Hacker News: mkrd

New comment by mkrd in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

mkrd — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:59:01 +0000

A low effort AI written blog post, about a slop-company destroying itself, posted by someone who clearly has no idea what LLMs actually do, which he anthropomorphizes, trying to assign accountability and intent to matrix multiplicatuons.

I wonder why this garbage even gets upvotes, maybe because of how much of a trainwreck the entire situation is

Alpine.js X-Data: A Surprisingly Capable State Manager

mkrd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.budgetflow.cc/blog/alpine-js-x-data-a-surprisingly-capable-state-manager

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789315

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkrd in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

mkrd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:04:00 +0000

Have you already observed some interesting evolved knowledge? What is the goal, should they at some point autonomously generate valuable new insights?

New comment by mkrd in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

mkrd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:29:20 +0000

A phone only has roughly 1 million times the memory, as I am roughly 20 meters tall

New comment by mkrd in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

mkrd — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:51:00 +0000

Ah shit, back to poetry

You vs. a Billionaire: An Interactive Perspective on Wealth

mkrd — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.budgetflow.cc/blog/you-compared-to-elon-musk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613092

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

LLM Fingerprints in Text

mkrd — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.budgetflow.cc/blog/llm-fingerprints-in-text

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180416

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkrd in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

mkrd — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:00:55 +0000

Haha, didn’t know about that, maybe I should use that as the example on the landing page :D

New comment by mkrd in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

mkrd — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:02:13 +0000

Working on a budgeting app which uses interactive sankey diagrams.

https://budgetflow.cc

It has some dynamic features like sending excess cash or taking missing cash from somewhere else, making it quite useful.

Also, you can connect with our partner or flatmates for shared budgets.

I am actively using it myself together with my girlfriend, and adding new stuff as our demands for budgeting become more elaborate!

New comment by mkrd in "Claude 4"

mkrd — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:53:14 +0000

Yes, this is pretty annoying. You give it a file and want it to make a small focused change, but instead it almost touches every line of code, even the unrelated ones

New comment by mkrd in "Claude 4"

mkrd — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:51:08 +0000

True, I think the biggest problem of the latest models is that they hopelessly over-engineer things. As a consequence, I often can only copy specific things from the output

The Cost of Overly Broad Function Parameters

mkrd — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.budgetflow.cc/blog/low-function-coupling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820884

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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mkrd — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:43:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.budgetflow.cc/blog/sending-emails-from-your-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363717

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkrd in "You vs. a Billionaire: An Interactive Perspective on Wealth"

mkrd — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:08:40 +0000

Really nice, thanks for linking this!

New comment by mkrd in "You vs. a Billionaire: An Interactive Perspective on Wealth"

mkrd — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:50:02 +0000

Good catch, thanks! I fixed it.

You vs. a Billionaire: An Interactive Perspective on Wealth

mkrd — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:50:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.budgetflow.cc/blog/you-compared-to-elon-musk?referrer=hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794052

Points: 50

# Comments: 64

New comment by mkrd in "Show HN: I made a free investment and retirement planner"

mkrd — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:59:45 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! It's not harsh, direct feedback is by far the most useful. You are right, it is not super clear how the simulation is done, I'll add that to the page. Currently, you enter a volatility rate, and then the simulation randomly draws from a normal distribution according to the volatility. Doing this around 1000 times gives the range of possible scenarios. In the future I'm planning to add simulations based on historical data. The code is not open source, however you also don't have to connect any banking to it, it can be used as-is. I am taking privacy pretty seriously, that is why there is a legally binding privacy policy on the bottom of the page. But yes, I could put more emphasis on it, and explain how the page is keeping data secure.

Show HN: Investment and Retirement planner using Monte-Carlo Simulations

mkrd — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:41:37 +0000

Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a personal project to make investment planning easier – a tool that simulates and visualizes long-term investments. It started as something I built for myself to understand my own finances better, but I realized it could be helpful for others too.

I’d love your feedback or ideas for improvement. Thanks for taking a look!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42613750

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by mkrd in "An Unreasonable Amount of Time"

mkrd — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:17:14 +0000

That thought keeps me motivated to continuously work on a project of mine. That one day, maybe years from now, it will reach that point where it is good enough to get the ball rolling. Only a few, which where there from the beginning, will be able to imagine the efforts that had to go into it.

New comment by mkrd in "Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations"

mkrd — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 08:38:04 +0000

Same thought, I am absolutely blown away by how much vercel overcharges. I host a similar application on netcup (like hetzner) for 3$ per month, and when it was on HN, it easily handled over 10k requests per hour