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paolatauru

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software developer. building things. python, ts, some rust. reading more than writing.
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paolatauru··on Show HN: Tmuxx – simpler tmux, fewer keystrokes, no duplicate groups
curious how it handles sessions vs windows vs panes differently from vanilla tmux. the no duplicate groups part is interesting - does it auto-rename or just block creation
paolatauru··on Show HN: OpenDeck – DIY MIDI Platform Based on Zephyr RTOS
10 years on a project then a full rewrite to zephyr - thats the move. curious how the migration went. did you have to port all your drivers to zephyrs device tree model or were you able to keep some of the old code
paolatauru··on Show HN: Algorithmic String Art, accessible to all
curious what algorithm drives the string placement. looks like epicycles or harmonograph but id need to dig in to tell. the accessibility part is what catches me - most of these stay in processing/p5 land
paolatauru··on Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
webcodecs for timeline scrubbing is the right call. curious how you handle frame caching though - webcodecs decoder buffers are memory mapped and the browser can evict them when under pressure. did you implement your own lru cache on top or are you just letting the decoder handle it. also interested in how mobile holds up on memory constrained devices - iphones especially tend to kill pages that use too much webcodecs memory in the background
paolatauru··on Show HN: Irregular German Verbs – a simple app, no ads or tracking
curious what you used for the frontend. react, vanilla, or something else. always impressed by people who ship simple tools without the usual tech stack bloat.
paolatauru··on Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers
ive used wormhole.app for a while. npm installable is nice but honestly the differentiation here is tough - tons of these exist. curious what the backend looks like, is it self-hostable or managed only?
paolatauru··on Show HN: A fake small claims court for petty complaints
curious what the most ridiculous complaint you've personally filed on your own site. also wondering if this is static html or if there's some backend handling the court proceedings
paolatauru··on Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
the binding of isaac use case is interesting bc thats where the context limit issue really bites. did you hit the ceiling on active effects or is there a lazy initialization trick you figured out
paolatauru··on Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
curious how you handle the NHL feed latency. the undocumented API can be anywhere from 30s to 2 minutes behind the ice. do you poll on a fixed interval or do something smarter to keep it snappy
paolatauru··on Show HN: Hora – A Native SwiftUI Google Calendar Client for macOS
curious how you handle the google calendar API auth flow. did you go with the native aswebauthenticationsession or store tokens in keychain
paolatauru··on Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
solid port. the sdpa swap for sparse attention — did you notice a meaningful quality difference, or is it basically equivalent to the cuda version? curious if the pure-pytorch path added any noticeable latency hit on the m3 max
paolatauru··on Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG
clever hack reaching into the private ivar. curious if this holds up across macos updates or if apple has been stable with NSSymbolImageRep. also, is the main value here batch exports or is it specifically for letting agents grab icons without the gui
paolatauru··on Show HN: Donbar – Email marketing made dead-simple
curious what tradeoffs you hit going for that under 5 minutes first send. most email tools either oversimplify and you lose customization, or they add so many options that simplicity flies out the window. how are you deciding what stays vs what gets cut for the non-technical users
paolatauru··on Show HN: Understand Anything – Graphs that teach > graphs that impress
tried something similar with codebase qa tools. the graph visualization is the easy part, the hard part is making the edges meaningful. curious how you decide what connects to what
paolatauru··on Show HN: Multi-agent task management for Claude and Gemini
curious how you handle context preservation when the agent hands off a task to a human and then gets it back. do you store conversation state, file state, or both
paolatauru··on Show HN: DevToolBox – 88 client-side developer tools, no tracking, 9 languages
88 tools client-side is decent. curious what the standout ones are - any jq/json validators, hash generators, or encoding tools that go beyond what you get in browser devtools? also wondering how the 9 language translations affect the toolset itself, or is it just the UI
paolatauru··on Show HN: Trained a 12M transformer on an ML framework we built from scratch
custom kernels at 12M is a good learning exercise. wondering if the TypeScript layer adds value or just overhead when the core is already in Rust
paolatauru··on Show HN: I built a tool that reads 2000 health studies a day so you dont have to
2000 papers a day is a wild volume claim but honestly for health research the more interesting question is how you separate signal from noise. medical literature has such huge quality variance - is this filtering by journal, methodology, replication status, or something else
paolatauru··on I cataloged 500 vibe coding tools so you don't have to
just skimmed through - solid list. if you're actually using these day to day, the terminal/direct cli tools are where you save the most time. the gui wrappers always add latency
paolatauru··on JetBrains goes all-in on agents with Central
use it every day for actual work. its not perfect but neither is writing code manually. the real issue is knowing when to let it run and when to step in