Hacker News: smusamashah

New comment by smusamashah in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

smusamashah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:10:55 +0000

What if I wanted to download all Confluence docs at work?

New comment by smusamashah in "Keygen.music"

smusamashah — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:18:26 +0000

This website is horrific on phone. A sane human made website with keygen music has been shared on HN a few times already.

New comment by smusamashah in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

smusamashah — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:15:21 +0000

I have seen so many brown sites that look all the same, all designed by this thing most likely. So no.

New comment by smusamashah in "Claude Fable 5"

smusamashah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:59:28 +0000

Can you please compare the code generated by other similar quality pelicans by other models. Code in your first link (Fable 5 Default) looks minimal yet very good.

New comment by smusamashah in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

smusamashah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:45:47 +0000

Lookup or modify selected text using AI (chrome extension). I just select any text and click the tiny popup button "what's this" and get an answer right there on the page. Made it mainly to explain terms and abbreviations I come across on HN often. Can also ask any other question about selected text. Can even modify the selected text the same way. [1]

OneNote to markdown/obsidian canvas converter. It did that using interop api to read the actual XML of the onenote files.

Work time tracker as 1px line on edge of monitor. Shows thin line at the edge of the display which fills up based on what i am doing.

Plaintext bookmark chrome extension that save links to local markdown file, Dynalist, Workflowy, Github Gist and import export between them. Was originally for Dynalist when AI couldn't do much 2-3 years ago. Recently added these other end points. [2]

A heart rate monitor with finger on camera. It's bit crappy though. Had to make it because many trackers, including google fit, couldn't detect 200bpm. https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/heart-rate

[1]: https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/LookupChatGPT/tree/claude/fix...

[2]: https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/plainmark

New comment by smusamashah in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

smusamashah — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:54:04 +0000

> I should not be known and my picture should not be on the blog post

That is the opposite of what parent comment says. It took offence on a generated photo of you. It would have been better to not have anything than a generated image.

New comment by smusamashah in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

smusamashah — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:40:34 +0000

I think it was Joel Spolsky's book "User Interface Design for Programmers" where one of his strong points was that nobody reads manuals. Documentation isn't any different.

And on the article's point (the title at least), I write stuff for LLM more freely because they will not care if what I have written is complete garbage. I can't do that in the documents I write for fellow humans. They will be read by them and carry more weight, and therefore require much more effort to write. With LLM, all I care about is providing enough context.

May be we just need to ingrain some of that thought process in our for-humans docs.

First clinical pregnancy following AI-based sperm detection and recovery

smusamashah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:14:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01623-X/fulltext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398984

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smusamashah in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

smusamashah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:27:29 +0000

Should have been written with bouba philosophy.

New comment by smusamashah in "TaskSlinger: A faster, cleaner task manager for Windows with modern interface"

smusamashah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:10 +0000

This looks and performs very much like https://filepilot.tech/ but made by a different person in the same spirit.

TaskSlinger: A faster, cleaner task manager for Windows with modern interface

smusamashah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:58:17 +0000

Article URL: https://taskslinger.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354274

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by smusamashah in "The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers"

smusamashah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:40:36 +0000

Reminded if this video immediately https://youtu.be/-WigEGNnuTE they got almost nothing on the mics.

New comment by smusamashah in "A Trillion Characters"

smusamashah — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:57:41 +0000

Wow, this is awesome. And if anyone fancies, there are very few high quality places like this.

See

https://ourworldoftext.com/

Non-text ones

https://ourworldofpixels.com/

Both of these are deep rabit holes. Just click the tiny links in the central square or see chatbox. For example https://ourworldoftext.com/main , https://img.ourworldoftext.com/ , https://ourworldoftext.com/fp/carthage , https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/city , https://ourworldoftext.com/tileanimator , https://ourworldoftext.com/Game_of_Ur , https://wiki.ourworldoftext.com/wiki/List_of_cities_on_OWOT , https://ourworldofpixels.com/flags , https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim , https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld

Also found this just now https://wplace.live/

New comment by smusamashah in "Ten Basic Clouds"

smusamashah — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:11:39 +0000

Cumulus are the best clouds. They make so many shapes and things. I could see them as space ships floating by or big heads, or dragons and what not as a child.

New comment by smusamashah in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

smusamashah — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:52:41 +0000

I got a little motion sick with this camera control. I won't be visiting this site again but for other people like me, please add a crosshair. They help with motion sickness by giving you something to stick your gaze on.

New comment by smusamashah in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

smusamashah — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:36:08 +0000

This reminded of Wingdings font that I use to play around with in Windows 98

New comment by smusamashah in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

smusamashah — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:42:00 +0000

Title of this article suggested more depth and I was expecting actual code examples. But it is like other opinion pieces. It suggests a prompt (ask AI to find bugs) that works for the author advising everyone to do it that way.

I use these tools at both work and for personal side projects and I was expecting to watch and learn. But these opinion pieces without examples are way too many now.

New comment by smusamashah in "Growing Neural Cellular Automata"

smusamashah — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:04:26 +0000

This has been shared a few times here. It looks cool but I don't understand the usefulness of this tech. This is likely a demo to show some capability, what that is though I don't understand.

New comment by smusamashah in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

smusamashah — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:29:29 +0000

'Its not X, its Y' is also a common LLM trope.

New comment by smusamashah in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

smusamashah — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:00:42 +0000

Not op, made a tool to convert Microsoft OneNote notes to Obsidian canvas and Markdown. First it used a python lib which was too limiting. Then it used windows API to plug into OneNote and read the doc in its original XML form. That made the conversion correct and fully featured.