Hacker News: xydac

New comment by xydac in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

xydac — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:20:36 +0000

yes, share performance, numbers if you can, also i wonder if you figured out a way to do a 2way audio with local models, or even explored that. I have a very similar setup but not too happy with the token speed, will try omlx though !!!

New comment by xydac in "My First Winter in Boston"

xydac — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:18:39 +0000

Yes, it did, Pair that with first snow of my life :D

My First Winter in Boston

xydac — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xydac.com/blog/my-first-winter-in-boston/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980607

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

We are living in the dial-up era of AI

xydac — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xydac.com/blog/dial-up-era-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543705

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by xydac in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

xydac — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:31:36 +0000

Oh ! i cannot see myself doing php again, loved the language and have some good memories too but that me was 10 years ago

New comment by xydac in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

xydac — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:55:00 +0000

I was probably thinking of a future where future devices from education institutions would have these preloaded with a non modifiable version of agents guardrails tuned for learning...

New comment by xydac in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

xydac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:56:07 +0000

This is a very good baseline for future courses to build on, there would always be a group that wants to jailbreak this and thats okay, but have baseline agent support learning is needed in this ai first world.

On Not Being a Language Model

xydac — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xydac.com/blog/on-not-being-a-language-model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Letter from 2040

xydac — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xydac.com/blog/2040-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154723

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by xydac in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

xydac — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:20:12 +0000

some of these would have made to embedded hardwares, making updates more challenging if say you were to flash an update.

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks"

xydac — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:01:53 +0000

this is interesting, we should wire this to frontend design system library that automatically helps user use these palette.

Building Ridgeline, part 1: I have too many dashboards

xydac — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:31:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xydac.com/blog/building-ridgeline-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865056

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: CheckAgent The open-source pytest testing framework for AI agents

xydac — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xydac/checkagent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848825

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?"

xydac — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:39:50 +0000

Its crazy how many similar threads exists today.

New comment by xydac in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

xydac — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:12:18 +0000

classic, crowdsource it to other cities !!

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

xydac — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:25:24 +0000

its funny how us developers build varied UX, but nothing beats the simplicity of HN's default experience. quick and bloat free.

Show HN: BulkHead – iOS File Manager for SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and S3

xydac — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:51:37 +0000

Hi HN – I’m Laxmi. I’ve been building an iOS file manager called BulkHead and wanted to share it here.

The short version: it connects to SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and S3 servers from your iPhone or iPad. I kept reaching for my laptop just to check a file on my NAS or poke around an S3 bucket, and the built-in Files app really only handles iCloud and basic SMB. So I built the thing I wanted.

You can browse and manage files, preview images/PDFs/video/code, and edit markdown or code files right on the server (it saves back when you’re done). It also does SSH key management, shows up as a storage provider in the iOS Files app, and has this external display mode where you plug in via USB-C and your phone turns into a remote control for the big screen. Free tier gets you 3 connections with all four protocols, full browsing, preview, editing, favorites, biometric lock, SSH keys – no account needed. There’s a 7-day Pro trial on first install too. Pro is $6.99/year or $14.99 one-time. That gets you unlimited connections, a transfer queue for batch/background transfers, encrypted file cache, and external display controller mode.

On privacy – there are zero analytics, zero tracking, and no third-party SDKs in the app. Credentials live in iOS Keychain and never leave the device. The App Store privacy label says “Data Not Collected” and I intend to keep it that way.

Tech-wise it’s SwiftUI on iOS 17+. The networking layer uses Citadel for SSH/SFTP, SMBClient for SMB, and Soto for S3 – all open source.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bulkhead/id6759474201

Site: https://www.oddinks.com/bulkhead

Privacy: https://www.oddinks.com/bulkhead/privacy Would love feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428115

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xydac in "My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server"

xydac — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:13:34 +0000

Mine bailed out on a Baseband error due to which i am not even able to boot it anymore :(

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Online database diagram editor"

xydac — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 03:35:52 +0000

looks nice, wonder what would take to hook this to a database connection directly

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone"

xydac — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:51:31 +0000

This is cool, haven't run this yet but seems really promising. Am thinking how this can be a super useful to hook with internal corporate search engines and then get answers from that.

Good to see more of these non API key products being built (connected to local llms)