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New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: Demucs music stem separator rewritten in Rust – runs in the browser"

vishrajiv — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:21:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Seems to work well from the song I uploaded. Would be nice to have some example songs preloaded on the web UI to see what it looks like without having to upload.

What was the hardest part of this stack? It sounds like porting the weights to Rust via burn was straightforward. Curious if WASM gave you any difficulties.

New comment by vishrajiv in "Skip is now free and open source"

vishrajiv — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:48:06 +0000

Thank you for making it open-source (and free!) I looked into Skip before because I’d rather write native Swift than the in-between tangle of code that React Native tends to become. What prevented me from using it was the lack of case studies or apps in production. Has that changed? I looked on the homepage and couldn’t see any. Of course, I understand it might be a growing community and targeted to early adopters for now.

New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: Vapor – A notepad that fades away as you type"

vishrajiv — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:36:36 +0000

This is great! It’s the perfect implementation of stream-of-consciousness journaling, especially when you need to get your emotions out on the page. My college English professor used to recommend putting a towel over your laptop to encourage a flow state when writing. This is easier :) Will bookmark this and try it the next few times when I journal. Great job!

5 notes from my first (failed) product launch

vishrajiv — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://vishrajiv.com/blog/looking-back-on-chronicle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326638

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New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: I built an AI voice agent for Gmail"

vishrajiv — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:53:58 +0000

It works surprisingly well! I thought it’d just be a read interface but it archives and marks as read like I asked. This would be useful when I commute to work.

Drafting replies would be necessary, of course.

It sounds like you have a library to make these voice apps. To my knowledge, people just use providers like Vapi or Retell. What’s the difference here?

New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: GitTok – TikTok but for interesting GitHub repos"

vishrajiv — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:34:04 +0000

Fun concept! Using the stars as likes (fork as share, etc) made me chuckle. Note: on mobile, it was tricky to scroll to the next item.

New comment by vishrajiv in "Render raises $80M in Series C financing"

vishrajiv — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:21:33 +0000

Been on Render for a few months now. Its main value prop is clean UX for infra, which ended up mattering a lot more than I thought. AWS generally induces way more cognitive load than I care to give it (except for S3).

Congrats on the raise!

New comment by vishrajiv in "How good are American roads?"

vishrajiv — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:22:38 +0000

Do you remember which highway you were driving? Interestingly this goes against my experience. I’ve actually remarked to many friends that I enjoy night-time driving in Los Angeles since the highways are well-lit and smooth (and of course, no traffic at night).

New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: Drama Engine: A Framework for Narrative Agents"

vishrajiv — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:57:31 +0000

I like the concept. Have you seen any interesting patterns of users preferring a certain persona or even a group of personas? I wonder if writers like using this to communicate with a virtual character from their world. Or perhaps they prefer editors.

New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: D&D meets Siri – Interactive voice adventure"

vishrajiv — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:51:21 +0000

Congrats on shipping. I’m actually quite impressed by the tonality of the “DM” and how it keeps the story on track. I tried to steal wares from the merchant before running away and DM handled it without breaking a stride.

I’m going to go in the tavern now and see if I can start a brawl :)

New comment by vishrajiv in "Show HN: WhyBot, making GPT-4 question itself"

vishrajiv — Mon, 15 May 2023 00:55:06 +0000

Vish here — you can! It’s easier on desktop but if you hover over edges, they turn red and the pointer turns into a scissor so you can prune that entire downstream branch.