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I build, break, learn and fix things https://anyg.me https://x.com/anyg_me
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anyg··on Gemini 4 Argon
Isn't /btw meant to be ephemeral?
anyg··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
I have found Fable 5.1 to be a much more natural communicator than prior Claude models
anyg··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
The biggest issue i found was the gap between the tire and rim. Otherwise, the max version is the best so far!
anyg··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I've found that adding the words - "tell me in simple words" manages to improve the output. But, i have to keep repeating that
anyg··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
Wow, is this really a side-gig?! I would have assumed this would need a team of engineers to run
anyg··on Show HN: Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
Not dumb at all. It's a whole field of active research - Speculative Decoding. A recent paper goes one level deeper with Speculative Speculative Decoding - https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251
anyg··on Design by Hand, Code by Agent
Framer Motion has recently launched CSS Studio. It's a library that runs on your browser and gives you the ability to tweak the site directly in browser which fires off instructions for your coding agent to commit to code.

I have been thinking about better and faster ways to communicate with agents for UI related changes and this is the right direction I believe.

anyg··on Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
If it is a little bigger to incorporate a bigger chip antenna and some GPIO pins, it is going to be very useful for a lot of IoT projects!!
anyg··on Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
Couldn't we get a low-res version of this info by tracking the active window using a cli tool? For linux, there are several options. Not sure about Mac.

Another approach is to run OCR on 1FPS screenshots. Everything runs locally without draining the battery like an LLM would.

anyg··on The rise of async AI programming
Off topic, but I assume the name braintrust comes from Creativity, Inc. Amazing book by Pixar co-founder Edwin Catmull.
anyg··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/86/
anyg··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
I had a similar experience.

It did not change the text on a hat (ended up changing 1 of 3 words).

On one occasion it regenerated the same image again, ignoring my instructions to edit.

I get the feeling that this model is optimised for images with people in it than objects or drawings etc

anyg··on Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders
> from idea to solid working product

What platforms have you been using for this? Did you face any challenges in getting the backend setup?

anyg··on Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
How are the RNA sequences used? Are there any clinical trials running?
anyg··on Show HN: Thirty – The AI Calendar
What is this?
anyg··on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
This is pretty cool! What kind of users are you targeting? Technical folks or those dipping their toes into dev with vibe coding?
anyg··on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
This is quite similar to what I was trying to explore with [1] & [2] yesterday. Currently, the only option I found is to use localStorage and give the user the option to manually export and import.

Hyperclay has given me some ideas. What I want is something like [3] but that the user only needs to install once. One electron app that can load our mini-apps.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930814

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933897

[3] - https://www.electronjs.org/fiddle

anyg··on Show HN: Super simple offline app to track yearly goals
He has two main projects - A & B. Currently A takes up 80% of his time and B takes up 20%. He uses the timers to track time on each project with the goal of transitioning to 80% on B.
anyg··on Show HN: Super simple offline app to track yearly goals
This thought is what triggered me to try and build an offline web app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930814

After building this, I realise that we need a standalone electron that can download and run offline apps that are more complex.

anyg··on Show HN: Super simple offline app to track yearly goals
My colleague uses 2 kitchen timers to track daily progress on his two main projects. I was inspired by this to create an open source app but for yearly goals - https://github.com/anyg-me/goals-tracker
anyg··on Ask HN: Which popular apps should not need a backend?
Linear is mostly used in collaborative setting right? Don't you use any of its integrations or workflows?
anyg··on Ask HN: Which popular apps should not need a backend?
Figma-lite maybe for solo designers?
anyg··on Prexist – Find if your startup idea already exists out there!
This is useful but not to decide whether to work on an idea or not. Most initial ideas are going to exist somewhere around the world but they may not focus on the angle that we are interested in. So, I think this is more useful as a way to understand existing approaches and see if our insights can lead to a meaningfully different solution.
anyg··on Ask HN: Do you use personal AI Agents?
I'm implementing a personal AI agent that is fully local inference with external memory that has access to my meetings, notes, Slack and Google Docs. Initially, it replaces Fireflies to capture notes from meetings and Slack.
anyg··on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
Good to know - > Knowledge cut-off is September 30th 2024 for GPT-5 and May 30th 2024 for GPT-5 mini and nano
anyg··on GPT-5
Also, the code demos are all using GPT-5 MAX on Cursor. Most of us will not be able to use it like that all the time. They should have showed it without MAX mode as well
anyg··on Show HN: Find the relevant Xkcd comic for your post using RAG
Those who give it a try, I would really appreciate it if you upvote or downvote your result. I'm thinking of fine-tuning a small model as the next step to improve it. Would be interesting to have a GAN-like setup (?) where the fine-tuned model suggests comics and a large model uses its world knowledge to accept or reject
anyg··on Show HN: I made a minimalist AI-powered product image generator
Pretty cool! I've been meaning to work on something similar. Congrats on the launch.

How are you planning to market this?

anyg··on Ask HN: Is an activity no longer creative once AI can do it really well?
Yes. People like competing with people
anyg··on Ask HN: Is an activity no longer creative once AI can do it really well?
I always go back to chess when I have these kinds of doubts. Deep down, we like human creativity and that's what made AlphaZero's chess entertaining for us as well as it wasn't as unnatural as traditional chess engines. But, we still enjoy playing and watching chess. Many new approaches have been discovered using powerful engines which probably would not have been tried out without them. The same thing can happen with math problems. We may have fresh takes on problems previously considered unsolvable, etc.
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