Hacker News: navs

New comment by navs in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

navs — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:13:19 +0000

Probably a good thing for many migrants. I mean who would want to migrate to a country that's so hostile towards anyone that looks and prays different.

A candy brand discovered TikTok made an AI clone of its founder to run ads [video]

navs — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:45:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itovmsMwus0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340602

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by navs in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

navs — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:30:31 +0000

Ampcode used a handoff feature for a while that I found genuinely useful [1] and then they removed it. Anecdotally, I felt it worked better than compaction.

[1] https://ampcode.com/news/handoff

New comment by navs in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

navs — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:18:02 +0000

Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was staggering.

I'm thankful for Cloudflare and I don't think I would have had the resources to deal with it any other way.

New comment by navs in "Ask HN: Am I the only one getting so many cursor ads?"

navs — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:45:41 +0000

I see it all over Reddit. I don't really interact with them enough to know what the content is but anecdotally yes.

Serving a 4GB video from Postgres: 2M rows in pg_largeobject

navs — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:45:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfu8OoCIU6g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142780

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

navs — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:34:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639

Points: 363

# Comments: 122

New comment by navs in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

navs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:01:12 +0000

If this means that Google will do eventually do age verification then I think I trust them more than I trust Persona.

Hollywood-backed nonprofit launches machine-readable AI consent registry

navs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:14:41 +0000

Article URL: https://rslmedia.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680410

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Ag.ide Index, rank, and refactor your repo's worst code

navs — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:05:03 +0000

Article URL: https://agide.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608976

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Klarna CMO created an AI "venting machine" of himself

navs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-cmo-built-ai-replica-himself-colleagues-vent-at-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433292

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Substack CEO dismisses popular open letter about platform drift as 'AI slop'

navs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:44:01 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@cb/note/c-271417569

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431559

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by navs in "Three of our worst VC stories"

navs — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:02:18 +0000

As bad as these VCs seem to be it's something to see Prince socializing with other bad actors like Maguire while lamenting the bad actors in the space.

New comment by navs in "Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface"

navs — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:43:29 +0000

This looks like something worth trying and I'm glad it's open source. I've been using https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber for a few months now and I'm pleased with its features. Their web based pwa and locally running cli is similar.

New comment by navs in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

navs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:56:07 +0000

I have a few hacks that work for me, documented here: https://open.substack.com/pub/theperfectlycromulent/p/how-to...

tl;dr Don’t keep your charger handy. Don’t have a good charger. Lose your phone (at home). Don’t have a phone case. Have a phone case.

New comment by navs in "MCP is dead?"

navs — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:34:20 +0000

As much as I like to hate MCP, it has a place in its accessibility outside terminal based agents and in its ability to wrangle data before it’s consumed by the agent requesting it.

Sure you can use a cli tool and jq. Most cli tools that interact with third party providers are just APIs so you could argue it could be replaced with a curl.

New comment by navs in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

navs — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:47:13 +0000

I mean this is an article coming from an SEO company that's really just trying to advertise its services in the end. Their methodology seems very loose.

New comment by navs in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

navs — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:22:11 +0000

I'm still astounded that Polymarket, as a feature, is embedded inside Substack. Not a third-party plugin but baked into the platform. YouTube is one thing. It's practically ubiquitous in terms of video sharing but Polymarket?

New comment by navs in "Jensen–Shannon Divergence"

navs — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:11:43 +0000

Currently piloting the use of JSD for a synthetic audience survey application, measuring how closely the synthetic response distribution matches a human panel.

Been knee-deep trying to understand this world, so seeing this on Hacker News today is kind of scary.

New comment by navs in "Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code"

navs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:05:18 +0000

I worked on something similar but with a more naive text matching approach that's saved me many many times so far. https://github.com/sirmews/claude-hook-advisor

Yours is so much more involved. Keen to dig into it.