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New comment by williamsss in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

williamsss — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:25:26 +0000

I’d wager if you filter out Show HN projects that have been maintained <2wks it would sift more gold to the top

New comment by williamsss in "A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer"

williamsss — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:40:50 +0000

As someone who took years investing in a system to easily spin up indie projects before vibe coding was coined. It’s been crushing to have built quality projects that are now swallowed up by a tidal wave of AI slop.

It may or may not be a great time to be a popular indie dev, but for the less known folks - it’s a lottery

New comment by williamsss in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

williamsss — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:43:38 +0000

This is similar to how I’ve transitioned to learning new programming languages. I used to build stuff to learn. However, with AI assisted coding I don’t have those organic moments I’m stuck and need to search online for the answer.

My learning process now uses Claude Code to serve as a tutor that creates bite sized lessons writing parts I want to re-review, found confusing, what lessons were reviewed and what is next into a long lived CLUADE.md file.

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...

Hacker News: williamsss

New comment by williamsss in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

New comment by williamsss in "A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer"

New comment by williamsss in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

New comment by williamsss in "US Job Market Visualizer"

New comment by williamsss in "iPhone 17e"

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

My Personal Experience with RSI

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

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

Making LLMs Reliable with Structured Output

A Book of Ghosts

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

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

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

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

Share Your Unfinished Work

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

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

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

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