Hacker News: sunsetMurk

Ask HN: Practical AI setup for staying on top of personal messages?

sunsetMurk — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:37:48 +0000

End-of-year reflection: I’ve let messages pile up, and I want a sustainable way to maintain the relationships I care about.

Most of my personal backlog is on iPhone/iMessage, and I’m looking for a mobile-first system. I’m also juggling work + personal logistics, so I need something that works in short batches vs. being “always on”.

I’m looking for success/failure stories and practical setups using AI for triage + drafting across texts/email/voicemail. I’m not looking to auto-send replies—just help deciding what to reply to and drafting something I’ll send myself.

Questions I’d love input on:

- What workflow finally stuck (batching, queues, reminders, templates, “SLA” rules)? - What failed (tone mismatch, hallucinations, too much friction, privacy concerns, social blowback)? - Which tools were worth it (clients, plugins, Shortcuts, local vs cloud), and why? - Any prompt patterns that reliably produce short, warm, context-aware replies?

If you built something custom (scripts/Shortcuts/agents), I’d love the rough architecture.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397562

Points: 1

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New comment by sunsetMurk in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

sunsetMurk — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:49:02 +0000

Acceptance criteria are often buggy themselves, and require more context to interpret and develop a solution.

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

sunsetMurk — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:51:27 +0000

Divvy has a pretty UI to choose the size and location of windows, and puts little buttons in the top corner of windows to change their size and location.

Rectangle provides hot keys and an icon in the menu bar to set window size and location.

I use rectangle now, but have used divvy in the past and I think is better for people who like to use their mouse vs hot keys.

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?"

sunsetMurk — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 02:24:20 +0000

Have you used this? What’s your experience like?

I’m looking for ‘a tool’ like this to help manage code changes and communicating about those releases across a set of github repos.

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Teaching with AI"

sunsetMurk — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:09:38 +0000

conceptually, I get it.

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool"

sunsetMurk — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:02:39 +0000

ditto, GPT-4 is very impressive with all types of mermaid [0] diagrams! even helps w/ styling and formatting tweaks. It's helped me so much with better coverage and maintainability on diagrams for software & systems projects.

0. https://mermaid.live/

New comment by sunsetMurk in "AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements"

sunsetMurk — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 03:06:14 +0000

I use a 'LEVOIT air purifier'[1], and it has a PM2.5 sensor that works w/ Home Assistant out of the box through the VeSync integration [2].

1- https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08L73QL1V 2- https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/vesync/

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes"

sunsetMurk — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:26:49 +0000

where's the coffee shop?

New comment by sunsetMurk in "This is the year of the RSS reader?"

sunsetMurk — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:10:34 +0000

'inbox zero' in this context is for the RSS reader's inbox, not email.

I remember my satisfaction w/ hitting "no new stories available" back in the 'Google Reader' days!

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?"

sunsetMurk — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:08:45 +0000

Can you share the script? Sounds like a cool and helpful time-saver.

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

sunsetMurk — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:39:12 +0000

have any links?

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?"

sunsetMurk — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:44:12 +0000

care to share the script(s)? any screenshots? sounds useful :)

New comment by sunsetMurk in "The most popular chess streamer on Twitch"

sunsetMurk — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:00:36 +0000

I wish I could provide a useful summary, but I had it on while I was prepping for a meeting so I wasn't really paying attention. I was more surprised at my timing of seeing it on HN, searching for his twitch profile, and then right then he was going through the article I had open in another tab.

I think if you're a subscriber (I'm not) you can replay his stream from earlier.

I do remember he said somethings like...

> 'the chess stuff that they're talking about isn't 100% accurate, but close enough. No one will know/care about that who's reading the article'

> 'it seems the things they're quoting they've pulled from previous streams'

New comment by sunsetMurk in "The most popular chess streamer on Twitch"

sunsetMurk — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:26:23 +0000

He's live right now[1] going through this New Yorker article line-by-line.

Offering some great clarifications, context, etc. The internet is great.

1- https://www.twitch.tv/gmhikaru

The Vehicles of James Bond

sunsetMurk — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:59:40 +0000

Article URL: https://baryon.be/stories/jamesbond/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830532

Points: 1

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New comment by sunsetMurk in "Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia"

sunsetMurk — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:19:23 +0000

Sometimes it's less about the size of the payload and more about # of requests. Especially when targeting the application layer.

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Show HN: Snipd – AI podcast player to highlight and take notes with transcripts"

sunsetMurk — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:35:19 +0000

neat! I'm going to try it. I wonder if I can import my subscriptions from Castro? And, I wonder if there is anything similar to the queue feature to always have a custom-curated list of fresh episodes to listen to.

My only feedback before downloading... the video demo[1] (ironically for a podcast app>) has an unpleasant voiceover, the woman needs a drink of water! Content-wise it's great but I was distracted by the almost ASMR-like experience of feeling like she was very close to my ear, and I didn't like it.

1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzPekGpC4uw

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

sunsetMurk — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:15:59 +0000

So casual :-)

I use Homebrew every day. Thank you for the the incredible work in keeping things ticking along. And congrats on still enjoying it!

New comment by sunsetMurk in "Ask HN: Setting up initial infrastructure"

sunsetMurk — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:14:50 +0000

Rippling [1] is pretty sweet if it has the integrations you need.

1- https://www.rippling.com/

New comment by sunsetMurk in "$8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)"

sunsetMurk — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:43:22 +0000

it's a sad club we're in. Occasionally I even go to bitinfocharts.com and look at my wallet that I will never have access to. Wonderful!