Hacker News: toobulkeh

New comment by toobulkeh in "US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership"

toobulkeh — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:09:26 +0000

You’re missing the point of the parent comment. IP exists BECAUSE things are easy to copy. If Apple REA’d Windows and sold it, Microsoft will get paid BECAUSE of IP. The system is working as designed.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change"

toobulkeh — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:46:08 +0000

Speaking nothing of the implementation, this is a very valuable concept. I’m curious if statistically there are trends to identify in beliefs or how beliefs spread over societies. You could likely use that data to determine thought leadership and information diets and measure things like distribution, how far the Bay Area is ahead, and other meaningful data for investments, etc.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)"

toobulkeh — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:34 +0000

It’s cool, but none of the T&Cs of those providers legally allow for this. There’s a market for that, but heads up.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields"

toobulkeh — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:53:36 +0000

Clicking too fast zooms the browser which breaks the click placement. Native Mobile would be much better.

Great concept!

New comment by toobulkeh in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

toobulkeh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:41:18 +0000

It’s not his message, it’s the forum. Why host a rails conference, that he explicitly created because he was silenced from the main one…to them not talk about rails?

Why not adapt rails for this next generation?

Why do it this way? It’s like walking into a temple to yell about Jesus. It was absurdly obnoxious.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

toobulkeh — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:30:16 +0000

Both can be true. IP is real and they created new IP off of stolen IP.

New comment by toobulkeh in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

toobulkeh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:40:27 +0000

https://venice.ai/

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.