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New comment by zkanda in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

zkanda — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:06:58 +0000

Fender doesn’t even make the best strat and so overpriced, but I guess it’s subjective.

Show HN: Comfy Nodekit – build/serialize ComfyUI workflows in Python

zkanda — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:47:40 +0000

Hello HN!

I made Comfy Nodekit, a small library to make it easier to build and serialize ComfyUI workflows directly in Python.

If you’ve ever tried to hand-craft large ComfyUI graphs or maintain JSON workflows by hand, you probably know how messy it gets once you reach a few dozen nodes. We needed a better way to generate and modify graphs programmatically, so we built this.

Comfy Nodekit lets you create graphs with typed node factories, then export them back to the exact JSON format ComfyUI expects. It also introspects your running ComfyUI server to generate Python bindings for your custom nodes automatically, so you don’t lose compatibility when your setup changes.

We’re using this internally at Katalist to generate complex workflows with hundreds of nodes on the fly, things that would be impossible to manage and version.

Highlights

* Works with custom nodes (via /object_info)

* Type-safe graph composition + JSON export

* MIT license

* No runtime overhead - just Python + JSON

Why not just use ComfyScript or raw JSON? Because we wanted a Python-first, typed model that stays in sync with our ComfyUI server and is focused purely on composition, not on adding another runtime layer.

Happy to answer questions what kinds of workflows we're building for our image generation task.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681199

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by zkanda in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

zkanda — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:42:38 +0000

I used to be a subscriber and would like to support the project, but the noticeable response latency is a problem for me (Spain). I’ve tried both my desktop PC and iPhone, and the result is the same unfortunately.

New comment by zkanda in "Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim"

zkanda — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:26:34 +0000

Thank you for that prompt, I can already think of a few developers I want to give thanks for changing my life.

New comment by zkanda in "Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit"

zkanda — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:42:33 +0000

We had a problem where we need to index and make searchable a hundred of thousands of government pdf files, some are as old as 15 years ago.

Tried a bunch libraries and settled with Tika. Although we were a PHP/Node shop, nothing could be compared to the ease of using Tika for this exact purpose.

New comment by zkanda in "Guardian Agent: secure agent forwarding for Mosh or SSH"

zkanda — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 05:44:33 +0000

This has been an issue with Mosh for a long time, finally one solution has appeared.

Mosh Issue: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120

Guardian Agent: secure agent forwarding for Mosh or SSH

zkanda — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 05:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/guardian-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15660087

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by zkanda in "Go 1.9 is released"

zkanda — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:52:17 +0000

In case you guys didn't know, there's multiple release party in different parts of the world: https://github.com/golang/cowg/blob/master/events/2017-08-go...

Come join if your near the area.

Golang Dep now uses TOML

zkanda — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/dep/pull/342

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14104413

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zkanda in "How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding"

zkanda — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:35:34 +0000

Hi, For people who want to do this but don't want to code anything, you can use https://www.engagespark.com/twilio-alternative/

* In this case you can do an SMS Poll asking who would like to come.

* If you want to do this a bit more personal, you could use an IVR Poll instead, so they'd hear your voice.

* You can even go further and build some logic, if they replied yes, then you ask them what food choice do they want, no need for interacting with google spreadsheet.

* You can view all this with some pretty graphs and download the spreadsheet with all the information that happened on the engagement.

* Or if you want fancier stuff, do the above, pass the results to Zapier, and manipulate them with any other apps linked into Zapier.

Disclaimer: I work on engageSPARK