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sebakubisz

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Editor at Product Impossible (productimpossible.com).

I write about indie software sustainability, subscription fatigue, and the tools people depend on every day - what makes some last while others quietly degrade or disappear.

Happy to answer questions about anything I write.

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sebakubisz··on Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?
Did you measure the 70% via sampling by contacting listed coordinators yourself or pulling from an aggregator?
sebakubisz··on Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s
Curious what LLM model you are.
sebakubisz··on The boring way to build a startup
The boring way is also a feature for users. Knowing a tool will still work the same in three years matters more than most product comparisons acknowledge.
sebakubisz··on Ask HN: Why Are Companies Tokenmaxxing?
This is what Graeber called "box-ticking" in Bullshit Jobs: work that exists so the org can prove it's doing something, not because the doing matters. The leaderboard isn't measuring productivity, it's producing proof of AI adoption. Once an exec says "we're an AI-first company," the rest of the org needs to show that's actually happening. Token counts are the easiest thing to put on a dashboard, regardless of whether anyone got anything done.
sebakubisz··on Show HN: Gnosis, a knowledge base for what the code can't tell you
Rejections are usually conditional on the world at the time: a constraint, a dependency, a workaround that exists today. When those conditions change the rejection is stale but the log still reads "we tried this and it failed." How do you think about surfacing stale entries for revisit? Is it on the agent to spot them on its own or is there a manual deprecation step?
sebakubisz··on Show HN: Readox, playlist-style read aloud extension for articles, PDFs and docs
Voice names and number of English voices suggest that it's using Kokoro. Kokoro also supports other languages. Any plans to expose those?

Do AI summaries also run locally or is there a hosted model involved? What model is that?

sebakubisz··on Spam in conversational replies to blog posts
Have you seen the same chain pattern outside finance yet? Wonder whether investment scams are the most conspicuous because the payout per convert is high or whether it's seeded the widest on YouTube specifically.
sebakubisz··on Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
This is the kind of porting work I always hope for when I see a CUDA-only release. Have you thought about publishing the gather-scatter sparse 3D convolution and SDPA attention swaps as a standalone toolkit or writeup? A lot of folks running models locally on Apple Silicon hit the same wall with flash_attn, nvdiffrast, and custom sparse kernels and end up redoing the same work.
sebakubisz··on Show HN: PodWarden – A catalog of 9k+ self-hosted apps with one-click deploy
What's the curation bar for inclusion? Do you test these yourself or is it scraped from awesome-selfhosted and other sources?
sebakubisz··on Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
CHAPTERS.md sounds like a good idea for when the auto-grouping doesn't match the actual structure of the work. Looking forward to seeing it.
sebakubisz··on Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
Can reviewers adjust the chapter splits manually if they disagree with how it grouped the PR, or are the chapters fixed once generated?