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

runeb — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:09:46 +0000

Very cool! I was just today thinking I should have an AI help me design a new piece of furniture I've been thinking about, and send it off to a CNC shop.

The MCP server seems to have a bug. The tool list flashes for a second in Claude Desktop, but then immediately states "This connector has no tools available." and the error "Couldn’t reload tools from the server." when I try to refresh it.

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

runeb — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:59:19 +0000

In the last few months I have been building an AI assistant that is quite possibly saving my life.

It's an iOS app that uses LLMs to estimate and track nutrients and calories in all the food I eat. It is plugged in to Apple Health so it sees all my activity, sleep, body metrics, etc. I have set some general health goals in the app and it uses this to rate (poor, neutral, good) and advise me on the food I log. A calendar view shows how each day has gone in a traffic light coloring system. I can also log contextual notes to help it make sense of my day, and it has a memory system so each session has continuity.

The assistant can save extracted or inferred nutritional data in a library, like when I give it photos of nutritional labels for foods I eat frequently or I log the same thing repeatedly, for easy reuse later. Also useful for home made meals and recipes.

I've connected it to my workout tracker app Hevy so it can keep tabs on my exercise and also adjust my programs based on me chatting with it in the app about how a workout went. This is really useful for swapping out exercises I struggle with, for example, or to keep a well-balanced program over time.

Recently I added an Apple Watch companion app with a watch face complication so I can keep an easy eye on things like up-to-date calorie deficit.

All built in Swift with Opus on the $20 plan. I realize I can probably use existing AI nutrition tracking apps, and probably also connect Claude to Apple Health, but the joy of building and getting this to be completely tailored to me has been so fun and extremely useful. I've shared it with a few friends, but since I am paying for all the API tokens currently I have not yet tried to get more users onboarded.

New comment by runeb in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

runeb — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:19:05 +0000

Wow, I’ve had it for 15 years and until now I’ve never thought it may be connected to also being «treated» for glue ear as a kid. Do you have more info on this and how you came to that conclusion?

New comment by runeb in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

runeb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:58:25 +0000

So it was you! /s

New comment by runeb in "AI is making me dumb"

runeb — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:27:06 +0000

A particularly pronounced version of this can often be seen by letting 2 agents review and code in a loop. One agent will find some problems with the code, the other agent will address the review by adding more code.

A good human developer might see that the better way to address the review is to backtrack and pick a different approach. The ai agents seem more prone to getting stuck down bad branches of the decision tree.

New comment by runeb in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

runeb — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:12:45 +0000

Code reviews should be done by someone other than the author though, so the only thing that changes with ai generated code in that respect is the amount of it

New comment by runeb in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

runeb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:32:09 +0000

They specifically mention "H.264, H.265, and av1 codecs, along with many others" here https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

New comment by runeb in "Cloudflare was down"

runeb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:06:23 +0000

Thanks, I did not know this. My Tailscale was unaffected by the outage.

New comment by runeb in "Cloudflare was down"

runeb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:04:36 +0000

Tailscale Funnel, but might need a paid account

New comment by runeb in "Cloudflare was down"

runeb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:09:25 +0000

Checkout tailscale

New comment by runeb in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

runeb — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:42:33 +0000

I read their point as why have passwords at all when the security is you having access to your email account.

New comment by runeb in "NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix"

runeb — Fri, 16 May 2025 02:56:10 +0000

> The backup roll thrusters in use are now at risk due to residue buildup in their fuel lines

Such a human experience this probe is having

New comment by runeb in "OpenAI Audio Models"

runeb — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:10:53 +0000

I had good results with pyannote and the following model for that use case in the past https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1

New comment by runeb in "Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back"

runeb — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:57:08 +0000

I believe their comment was about safety, not usability

New comment by runeb in "CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike"

runeb — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 01:28:57 +0000

Curiously, Scipio is also arguably one of the most famous family names from Roman Antiquity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus

New comment by runeb in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

runeb — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:51:57 +0000

I share your frustration on services that won’t let you automate them, but to me that’s precisely what generative AI will let you do. You don’t need an API at the family doctors to have AI automate it for you. It just rings them up and sorts it out at your command. AI is like obtaining an API to anything

New comment by runeb in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

runeb — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:26:38 +0000

Walking, cycling, running, driving, relaxing on the couch

New comment by runeb in "Kino: Pro Video Camera"

runeb — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:39:29 +0000

iOS and macOS ships with Pomodoro. Open Shortcuts and you should see it.

New comment by runeb in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

runeb — Fri, 10 May 2024 17:11:58 +0000

John Landis film The Blues Brothers crashed a reported 104 cars

New comment by runeb in "Bollards: Why and What"

runeb — Sun, 05 May 2024 21:00:26 +0000

Lowering the speed limit where there are sidewalks next to cars driving seems to work well in Europe. But that also requires policing of those speed limits so they are not considered mere suggestions by drivers.