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New comment by shanev in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

shanev — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:47:15 +0000

I love my Cybertruck. It's absolutely amazing for road trips with my dog. I watch movies and work on my projects (using a voice app I built) while FSD drives. It's basically a mobile apartment for me. I sleep comfortably in the truck bed when needed. I installed MOLLE panels on the L-tracks in the bed and 3D printed various accessories.

Sad to see it go but glad I got mine. Oh and kids love it. My Sentry mode clips are full of kids asking their parents to take pics with it.

New comment by shanev in "Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon"

shanev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:49:26 +0000

You are discounting iteration. Today they are fragile and lightweight. Tomorrow they will have better actuators, pneumatic/McKibben muscles, etc.

New comment by shanev in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

shanev — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:58:30 +0000

I built modelrelay.ai that does this. Happy to give you an invite code if you want to play with it.

Show HN: Vanta – Markdown notes for iPhone with on-device AI

shanev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:32:50 +0000

Vanta is a Markdown notes app for iPhone, built around on-device AI organization and GTD (Getting Things Done).

I use Obsidian with Claude on desktop, and wanted a similar but automated flow on mobile. This started out as an experiment with Apple's local Foundation models which turned out to be genuinely useful for me. The local models are used to clean up messy dictation, format Markdown, and categorize your inbox using GTD principles.

Maybe one day it'll do your todos for you too :)

Import and sync your existing Obsidian vault on Github, or start with a new one. iCloud Drive sync is included.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777781490

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735191

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New comment by shanev in "Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)"

shanev — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:17:58 +0000

Congrats on the launch! It would be useful to have a matrix somewhere showing how this compares to Jina, Firecrawl, etc.

New comment by shanev in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

shanev — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:21:12 +0000

https://shanev.ai

New comment by shanev in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

shanev — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:39:57 +0000

The GPT models, in my experience, have been much better for backend than the Claude models. They're much slower, but produce logic that is more clear, and code that is more maintainable. A pattern I use is, setup a Github issue with Claude plan mode, then have Codex execute it. Then come back to Claude to run custom code review plugins. Then, of course review it with my own eyes before merging the PR.

My only gripe is I wish they'd publish Codex CLI updates to homebrew the same time as npm :)

New comment by shanev in "X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans"

shanev — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:44:14 +0000

I built a little Chrome extension that shows the flag for where the account is based in on the profile page itself: https://grokify.app.

New comment by shanev in "Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated"

shanev — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:25:23 +0000

This is solvable at the level of an individual developer. Write your own benchmark for code problems that you've solved. Verify tests pass and that it satisfies your metrics like tok/s and TTFT. Create a harness that works with API keys or local models (if you're going that route).

New comment by shanev in "Git branches are named sequences of commits"

shanev — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:46:19 +0000

Close. It won because of Github. Git was gaining over SVN slowly but it was Github that really propelled it into widespread use.

New comment by shanev in "The rise of never-ending job interviews"

shanev — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:04:06 +0000

DAOs are fixing this in the crypto world. You contribute to the protocol and get paid by the DAO. Everything is transparent and open. If you do this enough and earn the respect of the dev team it could even turn into a full-time role.

New comment by shanev in "Brad Cox has died"

shanev — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:40:33 +0000

> He worked hard to enable software reuse. No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers

People are experimenting doing this in blockchain smart contracts. It’s transparent and supports micropayments as well.

New comment by shanev in "Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols"

shanev — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:15:41 +0000

I was mulling over this exact issue the other day but couldn't find the words to express it. Thank you for this.

New comment by shanev in "Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time"

shanev — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:34:50 +0000

I thought it was about resque, the ruby queuing library, switching from redis to kafka.

New comment by shanev in "Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?"

shanev — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:55:33 +0000

Khan Academy’s economics and finance videos are excellent for learning the fundamentals.

Ray Dalio’s talks on YouTube, and his most recent TED talk are great for context around economic downturns.

Real Vision and Anthony Pompliano’s podcast are good for deep dives into what’s going on with a bit of an alternative take.

New comment by shanev in "Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing"

shanev — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:27:29 +0000

There are several teams working on better privacy preserving functionality: https://github.com/covid-apps-tracker/tracing-apps.

What would be useful is a common standard for Bluetooth transmission so all these apps could talk to each other.

New comment by shanev in "Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories"

shanev — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:50:43 +0000

This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Twitter getting increasingly LinkedIn-like.

I made an app called Blink that did exactly this a few years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/blink. Build it and they will come, not :)

New comment by shanev in "Where’s _why? (2012)"

shanev — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:49:08 +0000

_why’s contributions to the Ruby world always had an art project element to them. His disappearance is just an extension of his art.

It was amusing to me that his real name wasn’t even exposed on conference badges.

New comment by shanev in "Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust"

shanev — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:44:26 +0000

When a company switches languages like this, it's usually because the engineers want to learn something new on the VC's dime. They'll make any excuse to do it. As many comments here show, there are other ways to solve this problem.

New comment by shanev in "Bees are essential to the almond industry, and billions are dying in the process"

shanev — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:01:55 +0000

I hope we are learning that substituting fake things for real things often have catastrophic effects. If fake meat becomes popular, this will get much worse. Food production is complex. Substituting one thing for another may seem like a good idea on the surface, but it ignores second order effects.