Hacker News: moffers

New comment by moffers in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

moffers — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:43:31 +0000

I wish we could get back to a “mom and pop” software market. Itch.io feels like it’s doing a lot of work for indie software that used to just be everywhere and easy to stumble onto.

New comment by moffers in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

moffers — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:30:51 +0000

You would purchase an AI tax stamp! Just make sure you’re being honest about your token usage. Or maybe we can have AI licenses! Sky’s the limit when you can just make up policy on the internet for free.

New comment by moffers in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

moffers — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:47:52 +0000

At uncook we’re in the middle of glamming up our ingredient normalization pipeline, so this is VERY welcome right now

New comment by moffers in "Magnifica Humanitas"

moffers — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:32:47 +0000

I had the exact same thought, and JD Vance too.

New comment by moffers in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

moffers — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:48:38 +0000

Maybe just like one of each.

New comment by moffers in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

moffers — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:18:14 +0000

This is awesome. I love that people are working on this. I wish for the day I can own a box that boots up, and gives me the 90s-00s internet experience without needing to ask permission from a bunch of middlemen.

New comment by moffers in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

moffers — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:40:07 +0000

I took a plunge into learning about mesh networks, specifically because I love the idea of p2p/decentralized systems of communication. To be honest, I was surprised to find that my expectations for “where we are at” with this type of technology was pretty off-base. For some reason I thought by now it would be straightforward to do a little more than text messaging over a truly public and decentralized off-internet mesh. Maybe I’ve missed some things in my search (still learning!) and someone can correct my understanding.

New comment by moffers in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

moffers — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:51:10 +0000

I came up as a software requirements analyst before the weird transition between business analyst to product owner to product manager to technical product manager. But living in requirements for 15+ years really gave me a leg up on these “let’s go back to requirements!” efforts.

New comment by moffers in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

moffers — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:29:11 +0000

Maybe a little broad. I have co-founders who are interested in emigrating to the USA, hoping our company could be a boon to the process. Is it?

New comment by moffers in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

moffers — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:28:29 +0000

I don’t have the right configuration of equipment to use an app like this, but does anyone know why this needs to be a service-driven app? What piece of functionality requires a server to track your health?

New comment by moffers in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

moffers — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:12:25 +0000

I think maybe part of the argument is that Apple’s closed system was a benevolent dictator-style ecosystem that was actually benevolent. Until it wasn’t.

New comment by moffers in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

moffers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:09 +0000

Or, to put another way, “never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance”

New comment by moffers in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

moffers — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:55:39 +0000

My favorite short story of all time. Between this and Deep Thought in HHGttG, I couldn’t believe the prescience when the bitter lesson was learned and LLMs and GPUs started eating the world.

New comment by moffers in "Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck"

moffers — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:41:06 +0000

When I closed my screen and came back on this article I was very confused and thought I was accidentally transported backward through time.

New comment by moffers in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

moffers — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:40:28 +0000

We work together pretty well. From a 20,000 foot level maybe it looks like chaos and like a central guiding hand would make everything better. But, two people working together is easier to direct than 100,000 people (or more!). Unpacking this gives us the wonders of the economics and behavioral psychology. I’d say, all things considered, we could be doing a hell of a lot worse on cooperation with each other.

New comment by moffers in "Show HN: Uncook, the Social Network for Food"

moffers — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:19:30 +0000

Ah geeze, I’m sorry to hear that. We’ve had some strange issue where our landing page doesn’t show for some people? It’s driven us bananas before, and I hoped it was behind us. For what it’s worth, we’re on Google Play [0] and Apple App Store [1]. I appreciate your interest!

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uncook.mob...

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uncook/id6742257894

Show HN: Uncook, the Social Network for Food

moffers — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:47:29 +0000

How about something a little fun on your Sunday?

My friends and I have spent the last two years building Uncook, a social media platform dedicated to all things food! What started as a project among friends became a serious exercise in learning to build a company.

Our MVP feature set, while not likely to blaze any trails or win any prizes, is dedicated to one thing: creating a fun, digital space for cooking and sharing.

Our little group has learned a lot about what it takes technically to get a social networking application off the ground, and now learning WAY more about traction and marketing. Really starting to understand why people spend all that time getting business degrees now!

We are self-funded and taking this at our own pace. We’d be very happy for early feedback; we just released in January to North and South America. My apologies to the eastern hemisphere while we work through our GDPR strategy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738577

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New comment by moffers in "Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications"

moffers — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:29:41 +0000

This is all very ambitious. I am not exactly sure where someone is supposed to start. With the connections to Pear and Tether I can see where the lines meet, but is the idea that someone takes this and builds…Skynet? AI Cryptocurrency schemes? Just a local LLM chat?

New comment by moffers in "Mario and Earendil"

moffers — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:55:20 +0000

Gotta admit, I’m a sucker for a well-dressed mysterious preview. Really excited to see what Lefos is all about.

New comment by moffers in "I've sold out"

moffers — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:41:39 +0000

You didn’t sell out, you bought in! Really excited to follow this journey, Pi has been my favorite piece of software to use in the last six months.