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New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Proof of Corn"

tleyden5iwx — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:17:57 +0000

Can they change the name to Proof Of Corncept?

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Show HN: Meeting Detection – a small Rust engine that detects meetings on macOS"

tleyden5iwx — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:49:19 +0000

In my tests it's not working though: https://github.com/RecapAI/Recap/issues/18

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Show HN: Meeting Detection – a small Rust engine that detects meetings on macOS"

tleyden5iwx — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:25:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Here's another approach that might interest you:

https://github.com/RecapAI/Recap

I believe it uses ScreenCaptureKit.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

tleyden5iwx — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:41:10 +0000

AGI will happen, but we need to start reverse engineering the brain. IMHO LeCun and Hawkins have it right, even though the results are still pretty non-existent.

In the meantime, 100% agree, it's complete fantastical nonsense.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

tleyden5iwx — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:36:41 +0000

I built Arty: https://github.com/vibemachine-labs/arty

It's an open-source iOS voice agent that uses the OpenAI Realtime API (bring your own key).

Current connectors: Hacker News (check demo in readme!), Google Drive, GitHub, and web search.

I got frustrated with the limitations of the OpenAI Realtime Voice iOS app—for example, it can't even connect to Google Drive.

Arty is self-contained except for the OpenAI model and any third-party services you connect to. Uses local tools—no MCP support yet.

If you'd like additional connectors, feel free to open an issue.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It"

tleyden5iwx — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:22:33 +0000

Yeah but there are a lot of vibe engineers, and we care about the code, because we have to own it

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It"

tleyden5iwx — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:21:12 +0000

Feature request: add a Github Action so I can generate a codemap for my repo and throw it on my README. Then update it when major PRs change the codemap.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Self-supervised learning, JEPA, world models, and the future of AI [video]"

tleyden5iwx — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:22:08 +0000

Agree with LeCun that current ai doesn’t exhibit anything close to actual intelligence.

I think the solution lies into cracking the core algorithms used by nature to build the brain. Too bad it’s such an inscrutable hairball of analog spaghetti code.

Ask HN: What's the most socially awkward product you've heard of?

tleyden5iwx — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:24:56 +0000

Examples: AirPnP, Double Robotics, etc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395525

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

tleyden5iwx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:00:11 +0000

API clients can already easily identify the user during the authentication process. What’s currently “missing” is a way for an API client to pay a service via the API call “on the fly”, without having a credit card on file or some prior account balance.

Maybe a better example is an image generation api. Your agent chooses one based on its research, and without any account or credit card on file, it buys you an image using a x402.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Launch HN: Strata (YC X25) – One MCP server for AI to handle thousands of tools"

tleyden5iwx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:29:25 +0000

Looks really useful! Do you happen to have a gallery of apps using it? In particular, I'd like to see how desktop or mobile apps handle the oauth flows.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

tleyden5iwx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:17:48 +0000

I think the purpose is so that your agent can do things like buy airline tickets for you. Using x402 it doesn't have to go through a typical credit card checkout process, which might have a lot of safeguards that make sure there's an actual human on the other end (captchas, etc)

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools"

tleyden5iwx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:59:37 +0000

I don't think like a C programmer, my problem is that I think like a Java/Python/Go programmer, and I'm spoiled by getting used to having a garbage collector always running behind me cleaning up my memory poops.

Even though Rust can end up with some ugly/crazy code, I love it overall because I can feel pretty safe that I'm not going to create hard-to-find memory errors.

Sure, I can (and do) write code that causes my (rust) app to crash, but so far they've all been super trivial errors to debug and fix.

I haven't tried Zig yet though. Does it give me all the same compile time memory usage guarantees?

Show HN: MakerTime – Measure Deep Work via screen activity fed into an LLM

tleyden5iwx — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:05:36 +0000

This is basically a fitness tracker for your Deep Work patterns, to help you measure and optimize your focus. It's similar to tools like Rize.io and RescueTime, but tries to go a bit deeper and looks at the actual content on your screen rather than just what apps you're running.

You define what "deep work" means to you, and it will run in the background, capture your screen activity, and submit it to an LLM for a score.

You can set daily Deep Work goal targets and be notified when you reach those targets.

I'm taking a privacy-first approach, and it uses a local LLM by default (llama3 running in ollama), and no data ever leaves your machine.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42805743

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Time tracker based on GPT-V

tleyden5iwx — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tleyden/tutt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38866991

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Any gotchas to using Redis Sentinel to know about?

tleyden5iwx — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:25:19 +0000

This would be deployed on Kubernetes on the major cloud providers, and need near-zero downtime. Mainly wondering what kind of catastrophic failures to watch out for.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26183520

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?"

tleyden5iwx — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:45:06 +0000

It looks like RethinkDB is relying solely on revenue from training and support. Is that even feasible for a product like theirs?

I've never used their product, I've only looked at their website and was extremely impressed. I remember their bullet points were around clean architecture, testing, performance, etc, all the stuff that engineers/devops folks care the most about, so they can avoid getting paged in the middle of the night to rolling reboot every node in their ${name-of-distributed-database with-scaling-issues} cluster.

But, unfortunately, it seems like if you depend on revenue that derives solely from training and support, you're best bet is to make a product that has:

* Awful documentation (hence the need for people to pay for training)

* Full of bugs and performance issues (hence the need for people to pay for support)

Since from the looks of it, RethinkDB was pretty much the polar opposite of this, it seems like they were essentially a victim of their own perfection.

I wonder if any RethinkDB users out there paid for support just to try to keep RethinkDB alive?

Also, I wonder why RethinkDB doesn't change their revenue model if it's not working for them?

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?"

tleyden5iwx — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:52:52 +0000

It's more like "one of the memcached contributors", rather than "all the memcached folks".

Couchbase was a merger between NorthScale and CouchOne. The CouchOne founding team were all CouchdDB project founders: Damien Katz, J Chris Anderson, and Jan Lehnardt. NorthScale was founded by Steve Yen, who was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel, and Dustin Sallings, who was a committer on the Memcached project.

The first product that NorthScale released was called Membase, and the point of it was to help companies run large memcached clusters without having to think very hard. Couchbase later evolved into a hybrid of Membase and CouchDB that can speak the memcached protocol but also has some of the JSON document database properties that CouchDB has.

New comment by tleyden5iwx in "Facebook is closing Parse"

tleyden5iwx — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:46:13 +0000

[Full disclosure: I'm a FT Couchbase mobile developer]

Agree 100% -- Parse deserves huge kudos for that move.

Ex-Parse customers should definitely check out Couchbase Mobile, which has some functionality overlap with Parse and is already open source with several repos on github:

https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android

At least you won't have to worry about getting "Parsed".