Hacker News: nico

New comment by nico in "Claude Code Routines"

nico — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:45:48 +0000

Nice, could this enable n8n-style workflows that run fully automatically then?

New comment by nico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

nico — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:01:04 +0000

Building a file processing pipeline that will take a list of pdf/ppt/mp4 docs associated with an event/talk, group them by talk, and turn them into a nice-looking webpage for searching and exploring

New comment by nico in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

nico — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:55:10 +0000

LinkedIn might not need to sell the data. You can set your profile to “open for work” privately, and only recruiters can see it. So if your company has people with LinkedIn recruiter accounts, they could see your profile set to looking for work

PS: I guess given that recruiter accounts are paid, LinkedIn is technically selling access to the data in a way

New comment by nico in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

nico — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:46:49 +0000

Not really. Most of the times it actually finally picks up on what I was telling it to do. Sometimes it takes a few tries, like 2-3 wtfs. I don’t think I’ve ever given it more than 3 consecutive wtfs, and that would be a lot

It’s about a once a week or less event. A bit annoying sometimes, but not a deal breaker

New comment by nico in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

nico — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:27:20 +0000

Probably a lot of my prompts have been logged then. I’ve used wtf so many times I’ve lost track. But I guess Claude hasn’t

New comment by nico in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

nico — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:28:55 +0000

Is it an issue because it works, or because it doesn’t? Or because it’s bitcoin?

I genuinely want to know. Thank you

New comment by nico in "Solo dev creates Open Source Turboquant"

nico — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:11:38 +0000

Original article: https://x.com/k1rallik/status/2038567965465944491

Solo dev creates Open Source Turboquant

nico — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:11:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TheTom/turboquant_plus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575334

Points: 4

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New comment by nico in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

nico — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:03:33 +0000

Amazing explanation! Thank you so much for taking the time to put it together. It makes a lot of sense. I’m not the one who asked the question, but I was impressed by such eloquent and clearly explained answer

New comment by nico in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

nico — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:49:59 +0000

BeOS was such an amazing experience back in the day. It really felt magical. Too bad it got shutdown. I wonder what the evolution of it would be like today

New comment by nico in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

nico — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:28:33 +0000

Then it might need a new type of architecture to work. I’m not attached to LLMs. If a new model comes out that can do only the things I want it do it, then great

New comment by nico in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

nico — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:04:17 +0000

You are correct, and apparently they did. Probably no one will face any consequences unfortunately:

https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-iran-updates-oil...

Discussion on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1s1x5jq/minutes_b...

New comment by nico in "American aviation is near collapse?"

nico — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:27:33 +0000

Those age limits should apply to all political offices

New comment by nico in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

nico — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:41:01 +0000

Would love to have a small local model that only knows about rails and mvc web development

Alternatively, a modular model with multiple “experts” that I could mix and match for my specific stack

I don’t need the model to know all of the Internet plus 20 different human languages. I just want it to be really good with the stack of the project

New comment by nico in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

nico — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:56:24 +0000

This reminded me of Yext’s demo at TechCrunch 50 in 2009 (https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/the-25-million-demo-yext-s...)

Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/QmH9b27xm6k

It was very impressive at that time. They did raise money after that pitch, but they ended up pivoting (multiple times). They IPOd in 2017

New comment by nico in "Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft"

nico — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:19:22 +0000

In the case I mentioned above, the company wanted me to build a search engine before elastic search existed, and before there was full-text search in popular dbs like Postgres or MySQL. The CTO/founder gave me his credit card and told me to buy whatever books I needed. I bought about 5 different relevant books. Work days were about 10-12hrs, they still wanted me to read/research on my own time

New comment by nico in "Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft"

nico — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:15:06 +0000

I’ve been scolded for reading books and documentation for the tasks and software I was asked to build (at a startup) during my regular work hours

No company I’ve worked at has ever had dedicated time for reading papers or articles

Maybe I’ve only worked at outliers?

New comment by nico in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

nico — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:46:39 +0000

The hombrew version doesn’t say anything about the native installer, but still bugs you to update after every minor version (which is every day, sometimes multiple times per day)

The npm version tells you there’s a native installer and to use it instead

The native installer never says anything. Not sure how it gets updated

New comment by nico in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance with an LLM in 7 days"

nico — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:01:59 +0000

Recently had a coding interview in which I was allowed to search online but not use any AI. On the first google search, the interviewer realized that the first result is now AI generated and said I couldn’t use anything from there. So I had to just click on different links and piece together what I needed from inside the pages

New comment by nico in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

nico — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:31:11 +0000

> they're constantly releasing at an extremely high cadence, where they don't even spend the time to test or fix things

Tbf, this seems exactly like Claude Code, they are releasing about one new version per day, sometimes even multiple per day. It’s a bit annoying constantly getting those messages saying to upgrade cc to the latest version