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New comment by vanrohan in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

vanrohan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:45:02 +0000

I know LLM generated code comes with it's own challenges, but the absolutists are definitely clinging to a time that has passed. I saw a recent discussion on Immich where a maintainer flatout denied a PR saying "That diff looks LLM-generated to me; is that indeed the case? If so, we'd prefer not to receive a PR for it" The PR was from a professional software engineer, who worked weeks of his free time on a big feature. Well structured + tested. Dismissed just because AI was used. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/23745#discu...

New comment by vanrohan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

vanrohan — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:44:09 +0000

Currently working on: https://postply.com

Postply uses full-context to generate better replies on X, Instagram, Facebook & LinkedIn. It supports custom reply profiles and styles for support teams and social media managers. There are clearly a lot of AI replies on social media already, but they are really generic and bad. With Postply.com I'm hoping it will help people generate better and more meaningful replies.

New comment by vanrohan in "Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language"

vanrohan — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:54:01 +0000

I made something along the same lines, but just targeting WhatsApp Web specifically. I came up with the idea when I ended up in a WhatsApp group chat that was very MultiLingual. So this allowed me to participate in the conversation. It's also been handy to talk to contractors and service providers. https://ai-polyglot.com

New comment by vanrohan in "Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON"

vanrohan — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:55:40 +0000

It's probably LLM generated. Adding a fun/cool factor to the project. I created a Chrome Extension where you can "emojify" any text with a right-click. https://emoji-bot.com

New comment by vanrohan in "Go European: Discover European products and services"

vanrohan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:15:17 +0000

Im not particularly fussy if it's EU or European. The idea is more to get insight if it's just a dropshipper/reseller type of business, or involved in regional manufacturing.

New comment by vanrohan in "Go European: Discover European products and services"

vanrohan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:57:58 +0000

Great to see a directory like this starting to include physical products. I'd be interested in having some extra datapoints to help with decision making:

- How much of the product/company's supply chain is in EU (to get an idea of just how European the product is, is it made here or abroad)

- Some way to show if the company is paying "fair" tax in EU (or are profits shifted abroad)

These are difficult datapoints to get, but I wonder if there can be some sort of "community notes" where this data can be crowd sourced and updated on the directory.

New comment by vanrohan in "Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut"

vanrohan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:44:43 +0000

> Having voting rights kind of goes against the point of tracking an index though.

Not sure I follow how voting rights goes against the point of tracking an index? I'd say the value of the index implicitly prices in the value of the voting rights in the constituents. So if your index does not contain the voting rights, should the index price not be different?

> And for funds that use synthetic replication there is nothing to vote on in the first place.

There are all kinds of funds, of course when it's 100% synthetic then so be it. But if it holds a representitive sample of Russell 3000, then those votes count.

New comment by vanrohan in "Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut"

vanrohan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:34:04 +0000

Individually we don't have significant shares, but aggregate it up to BlackRock / Vanguard level, then there is real influence. What is that influence worth? that influence given to the fund manager should be priced correctly. I agree, you probably dont want to have to vote on 500 companies, but to start with it should be an "opt out" decision if you don't care. Alternatively you could allocate your votes to a proxy entity that aggregates like minded investors votes.

New comment by vanrohan in "Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut"

vanrohan — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:08:13 +0000

I wish there can be more focus on the voting rights for passive funds. Investors are concentrating voting power with these fund managers, just giving away their voting rights for free. I'd like to see better investor voting management systems become more available for "pass through" voting for passive fund investors.

[1] https://vanderwalt.de/blog/etf-vs-direct-indexing-investing-...

New comment by vanrohan in "IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You"

vanrohan — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:39:17 +0000

Thanks for letting me now, I need to fix this, or atleast mention it in the extension description.

New comment by vanrohan in "IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You"

vanrohan — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:50:55 +0000

Also make sure to remove bots from your followers. Having them in your social graph impacts your feed for sure. I made the "x bot remover" Chrome extension that automates removal based on simple rules. It's free.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

New comment by vanrohan in "Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed"

vanrohan — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:45:59 +0000

I'm also on a mission to clean the "For You" feed. I tried using local LLMs to do this real-time classification, but it's currently just too slow.

Another way to reduce the spam, is to remove bot followers from your account, I believe these bots use "likes" (which are hidden) to boost content for the botnet owners. Most of these bots are easy to spot, 0 posts, and very bad follower/following ratios. I built this Chrome Extension for bot removal automation: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

It would be way better if this was just done by X themselves, but why not try.

New comment by vanrohan in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

vanrohan — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:34:58 +0000

I recently started using X (Twitter), and got annoyed with my daily new followers that were obviously bots.

I made a Chrome Extension to automate the bot follower removal: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

I suspect these bots are being used to boost certain content controlled by their owners, so definitely not good to leave them alone.