Hacker News: mercurialsolo

New comment by mercurialsolo in "Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly have the same vibe-coded look"

mercurialsolo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:53:52 +0000

The best design is invisible - most (web)sites are designed for text based reading / watching - primary modality. Maybe we will see more inspired design - with voice, video or agent scanners using which one can talk to an agent via an assistant

New comment by mercurialsolo in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

mercurialsolo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:39:09 +0000

every wrapper either gets acquired or stays long enough to be a zombie startup

New comment by mercurialsolo in "GitHub's fake star economy"

mercurialsolo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:47:52 +0000

15 mins into this - Built this to identify the fraudsters https://github.com/mercurialsolo/realstars

We should do a hall of shame!

Show HN: See if the GitHub stars are real or fake

mercurialsolo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:47:02 +0000

Read the top trending post on Github and decided to hack up this one - it's an OSS project based on the CMU Star Scout. Ideas open - please submit issues for improvement.

Star, Fork, Submit PR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832930

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mercurialsolo in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

mercurialsolo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:25:30 +0000

Cost of signalling is way lesser than the cost of verification.

New comment by mercurialsolo in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

mercurialsolo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:21:20 +0000

Stars are like for developers? and you have a bunch of creators now entering the arena. what did you expect?

Show HN: Claudectl-local LLM brain that learns to auto-pilot ClaudeCode sessions

mercurialsolo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:40:20 +0000

Article URL: https://mercurialsolo.github.io/claudectl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791628

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Claude Is Down

mercurialsolo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:01:37 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780078

Points: 9

# Comments: 4

New comment by mercurialsolo in "Claude Code Routines"

mercurialsolo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:43:40 +0000

Why not just do event based triggers e.g. register (web)hooks instead of schedules time based triggers. Have a mechanism to listen to an event and then run some flow - analyze, plan, execute, feedback

Claudectl – kubectl for Claude Code instances

mercurialsolo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:36:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mercurialsolo/claudectl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736428

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mercurialsolo in "Open Source Goes Agentic"

mercurialsolo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:08:59 +0000

For the past few days have been thinking on the future of open source in the agent era - a lot of more coding agents and source code gets generated by agentic tools. Small essay on how I see open source being reimagined for the new user - agents.