Hacker News: sidchilling

New comment by sidchilling in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

sidchilling — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:34:32 +0000

In your view, which are couple different companies that aren’t very big (not FAANG level yet), but you think will become quite successful? Which of them are mission driven and you’d be sad if they later become “corrupted”?

New comment by sidchilling in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

sidchilling — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:30:15 +0000

Isn’t “what” the easy part? I thought the leadership is more about why they are doing what they are doing and why is that important/not important. Something which LLMs are not great at today, but aren’t terrible and can make some good guesses at times.

New comment by sidchilling in "America Has Lost the Arab World"

sidchilling — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:52:43 +0000

Did it belong to America to lose?

New comment by sidchilling in "Can I run AI locally?"

sidchilling — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:34:05 +0000

I have been trying to run Qwen Coder models (8B at 4bit) on my M3 Pro 18GB behind Ollama and connecting codex CLI to it. The tool usage seems practically zero, like it returns the tool call in text JSON and codex CLI doesn’t run the tool (just displays the tool call in text). Has anyone succeeded in doing something like this? What am I missing?

New comment by sidchilling in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

sidchilling — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:10:53 +0000

What would a good coding model to run on an M3 Pro (18GB) to get Codex like workflow and quality? Essentially, I am running out quick when using Codex-High on VSCode on the $20 ChatGPT plan and looking for cheaper / free alternatives (even if a little slower, but same quality). Any pointers?

Show HN: Slack bot for channel-owned mention aliases (not org-wide user groups)

sidchilling — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:02:12 +0000

Teams in Slack often end up pasting long @mention chains, and someone gets missed (or the wrong person gets pinged). It’s worse for rotating groups like on-call, releases, incident response.

We built Alias Bot: each channel can define aliases like `!oncall` / `!reviewers`. When someone uses an alias, the bot replies with the expanded mentions and lists exactly who was notified (so there are no hidden pings).

This is intentionally channel-scoped (vs Slack user groups being workspace-wide), so the same alias can mean different things in different channels without admin overhead.

Privacy note: the backend stores alias configuration (alias → member IDs per channel), processes message text to detect alias usage, and does not store or log message bodies ever.

Free plan includes up to 3 aliases; pricing is flat. You purchase number of aliases you could create and is not seat-based (user-based).

Would appreciate feedback from EMs/TLs/SREs: is this a real pain for your teams, and what would block adoption (noise, permissions, governance, drift)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526448

Points: 2

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New comment by sidchilling in "Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone"

sidchilling — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:40:57 +0000

ios 18.1.1

New comment by sidchilling in "Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone"

sidchilling — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:36:49 +0000

I downloaded the app but it keeps crashing on open

New comment by sidchilling in "Introduction to Indian English"

sidchilling — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:00:18 +0000

I agree. The articles misses some really good ones, - prepone, max-to-max (ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा), scanner (for payment QR-codes)

New comment by sidchilling in "Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone"

sidchilling — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:20:56 +0000

Is this not available in India? Would love to try it.

Show HN: Humans vs. LLMs – See how your website looks to LLMs

sidchilling — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:20:36 +0000

We built a free tool that compares how your site appears to humans vs how LLMs really see it.

You’ll see how well your content is structured, what LLMs can extract, and where you’re missing visibility in AI search.

You can try it here - https://aipageready.com/humans-vs-llms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355557

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sidchilling in "(Backup!) Built an AI that brutally roasts your website designs"

sidchilling — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:56:12 +0000

Does it work? I get thrown to homepage without anything after uploading screenshots and clicking the CTA. Bug? Or intentional?

New comment by sidchilling in "Show HN: AI Page Ready – Is Your Website Ready for ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude?"

sidchilling — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:40:18 +0000

Some things I’m curious to hear from HN:

(1) Are you optimizing your content for LLMs yet? (2) What do you think AI traffic will look like 6–12 months from now? (3) What kinds of AI visibility issues have you run into?

Happy to answer anything about how we built the tool or what’s under the hood too.

Show HN: AI Page Ready – Is Your Website Ready for ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude?

sidchilling — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:39:50 +0000

Hi HN,

We just launched [AI Page Ready](https://aipageready.com) — a tool to check if your web pages are discoverable and understandable by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

It runs 40+ checks across six areas: Discoverability & Crawlability, Structured Data & Semantics, Content Quality, Answer-Ready Formatting, Accessibility & Rendering, and Deep AI LLM-specific checks.

Would love your feedback — especially if you work in eCommerce, SEO, content, SaaS, or are trying to get traffic from AI tools.

(Also open to ideas on what else to add to the tool!)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097341

Points: 6

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New comment by sidchilling in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

sidchilling — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:00:44 +0000

Experts will be in denial of LLMs for a long time, while the non-experts will swiftly use it to bridge their own knowledge gap. This is the use case for LLMs, maybe more so than 100% correctness.

New comment by sidchilling in "Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024"

sidchilling — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:38:03 +0000

I don’t like watching videos (or rather can’t watch at night, but can read). To date I haven’t found an AI that can produce a good article from a video. No, not just transcribe the video but actually produce a quality article with images and stuff from the video. Like a human who is instructed as “watch this video and produce a very high quality article that talks about the things talked about in the video”.

Has anyone has any luck with this?

It would be awesome if I can give this link to AI that will produce a PDF, each video being a chapter in the PDF.

New comment by sidchilling in "Copilot vs. Cursor vs. Cody vs. Supermaven vs. Aider"

sidchilling — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:45:34 +0000

Is there any code assistant that can parse entire big codebases and help me implement a “story”?

New comment by sidchilling in "Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India"

sidchilling — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:28:50 +0000

YES! If you’re actually in India, you will know how useful Twitter has been with this. People are amplifying tweets about other people’s needs and other folks are sharing verified leads. All of this without any incentive to do so. Where the government is daily failing, citizens are rising to the occasion.

New comment by sidchilling in "Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster"

sidchilling — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:52:57 +0000

Is there a technical way that would prevent Mighty to read my passwords (if it wanted to)? Or do I have to trust Mighty won’t do that?

New comment by sidchilling in "Show HN: Play Games in Slack"

sidchilling — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:06:12 +0000

The faker game sounds fun! Page would be much easier to read if there were videos of the games.

Any plans of launching for Teams? I guess bigger companies (who were already on outlook) have heavily adopted Teams (and I believe these games might be something that HR teams at bigger companies might be interested in).