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Gormanu··on Show HN: We built procurement automation for small teams stuck in spreadsheets
Most procurement tools are either huge ERPs that are way too heavy and expensive for SMBs, or duct-taped tools like Airtable that fall apart once you need audits and real tracking. Quickinim sits in the middle. It’s lightweight, cloud-first, works without an ERP, and actually covers the warehouse side with QR scans for incoming goods. Suppliers get a simple portal (no training nightmares), everything is logged for compliance, and pricing scales sanely with team size. We’re not here to replace ERPs - just to kill the spreadsheet-and-email chaos procurement teams are stuck in.
Gormanu··on Show HN: We built procurement automation for small teams stuck in spreadsheets
Author here. A bit more context on why we built this. We kept seeing the same pattern over and over: teams didn’t want an ERP, but they also couldn’t keep running procurement on spreadsheets and email. Most tools we tried were either too heavy, too expensive, or required months of setup and customization. Quickinim isn’t trying to replace ERP systems. It’s meant for the gap before (or instead of) ERP where companies just need reliable purchase orders, supplier updates, and document tracking without the overhead. Happy to answer any questions, and feedback (good or bad) is very welcome.
Gormanu··on Show HN: Startup Simulator – AI Choose Your Own Adventure
A great tool if you want to completely lose motivation and give up on your idea )) Very grounding, but it does feel realistic.
Gormanu··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
I might be behind on modern tech, but what exactly gives me away as AI? I’m genuinely curious.
Gormanu··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an airline take responsibility for a TA’s mistakes. Usually they just send you back to wherever you bought the ticket. And there are other ways to influence the quality of how aggregators and travel agencies operate, instead of just bluntly trying to block or restrict them.
Gormanu··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
You guys don't have any other problems than looking for AI slops in every message on HN?
Gormanu··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
Why do you think I am an AI slop? If you don't like my opinion , it doesn't mean I am AI.
Gormanu··on TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
The deal itself feels messy and political, not like a serious solution to data or security concerns. In the end, the risks are still there, and it’s hard to see what regular users actually win from this.
Gormanu··on 'Censorship pure and simple': critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors'
Honestly, this feels like classic over-engineering: collecting five years of people’s social media just to let them visit the country. I can’t imagine the false positives this will create — old jokes, memes, politics… all suddenly "security signals."

If the goal is real safety, is this actually the data that helps? Or just an easy way to scare off normal visitors?

Gormanu··on Colors of Growth
Honestly, I opened the paper pretty skeptical - "colors in old paintings as a growth metric? really?" But the more I read, the more it felt like a clean data-engineering pipeline: HSV extraction, PCA, robustness checks, validation — just with 400-year-old inputs instead of logs.
Gormanu··on Linux Kernel Explorer
Never mind! I understand that today reading the HN comments looks like witch (AI) hunting. But it is really can be a person behind that account who is new on HN and really positive )) I'll be much more accurate not to look like AI in the future )
Gormanu··on Linux Kernel Explorer
You know, I think this Explorer is exactly the tool many of us lacked. Reading the Linux kernel source always felt daunting — thousands of files, confusing paths, complex structure. This feels like a “map” that helps you orient yourself, see how parts interconnect, how VFS works, how modules tie together. Yeah, sometimes a feature breaks (API limits, errors opening directories), but even so — this is a great way to peek “under the hood,” understand the architecture, and take the first step. Big thanks to the folks behind it.
Gormanu··on Can you take an ox to Oxford?
Oxford is heading straight back to the Middle Ages )) Soon we’ll have horse-drawn carriages at the city entrance (if they aren’t there already), shuttling people around instead of taxis. People still want to get from point A to point B quickly — that need isn’t going anywhere.
Gormanu··on I Stopped Using Sublime Text
Now reading HN articles has basically turned into a witch hunt (strikethrough) an AI hunt )) Anyway, as for the point of the article, I totally get why the author moved on. Sublime will always have a special place in my toolkit, but for serious, modern dev work (especially on big projects) there are better all-rounders now.
Gormanu··on Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
With Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it’s not really clear whether the author originally came up with such a great idea and script, or if Disney just brought it to life so brilliantly on screen. I’m leaning toward the second. It’s cool that he got the rights back, but without Disney this idea just isn’t going to "sing" again.
Gormanu··on Continuous Autoregressive Language Models
If this works, we’re looking at the next structural shift in LLMs — and all the “bigger model = better” business might finally face a serious challenger. But — and you knew there’d be a “but” — if the reconstruction fails in edge-cases, or the continuous space hides weird failure modes, then this could backfire and produce models that look efficient but feel brittle.

Still — props to the team for going after the real root of inefficiency, not just piling on more layers. If nothing else, this is one to watch if you care about scaling models smarter.

Gormanu··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
Bold move from Google — finally admitting the Play Store has a trust problem.

Verification sounds great on paper, but if this turns into “prove you’re a real dev by jumping through 12 forms of bureaucracy,” it’ll just push more talent to sideloading and open platforms.

Still, if Google actually nails this — transparent, fair, and fast — it could be the first time in years Android feels safer without feeling locked down. That’d be a plot twist I’d love to see.