Hacker News: wyxuan

Show HN: Podads – An Ad Blocker for Your Podcasts

wyxuan — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:19:18 +0000

Transcribe the audio (passing it in at 2x speed) via whisper, use a cheap LLM to identify the ad snippets, and then take it out!

Have been using for the past couple days - it's not perfect but I've enjoyed using it.

Feel free to add your episodes!

https://github.com/mergd/podads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813346

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Show HN: PDFation – Cursor for PDFs

wyxuan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:51:16 +0000

Article URL: https://pdfation.yet-to-be.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603390

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wyxuan in "Levine Links: Money Stuff but enhanced with O paywalls"

wyxuan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:32:40 +0000

Simple project - receive email via CF email, process using workers, and then serve the email list via Resend

Found myself having to use archive.is links or go around paywalls a bunch - which is annoying considering the number of links there are, so decided to make this

Link to github is here: https://github.com/mergd/levinelinks

Levine Links: Money Stuff but enhanced with O paywalls

wyxuan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://levine.yet-to-be.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512487

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Claude Code in Cursor

wyxuan — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:25:44 +0000

Simple proxy service that uses your oauth credentials from Claude Code which you can pop into Cursor and use.

Falls back to your API key if you have one set.

I spent $XXXX on Cursor on Anthropic API Credits, but was told that the Claude Code $200 pmo plan was much more affordable. It's a great arbitrage, so I made this hack so I could save money on this.

Note: Cursor OpenAI baseurl overriding is extremely buggy right now so I don't recommend trying this for now.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382302

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Asciicn – ASCII UI components for React

wyxuan — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://asciicn.fldr.zip/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652766

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

I'm Using Perplexity

wyxuan — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fldr.zip/blog/how-i-pplx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171032

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Sell Yourself Well – What Soham Parekh Can Teach Us

wyxuan — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fldr.zip/blog/sell-yourself

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564094

Points: 36

# Comments: 11

New comment by wyxuan in "The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt"

wyxuan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:52:44 +0000

Isn't the whole point of Bolt/stackblitz that you can run node js clientside via wasm, so it's more lightweight?

Did they migrate away to a more server heavy model?

Show HN: Curro – Startup Jobs Board

wyxuan — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:19:50 +0000

I built this out because I think there should be a better way of looking for jobs than just crawling through different Ashby or Greenhouse links on different startups

Some of the features supported:

- Sort by years of experience, startup stage, location, salary, etc

- Easily see jobs by company

- See when a company last raised and who their investors are

- Track your job hunt and bookmark roles

Some thoughts from building it:

- Because I'm scraping, I can also see when companies add and remove jobs, which could be a data point for how well a company is doing – could be interesting to surface

- Job sites are very friendly toward scrapers – but there's weird customizations with some of them that create issues - i.e. some companies insist on having their own jobs page instead of using the stock greenhouse one.

- I'm using Gemini Flash with structured output to parse the job descriptions on various company job sites to determine requirements, location etc

- I have a neat trick with adding new companies – Perplexity's search api (which has gotten quite good) doesn't support structured output, but you can do search and pipe it into a structured output with gemini – this powers a feature for adding a quick bio and raise details about a company.

- Shadcn w/ tailwind v4 looks much nicer now than before and doesn't need to be customized as much

It's open source! Check out the repo here: https://github.com/mergd/curro

There's an add companies form if you want to see a company added, and I'm all ears on feedback :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44497573

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Dia – An Early Review

wyxuan — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:20:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fldr.zip/blog/dia-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970710

Points: 32

# Comments: 21

Show HN: Tariff Calculator for Amazon

wyxuan — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:13:36 +0000

I made a simple tariff calculator extension for Amazon.

It queries gemini flash 2.0 to determine the category, and then matches it with the corresponding tariff category.

Fun quick hack – it does brick a little – but the majority of the code was cobbled by a first pass of Claude Code

Repo is here: https://github.com/mergd/amzn-tariff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840119

Points: 35

# Comments: 3

Show HN: Discorss – RSS Feeds for Discord

wyxuan — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:58:41 +0000

I made my own Discord bot for managing RSS feeds, called Discorss.

Discorss is open source, has AI summarization, automatic paywall skips, and can be entirely managed with slash commands. Best of all – self hosting is very cheap and trivial with Railway, so you can add your own customizations to how the RSS bot works.

I've been using a personal Discord server as my RSS hub – it's convenient and I can setup different channels for different newsfeeds (i.e. an HN channel for the frontpage).

I was using https://monitorss.xyz – but it's barely had any changes, and needing to manage the external UI has been annoying.

Website: https://discorss.fldr.zip/ Github: https://github.com/mergd/discorss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827698

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

New comment by wyxuan in "FTC Chair Lina Khan looks for allies and leads in Silicon Valley charm offensive"

wyxuan — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:31:59 +0000

lmao I was surprised by the passage as well. For the uninitiated, Within makes Supernatural, the VR fitness app and doesn't seem to have much to do with AI

New comment by wyxuan in "Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none"

wyxuan — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 22:57:49 +0000

Just deleted my account - everything was fine. One thing to note, there's nowhere in the UI or account settings tab to delete my account. I had to go directly to the link.

The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on

wyxuan — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:27:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/cryptopathic/status/1606416137771782151

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111880

Points: 614

# Comments: 414

New comment by wyxuan in "Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges"

wyxuan — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:05:06 +0000

If I had to make a guess on what is going on, Binance US is using Binance cloud, which allows for other platforms to tap into Binance’s orderbook liquidity and infra. Mandala(an exchange) uses it, and their token mdxt doesn’t trade on Binance but still uses their infra and wallets for instance.

There could be a similar arrangement where US pairs don’t appear on the intentional exchange and vice versa, even if they use the same infra

New comment by wyxuan in "Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent"

wyxuan — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:04:31 +0000

There are FTT denominated loan(s), to MIM for instance, but I’m not sure there are that many others willing to accept FTT given the thin liquidity

New comment by wyxuan in "Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly"

wyxuan — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:28:44 +0000

No I think this is runway.ml who run a video editing startup based on AI and helped with the development. This is the link https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5

New comment by wyxuan in "The doctor who convinced Mark Cuban to sell drugs"

wyxuan — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:42:28 +0000

Funny how shkreli fits into the story – he's led the criticized cost plus drugs for being a more expensive version of goodRx with inflated discounts [0]/

[0]https://martinshkreli.substack.com/p/mark-cubans-pharmacy-no...