Hacker News: misterchocolat

Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

misterchocolat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:22:10 +0000

I don't use it personally, and neither does anyone in my circle...even though I feel like I'm super plugged into the ai world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783940

Points: 341

# Comments: 383

Show HN: Bound – local code autocomplete LLM fine-tuned on your repository

misterchocolat — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:15:52 +0000

Hi everyone, I'm Vivien one of the creators of Bound.

I'll keep things brief, there are two things I hate about using AI coding models: paying a subscription and how bad they are for the environment.

So my cofounder and I built Bound. Simply put, we provide Cursor's "tab" feature but instead of using a cloud model we use an ultra-small local LLM trained on your own repo (that and a couple other tricks to make sure it's the same quality as cursor). The nice thing here is that you own the model and it's so small that it runs on your laptop with no latency issues.

Join the waitlist on our website and we'll get in touch to implement it for you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574220

Points: 1

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New comment by misterchocolat in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

misterchocolat — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:31:17 +0000

that was an amazing read

New comment by misterchocolat in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

misterchocolat — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:53:59 +0000

didn't know that thanks for pointing it out, i'll remove that feature

New comment by misterchocolat in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

misterchocolat — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:07:05 +0000

the parent container uses display: none, so a screen reader will skip the links

New comment by misterchocolat in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

misterchocolat — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:50:24 +0000

hey! thanks for that read suggestion that's indeed a pretty funny captcha strat. Yup the links show up if you use the Lynx web browser. As for AI scrapers impersonating googlebot I feel like yes they'd definitely start doing that, unless the risk of getting sued by google is too high? If google could even sue them for doing that?

Not an internet litigation expert but seems like it could be debatable

New comment by misterchocolat in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

misterchocolat — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:37:18 +0000

yes but here it's free, whereas this (https://webdecoy.com/) is at least 59$ a month

Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)

misterchocolat — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:42:38 +0000

Alright so if you run a self-hosted blog, you've probably noticed AI companies scraping it for training data. And not just a little (RIP to your server bill).

There isn't much you can do about it without cloudflare. These companies ignore robots.txt, and you're competing with teams with more resources than you. It's you vs the MJs of programming, you're not going to win.

But there is a solution. Now I'm not going to say it's a great solution...but a solution is a solution. If your website contains content that will trigger their scraper's safeguards, it will get dropped from their data pipelines.

So here's what fuzzycanary does: it injects hundreds of invisible links to porn websites in your HTML. The links are hidden from users but present in the DOM so that scrapers can ingest them and say "nope we won't scrape there again in the future".

The problem with that approach is that it will absolutely nuke your website's SEO. So fuzzycanary also checks user agents and won't show the links to legitimate search engines, so Google and Bing won't see them.

One caveat: if you're using a static site generator it will bake the links into your HTML for everyone, including googlebot. Does anyone have a work-around for this that doesn't involve using a proxy?

Please try it out! Setup is one component or one import.

(And don't tell me it's a terrible idea because I already know it is)

package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fuzzycanary/core gh: https://github.com/vivienhenz24/fuzzy-canary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294144

Points: 373

# Comments: 277

I think series.so is a fraud? [video]

misterchocolat — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:51:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb9UJh706g0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622534

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

New comment by misterchocolat in "Cognitive Dissonance"

misterchocolat — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:34:38 +0000

Most of the Trump supporters I showed it to were well-educated and from what I could tell were very much in touch with what is going on in the world. I feel like they just don't want to "see".

New comment by misterchocolat in "Cognitive Dissonance"

misterchocolat — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:25:19 +0000

The reactions to the essay are way more interesting than the essay itself: when "liberals" read it, they immediately get that it's about Donald Trump. But when Trump supporters read it, almost all of them go "yeah good points, but why did you write about Hitler?".

Are we doomed?

Cognitive Dissonance

misterchocolat — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:25:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vivienhenz.com/denial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45349221

Points: 2

# Comments: 3