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New comment by tasoeur in "The dead economy theory"

tasoeur — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:56:40 +0000

Until the datacenters happen to be in space.

New comment by tasoeur in "Human Bottlenecks"

tasoeur — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:22:07 +0000

Same here for the flash card app! I literally built this for myself after reading about spaced repetition from this amazing web comic: https://ncase.me/remember/

Then… I wanted to apply this to (beginner level) language learning. And yep you have to be disciplined to go through the cards daily, but it works.

My app is 100% free so my trick was to have users write what they need, the app generates a prompt to give to any AI provider, which in turn gives you back a JSON that will be converted into a deck.

Nothing truly ground breaking, but again it works for beginner level concepts :-)

New comment by tasoeur in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

tasoeur — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:08:03 +0000

I’ve worked in VR for a long time (including visionPro) and my eyesight definitely got worse. The most ironic thing to me is how iPhone has this screen distance warning telling you to move the screen further from your face while Vision Pro is literally an iPhone strapped to your face.

New comment by tasoeur in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

tasoeur — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:11:54 +0000

Maybe not photoshop but I’m building in the live VFX (visual effects) space, for example think touch designer or Houdini (but simpler).

My first project was an “old school” node editor done almost entirely with agentic coding. I slapped an MCP on it to see if the agents could make cool stuff and it was mostly hit or miss, but nothing too mind blowing. Blog post about it: https://sxp.studio/blog/subjective-building-a-native-vfx-edi...

My second take on this is to channel coding agents into “prompt nodes” coupled with some agent orchestration. This helps define clear data flows and API contracts for each node + overall graph. This strategy works better since we’re constraining the problem space and overall getting better results when combined (and it also plays nice with context window limitations). The current demo is a bit slow and basic but it’s looking promising! https://sxp.studio/apps/subjectivezero

New comment by tasoeur in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

tasoeur — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:10:23 +0000

For the past 2.5~3 months I've been working on a 2D/3D VFX (visual effects) editor dedicated to mac and iPhone/iPad, it was on my never ending list of fun projects to build and a perfect excuse to learn agentic coding on a domain of expertise (written in Swift/SwiftUI and Metal).

I wrote a blog post about my process: https://sxp.studio/blog/subjective-building-a-native-vfx-edi...

...and you can download the app here if you're curious (the app is free!): https://subjectivedesigner.com

Next project is going to be a pivot of that project into something related to creative coding and agentic :-)

New comment by tasoeur in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

tasoeur — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:02:57 +0000

Honestly not a bad theory. There’s definitely a huge disparity between actual productivity gained by using agentic coding done somewhat properly… and a non-stop wave of vibe coded work causing outages and churn. Pre-Covid hiring coupled with the high enterprise pricing for AI plans, it would make sense.

Subjective: Building a Native VFX Editor with Agentic Coding

tasoeur — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:33:24 +0000

Article URL: https://sxp.studio/blog/subjective-building-a-native-vfx-editor-with-agentic-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056960

Points: 3

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New comment by tasoeur in "Write some software, give it away for free"

tasoeur — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:20:58 +0000

This is why I'm building free "spite apps" in homage to Larry David's spite stores [0]. The goal being to push back on enshitification of tech and dark patterns like mandatory subscriptions, ads and user data tracking.

As a solo indie-dev, writing free software (as in you don't need to pay anything) is fine, but I usually do not make the project (entirely) open source due to the added churn & maintenance.

In my experience, setting expectations early in my apps ("I'm a solo indie dev", "this is a free app", "you can reach out to me through email but don't expect super quick responses") helped reduce entitled users and - quite the opposite - people were super happy to get replies from me solving their problems.

[0] Blog post about it: https://sxp.studio/blog/spite-apps-the-latte-larrys-of-apps

New comment by tasoeur in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

tasoeur — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:17:34 +0000

That’s funny, I’ve actually used the same algorithm but with taxis in general, for having the same exact issue as the person in this article… but with a real driver. (All of this assuming it’s safe to keep a door open!)

Spite Apps: The Latte Larry's of Apps

tasoeur — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:07:40 +0000

Article URL: https://sxp.studio/blog/spite-apps-the-latte-larrys-of-apps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970276

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tasoeur in "Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta"

tasoeur — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:25:08 +0000

I’ve also started publishing a small collection of what I call “spite apps” (a reference to Larry David’s spite store when he makes his own coffee shop to go against mocha joe).

These apps are super simple in terms of privacy policy: - we don’t track you (no telemetry) - we don’t show you ads - no account - free with optional tip

Sure I don’t make much money with them but I feel like I’m pushing back on making humanity worse.

New comment by tasoeur in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

tasoeur — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:53:45 +0000

Same here. I was a fervent Claude code user at $200/mo until Opus4.7.

Freezing your IDE version is now a thing of the past, the new reality is that we can't expect agentic dev workflows to be consistent and I see too many people (including myself) getting burned by going the single-provider route.

On one hand I’m glad to finally see anthropic communicate on this but at this point all I have to say is… time to diversify?

New comment by tasoeur in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

tasoeur — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:47:33 +0000

Ironically, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t already the case before? I recall vividly employment contracts with meta in 201X with a clear mention that employees were giving up any sense of privacy while using meta provided devices or entering meta’s premises…

macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore

tasoeur — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:58:04 +0000

https://xcancel.com/Lina_Hoshino/status/2046112493320458649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833026

Points: 68

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New comment by tasoeur in "Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG"

tasoeur — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:37:45 +0000

This is great! I found myself asking my AI agents to generate those icons every so often (esp. for websites), so thank you for taking the time to build this.

Quick question, are you also planning on supporting animations?

New comment by tasoeur in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

tasoeur — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:54:05 +0000

I’m assuming your comment is a reference to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

New comment by tasoeur in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

tasoeur — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:06:45 +0000

I actually didn’t know! Thanks for pointing that out.

New comment by tasoeur in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

tasoeur — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:04:10 +0000

Though I do agree with you, I just came back from a trip to China (Shanghai more specifically) and while attending a couple AI events, the overwhelming majority of people there were using VPNs to access Claude code and codex :-/

New comment by tasoeur in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

tasoeur — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:16:58 +0000

I really appreciate their effort to go towards more recycling, but to me a lot of this is completely moot as long as they don’t provide a stronger incentive to surrender your old devices for recycling. It’s actually really simple to reach $0 trade-in value due to absolutely silly things like a scratched display. Why would I be giving you back my iPhone for free when even glass bottles are $0.5 when recommissioned…

New comment by tasoeur in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

tasoeur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:42:32 +0000

I’ve submitted an app (connectors?) to their store and their submission form indicated a 2 weeks turnaround for an answer, including the possibility of not even getting a response at all (it was written verbatim). Not sure who’s responsible for customer support but damn. (Needless to say I never heard back)