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New comment by wonderwhyer in "A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian"

wonderwhyer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:37:42 +0000

Actually AI also benefits from thins being organized. I find Skills to be Zettlekasten inspired or wiki inspired in that sense.

Zettlekast has other benefits for humans though. If your goal is to grasp lot of knowladge oyu need to do it in atomic way, connect mentally to what you already know and do spaced repetition to internalize. Zettlkeaste forces you do it it all as part of organizing. Basically by organizing you make it your own.

Yes AI can help today but it also means it does not stay in your head. Not sure its important if it is in your head or you can call AI at any moment instead of your own memory.

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wonderwhyer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:08:37 +0000

Anthropic has 98.89% uptime — well below the SaaS gold standard of four nines. Yet they tripled enterprise market share in two years.

That made me wonder: what is human uptime if measured the same way — against a 24/7 clock?

Agents are more like humans, not SaaS, not only in how to work with them, in other ways too. Does it make sense?

Why software was never built for you – and how AI changes that

wonderwhyer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://wonderwhy-er.medium.com/software-was-always-a-compromise-ai-just-broke-it-13b22df1cabf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435366

Points: 2

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The Bitter Lesson is coming for AI products, not just AI research

wonderwhyer — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://wonderwhy-er.medium.com/niche-focus-saved-saas-startups-im-betting-my-ai-startup-on-the-opposite-690699e87fa2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200840

Points: 3

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New comment by wonderwhyer in "MCPs just got a front end, and it's a bigger deal than it sounds"

wonderwhyer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:23:27 +0000

For the last year MCPs were backends without a frontend — dumping text into LLM context and hoping it would show it well to the user. Now MCP Apps are here and they could mean way more for MCPs than it seems at first. Since ChatGPT we've been putting chatbots into our apps. Now we can put our apps into the chatbots. And if one image is worth a thousand words, good UI/UX can be worth ten thousand — without polluting the LLM context window. I wrote this as someone building an MCP server (Desktop Commander, ~392K installs by now) who felt the pain of having zero UI control firsthand. Happy to answer questions about what building with MCP Apps is actually like.

MCPs just got a front end, and it's a bigger deal than it sounds

wonderwhyer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://wonderwhy-er.medium.com/mcp-apps-ai-just-got-a-frontend-and-we-built-one-cd1f6fc762f6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143273

Points: 1

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New comment by wonderwhyer in "How can we compare local LLMs vs. APIs vs. subscriptions objectively?"

wonderwhyer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:07:40 +0000

The debate around local vs API vs subscriptions feels mostly anecdotal. I tried building a tool that compares them using “quality-adjusted tokens per dollar.”

The idea:

Tokens per dollar

Weighted input/output pricing (75/25 assumption)

Benchmark-normalized quality (Arena, Aider, SWE-bench)

Early results surprised me (local often loses economically unless privacy is heavily valued).

I’m mostly looking for critique of the methodology:

Is quality-adjusted tokens per dollar even the right metric?

Is normalizing ELO to % defensible?

What benchmarks am I missing?

How can we compare local LLMs vs. APIs vs. subscriptions objectively?

wonderwhyer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:07:40 +0000

Article URL: https://wonderwhy-er.medium.com/local-llms-are-finally-beating-the-cloud-but-are-they-51fc0ad0dbd7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134267

Points: 2

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New comment by wonderwhyer in "Show HN: Desktop Commander MCP+Claude = Local Automation with fixed flat price"

wonderwhyer — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:25:52 +0000

Great staff, do you know how to add github pages? And may be add a link to desktop commander too.

New comment by wonderwhyer in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

wonderwhyer — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:37:44 +0000

I would probably call it shipping containers for LLM tool integrations.

Containers are not a big deal when viewed in isolation. But when its common size/standard for all kinds of ships, cranes and trucks, it is a big deal then.

In that sense its more about gathering community around one way to do things.

In theory there are REST APIs and OpenAPI standard, but those were not made for LLMs but code. So you usually need some kind of friendly wrapper(like for candy) on top of REST API.

It really starts to feel like a a big deal when you work in integrating LLMs with tools.