Hacker News: niceguy1827

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

niceguy1827 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:40:34 +0000

https://xkcd.com/303/

New comment by niceguy1827 in "GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow"

niceguy1827 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:28:23 +0000

but none of them can ever match leroy jenkins

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Emacs Bedrock 2.0"

niceguy1827 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:35:43 +0000

I'm still using .emacs today! and I have all my elpaca and the fancy pants stuff in it

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents"

niceguy1827 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:34:47 +0000

Please stop writing straw man arguments to sell your product. Worktrees do work as intended for most people. And they work better than your broken homepage.

New comment by niceguy1827 in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

niceguy1827 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:54:41 +0000

This is the wrong take. You are basically arguing that if we have one solution, why bother having a second one?

New comment by niceguy1827 in "I built a project management tool because every alternative felt too complicated"

niceguy1827 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:24:26 +0000

May I introduce https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by niceguy1827 in "There's No Reason to Fear an Invasion of Chinese Electric Vehicles"

niceguy1827 — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:45:46 +0000

I guess I totally agree.

But wait why are we placing a 100% tariff on these EVs again? Are we saying that they are simultaneous not a threat and a serious threat?

Show HN: Givemesearch: live web search grounding for coding agents (free alpha)

niceguy1827 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:59:37 +0000

I built givemesearch because I kept seeing Claude Code confidently generate complete BS using function signatures that had been changed or removed. This is using a setup that I've had some success with personally so I'd like to see if I can make it a SaaS.

So I built this little SaaS that gives coding agents real-time web search grounding for general coding agent usage. Connect your Claude Code to givemesearch via MCP and you will be able to ask your Claude Code to research anything before it starts spewing out BS.

It's currently at an early stage and I'm trying to get some alpha testers. It's free during alpha, and will be a be a flat $10/mo with no extra charges per query, obviously subject to some fair use limit.

I'd love feedback and comment from you all! Thank you

https://givemesearch.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934718

Points: 2

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Make.com Is a Bad Idea for Your Business

niceguy1827 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:02:13 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nick_25216/make-com-is-a-bad-idea-for-your-business-97456e03199b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440686

Points: 1

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Show HN: Stint – Fire-and-forget AI agent orchestration

niceguy1827 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:55:58 +0000

I built Stint to let me give Claude goals and walk away. It automatically breaks tasks into parallel work, spins up multiple Claude workers in isolated git branches, and merges results when done. Think "fire-and-forget" development with a web dashboard showing real-time progress.

Unlike other frameworks, there's no complicated setup. Just queue goals and let the agents work. Each worker has its own context window and commits directly to git.

See https://github.com/ilocn/stint. Happy to take comments/feedback. Thank you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367509

Points: 3

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New comment by niceguy1827 in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

niceguy1827 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:41:14 +0000

So tiring to keep hearing this argument "humans only use vision to drive, so why would self driving cars need more?"

This argument is inherently anti-progress. It's like saying human had been using sextants to navigate for hundreds of years, why GPS?

A more sensible question is, why not?

Show HN: Find good party/happy hour games quick

niceguy1827 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:52:03 +0000

I have been constantly frustrated trying to find good games for remote happy hours and team events. We'd find a promising game, click the link, then hit a paywall or signup form. Nobody has time for that.

So I built partygames.party - a collection of online party games, focusing on free ones that don't require signup.

This project is still WIP and I'm happy to take any feedback. Thank you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991163

Points: 1

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New comment by niceguy1827 in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

niceguy1827 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:42:24 +0000

Your comment seems to miss the point. It is totally possible to enable the first two of your bullet points without Visa or Mastercard, for example banks could just give lines of credit directly to consumers. Indeed, the myriad of loan products is run without Visa and Mastercard.

New comment by niceguy1827 in "United States Completes WHO Withdrawal"

niceguy1827 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:51:08 +0000

Thank you sir. Love learning new things every day in a tech forum, especially Latin.

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

niceguy1827 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:47:42 +0000

I don't think you understand the bigger issue. Locking out competitors will save these jobs for now, but it will not last forever. This is exactly what happened to the US automakers in the 80s and look at them now.

New comment by niceguy1827 in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

niceguy1827 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:52:32 +0000

Don't you worry. If they do, we will just call them copycats. /s

New comment by niceguy1827 in "AI will make our children stupid"

niceguy1827 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:53:22 +0000

Aren't people already stupid enough? The fact that the author wrote this article without verifying if the existing trend of children's IQ shows some level of stupidity.

And please excuse my language. I probably watch George Carlin videos a bit too much.

> For example, a 2018 analysis by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Oregon found that average IQ scores in the U.S. began declining slightly after 1995, particularly in younger generations. This reversal mirrors findings in several European countries, including Norway, Denmark, and the UK.

https://nchstats.com/average-iq-by-state-in-us/

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

niceguy1827 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:20:55 +0000

Forgot to mention one benefit, for the ultra-lazy like myself.

You can just leave the display on forever and you never have to wait for the screen to wake up again. I use amphetamine on macOS and just set a session forever. I'm more comfortable this way since eink displays don't emit light and thus should consume less power.

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

niceguy1827 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:15:30 +0000

Yes, it's basically a large Kindle.

For reading and work, I actually prefer this experience. The contrast for text is way better and more crisp than regular LED/LCD/OLED displays, unless you turn the regular display's brightness way up, until which point my eyes hurt from all that light emitted. This was my primary reason for buying such a display -- I love my Kindle and want to use it more, but I couldn't.

Now for entertainment you are obviously limited. For informational Youtube videos you could be getting by alright -- you don't really need to see colors for those. Games is tricky since you could only do non-demanding ones. Shopping gets tricky since you can't see colors. Sometimes I find myself hopping on my iPhone to check before placing orders.

New comment by niceguy1827 in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

niceguy1827 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:10:39 +0000

Weird. I have a work MacBook Pro m3 and a personal m1 MacBook Pro. Both are just plug and play for me. I actually have my displayed connected to a CalDigit TS3 dock and just connect different computer to the same dock.