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I’ve long since been having a pro-forma CLAUDE.md, referring to @AGENTS.md in all of my projects. Still works fine.

In my peak programming years in Germany, about 5-6 years ago, every company that ever tried to hire me, wanted to do some sort of CRM for xyz. It’s fun when you build it once, but then you change the domain, and realize you’re essentially building the same thing, but for different people. I’d gotten so bored of it all by 2020 that I’d approach them right away, asking “are you building yet another CRM for xyz?” They didn’t like it, because it would undermine their work. But it’s true - thousands of highly-educated, well-paid people in Munich at the time, were essentially paid to build and maintain glorified sheets software for managing people and resources.

You can guess which companies and people were hit the hardest, when it turned out that all that software could eventually be generated by a machine.

This looks like Tauri.

I don’t know. I still prefer simply shipping Go binaries around that fire up a local web server and open the web page on start. I’m old enough to care about these fancy languages, frameworks, native APIs and such. A dumb language like Go, in combination with HTMX and some JavaScript/CSS is all I need.

Generative art was my first love. By accident, I ended up being a student of the great Frieder Nake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieder_Nake) and that changed my future trajectory.

Eventually, this led me to writing my own indie book on generative art with Go: https://p5v.gumroad.com/l/generative-art-in-golang, which led me to a talk I gave on GopherCon Europe: https://youtu.be/NtBTNllI_LY?si=GMePA3CfVQZJq2O7

These were great times, but I think the book is not worth buying anymore. Sadly, AI-generated imagery sort of killed the mojo of algorithmic art for me, and I've been trying to get back to it for the last few years.

Is this a hobby project or a real social media application with people using it? If there are at least 1000 ppl. using the platform, we can consider adding link aggregation for it in https://murmel.social

My best takeaway from this post:

> The friction of building personal apps has always been so high that as users we accepted the ads, the trackers, the dark patterns, and the constant upsells.

> The friction is just not there anymore. You can build a personal app that has the exact subset of features you want, that is clean, fast, and respects your privacy, in a matter of hours.

https://preslav.me/2026/04/03/the-friction-is-just-not-there...

Convince me that this wasn't written by an LLM.

Hey HN,

Anthropic charges $20/month for Claude Pro, which is all fine, but we all know that this is heavily subsidized, and is not the real cost of tokens we burn through.

The well-known ccusage (https://ccusage.com/) utility can read those logs and compute what you would have paid on a pay-per-token basis. For heavy users, that number can be... surprising.

I built a single HTML file that turns that data into a shareable infographic — cost trends over time, model breakdown (Sonnet vs. Haiku vs. Opus), total token volume, and peak spend days.

Everything runs client-side. The JSON never leaves your machine.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot while building Murmel (https://murmel.social). One thing we wanted to avoid from day one was the “infinite engagement machine” model, so instead of pushing algorithmic slop, we just surface links that are already being shared by people you follow on Bluesky and Mastodon.

It ends up feeling much closer to “what’s interesting in my corner of the web right now?” and much less like a system trying to keep you trapped inside it.

Small scope, obviously, but I think more social tools should feel like utilities, not casinos.

I think this post sums it up pretty well: https://preslav.me/2026/03/25/murmel-competition-identity-tr...

Interesting, I’ll check it out. But just like X RAW studio, I bet that it won’t work with my old X-E1.

More like what Nuzzel used to be back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20140321102815/http://nuzzel.com...

“I figured that I could always fall back to those blue links to get a relatively unadulterated experience. Now, I have to wonder.”

When the last neutral layer goes, what's left is the people you chose to follow.

I've been sitting with that thought while building https://murmel.social

What’s next - coming after all the projects that have been coded using Claude Code, claiming they are their property?

I sleep badly, and have had tinnitus since I was a kid.

I’m old enough to remember and toy with the now long-dead XNA. It was lots of fun, and gave a lot of us students versed with C# a sort of first-hand exposure with the .NET. If only (the old) Microsoft wasn’t so stupid, short-sighted, and selfish at the time.

If only it were that rosy. I tested a few of the top open-source coding models on a beefy GPU machine, and they all behaved like anything about anything - simply rotating in circles and wasting electricity.

Has anyone had a better experience?

Has anyone used this in earnest with something like OpenCode? Over the past few months I’ve tested a dozen models that were claimed to be nearly as good Claude Code or Codex, but the overall experience when using them with OpenCode was close to abysmal. Not even a single one was able to do a decent code editing job on a real-world codebase.

And so has been every other paradigm shift in human existence.

How does that compare against Nim?

Surprisingly, to me, it’s the other ways around - and, I’ve been writing code for two decades now. I love programming and even with AI, I will always have the last word, but I also realized along the way that programming is only a means to an end - you write code to get something done, not to write the code itself. With AI, I can finally give chance to my hundreds of ideas and see what sticks.

They do. I’ve been teaching cross-career programming courses in the past, where most of my students had day jobs, some, involving hard physical work. They’d gladly swap all that for the opportunity to feed their families by writing code.

Just comes to show how the grass is always greener when you look on the other side.

That said, I also plan to retire up in the mountains soon, rather than keep feeding the machine.

We have a very similar feature on https://feedle.world. Every search has its own dedicated RSS feed that can new followed directly, as well as an iframe that can be embedded on other people’s websites. This way, anyone can build accidental blogrolls, based o topics of interest.

P.S. for people whore not really into RSS, we are also Beta testing the option to subscribe to searches and get results in email digests. Same idea, but you don’t need to bother finding an RSS reader.

Has anyone figured out getting Claude Code to work with a locally installed (e.g via ollama) or a self-hosted LLM already?

I am the author of the article. Indeed, I am a programmer, but believe it or not, I have also taught people. Thus, I think I am eligible to say that no, people don't need teachers anymore. Not in the traditional, preaching sense, anyway.

Please, don't get me wrong - the right role model is becoming increasingly more important than ever, especially, now that everyone is essentially talkign to a piece of software that conjures up words statistically.

What you gave as an example is illustrating this better than anything else - anyone could just spit out the course material, and students may still not get a word of what has been said. And then, there are others, like a late professor of mine, who would just ramble on the most seemingly random things in class, and would still make people show up, share their opion, defend their theses, and show that they've grasped the subject matter.

Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material.

hi there, I am the author of the article. Thanks for posting it here! Could you please, set the title to: "3 (+1) Things Evernote Got Right" or "3 Things Evernote Got Right"? I am assuming that the HN scraper did not get it right.

Thanks!

Right, because every browser on iOS isn't obviously a Safari skin.

Fine - that’s 400K less per year they have to pay now.

It’s always a trade-off of how much you’ll get from an upgrade, vs. how much time, effort, and pain you’ll have to invest to do the switch. Postgres is at a stage, where a single version can easily outlive the duration of the software you’ve built with it. Let’s be honest here, a vast majority of software doesn’t need a fraction of the requirements we think it does, frankly, because no one uses it to the extent that latest and greatest features would make the experience more pleasant.

It's a great one! We've been using it for our "Readable HN" collection on Feedle: https://feedle.world/hacker-news. Front Page entries would get checked, and we'd pick ones that we think would be worth reading (based on a few subjective criteria - length, presence and frequency of certain words, mood, etc.)

Of course, it comes with its own dedicated RSS feed: https://feedle.world/hacker-news/rss