Hacker News: z3ugma

New comment by z3ugma in "Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer"

z3ugma — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:44:42 +0000

Hidden in here is the coolest part, that the author made flex PCBs at home

New comment by z3ugma in "GitHub and the crime against software"

z3ugma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:34:34 +0000

Has anyone switched over to Fossil SCM, so they get issue tracking as part of the repo

New comment by z3ugma in "A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi"

z3ugma — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:50 +0000

I had pi wrote its own and it uses Tavily under the good

A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi

z3ugma — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:14:45 +0000

Article URL: https://z3ugma.github.io/2026/05/25/a-comma-and-a-question-mark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270514

Points: 40

# Comments: 11

New comment by z3ugma in "A Comma and a Question Mark"

z3ugma — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:23:30 +0000

Are you willing to share the script? Using the pi /share command it will publish it to a Gist on GitHub

New comment by z3ugma in "LibrePCB 2.1 with cross-probing, net highlighting, UI themes and more"

z3ugma — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:42:53 +0000

Been a huge fan of LibrePCB and especially the improvements in the past 3-4 releases. I have found it generally to be more performant than KiCAD and for building my own footprint and library tooling alongside, LibrePCB's library design paradigm works a lot better to me than does KiCAD's.

I wish it were easier to extend the way the KiCAD plugin system is, but I also have a lot of respect for the developer's approach. High-performance, choose features carefully, everything can be done local or with Git with no cloud dependencies.

New comment by z3ugma in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

z3ugma — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:05:19 +0000

I don't really understand what this is for... there is a lot of ML-researcher talk on the GH page about the model architecture, but how should I use it?

Is it a replacement for Kimi 2.7, Claude Haiku, Gemini Flash 3.1 lite, a conversational LLM for the situations where it's mostly tool-calling like coding and conversational AI?

New comment by z3ugma in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

z3ugma — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:20:15 +0000

It doesn't come with any RAM? You have to add $140 for 8GB or "bring your own"...so the list price does not represent a working computer?

New comment by z3ugma in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

z3ugma — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:35:11 +0000

Love it! Do you have a BAA with Claude though? Otherwise, your demo is likely exposing PHI to 3rd parties and exposing you to risk related to HIPAA

New comment by z3ugma in "Do you even need a database?"

z3ugma — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:29:51 +0000

not re-implement SQLite, I mean "use SQLite as your persistence layer in your program"

e.g. worry about what makes your app unique. Data storage is not what makes your app unique. Outsource thinking about that to SQLite

New comment by z3ugma in "Do you even need a database?"

z3ugma — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:58:56 +0000

but it's so trivial to implement SQLite, in almost any app or language...there are sufficient ORMs to do the joins if you don't like working with SQL directly...the B-trees are built in and you don't need to reason about binary search, and your app doesn't have 300% test coverage with fuzzing like SQLite does

you should be squashing bugs related to your business logic, not core data storage. Local data storage on your one horizontally-scaling box is a solved problem using SQLite. Not to mention atomic backups?

New comment by z3ugma in "Do you even need a database?"

z3ugma — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:42:16 +0000

At some point, don't you just end up making a low-quality, poorly-tested reinvention of SQLite by doing this and adding features?

New comment by z3ugma in "Google Fitbit is working on a screenless fitness band, to compete with Whoop"

z3ugma — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:54:48 +0000

Didn't they already have one of these? Like the original FitBit was a screenless fitness band...

New comment by z3ugma in "Show HN: Substrate UI, my "teaching myself front end development" design system"

z3ugma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:41:07 +0000

You did all of this in one week?! Pretty cool. Even with LLM-assisted making, it shows that you have a lot of taste and architecture know-how. What would you attribute to being able to think through useful abstracts like the design tokens?

New comment by z3ugma in "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library"

z3ugma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:47:06 +0000

I have been using this library for a few months alongside Gemini 3.1 Fast

It's really useful to get an iteration loop going with an LLM.

The OCCP viewer extension for VS Code helps make sure you can see and manipulate the resulting model

New comment by z3ugma in "Trace: AI Native PCB Design"

z3ugma — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:01:07 +0000

See also the recently-posted open source project https://github.com/ForestHubAI/boardsmith

"Text prompt → KiCad schematic, BOM, and firmware. No templates — real wired circuits with computed values."

New comment by z3ugma in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

z3ugma — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:07:52 +0000

Do you know the meme about carcinization ...how in nature, everything tends toward becoming a crab?

I think we are reinventing HTML from first principles. It's semantic structuring with a meaningful render

New comment by z3ugma in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

z3ugma — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:37:52 +0000

"Well There's Your Problem" on the collapse of the St Francis Dam, mentioned in Grady's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxLgM1vnuUA

Also I love when they refer to it as the "_First_ California Water Wars" in a grim realization of the future of water scarcity in the West

New comment by z3ugma in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

z3ugma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:42:32 +0000

I will say I came upon this same design pattern to make all my chats into semantic Markdown that is backward compatible with markdown. I did:

````assistant

gemini/3.1-pro - 20260319T050611Z

Response from the assistant

````

with a similar block for tool calling This can be parsed semantically as part of the conversation but also is rendered as regular Markdown code block when needed

Helps me keep AI chats on the filesystem, as a valid document, but also add some more semantic meaning atop of Markdown

New comment by z3ugma in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

z3ugma — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:48:34 +0000

Nah read my own comment history. I tend to phrase things this way a lot too because it positions it as opinion/curiosity rather than arrogant / confident statement?