Hacker News: sightspinner

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: I ran 12 AI bots predicting stocks for two months, every call public"

sightspinner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:33:09 +0000

> annualized directional log return with Bayesian smoothing Don't really understand how this works if people are only predicting up or down?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Visual-HN – a hcker.news reader with images"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:59:29 +0000

I thought the lack of development on HN was kind of the point.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Forall – OpenSpec but with actual machine-checkable verification"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:34:57 +0000

I'm confused about what this is. Is basically doing formal verification on the things spec'd out?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Pasly – Make every ⌘V smarter on macOS"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:24:26 +0000

I like the idea. Is it possible to change the keystroke? some people (me)might want to keep the regular paste keystroke and just have another one that brings up the clipboard.

Also, just reading the webpage, it's a little unclear what "free" is in this case. It seems like the main features you demo are from the "pro"?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Open Problem Gallery – Coordinating mathematics research"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:09:42 +0000

How are you deciding what goes in here. I assume there are in reality near infinite open problems?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Typedeck – a Mac presentation app with a deterministic layout engine"

sightspinner — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:32:24 +0000

how is this different from gamma, etc.?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Fluent, tiny lang for reactivity and autograd"

sightspinner — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:07:35 +0000

Was this just for fun/practice or are you trying to solve some problem/do something more efficiently? Surely, there are languages the calculate exact derivatives already?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Fortress – Give your agents unlimited access to the web"

sightspinner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:25:16 +0000

All for OSS and all but seems like one of two things will happen: A. This repo becomes really popular and useful for a lot of projects, cloudflare or someone else hears of it, looks a the code, finds a way to block it. B. It doesn’t become popular

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: FOMO – Turn a team's browsing into shared research insight"

sightspinner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:19:23 +0000

A bit confused about the use case. Are people sitting in a meeting researching a common topic? Or does the meeting have nothing to do with it?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Short SciFi/Fantasy Index"

sightspinner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:16:04 +0000

Would be cool just to add a basic text editor so people can contribute their own (with slop detection of course). Sure there are off the shelf ones

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Sell your unused AI Credits or buy Claude credits for 50% off"

sightspinner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:02:17 +0000

Hehe, can’t imagine ant is going to like this

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: LocalClip – A local-first AI video clipper for Mac"

sightspinner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:56:04 +0000

if it's local, doesn't that mean you need to have the model running locally?

Show HN: Interactive US home price forecast

sightspinner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:54:25 +0000

Not a great time to be a first time US home buyer right now. We look at some of the main drivers and their respective forecast to build a model to measure where home prices are going using sightspinner.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852230

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New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: LangChain's OpenWiki agent based on PI.dev harness"

sightspinner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:39:24 +0000

Seems like there's a lot of documentation oriented tools coming out right now. I guess this is a little different since it's a separate wiki, but genuine question L why do we need this so much documentation anymore when you can just ask an agent questions about what it does? Are there actual numbers or something saying that agents read documentation better than code? Because otherwise, it's kind of a waste of tokens filling up context (especially inline) with descriptive documentation.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)"

sightspinner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:34:39 +0000

Ha, basically like that website from the 90s where advertiser could by single pieces of the grid.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Give your files an undo button"

sightspinner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:26:26 +0000

Is there a way to actually delete a file? e.g. you accidentally created a very large file or something?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Make No Mistakes – AI coding agents must prove their work"

sightspinner — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:17:14 +0000

This looks fantastic. Will give it a go

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sightspinner — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:29:13 +0000

haha what? is this for real? Why spend the tokens?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: A Simple Containerized Browser"

sightspinner — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:08:34 +0000

Might also be useful for when an agent is doing something for the user and it just wants to show the user what's going on. Spins up a container, shows them the flow, then deletes it.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Qpilot – AI agent runs plain-text manual test cases in a real browser"

sightspinner — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:35:42 +0000

Cool. I basically have to do this all by hand with all the boilerplate each time. Will try this out.