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smith-kyle··on Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed
Sad that they're being sentenced based on the impact of the response by TfL's IT team
smith-kyle··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
You're right! Terrarium LED incoming..
smith-kyle··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
Wow deep cut <3
smith-kyle··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
No way! My friend and I were half joking about building that as a sequel to realtuner. If nothing else, it'd be a great excuse to buy more gear.
smith-kyle··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
Your browser might have microphone access set to "Deny" by default rather than "Ask". This happened to my friend. He changed the setting and it worked, but maybe there's a way to give a more helpful error in this scenario. Let me see
smith-kyle··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
Let's scale horizontally!
smith-kyle··on Doomsday scoreboard
"Days until next prediction might begin". Cute.
smith-kyle··on Find SF parking cops
Amazing!
smith-kyle··on DiffEnder: AI-augmented Code Review Tool [video]
Hi HackerNews! I've been building this product for 2(!) years now. It's called DiffEnder, and it's a way for humans to review code with the help of AI.

As AI agents increasingly write more code, we are transitioning to a reviewer role of work produced by AI. Code reviews are how we update our theories about how the codebase works, which in turn helps us write good prompts for AI agents. It’s a virtuous cycle.

On the other hand, I’ve seen friends vibe code their way to a v1 product, and hit a wall, because their codebase is a rat’s nest, and they have no working theory of its functionality. They can’t point the LLM to a handful of files, explain what they do, and ask for incremental changes. No more!

You can sign up today at https://diffender.com. Happy to answer any questions you may have!

smith-kyle··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Recently pivoted. Working on Cursor for PR reviews.

You can sign up for the beta here: https://diffender.com

smith-kyle··on Show HN: GitNotebooks – Jupyter Notebook Review Tool
Most data scientists know git! Or, at the very least, how to follow a step-by-step git guide.

If notebooks are tracked anywhere at an org it's either where their code is stored (GitHub/GitLab), or in their managed notebook environment (Databricks/Hex)

smith-kyle··on Show HN: GitNotebooks – Jupyter Notebook Review Tool
We've been around for a couple years now, wouldn't lie about the dev sign ups :)
smith-kyle··on Show HN: GitNotebooks – Jupyter Notebook Review Tool
Thanks for the feedback! Some of these questions are answered on our home page, but not all. Is anything unclear after looking at the home page?

Demo: https://app.gitnotebooks.com/GitNotebooks/demo/pull/1 Home Page: https://www.gitnotebooks.com/

smith-kyle··on My weekend project turned into a 3 year journey
A bit of feedback after downloading Znote:

- Couldn't execute the tutorial notebooks without first paying for a subscription

- Specifically surprised that executing a bash script locally is an "Advanced feature"

- I've "exceeded my limit 1/1" for deployed jobs, I'd love to see how/where this is deployed but I don't see a link. It's the default myapphtml job.

EDIT: Found the link to the deployed web app. Was confused because it has a column label of "Frequency"

smith-kyle··on My weekend project turned into a 3 year journey
Just a heads up: "Follow me on LinkedIn" doesn't link to your profile
smith-kyle··on Write more "useless" software
My pride and joy: http://lipsislips.com
smith-kyle··on How I stay motivated as a solo creator
I like the idea of meeting others in my field. Any tips for finding this in SF? I'm building a dev tool
smith-kyle··on The vital art of talking to strangers (2021)
CBT is common and often covered by health insurance. I've been doing talk therapy for 3 years and I've found helpful for all kinds of things.

The most important (and hardest) part is finding a therapist you trust.

smith-kyle··on JupyterLab 4.0
What do you use to collect telemetry data?
smith-kyle··on JupyterLab 4.0
See https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat
smith-kyle··on JupyterLab 4.0
nbformat is reference implementation of the notebook format: https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat No recent major releases.

jupytext is great, you can also review your notebooks as `.ipynb` files using GitNotebooks [https://gitnotebooks.com]. (I'm the solo dev)

smith-kyle··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
I would love if this became popular! Just submitted a review for a solid landlord I had a couple years ago.

The zip code dropdown is broken, at least on mobile safari. Would like an input with type="number" rather than a drop down.

smith-kyle··on Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
This is neat! The typing animation in the title a nice touch.

My first question for these "Use GPT to X" projects is, what does it bring to the table beyond ChatGPT capabilities? Couldn't I use chat.openai.com to accomplish the same thing?

smith-kyle··on Show HN: Play Codenames with GPT
new favorite GPT reasoning:

Both words can be associated with mail. Post is related to mail delivery and scorpion is related to the Scorpio zodiac sign which is associated with the planet Mercury, which is the Roman god of messengers and communication.

smith-kyle··on Show HN: Zelda Breath of The Wild Street View
The creator mentions that site in his "How I made this" video
smith-kyle··on Launch HN: Evry Health (YC W18) – Better health insurance for companies
Can you speak more to the “free mental health coverage”? I assume this includes psychotherapy.

What kinds of therapy are covered? How did you build your network of therapists?

smith-kyle··on Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
You're an animal
smith-kyle··on Jukebox
From the article:

We chose to work on music because we want to continue to push the boundaries of generative models.

smith-kyle··on Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps
I made something similar a couple years ago: https://github.com/smith-kyle/electron-process

But I love the addition of defaulting to a node server for lower memory usage.

The Atom editor (the first Electron app) has slowly been rewriting a lot of their modules in C++ for speed and lower memory usage, binding to them through NodeJs. Kind of ironic since GitHub created Electron to build desktop apps using web technologies.

smith-kyle··on The Art of Command Line (2015)
> Learn basic Bash. Actually, type man bash and at least skim the whole thing; it's pretty easy to follow and not that long

Skimming The Grapes of Wrath would be shorter. Thank you, but no thank you.

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