Hacker News: mettamage

New comment by mettamage in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

mettamage — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:17:16 +0000

> Design good interfaces, with sane defaults but do not handcuff power users!!!

Hello iPhone :)

New comment by mettamage in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

mettamage — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:26:28 +0000

If you feel like it: start a blog! You have knowledge that you consider basic and a certain other subset of the population is interested in it and doesn't know it exists.

New comment by mettamage in "Protect your shed"

mettamage — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:16:10 +0000

Feel free to email me :)

New comment by mettamage in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

mettamage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:56:34 +0000

I mean this question unironically: how do you do it with interns?

New comment by mettamage in "Protect your shed"

mettamage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:54:38 +0000

Can we have a call about your dream? I am in a similar boat. My email is in my profile, and my comment history exists.

No worries if this is a bit too forward. It just seems fun to brainstorm about a dream like this and we may have some complementary experiences.

New comment by mettamage in "How to get better at guitar"

mettamage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:42:20 +0000

It’s a song

“Are we human or are we dancer”

New comment by mettamage in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

mettamage — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:00:02 +0000

2 years of job hopping is almost a death sentence in some countries.

New comment by mettamage in "PIGuard: Prompt Injection Guardrail via Mitigating Overdefense for Free"

mettamage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:19:00 +0000

I was playing around with some prompt injection guard rails frameworks. I know they don't mitigate attack classes, but they at least do something. I just got a bit miffed about the high false positive rates I saw in my own testing.

This one has a low false positive rate. And I thought that was interesting.

PIGuard: Prompt Injection Guardrail via Mitigating Overdefense for Free

mettamage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://injecguard.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631011

Points: 15

# Comments: 5

New comment by mettamage in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

mettamage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:32:12 +0000

Question: how would you compare it to AWS or GCP?

New comment by mettamage in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

mettamage — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:43:43 +0000

I disagree, Electron showed the world that good code can be magnetic

... I'll see myself out

New comment by mettamage in "Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders"

mettamage — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:36:58 +0000

This requires technical skill

New comment by mettamage in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

mettamage — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:33:37 +0000

Can’t you make the LLM write API documentation?

New comment by mettamage in "I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds"

mettamage — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:40:20 +0000

I see you're pricing per month but don't you have to pay tokens via an API? So isn't your cost per user variable then?

New comment by mettamage in "Ask HN: Is it just me?"

mettamage — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:33:15 +0000

Well I started out as an idea guy. I just got into programming because (1) I thought it was interesting, (2) wanted to be able to implement my own ideas and (3) if I'd ever be an idea guy towards programmers then they'd know I'd be able to speak their language.

So yea not demoralizing to me at all. I've been a SWE for 5 years now and studied for 8 years before that (2 bachelors, 2 masters - most CS related).

I have a lot of small apps nowadays. One of them is a HN dark mode chrome extension that I actually like. Another one exports my emails in bulk. Another one tracks what wifi networks I connected to on a given day. Small apps that make my life a bit easier. Also a lot of apps that I'd rather keep to myself. One of them that's on the edge of that is: certain companies have this math test. I recreated it pretty well I think. Oh and I implemented this thing I call "personal coach". It's a GraphRAG on my whole journal (all local). It has all the features I want and is great for answering questions solely by combining my notes.

New comment by mettamage in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

mettamage — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:20:01 +0000

In my experience, one also needs to be careful with actual therapists

New comment by mettamage in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

mettamage — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:41:19 +0000

This is the way

New comment by mettamage in "From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures"

mettamage — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:22:20 +0000

51 visitors in real-time.

I love those site features!

In a submission of a few days ago there was something similar.

I love it when a website gives a hint to the old web :)

New comment by mettamage in "Why I forked httpx"

mettamage — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:11:57 +0000

> Visitor 4209 since we started counting

Loved that little detail, reminds me of the old interwebs :)

New comment by mettamage in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

mettamage — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:28:16 +0000

Yea me too. Calling with my friends is actually a big part of my friendship