Hacker News: williamsss

New comment by williamsss in "US Job Market Visualizer"

williamsss — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:57:52 +0000

Interesting to see models on the list at 8/10 of exposure

New comment by williamsss in "iPhone 17e"

williamsss — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:08:31 +0000

The weight is an issue for me at 189g. I've been looking for something compact, light weight, secure with a decent OS for 2 years without luck.

Iphone air is tempting at 165g if the screen was smaller. Unihertz Titan 2 Elite may hit the sweet spot if the weight is kept low.

New comment by williamsss in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

williamsss — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:54:59 +0000

I’ve noticed Claude Codes sandbox mode works with MCPs. With CLIs I’ve rain into permission issues. CLIs also need reminding about whats available unless references are baked the context window.

My Personal Experience with RSI

williamsss — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:13:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/mindbody/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081113

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamsss in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

williamsss — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:09:29 +0000

This weekend I was trying to figure out how I can use my smart meter’s electricity data. I had a poke around MQTT explorer and realized I could see personal data points out in the open without encryption across a plethora of devices.

New comment by williamsss in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"

williamsss — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:31:55 +0000

I would have liked to see statistics on study session length eg. average duration. Also how long you typically spend creating per card and how many you created this year.

That information would help us all better assess whether the time spent on a spaced repetition flashcard system is justified

Making LLMs Reliable with Structured Output

williamsss — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/prod-ready-llms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358951

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Book of Ghosts

williamsss — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-of-ghosts-132133425

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44986266

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamsss in "Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text"

williamsss — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:10:48 +0000

I’ve done something similar recently, using speaker diarization to handle situations where two or more people share a laptop on a recorded call.

Ultimately, I chose a cloud-based GPU setup, as the highest-performing diarization models required a GPU to process properly. Happy to share more if you’re going that route.

New comment by williamsss in "Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text"

williamsss — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:00:16 +0000

A few months ago I had to work around a problem like this and the best out there was WhisperX. Not sure about transformer.js support.

Link to the repo - https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

New comment by williamsss in "My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures"

williamsss — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:15:44 +0000

As a daily active user of Cursor and CC user myself, it’s gratifying to discover nuanced tricks that push productivity further. I stumble upon one every now and again.

Solid write up. And chock full of useful tricks!

I was manually copy pasting PR change requests today to CC where some of this would have saved my wrists some pain.

New comment by williamsss in "Go is a good fit for agents"

williamsss — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:40:42 +0000

JavaScript has known issues with math. It should be avoided for that reason alone, no?

Share Your Unfinished Work

williamsss — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://untested-11ty.vercel.app/notes/share-your-unfinished-scrappy-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152243

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by williamsss in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

williamsss — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:58:06 +0000

There’s something that’s embittered me about the subscription model and projects made purely for greed. I particularly enjoy supporting projects fiscally which that are passion projects that they could probably charge more for.

https://www.keybr.com - shows ads if you want to use it for free or you can pay a small fee to remove ads. The code is open-sourced so you can make your own. Helped me get the hang of split keyboards and was money well spent to support.

https://enso.sonnet.io - ingenious idea that has helped me write without loosing focus editing myself. The solo developer guy shares an entertaining blog full of illustrations and rich content. his project is available to download in full from Gumroad for a small one time fee.

If there’s any projects you know of like these please share them!

Show HN: Queso – open-source Chrome extension for advanced bookmark management

williamsss — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:16:02 +0000

Open-source GitHub repo - https://github.com/Amber-Williams/queso-browser-extension

Chrome extension - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/queso-affineur-apps...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100634

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamsss in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

williamsss — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:21:58 +0000

Sounds cool. Is it open-source?

New comment by williamsss in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

williamsss — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:20:39 +0000

Nice one

New comment by williamsss in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

williamsss — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:14:16 +0000

Reminds me of the Zettelkasten note-taking method.

I'm not confident I understand how it works from the site though. A video of how it works would be helpful.

New comment by williamsss in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

williamsss — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:11:01 +0000

You're the first person I've heard of that has gone this route. Cool to know I'm not alone.

And yeah I have the same gripes around the writing experience. I prefer Vim so I've been looking into ways I can use my notes as local markdown which sync on save. Of course, keeping the Directus editor for my mobile device edits.

New comment by williamsss in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

williamsss — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:58:56 +0000

I really admire the way you've solved this.

This is exactly the type of thing I want to inspire others to tinker with! Some of the readers feel there's a single optimal solution. Though I'm confident that there's room for a plethora of PKMS solutions

Oh and funny enough I'm in the process of working on an open-source chrome extension for bookmarking things I've read it looks similar to your https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosmemo project. Picture of the tool in use is here https://notes.holeytriangle.com/admin/files/a969c5f6-fa9c-44...