Hacker News: p5v

Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

p5v — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:33:09 +0000

It's one thing having to download this monstrosity, and a whole other, having to use it daily to write code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998643

Points: 18

# Comments: 9

New comment by p5v in "Generative art over the years"

p5v — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:15:47 +0000

Generative art was my first love. By accident, I ended up being a student of the great Frieder Nake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieder_Nake) and that changed my future trajectory.

Eventually, this led me to writing my own indie book on generative art with Go: https://p5v.gumroad.com/l/generative-art-in-golang, which led me to a talk I gave on GopherCon Europe: https://youtu.be/NtBTNllI_LY?si=GMePA3CfVQZJq2O7

These were great times, but I think the book is not worth buying anymore. Sadly, AI-generated imagery sort of killed the mojo of algorithmic art for me, and I've been trying to get back to it for the last few years.

New comment by p5v in "Rawfeed.social"

p5v — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:39:57 +0000

Is this a hobby project or a real social media application with people using it? If there are at least 1000 ppl. using the platform, we can consider adding link aggregation for it in https://murmel.social

New comment by p5v in "It's getting hard to justify app stores"

p5v — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:13:31 +0000

My best takeaway from this post:

> The friction of building personal apps has always been so high that as users we accepted the ads, the trackers, the dark patterns, and the constant upsells.

> The friction is just not there anymore. You can build a personal app that has the exact subset of features you want, that is clean, fast, and respects your privacy, in a matter of hours.

https://preslav.me/2026/04/03/the-friction-is-just-not-there...

New comment by p5v in "In the Beginning Was the Backslash"

p5v — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:42:36 +0000

Convince me that this wasn't written by an LLM.

New comment by p5v in "Show HN: I built a one-file tool to visualize the real cost of Claude Code usage"

p5v — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:07:44 +0000

Hey HN,

Anthropic charges $20/month for Claude Pro, which is all fine, but we all know that this is heavily subsidized, and is not the real cost of tokens we burn through.

The well-known ccusage (https://ccusage.com/) utility can read those logs and compute what you would have paid on a pay-per-token basis. For heavy users, that number can be... surprising.

I built a single HTML file that turns that data into a shareable infographic — cost trends over time, model breakdown (Sonnet vs. Haiku vs. Opus), total token volume, and peak spend days.

Everything runs client-side. The JSON never leaves your machine.

Show HN: I built a one-file tool to visualize the real cost of Claude Code usage

p5v — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:07:44 +0000

Article URL: https://cc.preslav.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574571

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by p5v in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

p5v — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:56:21 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this a lot while building Murmel (https://murmel.social). One thing we wanted to avoid from day one was the “infinite engagement machine” model, so instead of pushing algorithmic slop, we just surface links that are already being shared by people you follow on Bluesky and Mastodon.

It ends up feeling much closer to “what’s interesting in my corner of the web right now?” and much less like a system trying to keep you trapped inside it.

Small scope, obviously, but I think more social tools should feel like utilities, not casinos.

New comment by p5v in "Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines"

p5v — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:47:04 +0000

I think this post sums it up pretty well: https://preslav.me/2026/03/25/murmel-competition-identity-tr...

New comment by p5v in "Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone"

p5v — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:12:37 +0000

Interesting, I’ll check it out. But just like X RAW studio, I bet that it won’t work with my old X-E1.

New comment by p5v in "Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines"

p5v — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:07:08 +0000

More like what Nuzzel used to be back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20140321102815/http://nuzzel.com...

New comment by p5v in "Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines"

p5v — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:42:13 +0000

“I figured that I could always fall back to those blue links to get a relatively unadulterated experience. Now, I have to wonder.”

When the last neutral layer goes, what's left is the people you chose to follow.

I've been sitting with that thought while building https://murmel.social

New comment by p5v in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

p5v — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:11:08 +0000

What’s next - coming after all the projects that have been coded using Claude Code, claiming they are their property?

New comment by p5v in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

p5v — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:09:06 +0000

I sleep badly, and have had tinnitus since I was a kid.

New comment by p5v in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"

p5v — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:07:29 +0000

I’m old enough to remember and toy with the now long-dead XNA. It was lots of fun, and gave a lot of us students versed with C# a sort of first-hand exposure with the .NET. If only (the old) Microsoft wasn’t so stupid, short-sighted, and selfish at the time.

New comment by p5v in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

p5v — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:21:16 +0000

If only it were that rosy. I tested a few of the top open-source coding models on a beefy GPU machine, and they all behaved like anything about anything - simply rotating in circles and wasting electricity.

Has anyone had a better experience?

New comment by p5v in "MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming"

p5v — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:36:01 +0000

Has anyone used this in earnest with something like OpenCode? Over the past few months I’ve tested a dozen models that were claimed to be nearly as good Claude Code or Codex, but the overall experience when using them with OpenCode was close to abysmal. Not even a single one was able to do a decent code editing job on a real-world codebase.

New comment by p5v in "AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power"

p5v — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:52:19 +0000

And so has been every other paradigm shift in human existence.

New comment by p5v in "Show HN: OtterLang – Pythonic scripting language that compiles to native code"

p5v — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:12:09 +0000

How does that compare against Nim?

New comment by p5v in "'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming"

p5v — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:29:35 +0000

Surprisingly, to me, it’s the other ways around - and, I’ve been writing code for two decades now. I love programming and even with AI, I will always have the last word, but I also realized along the way that programming is only a means to an end - you write code to get something done, not to write the code itself. With AI, I can finally give chance to my hundreds of ideas and see what sticks.