Hacker News: modo_

New comment by modo_ in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

modo_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:14:55 +0000

I like this - I think you're not too far off of what's popular these days though. I think similar functionality can be achieved by using the "hook" functionality in claude code / codex.

New comment by modo_ in "Claude Code is all you need"

modo_ — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:11:46 +0000

I've been using both on a Rust codebase and have found both work fairly well. Claude code is definitely more capable than Gemini. What difficulties have you had?

The biggest pain point I've had is that both tools will try to guess the API of a crate instead of referencing the documentation. I've tried adding an MCP for this but have had mixed results.

https://github.com/d6e/cratedocs-mcp

New comment by modo_ in "Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations"

modo_ — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:46:01 +0000

Congrats on the launch! This is really cool - one of the applications of LLM I find most compelling. I've seen so many back office processes that have hundreds of steps, are incredibly error prone, and traditionally couldn't be automated due to API limitations. Solutions like Skyvern are going to supercharge businesses that have had historically low margins due to the number of humans required. (Not as a replacement for a human, but as a force multiplier)

New comment by modo_ in "Why SMBs Don't Deploy SSO"

modo_ — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:54:09 +0000

Only if you require text message based two factor. Password managers like 1Password allow you to store your OTP within them and share that + the password internally within your team

Your next pair of Walmart pants could be 3D woven

modo_ — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/walmart-unspun-3d-woven-work-pants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708404

Points: 1

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New comment by modo_ in "Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?"

modo_ — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:21:08 +0000

Nice work on this! I love that it has a lightweight backlog built in and that I can describe what my current task is.

One small feedback- the motion design is waaay too much. You should consider dialing it back 2-3x.

New comment by modo_ in "Why you should probably be using SQLite"

modo_ — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:44:29 +0000

Thanks! Came to this thread hoping for something like these. They look useful!

New comment by modo_ in "TimeGPT-1"

modo_ — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:48:36 +0000

Their CTO did a demo of TimeGPT at their launch event last month [1]. It definitely appears to be a very easy tool to use. Love that it's zero shot!

Regardless, need to see more benchmarks to better understand its true performance. If it holds up it would be a big win for time forecasting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7luRRyxLoQ

New comment by modo_ in "Building an app to learn languages with short stories"

modo_ — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:50:04 +0000

This is really great. Congrats on shipping it! You might find https://www.lingq.com helpful as a source of inspiration. I think it's a fairly similar concept.

LingQ's killer feature for me is that as you click on words (or phrases - which I find really helpful btw) to translate them, they are added to your vocabulary list. It will automatically create flashcards for you from this list for SRS. Plus when you're reading a new story, words that are in your vocab list are highlighted yellow and new words are highlighted blue.

New comment by modo_ in "Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training"

modo_ — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:01:54 +0000

You might be interested in this https://www.59breaths.app/

New comment by modo_ in "Why are we still buying clothes online separate from our closet?"

modo_ — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:33:04 +0000

There is a large graveyard of startups that have tried to crack open this market. It's a quite hard concept to execute on.

Some companies have made headway in eyewear and shoes (https://www.amazon.com/b?node=23595320011). Clothing is much more difficult - a lot of variety in body shape to accommodate.

New comment by modo_ in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"

modo_ — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:25:28 +0000

He believes proof of humanity is vital in a world where AI can convincingly pass as human

New comment by modo_ in "A case for toe socks"

modo_ — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:36:25 +0000

Mate, trust me that San Franciscans are quick to pop their shoes off at the door haha

New comment by modo_ in "AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models"

modo_ — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:22:57 +0000

This looks cool! Is it possible to feed the output of one cell into the input of the next? That would really unlock the value of a tool like this for me.

New comment by modo_ in "What's up in the Python community? – April 2023"

modo_ — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:43:16 +0000

I was just looking into this earlier. A lot of major packages have explicitly stated 3.11 readiness, but we're still only at 45% of the top 360 packages.

That's not to say the remaining 55% are broken on 3.11, just tread with caution. For comparison, 71% explicitly support 3.10.

https://pyreadiness.org/3.11/

New comment by modo_ in "300 meters resolution SF Bay Area Forecast"

modo_ — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:20:36 +0000

Running over in Rodeo valley (Marin) there was a very noticeable (and unusual) inversion this morning around 7:30 am. It must have been 5-10 degrees colder on the valley floor compared to up higher -- after ~100ft of elevation gain up out of the valley it warmed up very rapidly.

I don't see that reflected in this map at all fwiw. https://sf.atmo.ai/temperature@37.83200,-122.51075,13.53,20,...

New comment by modo_ in "Plain Text Sports"

modo_ — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:17:36 +0000

wow small world- you have a poster up in your window with the URL, right? i think you live around the corner from me!

New comment by modo_ in "Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs"

modo_ — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:20:38 +0000

This is awesome. I've been abusing Zapier for years now as a middle layer to integrate with 3rd parties without having to implement their APIs. Zapier's UI is built for non-technical users, anad it makes a lot of advanced use cases very cumbersome to implement.. Super excited to try reimplementing some of our more complicated zaps with this!

Are you all planning to implement as extensive of a collection of integrations as Zapier has?

New comment by modo_ in "Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room"

modo_ — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:38:51 +0000

hey, congrats on launching- the demo is impressive :)

at unspun.io our customers create a body scan and we use that to make completely custom garments.

have you all considered supporting a use case similar to ours: virtual try-on with a 3d model as the input instead of user uploaded image?

New comment by modo_ in "Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions"

modo_ — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:22:59 +0000

The state of the art [1] for body fat estimation using depth sensing is actually quite good (R2 value of 0.78).

The hard part will be accurately extracting the anthropometric features from the front/side/back images that Halo captures. There's a chance they would initially launch an iPhone only app and leverage the face scanning depth sensor.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-020-0603-x