite: https://youtu.be/Piw53UPooYU?si=WJIjWDKJUJ8HrDPO Können Tränen meiner Wangen

Karl Richter’s version is my personal favorite but there’s lots of different recordings. IMO Bach’s St Matthew Passion is the best piece of musical art, maybe art in general too idk.