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moinism

176 karma · joined April 2, 2013

A guy figuring out how to launch startups. Otherwise, freelance developer and consultant.

@moinism

https://moin.im

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moinism··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Ok, but we need 6.1 Luna soon. 6 feels worse than 5.6 in our agentic use case.
moinism··on Laya the open source version of Jev
I'm just glad to see focus being shifted (albeit slowly) to conventional ML. Enough with LLM guys
moinism··on Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
I feel like this autonomous hacking is now being used as PR for how powerful a company's models are. Google thought, hey let's get on that bandwagon.

At some point smaller company could even start deliberate hacking campaigns and then do a press release like "Oops, we hacked the pentagon"

moinism··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
AI agent for content creators https://chatoctopus.com
moinism··on 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
> Everything described here is a private Go repository. One-time payment, permanent access, complete source. > $699 one time · lifetime access

Not open-source apparently.

And I cant find the reddit post but I think I read that videos/assets are not actually pre-downloaded, they have to be requested through Tiktok API using the provided code. So if Tiktok patches, the code will need updates too.

moinism··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
I think mods are asleep, an anti-Israeli post can't stay on the homepage for this long.
moinism··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Google: Here is the next iteration of our flash model series, with a discount. please use. thx.

Z.ai: Here is our next iteration, neck and neck with Fable/Sol. weights releasing in two weeks.

moinism··on Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
How do unresearched, vibe-coded projects like this reach the front page?
moinism··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Been building Chat Octopus (like ChatGPT but for media and content: https://chatoctopus.com) since Feb this year. Now it's available on web, ios, and android but I'm finding it hard to market it and find users.

Which is, i think, a common thing about solo devs.How do you guys deal with that?

moinism··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Airtable is worth "just" $1.3B? I see (or used to see) it almost everywhere; why such a low valuation?
moinism··on Karpathy’s Pelican
We've been building motion graphics capability (on chatoctopus.com), and "closing the loop" has been one of the hardest challenges. Coding agents have it easy; static analysis, lints, unit tests, etc.

But when visual perception and "taste" get involved, it becomes a lot harder.

moinism··on Neutrino-1 8B
The content on that page is too AI-generated to make sense to me; I don't understand what the model is for.
moinism··on A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading
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moinism··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Chat Octopus: AI video creator and editor.

Made a video about PG's 'Billionaire' essay:

video: https://chatoctopus.com/share/d93d661a-0e5b-43f3-946e-a9dea0... full chat: https://chatoctopus.com/share/chat/8d044aa2-dc48-47a0-aa65-1...

moinism··on Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
> Every AI video editor on the market assumes your footage is already labeled

Shameless plug: I'm the founder of Chat Octopus, an AI media assistant, and it actually 'looks' at the videos to understand them before creating a cut.

moinism··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Chat Octopus: Claude code for videos

https://chatoctopus.com

moinism··on Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank
and now its flagged :D
moinism··on Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
congrats on the launch! do you guys have anything planned to test chat agents directly in the ui? I have an agent, but no exposed api so can't really use your product even though I have a genuine need.
moinism··on Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
Wow! congrats on the launch guys. client-side rendering is incredible, really. I saw your product somewhere and have it as an open tab in my chrome for ~2 weeks :D

I also saw another YC company, Mosaic, doing something similar. But your approach of chat-based editing is a lot closer to what I'm building. Shameless plug: I'm also working on a chat-based media processor. https://chatoctopus.com

But you guys are way ahead! will be looking at you for inspiration.

moinism··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
https://ffmpeg-api.com

As the domain (hopefully) indicates, A REST API for the FFmpeg service. So far, it's been a plain API, but now it's adding MCPs and AI endpoints, so you don't have to remember ffmpeg commands.

moinism··on Show HN: Titan – JavaScript-first framework that compiles into a Rust server
Wait, the CLI command for the package is.. 'tit'?
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
This looks good, but a bit overkill for what I'm trying to build tbh.
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
Haven't tried it yet, but it looks similar to OpenAI's. What is your experience?
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
I agree, technically, "sub agent" is also another tool. But I think it's important to differentiate tools with deterministic input/output from those with reasoning ability. A simple 'Tool' will take the input and try to execute, but the 'subagent' might reason that the action is unnecessary and that the required output already exists in the shared context. Or it can ask a clarifying question from the main agent before using its tools.
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
Dude, it looks great, but I just spent half an hour learning about its 'CodeAgents' feature. Which essentially is 'actions written as code'.

This idea has been floating around in my head, but it wasn't refined enough to implement. It's so wild that what you're thinking of may have already been done by someone else on the internet.

https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents/conceptual_guides/int...

For those who are wondering, it's kind of similar to the 'Code Mode' idea implemented by Cloudflare and now being explored by Anthropic; Write code to discover and call MCPs instead of stuffing context window with their definations.

moinism··on Agent design is still hard
This looks good. Even though it's only in Python, I think its worth a try. Thanks.
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
Thank you. But the main blocker for me right now is their skill definition: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/skills#how-ski...
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
How do you deal with the different APIs/Tooluse schema in a custom build? As other people have mentioned, it's a bigger undertaking than it sounds.
moinism··on Agent design is still hard
Amen. Been seeing these agent SDKs coming out left and right for a couple of years and thought it'd be a breeze to build an agent. Now I'm trying to build one for ~3 weeks, and I've tried three different SDKs and a couple of architectures.

Here's what I found:

- Claude Code SDK (now called Agent SDK) is amazing, but I think they are still in the process of decoupling it from the Claude Code, and that's why a few things are weird. e.g, You can define a subagent programmatically, but not skills. Skills have to be placed in the filesystem and then referenced in the plugin. Also, only Anthoripic models are supported :(

- OpenAI's SDK's tight coupling with their platform is a plus point. i.e, you get agents and tool-use traces by default in your dashboard. Which you can later use for evaluation, distillation, or fine-tuning. But: 2. They have agent handoffs (which works in some cases), but not subagents. You can use tools as subagents, though. 1. Not easy to use a third-party model provider. Their docs provide sample codes, but it's not as easy as that.

- Google Agent Kit doesn't provide any Typescript SDK yet. So didn't try.

- Mastra, even though it looks pretty sweet, spins up a server for your agent, which you can then use via REST API. umm.. why?

- SmythOS SDK is the one I'm currently testing because it provides flexibility in terms of choosing the model provider and defining your own architecture (handoffs or subagents, etc.). It has its quirks, but I think it'll work for now.

Question: If you don't mind sharing, what is your current architecture? Agent -> SubAgents -> SubSubAgents? Linear? or a Planner-Executor?

I'll write a detailed post about my learnings from architectures (fingers crossed) soon.

moinism··on Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing
Hey, this is super cool. congrats on the product and the launch!

I'm building something exactly similar and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the HN post. What i'm building (chatoctopus.com) is more like a chat-first agent for video editing, only at a prototype stage. But what you guys have achieved is insane. Wishing you lots of success.

to healthy competition!

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