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New comment by onel in "Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder"

onel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:11:09 +0000

Yubikey type device issued by an authority trusted by the website owner. Same as we have it now with browsers and SSL certificates.

We can even have a key issued by the government as a digital ID card. They can be used to check: is over 18, is real person, for digital signature, etc.

New comment by onel in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

onel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:07:36 +0000

Gift link

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/13/t...

New comment by onel in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

onel — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:05:52 +0000

Romanian project. Instant upvote. Great work

New comment by onel in "HN production check – acorn demo"

onel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:50:33 +0000

This is a demo I build with the acorn framework that checks if a Show HN project is ready to be adopted in prod.

Checks GitHub maturity markers (LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, tests, CI/CD) and mines HN comments for technical concerns. Returns a Production Readiness Grade (A–F).

Free to use, but you might get rate limited by the model provider. You can also use your own keys to test it out.

HN production check – acorn demo

onel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:50:33 +0000

Article URL: https://askmanu-acorn.hf.space/hn_production_check

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231071

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by onel in "Free IP Geolocation Database"

onel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:05:40 +0000

If people are looking for a free free geo ip service I I built this project some time ago: https://github.com/onel/freegeoip

You can deploy it and run it for free on Google app engine. Only works for requests that come from the client directly. So you can't ask for a specific IP.

New comment by onel in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

onel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:29:01 +0000

Have you been using it? How useful do you find it?

Show HN: acorn – LLM framework for long running agents

onel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:03:06 +0000

Hi HN,

This is Andrei from askmanu and I'm super happy to share a new framework I've been working on: acorn.

It takes all the best parts of DSPy, langchaing, instructor, etc and wraps it in a beautiful and easy to use API. Very easy to define model I/O, branches, define callbacks for every step, etc

See the getting started docs here: https://github.com/askmanu/acorn/blob/main/docs/getting-star...

Try out the different demos here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/askmanu/acorn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136594

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by onel in "AI makes you boring"

onel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:45:36 +0000

I am a software engineer, but I think code pales in comparison to the impact of every book, speech and essay had on our society throughout history.

New comment by onel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

onel — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:58:42 +0000

https://github.com/askmanu/acorn

A straightforward and simple AI agent framework. It puts a lot of emphasis on the loop and the steps in that loop. You can change in real time the model, the temperature, the tools, the history. You're also able to spin-off work on a branch and then add the result of that work on the main branch. Still early but developing very fast.

New comment by onel in "Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?"

onel — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:36:43 +0000

The biggest unlock for me happened because of claude code. It has allowed me and my team to ship features much faster. I use it to work on the main product, but also to build a lot of in-house tools. We have observability and testing tools for our AI agent that helps us improve the main product. With Claude we can iterate much faster on them and add the features that we specifically need. And not use off-the-shelf products. These are not user facing products/code bases so maybe the quality bar is not that high. But without claude we would have taken resources away from working on the main product to build them.

Testing is no yet the main focus, so we haven't looked into automating that. But we will in the future. We have automated most of our documentation updates though. After releases or big merges we use askmanu to automatically update/create the docs. These are internal docs, but super useful for us and Claude.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of askmanu

New comment by onel in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

onel — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:21:47 +0000

That is not true, though. You have to opt in for them to train on your data

New comment by onel in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

onel — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:22:04 +0000

I've built an agent that builds documentation for code bases and you are 100% right. Having big picture documentation is important, but having bite size explanations about why some components work a certain way is more important. Making sure the AI doesn't have to infer behavior from code is really powerful. Even going as low level of reference docs. Even though devs would prefer that a method be self-Explanatory, it helps to also have plain english explanation about what's happening in a class or method.

New comment by onel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

onel — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:53:54 +0000

I'm building a way to automatically keep code base documentation updated. https://github.com/apps/askmanu

Right now we're focusing on reference docs and soon the app will be able to write full documentation content.

We want to focus on incremental changes to docs (one PR at a time) so the content is easy to verify and merge.

New comment by onel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

onel — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:45:17 +0000

This is brilliant. Nice work

New comment by onel in "Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code"

onel — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:06:07 +0000

I've seen that happen but usually with code bases that are either not very well documented (reference docs) or that have a lot of abstractions and are complicated

New comment by onel in "Ask HN: Startup shutting down, should we open source?"

onel — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 06:06:12 +0000

I would recommend you make it open source. I've also done this the past as well. Even if it's a project that is not maintained you don't know how it might help someone else.

New comment by onel in "Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed"

onel — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:36:11 +0000

I checked your website I it's an interesting idea. I think you need some additional copy though, because just landing on your homepage you don't really understand what it does. More exactly I don't know what to use it for. Your comment and GP's coming together gave me a better idea.

What's your target audience? developers?

New comment by onel in "I got a remote job for a EU company, I'd find it hard to go back to a US-based"

onel — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:18:16 +0000

Not everything in life is about money

New comment by onel in "Claude Integrations"

onel — Fri, 02 May 2025 06:58:12 +0000

You usually fine tune when you want to add capabilities (an output style, json output, function calling, etc). You use RAG to add knowledge