Hacker News: zacharycohn

New comment by zacharycohn in "GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty"

zacharycohn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:19:26 +0000

Well they lose $100M a day, so...

New comment by zacharycohn in "The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves"

zacharycohn — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:57:20 +0000

This article was great but the writing was an absolute delight.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

zacharycohn — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:15:22 +0000

Intentional pun?

New comment by zacharycohn in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

zacharycohn — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:36:57 +0000

I'm not sure I'd consider the 22nd amendment "kinda recent precedent."

New comment by zacharycohn in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

zacharycohn — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:52:34 +0000

I built a similar project! https://github.com/zacharycohn/jukebox

My jewel cases have not survived contact with my 2 year old, and I've been idly thinking about more robust solutions.

New comment by zacharycohn in "NJ theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace"

zacharycohn — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:56:57 +0000

There's no rule that says argentinosauro can't play basketball.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Find SF parking cops"

zacharycohn — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:32:59 +0000

Yes, things like street closures for construction, film shoots, or Neighborhood Night Outs would all need permits to obstruct traffic/close the street.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar"

zacharycohn — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:26:58 +0000

Also your website pricing is different than the pricing you mention in this post.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar"

zacharycohn — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:24:21 +0000

I started building basically April last week. I have a "safety" toggle in my app. If it's on, there's a "Review Actions" tab that any write or destructive actions go to. Then when I'm done dictating/commuting/whatever, I open the Review tab and go through the actions (add this calendar event, send this text message, reply to this email, etc) one by one - it sort of works like a checklist.

Feel free to take the idea, if it's helpful. No credit/rights necessary. Y'all are much farther along than I am and if you come out with an Android app I'll probably end up a customer!

New comment by zacharycohn in "Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar"

zacharycohn — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:20:41 +0000

Please add text messaging and an Android app too??

New comment by zacharycohn in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

zacharycohn — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:31:53 +0000

Sure. A hotel could leave you a special gift if they knew it was your anniversary.

And people would be thrilled by the customer experience their service created.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

zacharycohn — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:09:22 +0000

For people who go to these restaurants, this is better service. You wouldn't find this happening at Red Robin. This is what they are paying for.

If it's not for you, that's fine.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process"

zacharycohn — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:02:12 +0000

My stance has long been that LLMs are currently worse than the evangelists are claiming they are, but are significantly better than the detractors and skeptics think they are.

Like most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. But unlike many things, they are changing and advancing rapidly, so it's current state is not the resting state.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

zacharycohn — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:41:56 +0000

Just to drive the point home very explicitly:

That means, in the given example above, you are able to deduct $180k that first year instead of $900k.

That gives you a profit, from a tax perspective, of $820k.

But you only have $100k of actual dollars.

Good luck paying your taxes!

New comment by zacharycohn in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

zacharycohn — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:07:37 +0000

There is one! When you complete today's puzzle, it asks you if you want to play an older one.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

zacharycohn — Sun, 25 May 2025 20:46:46 +0000

https://www.moviemixup.com

A wordle-like game based on a road trip game my friends and I used to play. It serves you up a mashup of two different movie plots, and you have to guess the combined movie title. There's always some sort of shared word or wordplay between the two movie titles.

An example from the tutorial: the day after tomorrow never dies.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

zacharycohn — Thu, 15 May 2025 02:47:27 +0000

I think it gets complicated when there's a long, long list of chores you have to do when you leave.

At the you're paying more than a hotel and you have to spend 2 hours deep cleaning the place... That's when you start to really reconsider.

New comment by zacharycohn in "Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink"

zacharycohn — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:48:19 +0000

It's so frustrating to be walking into the train station, hear the train pulling in, rush to board and miss it by five seconds. Especially when you could have walked just a hair faster, or not stopped to look at that thing in the window for ten seconds.

AI Native Developer Tools Landscape

zacharycohn — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:33:00 +0000

Article URL: https://landscape.ainativedev.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498989

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zacharycohn in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

zacharycohn — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:46:06 +0000

> Some of them just made stupid mistakes when they were younger and sometimes dumb kids get way overcharged for cyber crimes. For the most part I think it's fine for kids to go through a phase where they think it's cool but they don't really know what they are doing.

I think a lot of the concern is that these kids aren't out of that phase yet.