Hacker News: mnafees

Anecdotal Definitions of Success

mnafees — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:41:03 +0000

Article URL: https://nafe.es/writing/success/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159262

Points: 4

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New comment by mnafees in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

mnafees — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:04:01 +0000

Hey Shubham, I can still see the API keys in https://www.runanywhere.ai/web-demo, FWIW. A simple proxy of the request from the frontend to your own API and then to the vendor API would solve this. Also recommend rate limiting on the same. Happy to help if you need further assistance.

New comment by mnafees in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

mnafees — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:30:03 +0000

Seems like you are leaking an ElevenLabs API key in your web demo. The OpenAI completions endpoint also has the API key in the request header but that seems to already be revoked and is returning a 401.

Every language should have a UUID type

mnafees — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:29:14 +0000

Article URL: https://nafees.bearblog.dev/every-language-should-have-a-uuid-type/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307181

Points: 1

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OpenPorts – A tiny macOS menu bar app to see and kill listening ports

mnafees — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mnafees/openports

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301337

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Show HN: pgtk - Pure SQL diagnostic functions for PostgreSQL

mnafees — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:47:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mnafees/pgtk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081516

Points: 1

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New comment by mnafees in "Advent of Code 2025"

mnafees — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:45:21 +0000

I love Advent of Code! I have used previous years' problems for my guest lectures to Computer Science students and they have all enjoyed those more than a traditional algorithmic lecture.

Reconnecting with old friends

mnafees — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://nafees.bearblog.dev/reconnecting-with-old-friends/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088030

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by mnafees in "Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies"

mnafees — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:53:53 +0000

Very interesting! How would the Electron and Go processes communicate in this case? Did you expose a Unix socket or TCP port perhaps?

New comment by mnafees in "Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies"

mnafees — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:53:50 +0000

I totally agree :) I don't blame Go either. We were already a pure Go shop with a lot of focus on backend and infra systems engineering and were trying to venture into the desktop app market for our device monitoring software. Once we validated our idea with a rather buggy MVP haha, we quickly switched over to Electron and deployed on all 3 desktop OSes properly.

New comment by mnafees in "Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies"

mnafees — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:50:50 +0000

I remember we used https://github.com/getlantern/systray at some point along with some interaction with fyne.io. That said, I do not remember how we managed the lifetime but we did test it thoroughly before deploying to our initial beta users (or so we thought :P). The GC behavior started to happen whenever the app was in the background, which it was supposed to be for the majority of the time.

New comment by mnafees in "Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies"

mnafees — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:47:00 +0000

Been a while since I worked on it but I remember we used https://github.com/getlantern/systray at some point along with some interaction with fyne.io AFAIR.

New comment by mnafees in "Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies"

mnafees — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:12:50 +0000

We built a background daemon as a macOS menu bar app in Go, and the performance was surprisingly bad. The Go bindings for native UI frameworks ended up being massive RAM hogs. When we profiled it, we found that the GC essentially gave up under load, which explained why customers were reporting a simple menu bar app consuming 2.5GB+ of RAM on their Macs. We eventually abandoned the Go approach and switched to Electron. (Not-so) Surprisingly, both the DX and UX improved significantly for our use case. Personally, I’d still prefer Swift/C#/C++ for native desktop work (coming from a Qt C++ background), but given the business constraints at the time, Electron ended up being the most pragmatic choice.

Ngrok launches AI model gateway

mnafees — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:20:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ngrok.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073209

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Claude Code breaks terminal sessions and uses 100% CPU

mnafees — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:26:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6705

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062663

Points: 1

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New comment by mnafees in "Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents"

mnafees — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:32:07 +0000

Congratulations on the launch!

I’ve been writing Go for the past 4 years, and I’d strongly suggest avoiding Stainless for auto-generating Go SDKs. Some of the issues I’ve run into: - Awkward package naming (e.g., githubcomdedaluslabsdedalussdkgo) - Methods with unnecessary complexity, including excessive use of reflection for JSON handling - Other codegen quirks that make the SDK harder to use and maintain

From experience, I’d recommend either using another code generator or hand-writing the Go SDK for a cleaner and more idiomatic developer experience.

New comment by mnafees in "If you're remote, ramble"

mnafees — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:48:59 +0000

I’ve been working remotely for YC startups for the past 3.5+ years, and I completely agree. I went from being the quietest person in the room to someone who often ends up rambling on most calls. Remote work has not only given me the space to speak my mind - and sometimes even find answers to my own questions - but also the opportunity to learn so much from my colleagues.

New comment by mnafees in "Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it"

mnafees — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:40:26 +0000

One thing I’ve learned from seriously using AI agents for mundane coding tasks is: never ask them to do anything that involves deleting stuff. Incidents like these only reinforce that belief.

New comment by mnafees in "XMLUI"

mnafees — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:34:28 +0000

I didn't know Blizzard uses Qt! In terms of some good Qt apps, VirtualBox remains my favorite.

New comment by mnafees in "XMLUI"

mnafees — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:32:24 +0000

Hah, that is awesome. How does Qt fare these days in the non-Linux world though?