Hacker News: wuliwong

New comment by wuliwong in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

wuliwong — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:18:21 +0000

Do you have a feel for how it Qwen 3.6 compares to Sonnet 4.6? B/C in reality, that's what we use a lot. If we just use Opus 4.7 for everything code related, we'd have a monthly bill 10-20 times higher than using Sonnet where we can.

New comment by wuliwong in "The bottleneck was never the code"

wuliwong — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:46:15 +0000

I think the Goomba is distinct. Strawman is disingenuously representing an argument, Goomba is assuming contradictions are coming from the same person, presumably b/c it's coming to the Goomba through the same app.

New comment by wuliwong in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

wuliwong — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:58:50 +0000

I am working on a really similar thing. My buddy just sent me this. Hit me up if you wanna chat!

New comment by wuliwong in "Token_ledger – Ruby gem for auditable token accounting in Rails"

wuliwong — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:24:26 +0000

A double-entry accounting ledger for managing token balances in Ruby on Rails applications. Provides atomic transactions, idempotency, audit trails, and thread-safe operations.

I made this for www.stablegen.io as the usage_credits gem was pretty out of date at that time and it depended on really old versions of stripe and pay. I am using pay, so that was still relevant but I decided to roll my own and remove the pay dependency. So this is a simpler library for sure but I think it's a lot easier to integrate and it does the job in a really professional way without a heavy footprint. I think it's got all the functionality that 95% of us need if we want to add tokens/credits to our sites.

Token_ledger – Ruby gem for auditable token accounting in Rails

wuliwong — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:24:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wuliwong/token_ledger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062705

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wuliwong in "Just launched, platform for creating scripts, shots lists, image assets, + more"

wuliwong — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:21:48 +0000

I've been working on this for a little while, have had it in a private beta. Just launched publicly. I think I've easily got the best pipeline for quality scripts and dialogue. You can also generate detailed shot lists. Really helps getting you from the initial idea to a fully fleshed out script. There's tons of granular control for editing as well.

Just launched, platform for creating scripts, shots lists, image assets, + more

wuliwong — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stablegen.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889512

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wuliwong in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

wuliwong — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:21:19 +0000

>But skills dont really solve the problem.

I think that they often do solve the problem, just maybe they have some other side effects/trade offs.

New comment by wuliwong in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

wuliwong — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:19:29 +0000

So like any early phase, there's risk in picking a technology to use.

New comment by wuliwong in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

wuliwong — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:15:49 +0000

Agreed. I think if this is overly concerning, developing early in the innovation cycle just might not be the ideal place to be. :)

New comment by wuliwong in "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"

wuliwong — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:25:45 +0000

Bad analogy, an LLM can output a block of text all at once and it wouldn't impact the user's ability to understand it. If people spoke all the words in a sentence at the same time, it would not be decipherable. Even writing doesn't yield a good analogy, a human writing physically has to write one letter at a time. An LLM does not have that limitation.

New comment by wuliwong in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

wuliwong — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:34:18 +0000

Wasn't she just searching google via safari anyway? I do find that popup really annoying though.

New comment by wuliwong in "I still like Sublime Text"

wuliwong — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:44:44 +0000

I didn't want to switch to VS Code and kinda did b/c there is less friction when I'm using the same tools as my counterparts. I like VS Code just fine. My first true love was textmate tbh. :)

New comment by wuliwong in "Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket"

wuliwong — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:42:58 +0000

I will definitely check it out. I've never done iOS development but I have been considering doing this very thing as a way to learn and to give myself the podcast player I really want. :) Good luck!

New comment by wuliwong in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

wuliwong — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:55:47 +0000

Ah the broken window fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

New comment by wuliwong in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

wuliwong — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:50:19 +0000

You think all businesses should just spread awareness by word of mouth? Can you put a sign on your store or is that an ad? What if you don't have a store? Yes, advertising can be really awful but that doesn't meaning all advertising is "cancer." If you have a good business that creates actual value for people, advertising it can actually be seen as a good thing.

New comment by wuliwong in "LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters"

wuliwong — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:32:14 +0000

A while ago I was playing with chatgpt and had it create me a text based game. It took some coaxing but eventually it actually created a pretty compelling beginning to a game at least. This wasn't D&D, I had chatgpt just make the rules but the interesting part was creating a compelling story. Maybe it would have fallen apart after a little bit of game play but it was neat. I could see the fun of having completely unique and instantly created modules to run through.

New comment by wuliwong in "Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives"

wuliwong — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:44:33 +0000

100%, this is what I'm feeling as well. I don't want to come across as hating on IH but for me it provided a cool service/community in the early years and it does not provide any of that to me now.

New comment by wuliwong in "Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives"

wuliwong — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:39:26 +0000

Sorry for the late response, hopefully you see this. I know ycombinator isn't the exact same thing but it is cool how ycombinator has managed to not have this occur. I think the moderation and scoring/voting system that they have created might be what has enabled it to last so long.

Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives

wuliwong — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:20:35 +0000

I loved Indie Hackers when it first came out. I'm someone that is always building a side project with hopes of it becoming a legit business. There was a previous website that was really new and had a fun community, I can't remember the name now but I met someone on their and we built a site together and still are in touch to this day. I'm in the US and he is in Latvia. My experience with IH over the last couple years has been poor. Posts get no interaction and the it feels like the focus has moved away from actual indiehackers generating the content through their work and questions. I get that this site has to generate revenue to survive, hopefully they figure it out. Just wondering if anyone else knows of communities for fellow "startup hackers."

Maybe the lesson for me is that i just want something like a sub reddit and that's probably where I should look. The idea in general is possibly too narrow to actually support a profitable business, long term.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42043755

Points: 40

# Comments: 10