Hacker News: webappguy

New comment by webappguy in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

webappguy — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:02:16 +0000

I personally can’t wait for programming to ‘die’. It has stolen a decade of my life minimum. Like veterinarians being trained to help pets ultimately finding out a huge portion of the job is killing them. I was not sufficiently informed that I’d spend a decade arguing languages, dealing with thousands of other developers with diverging opinions, legacy code, poorly if at all maintained libraries, tools, frameworks, etc if you have been in the game at least a decade please don’t @. Adios to programming as it was (happily welcoming a new DIFFERENT reality whatever that means). Nostalgia is for life, not staring at a screen 8hrs a day

New comment by webappguy in "LLM architecture comparison"

webappguy — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:42:10 +0000

Would love to see a PT.2 w even what is rumored in top closed source frontier models eg. o5, o3 Pro, o4 or 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4 and Claude Opus 4

New comment by webappguy in "Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs"

webappguy — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:18:47 +0000

Confirmation email doesn't work, so cannot try it. I attemtped twice and checked spam

New comment by webappguy in "Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri"

webappguy — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:09:54 +0000

Please. Don't mention apple and AI in the same sentance. Siri is worse than zero, it is utterly absolutely useless. And to partner with OpenAI. They have to get their S** in order here and fast, but if I put out a product like Siri I would be INSANELY embarrassed. If I was a trillion-dollar company and did, I would resign in discrace.

New comment by webappguy in "Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery"

webappguy — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:39:23 +0000

Where Turkey? What type Did you get, heard horror stories

New comment by webappguy in "StreamVC: Real-Time Low-Latency Voice Conversion"

webappguy — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:13:03 +0000

RFK Jr.

New comment by webappguy in "One Million Checkboxes"

webappguy — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:47:58 +0000

I love some stats and details on this, what kind of traffic are you seeing etc. Do you have a way to determine how many boxes in your visitor checks/unchecks? 97% of your pictures from Hacker News etc. Congrats on the hit!!!! Fun playing with it!!!

New comment by webappguy in "Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn"

webappguy — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:53:49 +0000

And then a second more simple Query ‘find me people who have posted on Mamba architecture and might be looking for jobs’ and got;

We have analyzed 695 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 1 minute ago and took 50 seconds to complete.

New comment by webappguy in "Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn"

webappguy — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:51:04 +0000

Cool but after waiting 2 mins for a one sentence prompt I got;

We have analyzed 1681 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 2 minutes ago and took 1 minute and 42 seconds to complete.

New comment by webappguy in "I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app"

webappguy — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:49:25 +0000

Curious to know more. Will search but if anyone finds anything

New comment by webappguy in "Fast Crimes at Lambda School"

webappguy — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 02:00:35 +0000

Why not just allow users to do on their own?

New comment by webappguy in "Code Finder – The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories"

webappguy — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:51:21 +0000

Agreed, AND last commit, date. Time is pretty critical in most of my searches even more so than stars

New comment by webappguy in "How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system"

webappguy — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:38:07 +0000

GPT voice is almost exactly always what I want, I think using whisper, and yet every app and both OS devices android and iOS can’t even transcribe a single sentence correct without errors. Pathetic really.

New comment by webappguy in "Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work"

webappguy — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:24:49 +0000

Zero spec info. Eyeroll.

But, probably the future of laptops. Short screen component makers.

New comment by webappguy in "Mamba-2 – State Space Duality"

webappguy — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:04:22 +0000

love this thanks!! Wish we could classify and rank tables and rows (like all OpenAI models).

New comment by webappguy in "Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done"

webappguy — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:31:39 +0000

Integrating an AI tab organizer of which they’re very few and the chrome one is essentially garbage, would make this a definite purchase for me. The AI should organize my own tabs and the ones I share

New comment by webappguy in "Mistral Le Chat"

webappguy — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:41:31 +0000

This can be (could be) a total hallucination. There may be some training data from OpenAI but outside it responding that way, except for me aforementioned point, where is the proof thus far?

New comment by webappguy in "Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time"

webappguy — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:56:17 +0000

It's good that this is in this thread, as I bet a ton of power users (I check HN multiple times a day for years but likely only a time or two have glossed over the FAQ), did not know FLAG could be used as a downvote tool. Interesting choice by PG, I agree with the previous comment, we have all come to know FLAG as a violation tool on most platforms. Now we know.

New comment by webappguy in "Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor"

webappguy — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:00:49 +0000

I tried with the Chinese in the app and a lot of times at timed out, or went exceedingly fast, I see the snail, but it might seem like cart before the horse to do full Chinese sentences for a beginner. Maybe not and this is proven I'm not sure, but I can say that you act needs some slight tweaks, especially always the pronunciation over top of the Chinese characters. What's the point of serving a chat bubble with Chinese characters to a person that is just learning Chinese? Maybe even the English translation below the Chinese characters and the Chinese pronunciation above. This has huge promise though

New comment by webappguy in "Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software"

webappguy — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:36:42 +0000

Personally while I liked it at outset, and still looks cool (just not for what I thought it was) I got quite annoyed looking it over that you don't differentiate clearly that it is cross-platform VIA browser. Your description/headline make as if it's an installable shell for building a program on various OS, which it is not.