<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: madebywelch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=madebywelch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:14:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=madebywelch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been working on multi agent orchestration<p><a href="https://github.com/madebywelch/mau" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/madebywelch/mau</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 02:05:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090264</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Daily knowledge-point briefing from your coding-agent sessions]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey, I recently built a tool I was hoping to get some feedback on.<p>It's a daily knowledge-point briefing from your coding-agent sessions. It scans the prior N days of Claude Code and Codex transcripts on your machine, finds the moments where you encountered something unfamiliar, and produces a dense few-paragraph explainer of the underlying concepts.<p>I personally have found it quite useful. Open to feedback and discussions around skill atrophy</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037949">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037949</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:14:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/madebywelch/recap</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Show HN: AI System Generating Minecraft Mods (97% Working)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, for authenticated users, source code is provided along with a compiled JAR.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:19:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088682</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: AI System Generating Minecraft Mods (97% Working)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey folks,<p>I've spent the last several months building an AI-driven system that generates Minecraft mods and plugins e2e. It's an agentic workflow that writes code, runs it through the standard toolchain, and handles the usual compile-time and simple runtime issues as part of the loop. The interesting part has been making the whole process reliable across multiple modding ecosystems and version targets.<p>The system currently supports generating server plugins (Spigot), server and client mods (Fabric, NeoForge), and Cobblemon mods for Fabric. At this point the system has produced several hundred mods, many of which are running in real production environments. What's been interesting is how people actually use it: about 52% of users who generate a mod come back to create more, and 42% iterate on their mods through conversational refinement with the AI. Roughly 97% of generated mods compile and run successfully on the first pass. That said, 'successful' doesn't always mean pixel-perfect alignment with the user's initial request. The model sometimes drifts near the edges of the spec, especially when the request sits outside a clear operational boundary.<p>The broader goal is to democratize access to building Minecraft experiences, client-side, server-side, or hybrid. Today, creating custom mechanics often requires either deep familiarity with modding toolchains or paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for bespoke plugins and long-term developer contracts. I want people to be able to rapidly prototype ideas, experiment, and ship things that would've been too expensive, too slow, or simply inaccessible before.<p>I'm interested in feedback on the approach, the architecture, and the failure modes people expect as requests grow more complex or cross modloader boundaries.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088618">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088618</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:12:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.player.games/en-US/create-minecraft-mods-ai</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Show HN: An API for human-powered browser tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excuse my tardiness, I didn't see your reply.<p>In terms of pricing, email me with your use case and the expected volume. We can likely do a pilot for free to see if there's a fit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:22:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768365</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Show HN: An API for human-powered browser tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct, that's the idea for now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:58:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671502</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Show HN: An API for human-powered browser tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and a large portion of our workforce has been with us for many, many years. Some even recently celebrating their 7th year anniversary. Their day-to-day right now involves handling sensitive information, like login credentials and PII.<p>The same operators that would be completing your tasks are the ones we trust and have trained to complete our own internal tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647163</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: An API for human-powered browser tasks]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At APM Help, we have a large team that performs repetitive, browser-based tasks. Years ago, to manage this work securely and get a clear audit trail, we built an internal platform we call "Hub." It's essentially a locked-down environment where our team works that records their sessions, tracks every interaction, and prevents data from being copied or shared. It's been our internal source of truth for years.<p>More recently, like many companies, we've been building more automation. And like everyone else, we've seen our automations fail on edge cases—a weirdly formatted invoice our parser can't read, a website layout change that breaks a scraper, etc. Our team would have to manually step in to fix these.<p>We realized other developers must have this exact same problem, but without a 250-person team on standby.
So we connected our old, battle-tested Hub to a new, modern front door: a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) API. We're calling it browser-work.com.<p>The idea is simple: when you hit a task that needs a human, you can send it to our team through the API.<p>Here's how it works:<p><pre><code>  - You POST a request to our endpoint. The payload contains the context for the task (like a URL) and a set of instructions for the human on what to do.
  - The task appears in the Hub, where one of our trained operators can claim it.
  - They perform the task exactly as instructed, all within the secure Hub environment.
  - When they're done, we send a webhook to your system. The return payload includes the task's output, any notes left by the human, and a detailed log of their actions (e.g., DOM elements they interacted with).
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For example, if your automation for paying a utility bill fails, you can pass the task to us. A person will log in, navigate the portal, make the payment, and return a confirmation number.<p>The product is live and we're looking for people with interesting use cases.<p>I'm Robert, the CIO. If this sounds useful to you, send me a brief email about your use case at robert@apmhelp.com and we can get you started right away.<p>Happy to answer any questions here.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636968">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636968</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 7</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://browser-work.com/</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious if they ever practiced any sort of disaster recovery scenarios.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:33:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585445</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: VibeKin – Gated Discord Tribes via Personality Matching]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I built an app that matches users to exclusive Discord communities based on a 25-question personality quiz. Inspired by HEXACO but with a novel fuzzy-clustering twist, it creates a "harmony genome" to gate access, ensuring tight-knit tribes (e.g., wellness or creative niches). Think Reddit but curated via psych. Launched to test the idea—feedback on algo, niches, or scaling?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538675">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538675</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:02:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://tgc.fly.dev</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They could drop the price 100% and I still wouldn't use it, so long as they're retaining my data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240399</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>APMHelp | Go Developer | Remote | Full Time<p>APMHelp is a specialized accounting and bookkeeping service dedicated exclusively to property managers. With a 100% trust account audit pass rate since 2017, we provide expert back-office solutions including trust bookkeeping, corporate accounting, bank reconciliations, and financial cleanup services.<p>We are looking for a kickass developer who is no-nonsense, no-drama, and no-ego. As a Go developer in the Innovation Engineering department, you will be building products from 0-1 and 1-10.<p>If this sounds interesting to you, please email me at robert@apmhelp.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 04:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43884516</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43884516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43884516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I created SynopsisMD (<a href="https://synopsismd.com" rel="nofollow">https://synopsismd.com</a>) to make my partner's job in healthcare a bit easier. Every month, when she meets up with her colleagues, I hear them share their work struggles. That's what motivated me to help.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:51:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968376</link><dc:creator>madebywelch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by madebywelch in "Show HN: Simple Job Data API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love it! It'd be cool to see a name of the sources you ingest from.</p>
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