<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: willsmith72</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=willsmith72</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:55:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=willsmith72" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not really, many people could confidently predict 2 years ago that AI was going to be great at coding<p>I don't see any evidence that it can build a business</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:19:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206351</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how do i bet against that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:17:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206339</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>to be honest anything built into my phone,  car, ships with mac is a hobby<p>what's important is where big enterprise point their budgets. and there we agree, it's not to chinese models (as hopeful as I am that we can avoid a duopoly and great local models)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:40:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164143</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Claude Haiku 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they don't need to, companies smooth out costs all the time. cost of goods sold isn't a great way to price software products</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:51:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003416</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>to me the last part if the most important part. product management hasn't been automated at all, and is more important than ever. you can't just keep adding features to make a great product</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:36:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794386</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>depends what you're doing. if you've got a specialized agent deployed in prod, of course your evals and prompts will be targeted towards 1 specific version of a model.<p>on the other hand if it's just a local coding/"use my computer" agent, i highly doubt the effort in maintaining different prompts is worth any gain in performance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761004</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>to be fair until we know what associate member means, there might not be any contradiction to the UK position</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734834</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you might be overstating the problem. for sure there's overreliance on China which is decreasing slightly (1-3% from what I remember), but Australian exports are still increasing because of the US, India, Japan and many others</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:14:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734829</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Navier-Stokes Announcement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>structural engineers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:18:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678613</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the only way they never go public is if they die quickly<p>edit: which I doubt btw. investors are going to want to dump the bags very soon</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:06:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677708</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Show HN: Opentracker, an open source Pivotal Tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked with Pivotal Labs in 2020. TDD, pairing, and Tracker open all day. I kept using Tracker after the engagement ended on personal projects, until Broadcom shut it down in April 2025.<p>So I rebuilt the board I was used to. Icebox, backlog, current iteration, done. Stories are 1, 2, 4 or 8 points, iterations fill to your velocity, and a story goes started, finished, delivered, then accepted or rejected.<p>I love the simple opinionated board and tried to recreate it. Have been using it for a year and thought why not open source it.<p>Hosting isn't ideal for open source, but it's my cheap/free stack. Cloudflare Workers + D1, free tier is enough. All MIT, hosted at tracker.usero.io if you don't want to deploy anything.<p>There's an MCP server too, that's how I point Claude Code at it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676886</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Opentracker, an open source Pivotal Tracker]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/usero-feedback/opentracker">https://github.com/usero-feedback/opentracker</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676874">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676874</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:30:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/usero-feedback/opentracker</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The mere presense of a gun shouldn't involve calling the cops<p>Unless it's against the terms of service of the private corporation</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:29:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676865</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>have you talked to cashiers? many prefer the new ones. who are you protecting?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675863</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What I don’t get is why Waymo allows unaccompanied juvenile riders at all?<p>Why not? They can already take an uber. It's questionable which is safer</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:54:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675852</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What if Waymo thought the guns were real, called the cops, and the cops screwed up and shot one of the kids?<p>See this is only an issue because that is a plausible situation. The actual problem is on the police/cultural side, not the waymo side. No one should even have to think about this when calling the cops. And I can't think of 1 other western society where they do</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:50:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675806</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Pandas Should Go Extinct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Makes sense, especially with AI coding tools the rewrite and familiarity arguments hold less water. Similar for the rustify everything crazy.<p>The problem is, orgs who see themselves as big data orgs want to act that way, even if they're medium data. "But we'll need it when we grow", "we need to know the state of the art tools"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:34:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668475</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Show HN: Usero MCP, give your coding agent your user feedback"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feel free to drop feedback here: <a href="https://usero.io/f/0dq810da" rel="nofollow">https://usero.io/f/0dq810da</a> (and yes this form was created using the MCP)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658903</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Usero MCP, give your coding agent your user feedback]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Usero is a feedback tool: widget, email, Slack and app reviews into one clustered inbox. I recently put an MCP server in front of it at <a href="https://usero.io/mcp" rel="nofollow">https://usero.io/mcp</a>, which has been really useful in my own workflow.<p>To-date there are 36 tools (signup, clients, feedback, clusters, forms and theming, user tests, AI test runs). E.g. `list_clusters` returns clusters biggest first with up to three verbatim user quotes each. `request_ai_pr` has Usero write and open the pull request server-side on the connected repo.<p>I used to hate MCP because of the bloat it gave your context, but since 2.1 Claude Code defers MCP tools, so the model sees tool names only until it loads one.<p>Here's a full example transcript, with all tool calls: <a href="https://usero.io/blog/feedback-mcp-server#full-transcript" rel="nofollow">https://usero.io/blog/feedback-mcp-server#full-transcript</a><p>Pricing: free tier is $0 with 5 AI PRs a month, Pro is $39 for 50, Team is $89 for 200. MCP is on every tier. Blog post: <a href="https://usero.io/blog/feedback-mcp-server" rel="nofollow">https://usero.io/blog/feedback-mcp-server</a>.<p>I'm building this because I think as building features gets easier, it becomes even more important for startups to listen to their users and focus on high-quality product decisions. My goal is making those product decisions as easy as possible, helping companies be UserObsessed.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658898">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658898</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:18:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://usero.io/docs/mcp</link><dc:creator>willsmith72</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willsmith72 in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how much parallelism are you writing in your frontends?</p>
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