Hacker News: shanehoban

New comment by shanehoban in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

shanehoban — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:32:41 +0000

Yeah this is my line of thinking too - of course it made a nuke, humans have made an insane amount of nukes, and used them too. LLMs, given the ability, will do what we have done in the past at some point, it's kind of all they know!

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

shanehoban — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:05:33 +0000

I've been vibe coding a few things as of late, all for personal use

- https://homail.shanehoban.com - resend clone (transactional emails)

- https://mindmap.shanehoban.com - my canvas note taking app

- https://bnb.shanehoban.com - my airbnb for family use

- https://hsk.shanehoban.com - the starter-kit I made for making these apps (available on github: https://github.com/shanehoban/ho-starter-kit)

New comment by shanehoban in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

shanehoban — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:36:58 +0000

> Butter, in particular, can last for days outside a fridge.

I live in Ireland, and once we take butter out of the fridge (to replace the one that's now gone), it doesn't go back in, whatever the weather. All butter here is basically of Kerrygold quality (I'm talking real butter of course).

New comment by shanehoban in "Google Workspace CLI"

shanehoban — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:41:22 +0000

Feel like this should be at the top of the README - not the bottom

> Disclaimer

> Caution

> This is not an officially supported Google product.

New comment by shanehoban in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

shanehoban — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:24:11 +0000

Hard to believe, but it's almost 10 years since they announced the new Roadster

New comment by shanehoban in "ChatGPT Launches 'Company Knowledge'"

shanehoban — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:42:35 +0000

Claude memory was posted 16 hours before this, kinda crazy how fast they churn this stuff out

New comment by shanehoban in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses"

shanehoban — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:44:24 +0000

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed and hates this change!

New comment by shanehoban in "Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice"

shanehoban — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:16:26 +0000

Self hosted coolify[0], very easy to set up IMO

[0]: https://coolify.io/

New comment by shanehoban in "Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript"

shanehoban — Mon, 13 May 2024 08:35:41 +0000

Try to query it though via document.querySelectorAll('a') for example. It's a good first line of defense as a lot of scraping techniques do this approach.

However, if you have a headless browser setup for scraping, and simply fetch the current URL while on the page[0], you can get the plain text, and do a regex search for email addresses which will get you the email address - albeit this is a strange approach to take I admit.

[0]: fetch('./').then((res) => res.text()).then((text) => console.log(text))

New comment by shanehoban in "OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B"

shanehoban — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:18:35 +0000

This is a valid point, but we are still in the early stages of AI/LLMs, so one would expect the speed and efficiency to improve drastically (perhaps accuracy too) over the coming years.

At least AI & LLMs have large scale practical applications as opposed to crypto (IMO).

New comment by shanehoban in "Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines"

shanehoban — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:25:18 +0000

If the fines would impact profits in a significant way, the companies would just ensure they have no profit on paper going forward.

New comment by shanehoban in "OpenAI’s Sam Altman nears $100M funding for Worldcoin crypto project"

shanehoban — Sun, 14 May 2023 16:49:46 +0000

They want access to your iris (to create a unique ID for you), in return you get access to a crypto coin? Is this for real or what?

Can anyone think about privacy at these firms just once.

New comment by shanehoban in "Thoughts on Svelte"

shanehoban — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:10:03 +0000

I think that when you work with a framework like Vue/Nuxt where hooks aren't needed, they are not so awesome when you transition to working with React/Next. Everything just works as expected (with Vue/Nuxt).

New comment by shanehoban in "Thoughts on Svelte"

shanehoban — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:08:15 +0000

I guess my main gripes are not with the libraries for state management themselves, but how managing rendering after state mutations occur. Pinia and Vue/Nuxt just do this effortlessly. Having to deal with hooks and useEffect in React is just a pain... in my opinion.

New comment by shanehoban in "Thoughts on Svelte"

shanehoban — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:32:29 +0000

I work with React (NextJS) and from working on things in Vue, and Nuxt - the one thing I absolutely hate about React is state management. If you have never used Pinia[0] (Vuex) with Vue, it's just so, so, so much easier.

I'm using Zustand[1] with React as it is as similar as I can find to Pinia, but the whole hook system is just painful to work with... OK rant over.

I haven't built anything substantial with Svelte, but it's definitely on the radar, and I like how similar it is to Vue single file components (SFC). Hoping state management will be as nice to work with as Pinia is with Vue.

[0] https://pinia.vuejs.org/

[1] https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand

New comment by shanehoban in "Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems"

shanehoban — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:42:15 +0000

I'm building a pretty neat database with it at the moment, its not perfect, but it is saving me potentially months of fine tuning, down to just hours. It is amazing IMHO.

New comment by shanehoban in "Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game"

shanehoban — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:45:40 +0000

Never-mind, I actually did it by just accidentally dragging them out of frustration - it is possible!

New comment by shanehoban in "Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game"

shanehoban — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:35:50 +0000

I don't see how to pass level 13, it doesn't seem possible

New comment by shanehoban in "Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web"

shanehoban — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:34:30 +0000

Agree with you, but the CC fee's are like 26% @ €1 (at least here in the EU with stripe) - so around $0.50 would be more 'fun' but I can see why it's $1.

New comment by shanehoban in "EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved"

shanehoban — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:41:13 +0000

Great news, this means bloatware on Android will be no more right? Maybe even YT vanced can continue (still works perfectly fine for me at the moment I will say)?