Hacker News: stan_kirdey

Show HN: Clark Hash, 32x smaller searchable sketches for embeddings

stan_kirdey — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:44:13 +0000

made a small library using GPT5.5-Pro and autoresearch

you can convert 384-dim f32 vectors go from 1536 bytes to 48 bytes without calibration. works for petabyte scale processing of text in pure online manner.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291451

Points: 1

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Show HN: Clark-agent, a Rust library for LLM tool loops

stan_kirdey — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:19:42 +0000

Hi HN,

I wrote clark-agent, a small Rust library for running LLM tool loops.

The loop is:

context -> model -> tool call -> tool result -> repeat

The parts I wanted typed were:

- transcript messages - tool calls - tool results - stream events - tool schemas

The model/provider boundary is a StreamFn trait. Tools implement AgentTool. There are hooks for things like context transforms, tool gates, observers, and follow-up messages.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284610

Points: 1

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New comment by stan_kirdey in "Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium"

stan_kirdey — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:33:02 +0000

Just ran evals on a few detectors, and clark-browser passed live stealth checks on Cloudflare smoke, SannySoft, BrowserLeaks Client Hints, and WebGL.

Results + new binary https://github.com/clark-labs-inc/clark-browser

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

stan_kirdey — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:24:40 +0000

EXPENSIVE ._.

Show HN: LibreOffice-rs – I built a pure-Rust LibreOffice using autoresearch

stan_kirdey — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:01:31 +0000

Hey HN,

I built libreoffice-rs: a pure-Rust, std-only library + CLI for reading, writing, converting, and rendering office documents — with *zero* LibreOffice, Java, or C dependencies.

100x faster... I know, I know.

It supports DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT/ODS/ODP, PDF, Markdown, CSV, HTML, SVG, and more. The CLI is designed to feel familiar:

```bash cargo install libreoffice-pure

# soffice-style usage libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to pdf report.docx libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to csv spreadsheet.xlsx

# Markdown extraction libreoffice-pure docx-to-md report.docx report.md libreoffice-pure pptx-to-md slides.pptx slides.md

# Render pages as images libreoffice-pure docx-to-pngs report.docx pages/ --dpi 144 ```

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196023

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium"

stan_kirdey — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:10:18 +0000

clark-browser is c++ level overwrite of core chromium parts

Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium

stan_kirdey — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:09:51 +0000

Fully open-sourced, perfect for agentic browsing, works with Vercel's agent-browser and playwright.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188741

Points: 16

# Comments: 4

New comment by stan_kirdey in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

stan_kirdey — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:41:30 +0000

I also cancelled my subscription.The $20 Pro plan has become completely unusable for any real work. What is especially frustrating is that Claude Chat and Claude Code now share the exact same usage limits — it makes zero sense from a product standpoint when the workflows are so different. Even the $200 Max plan got heavily nerfed. What used to easily last me a full week (or more) of solid daily use now burns out in just a few days. Combined with the quality drop and unpredictable token consumption, it simply stopped being worth it.

DeepSeek-v3.2

stan_kirdey — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:40:26 +0000

Article URL: https://cas-bridge.xethub.hf.co/xet-bridge-us/692cfec93b25b81d09307b94/2d0aa38511b9df084d12a00fe04a96595496af772cb766c516c4e6aee1e21246?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=cas%2F20251201%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20251201T142652Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=434ce0f081e5725cb34243380f4c51ebbbc74e1bcc349760c5c702166a2a3bb0&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Xet-Cas-Uid=public&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename*%3DUTF-8%27%27paper.pdf%3B+filename%3D%22paper.pdf%22%3B&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&x-id=GetObject&Expires=1764602812&Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MTc2NDYwMjgxMn19LCJSZXNvdXJjZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vY2FzLWJyaWRnZS54ZXRodWIuaGYuY28veGV0LWJyaWRnZS11cy82OTJjZmVjOTNiMjViODFkMDkzMDdiOTQvMmQwYWEzODUxMWI5ZGYwODRkMTJhMDBmZTA0YTk2NTk1NDk2YWY3NzJjYjc2NmM1MTZjNGU2YWVlMWUyMTI0NioifV19&Signature=Nq%7EnPts2dmKo9bxaPjzSf4G%7EDXbw7T4B6t69nIYJm4kRRxguQ3CBBPvjRGxhtfu4m2rbAp-kF8ycR755fuiM2rSPh0c287A3r5C5YJ0gq2MpoZJGerzmFGB74uBP6Y1-AE9nkrlbv-uoLgFCoEsc2TBagnD88QD3JkqBjjbrmOslKvKtIDzJvQecloQ--CwMQFoDk9uKAjfKhH2vDJVtiqI-jRJUrZyLZ8y6aqSmtWCWwPiEZ-dfMWW-gkZBrcxryY7XZGsoQ2n55mYSQT2xcgexJpjeIuwg9VOdISE6sHWyTa2txWRYbx0xcWNPg-FBsbrxXsCFmlQnXRX7l2GyuA__&Key-Pair-Id=K2L8F4GPSG1IFC

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107969

Points: 3

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New comment by stan_kirdey in "Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use"

stan_kirdey — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:59:10 +0000

* fine tuned Qwen-7B

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Sora 2"

stan_kirdey — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:25:42 +0000

That could totally power next generation of green-screen techs. Generative actors may not find favorable response in the audiences; but SFX, decor, extras, environments that react to actors' actions - amazing potential.

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

stan_kirdey — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 02:17:30 +0000

needed to find a kids’ orthodontist. made a tiny voice agent: feed it numbers, it calls, asks about price/availability/insurance, logs the gist.

it kind of worked. the magic was the smallest UI around it:

- timeline of dials + retries

- "call me back" flags

- when it tried, who picked up

- short summaries with links to the raw transcript

once i could see the behavior, it stopped feeling spooky and started feeling useful.

so yeah, copilots are cool, but i want HUDs: quiet most of the time, glanceable, easy to interrupt, receipts for every action.

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork"

stan_kirdey — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:58:28 +0000

props to OP for the screenshots and payloads—that’s how you do it. If any IDE wants trust, they know the recipe - make telemetry optin by default and provide a real kill switch.

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

stan_kirdey — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:54:08 +0000

Engineers: always negotiate for higher base salaries. In the vast majority of cases—especially during acquihires—your equity will be worth little or nothing. Founders and VCs still get paid; employees rarely do.

Don't just accept promises. Ask for the 409A valuation, liquidation preferences, and pay bands. If a company won’t provide transparency, that’s your signal.

Equity is a lottery ticket. Salary is money in the bank.

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

stan_kirdey — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:26:27 +0000

exactly for this made vortle.com no login, no internet needed, no data collected, no score - just you and the game to de-stress and calm down

Show HN: Jslon – high performance GUI viewer of large JSONL, TSV and CSV files

stan_kirdey — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://skirdey-inflection.github.io/jslon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584720

Points: 10

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New comment by stan_kirdey in "GPT-4.5"

stan_kirdey — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:37:07 +0000

For most tasks, GPT-4o/o3-mini are already great, and cheaper.

What is the real-world use case where GPT-4.5? Anyone actually seeing a game-changing difference? Please share your prompts!

New comment by stan_kirdey in "Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI"

stan_kirdey — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:44:24 +0000

Nice! Built something similar in Rust that supports local and remote repos: https://crates.io/crates/r2md

Show HN: R2md – quickly export entire codebase to a single Markdown/pdf

stan_kirdey — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:28:35 +0000

super simple tool, what sets it apart is straight forward cli interface without too much noise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881243

Points: 1

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New comment by stan_kirdey in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

stan_kirdey — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:01:40 +0000

made this super easy to use tool https://github.com/skirdey-inflection/r2md