Hacker News: westoque

New comment by westoque in "Attention is all you have"

westoque — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:14:04 +0000

> But like every habit, the only thing you have to do is to keep at it. And if you pay enough attention to it, something will click in your brain.

a bad habit i noticed after taking hiatus of focused work was me jumping into different windows and tabs and just mindlessly consuming content without finishing them. after noticing this pattern, i decided i will focus on one task at a time and finishing it, like reading the OPs article. it did wonders for me and i noticed i'm now even more focused that ever. the lesson is indeed being aware first, and then practicing the habit.

New comment by westoque in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

westoque — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:51:54 +0000

ok. a similar idea, you should put a camera outside your door and do the same for passing dogs.

Show HN: Routi Bot – AI bots with their own desktops on your Mac

westoque — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:50:00 +0000

been working on Routi Bot. an open source mac app inspired by Grok Bot.

each bot has its own instructions, desktop and can be used with AI provider/model (openai astra, claude fable, deepseek, grok, etc).

it also has a profile switcher so you can separate automation between your personal and work profiles.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617611

Points: 4

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New comment by westoque in "De-Brainrot Vacations"

westoque — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:26:02 +0000

my idea of de-brainrot is by going to destinations where everything is new and experiencing everything there physically & mentally. either going to a new city or drive to a new place. i'm not sure if it's anecdotal but there's a feeling of astonishment when experiencing a new place. i find that when you go back you have this new perspective and you feel refreshed.

New comment by westoque in "Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days"

westoque — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:24:59 +0000

with agent loops, the cost of exposing bugs should be cheap now. every pen tester should be using agent loops and on the flip side, an agent could easily see this issue once filed and a fix immediately done. it's incredible how cheap code is now.

New comment by westoque in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

westoque — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:34:44 +0000

this is exactly my setup! the ipad pro 11 m5 cellular is such an amazing device especially with the 5G. only downside is obv the iPadOS, it's still very limiting and shortcuts and power tools (like easily prefilling passwords) are non-existent. for passwords, you still have to manually click the pre-fill and/or enable full keyboard to be able to tab into it but still annoying.

New comment by westoque in "OpenLogi"

westoque — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:43:33 +0000

i can see the resemblence and that's what separates the more marketable app.

New comment by westoque in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

westoque — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:56:20 +0000

i just did an AI hackathon and 90% of the submissions were written in TypeScript and Next.js which is mostly due to the training data. AI is skewed to use these tools by default vs the best for the job.

New comment by westoque in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"

westoque — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:26:59 +0000

I don't think random blogs should be ruled out. Just because a blog is random doesn't mean its untrue.

New comment by westoque in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

westoque — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:56:45 +0000

> Comparing agentic Qwen3.6 35b to Claude Opus is like a junior with knowledge across the board, that you really need to guide, versus a senior that thinks with you on architecture.

that's why i use the frontier models because its a senior co-worker vs a junior. if you use the junior for the sake of privacy i think you're missing out on the best insights for a specific task.

New comment by westoque in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

westoque — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:38:01 +0000

There's a formula I've bookmarked from someone to help you get better social capital. In order to increase your surface for social capital you need to expand your influence, therefore you need to increase your luck:

L (luck) = D (doing) x T (telling)

Basically, you need to be able to show you are able to do stuff (D) and with enough people seeing this by you sharing (T) through different channels, can open doors. I haven't been doing it as heavily but it has already given me incredible opportunities.

Ask HN: Has Multi-AZ (AWS or others) helped you stay up during downtime?

westoque — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:05:06 +0000

I've been setting up Multi-AZ for companies throughout my life. There were a handful of times that us-east-1 went down and I never remember Multi-AZ saving us from those downtimes.

Has it ever worked for any of you?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476498

Points: 2

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New comment by westoque in "NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised"

westoque — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:00:44 +0000

i've been thinking about this as well. but having built a startup, i've learned that users don't care as long as they are given the value and most convenience. they don't really care much at security as much as we do. just look at openclaw? but maybe it's our job to make sure it is taken care of vs assuming the user cares and just make it look seamless.

New comment by westoque in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

westoque — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:57:41 +0000

my takeaway from this is that it should now be MANDATORY to have an LLM do a scan on the entire codebase prior to release or artifact creation. do NOT use third party plugins for this. it's so easy to create your own github action to digest the whole codebase and inspect third party code. it costs tokens yes but it's also cached and should be negligible spend for the security it brings.

New comment by westoque in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

westoque — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:32:49 +0000

> The problem for me is that the development practices of the people that are working on it are suboptimal at best; they're constantly releasing at an extremely high cadence, where they don't even spend the time to test or fix things (or even build a proper list of changes for each release), and they add, remove, refine, change, fix, and break features constantly at that accelerated pace.

this is what i notice with openclaw as well. there have been releases where they break production features. unfortunately this is what happens when code becomes a commidity, everyone thinks that shipping fast is the moat but at the expense of suboptimality since they know a fix can be implemented quickly on the next release.

New comment by westoque in "AI has fixed my productivity"

westoque — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:52:22 +0000

one thing it did massively for me was save me time from questions like should i go with X or Y option questions. before i used to just think longer about tradeoffs but with AI it became a lot faster. no more procrastination due to decision fatigue.

New comment by westoque in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

westoque — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:08:29 +0000

> I simply booted up a VM with an H100, ssh’d into it with Cursor, and prompted the agent to set up an inference server that I could ping from my web generation app. What used to take hours or days of painful, slow debugging now takes literally minutes.

an awesome takeaway from this is that self-hosted models are the future! can't wait for hardware to catch up and we can do much more experiments on our laptops!

New comment by westoque in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

westoque — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:14:21 +0000

i really think this is part of the pitch deck for bun's funding. that a bigger company would acquire it for the technology. the only reason an AI company or any company for that matter would acquire it would be to:

1. acquire talent.

2. control the future roadmap of bun.

i think it's really 1.

New comment by westoque in "Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust"

westoque — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:20:47 +0000

> Current AI image models can't understand grid-based pixel art.

sounds like a good use case to fix this problem from the model layer. an image gen model that is trained to make pixel perfect art.

New comment by westoque in "Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack"

westoque — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:51:26 +0000

i like how claude code currently does it. it asks permission for every command to be ran before doing so. now having a local model with this behavior will certainly mitigate this behavior. imagine before the AI hits the webhook.site it asks you

AI will visit site webhook.site..... allow this command? 1. Yes 2. No