Hacker News: toobulkeh

New comment by toobulkeh in "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion"

toobulkeh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:04:52 +0000

Looks powerful. If you focus on notion-like elements you’ll go far. The product roadmap is there—their pricing is nuts.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

toobulkeh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:52:51 +0000

Needs to be updated in the age of AI

New comment by toobulkeh in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

toobulkeh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:10:14 +0000

You’re mistaking the original term hacker, a tinkerer of systems, for the black hat variety.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Steam Machine launches today"

toobulkeh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:27:33 +0000

Oh god I bought one of these. It was so terrible. Valve is definitely the right company (private) to pull this off. Gabe just needs to own a foundry and they’ll be set.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

toobulkeh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:25:04 +0000

Not necessarily, as productivity is usually measuring output, not outcomes.

Even then, outcomes at companies require external factors, like markets and competitors, and often don’t majorly depend on the company’s efforts.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

toobulkeh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:11:42 +0000

Why do you need to lock anything? To prevent someone else from working on it? To prevent duplicative work? That sounds like a management/coordination issue. Not a VCS issue. So you have version A and version B. Why are 2 artists working on the same asset without coordination? Do they not use task tracking or project management? Even if that’s ignored, then one person’s work gets wasted. That happens all the time in text based dev too if it’s lacking coordination.

Should coordination live in the VCS layer? That sounds like it creates more issues than prevents.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

toobulkeh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:21:16 +0000

This is a great argument for software factories. Writing the systems that build the system.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Klaser Cards, a printable personal collection"

toobulkeh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:09:10 +0000

I really want this with RFID tags so the kids aren’t overloaded by streaming. Same for music. We’re missing out with anything on demand at any time that the value of collecting and favorites has diminished.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

toobulkeh — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:56:41 +0000

At some point I’ll need a status page for when it’s up

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

toobulkeh — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:35:23 +0000

I’ve found that it’s a lot like discovering a feature instead of designing it all up front. Like chiseling marble.

I’ve found it useful to write out a list of feedback / issues and have a bunch of sub agents work on them in worktrees with a loop bringing them all back together. That way it can work for a few hours while I just can review a bulk at a time.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

toobulkeh — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:30:43 +0000

Testing

Show HN: MIT OSS LinkedIn DMs for Agents (CLI and Example TUI)

toobulkeh — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:45:58 +0000

I was tired of paying $100s/mo to access data I should own -- my own DMs on social media -- so I built Allman, a local-first cli to access linkedin messenger.

Starting with LinkedIn, I gave the entire compiled js binary of linkedin's web app to claudecode and reversed engineered the entire messenger inbox in 24 hours. My goal is to bring this to all messengers so AI can handle all of this busywork, just like it can my email.

I had also never built a TUI so I had claudecode build me one based on top of the local CLI and filesystem.

Full repos:

https://github.com/tarkaai/allman-cli

https://github.com/tarkaai/allman-tui

Their sharding / access is brutal, so it'll likely break as-is -- but the point is that Reverse Engineering is trivial now (and can do it dynamically through browser access and dynamic playwright -- thanks Browserbase! ).

Would love to hear your feedback and what I should build on it next.

Shoutout to Eric Allman.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153575

Points: 6

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New comment by toobulkeh in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

toobulkeh — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:46:29 +0000

I’ve been looking for this for forever. Finally, the right label.

New comment by toobulkeh in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

toobulkeh — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:38:13 +0000

Do you have examples of Anthropic doing so? I’d love to see it. To me it seems they have a proclivity to being hyper-accurate.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Claude mixes up who said what"

toobulkeh — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:36:17 +0000

But there could be, with 2 LLMs.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

toobulkeh — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:48:59 +0000

1. There’s nothing human about hacker news. Since the telegraph, we lost human to human communication. We’ve gained a lot. But it’s naive to claim that HN is any semblance of human-to-human communication. 2. YC helped unleash the war that you’re now losing. This pleading screams too little too late. 3. Just because something “should” happen doesn’t mean it will. HMW Go build that future. HMW Replace HN with human verification and trust signals over AI slop algorithms that AI can’t produce. Pleading for change about it is not building. It’s the lawyers defense, not the engineers. I have only the utmost respect in YC and HN—but have heard this same argument for LI or any social media change. The networks’ defenses are crumbling and AI accelerated it.

Might be time to increase the value of trust signals over content.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

toobulkeh — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:26:57 +0000

I immediately tried this with my Seattle Orca card, but the barcode is different

New comment by toobulkeh in "Two kinds of vibe coding"

toobulkeh — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:34:31 +0000

Imagine if everyone got the opportunity to work on SOTA. What a world we would be.

Unfortunately that’s not where we’re headed.

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

toobulkeh — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:32:55 +0000

Your job is also, arguably more important in certain scenarios, is to deliver maintainable code.

Remember, code does 2 things: 1. Tell the machine what to do 2. Tell the next developer what you were trying to do

New comment by toobulkeh in "Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found"

toobulkeh — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:29:48 +0000

It also talks about using PBT and Randomness for some reason. This is clearly just a test value of a non-AI library written by a human.

My take away is “don’t write your own input tests, use a library”. The rest is AI-slip