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New comment by olup in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

olup — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:08:51 +0000

I use handy all day long as a software engineer, and recommended it to all of my team members. I love it.

New comment by olup in "So where are all the AI apps?"

olup — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:29:47 +0000

A bit tangential to the article themes, but I feel in some workplaces that engineering velocity has gone up while product cycles and agile processes have stayed the same. People end up churning tickets faster and working less, while general productivity has not changed.

Of course these are specific workplaces designed around moving tickets on a board, not high-agentic, fast-moving startups or independent projects—but they might represent a lot of the developer workforce.

I also know this is not everyone's experience and probably a rare favorable outcome of productivity gain captured by a worker that is not and won't stay the norm.

New comment by olup in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

olup — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:30:33 +0000

My team is asking the same. We are using jj with great success but tools like auto claude are designed around git and git worktrees. It's a shame - at least with git backend we can sort of make things work together.

New comment by olup in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

olup — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:59:26 +0000

I wanted the same extension but more steerable and open source, so I built open jj recently https://github.com/olup/open-jj

Show HN: I Claude coded a small open-source jj VSCode extension

olup — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:13:12 +0000

There were only 2 of them; one was not awesome for me to use, and the other one is not open source, and I felt it lacked some features. So I made a third one, mainly for me. Early days, maybe it'll be useful to you too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646512

Points: 2

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Zenstack V3

olup — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:03:17 +0000

Article URL: https://zenstack.dev/v3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107535

Points: 2

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New comment by olup in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

olup — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:48:47 +0000

I can't relate more. I am also prone to ophthalmic migraines and have the same tendency to not be thirsty, to the amazement of the people I usually trek or live with. Only recently (35 and a kidney stone) did I gather that I might actually be in need of water even without feelings of thirst. I have never made a connection with migraines, and that might not be it for me but reading you makes me want to pay attention.

New comment by olup in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

olup — Tue, 06 May 2025 10:34:18 +0000

I am a father of two, and I could not have penned that any better.

New comment by olup in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

olup — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:49:13 +0000

It's Counter Strike of course

New comment by olup in "Les pieds sur terre ia generated"

olup — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:34:50 +0000

Famous french radio program about lives and experience, like the moth meets Bourdieu. For this episode, they wrote and made the voices all in ai, relating to the Paris ai submit. The episode is used to trigger réflexions about gen ai.

Les pieds sur terre ia generated

olup — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-pieds-sur-terre/les-naufrages-du-telepherique-2428012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977732

Points: 1

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New comment by olup in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

olup — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:12:00 +0000

On the prompt side, it's very simple, and can probably be done in a variety of ways. How we did it is to prepare a prompt with multiple "user" messages. The first one gives the instruction

you are given a reference and three candidates, which one of the candidates do you think is a match to the reference? Only output its identifier or a code when none is found

Not exactly that but something along those lines.

Then one "user" message per car (reference + candidates) with image + text indicating the type (reference or candidate) and an identifier (can be as simple as the index for the candidates).

New comment by olup in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

olup — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:31:11 +0000

Poster here. We would have loved that, and it was one of our first proposal - a QR code or some kind of marker. However, the client is understandably very controlling on the aesthetics of their wall as a central element of their scenography. We would have pushed for it again in the last resort, but would probably have lost the contract.

New comment by olup in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

olup — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:02:32 +0000

First time for me posting this kind of story - I thought it would make an interesting case on solving a hard computer vision problem with a crafty product engineer team.

How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations

olup — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://olup-blog.pages.dev/stories/image-detection-cars

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660184

Points: 222

# Comments: 90

New comment by olup in "Spirograph. AI made app from my kid xmas gift"

olup — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:06:04 +0000

I just loved the wooden spirograph thing I got my 5yo daughter for Christmas (she does too, what fun). But then I thought making it an app to start exploring how those shapes work with her. And because it's 2024 I just asked an AI (here bolt.new) to build it, and refine by prompting. Thought someone else might enjoy it.

Spirograph. AI made app from my kid xmas gift

olup — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://comfy-queijadas-e1261b.netlify.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42526036

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by olup in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

olup — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:19:55 +0000

We have an openai account for the company, so I mainly use gpt4o or 4o mini with supermaven and cline. I think Claude 3.5 works even better.

New comment by olup in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

olup — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:42:24 +0000

I use supermaven and cline with my own API key, a setup superior to cursor imo. Tried to go back to gh copilot yesterday but couldn't bear it for a full workday, and reverted to my previous arrangement.

New comment by olup in "Show HN: DataFuel.dev – Turn websites into LLM-ready data"

olup — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:12:01 +0000

We, as many players, have custom pipelines on embedding. We don't split docs based on chunk size but do semantic chunking and chunk augmentation. We embed everything with two embeddings services to always have a fallback if one provider is not available.

If I were in your shoes I would not think embedding and inserting in a vector store would be my responsibility, especially since there are so many different stores on the market.