Hacker News: pwr1

New comment by pwr1 in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

pwr1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:06:53 +0000

Nice execution. How are you handling deduplication when the same asset shows up on multiple sites?

New comment by pwr1 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

pwr1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:26:42 +0000

Did this about a year ago, went smoother than expected tbh. the main gotcha for us was DO's managed postgres — had to dump/restore manually since there's no direct migration path to Hetzner's managed DBs. ended up just self-hosting postgres on a separate box which has been fine, maybe even better.

New comment by pwr1 in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

pwr1 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:36:55 +0000

Just lost an hour going through this. Found a Nirvana show from 1989 at Dreamerz. The recording quality is surprisingly decent for a cassette tape. This is exactly the kind of thing the internet was supposed to be for.

New comment by pwr1 in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

pwr1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:43:52 +0000

So they want protection from harms caused by their own models. Classic move — lobby for the rules while you're still ahead of regulators who don't fully understand the technology yet. Would be interesting to see what happens when a state actually pushes back hard.

New comment by pwr1 in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

pwr1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:25:14 +0000

We tried something similar at a previous company — ended up with 3 different bots all answering slightly differently depending on which doc chunk they hit. The consistency problem is real.

Curious how you handle updates. Like if someone edits the source doc, does the bot just start returning different answers or is there a review step?

New comment by pwr1 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

pwr1 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:22:16 +0000

Solid list. I'd add git log --all --oneline --graph pretty early on — gives you a quick sense of how active different branches are and whether this is a "one person commits everything" project or actually distributed. Helped me a ton on a job where I inheritied a monolith with like 4 years of history.

The git blame tip is underrated. People treat it like a gotcha tool but its maybe the fastest way to find the PR/ticket that explains a weird decision.

New comment by pwr1 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

pwr1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:22:46 +0000

Native has its place for sure — camera, sensors, offline, background tasks. But web has come a long way and for a lot of products it's genuinely enough. The issue is teams defaulting to "build an app" without asking whether the install friction is actually worth it for what they're building.

New comment by pwr1 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

pwr1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:16:47 +0000

Yep. If your product needs me to install an app for a one-off thing, you've probably already lost me.

The crazy part is how many teams still treat the web as the demo and the app as the “real” product. For a lot of stuff it's the opposite now.

I know there are edge cases, but most of the time “download our app” just means “please care way more about our product than you currently do.”

New comment by pwr1 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

pwr1 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:21:53 +0000

I catch myself doing this more than I'd like to admit. Copy something from an LLM, it works, ship it, move on. Then a week later something breaks and I realize I have no idea what that code actually does! The speed is addicting but your slowly trading depth for velocity and at some point that bill comes due.

New comment by pwr1 in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

pwr1 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:18:39 +0000

This resonates. I had a project sitting in my head for years and finally built it in about 6 weeks recently. The AI part wasn't even the hard part honestly, it was finally commiting to actually shipping instead of overthinking the architecture. The tools just made it possible to move fast enough that I didn't lose momentum and abandon it like every other time.

New comment by pwr1 in "Ask HN: Best build in public/regular updates blogs?"

pwr1 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:21:21 +0000

Pieter Levels is the obvious one. Not really a neat polished “blog”, more like watching someone ship in public for years.

Josh Pigford / Baremetrics had some good posts too. And the old Indie Hackers interviews were good for this before everything got a bit too content-brained.

Honestly most of the best ones aren’t big polished company blogs, they’re usually one person posting consistently while they’re still in the middle of it.

New comment by pwr1 in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

pwr1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:17:28 +0000

Running 26B locally is impressive but the latency math gets rough once your doing anything beyond chat. We switched from local inference to API calls for image generation specifically because cold start + generation time on consumer hardware made it impractical for any kind of automated workflow.

Local is great for experimentation but production workloads that need to run reliably at specific times still favor API imo. That said for privacy sensitive use cases where data cant leave the machine, setups like this are invaluable.

New comment by pwr1 in "New Pale Blue Dot Pic Just Dropped"

pwr1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:45:21 +0000

I've seen conspiracy posts saying things like, "It's upside down"... haha

New comment by pwr1 in "Show HN: I built a tool that turns text descriptions into motion graphics videos"

pwr1 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:40:06 +0000

Took like 5 minutes to create a kinda basic/simplistic animation. Sorry, not impressed.

Daft Punk – One More Time Sample

pwr1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/theskitzo_/status/2032973698953601375

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492007

Points: 2

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New comment by pwr1 in "[dead]"

pwr1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:29:23 +0000

Shifting to GPT 5.4 feels like my top performing employee just went on vacation and now I have to deal with complete incompetence in comparison.

New comment by pwr1 in "Show HN: What if AI agents can trade with each other"

pwr1 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:55:06 +0000

I can see skills, having been built over time having value that other agents would pay for.

New comment by pwr1 in "Vitamin D Supplementation and Covid-19/Long Covid Clinical Outcomes"

pwr1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:20:01 +0000

Obviously I do that. Also take appropriate amounts of K2.

New comment by pwr1 in "Vitamin D Supplementation and Covid-19/Long Covid Clinical Outcomes"

pwr1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:05:01 +0000

I take 10k-50k IU vitamin D3 every day and haven't been sick in years (knock on wood). Not saying that vitamin D3 is protecting me, but just saying...

New comment by pwr1 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

pwr1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:45:43 +0000

Ahh, now I see it. So cool! Bookmarked.