Hacker News: zdwolfe

New comment by zdwolfe in "AI-powered open-source code laundering"

zdwolfe — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:28:55 +0000

I find it odd that any LLM could be considered open source. Sure the weights are available to download and use, but you can't reasonably reconstruct the output model as it's impractical for an individual to gather a useful dataset or spend $5,000,000+ of GPU time training.

New comment by zdwolfe in "We put a coding agent in a while loop"

zdwolfe — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:20:18 +0000

Yes, and so far I haven't been able to combat it.

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

zdwolfe — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:50:59 +0000

I'm working on a dumb tool to picture-in-picture show rendered GPS data as a mini-map with a forward- and backward-looking trail on top of GoPro footage (to memorialize cool bike rides).

New comment by zdwolfe in "Texan used Apple AirTags to discover plastics in Houston aren't being recycled"

zdwolfe — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:47:43 +0000

Thanks for these stats, it changes how I think about aluminum packaging/cans.

New comment by zdwolfe in "PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server"

zdwolfe — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:10:30 +0000

I much prefer Fabric server to Paper. Paper has a couple game-breaking differences in advanced redstone, and Fabric in general has more mod compatibility. There are options to disable the redstone differences, but it's a bit annoying.

New comment by zdwolfe in "PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server"

zdwolfe — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:06:21 +0000

I use this extensively, it's so wonderful

New comment by zdwolfe in "Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise"

zdwolfe — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:38:13 +0000

This is perfect. I've tried many noise apps in the past and I'll be using this for a long time I'm sure.

Feature request: Deep-links so I can share or bookmark a 'preset'.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant"

zdwolfe — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 04:18:44 +0000

This is really cool but I will never trust an app like this to have access to my emails.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Show HN: AI Generated SVG's"

zdwolfe — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:25:32 +0000

Seems to not be working. I tried the same prompt twice. My trial credits were used but there was no image generated, nor do they appear in My Images.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year"

zdwolfe — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:46:31 +0000

Wow, that was cool. Felt like the intro to a game I'd want to play.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll"

zdwolfe — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:42:06 +0000

Looks cool, thanks for making this.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

zdwolfe — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:33:45 +0000

https://zdwolfe.medium.com/ tech and personal musings when I find time to write about them.

My favorite is Schrödinger's Microservice, which was fun to write https://zdwolfe.medium.com/schr%C3%B6dingers-microservice-c4...

New comment by zdwolfe in "Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline"

zdwolfe — Sun, 21 May 2023 02:35:33 +0000

Not OP, but I too wrote something nearly identical with whisper so I could creep on old EthosLab videos. Here's the gist:

from pytube import Channel

import whisper

channel_yt = Channel(channel_url)

video_yt = channel_yt.videos[0]

video_yt_stream = video_yt.streams.filter(mime_type="video/mp4").filter(res="720p").first()

video_yt_video_file_path = video_yt_stream.download()

audio = whisper.load_audio(video_yt_video_file_path)

model = whisper.load_model("tiny")

transcript = model.transcribe(audio)

New comment by zdwolfe in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

zdwolfe — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:18:44 +0000

Neat, I am working on something similar with almost all the same tech you mentioned (CDK, R53, TS, APIGW+Lambda), and a Dockerized dev env with everything set up. It's meant to be a boilerplate I copy for new side projects. DM me on twitter (same username) if you'd like to compare notes or collaborate.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Ask HN: Is there a recommender system for blog posts or articles?"

zdwolfe — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:30:05 +0000

https://readsomethinginteresting.com/

New comment by zdwolfe in "Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app"

zdwolfe — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:50:30 +0000

This is amazing, thank you. Been a user of Readwise for a while because it's the best highlight aggregator out there. Now that there's a reader with highlights + Obsidian.md highlight export, I can get rid of a whole stack of other apps I had glued together (https://github.com/zdwolfe/reading).

New comment by zdwolfe in "Falsehoods programmers believe about time"

zdwolfe — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:57:34 +0000

Is this link correct? I get a 404.

New comment by zdwolfe in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

zdwolfe — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:53:49 +0000

Thanks for referring to Fairphone. I didn't know they existed and am considering getting one.

New comment by zdwolfe in "Ask HN: What's your web routine? which sites etc. do you frequent besides HN?"

zdwolfe — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:51:36 +0000

Many folks in this thread are recommending which specific subreddits and blogs they like, but I thought I'd comment on the "how" of my web routine that I found useful.

I use feedly.com to follow HN, blogs, subreddits, and news outlets. I split up "Backlogging" and "Reading" as separate activities, which I think promotes focus when reading.

To "backlog", I browse through my feedly feed of HN/Reddit/blogpost titles, marking the ones that sound interesting to "Read Later".

Then later I read through those "read later' posts, saving the best ones in lists and highlights/notes for the future.

As for specifics,

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/

2. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

3. https://martinfowler.com/

4. https://refactoring.fm/

New comment by zdwolfe in "A few things to know before stealing my 914"

zdwolfe — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:59:14 +0000

This was a joy to read.