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toobulkeh··on Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)
It’s cool, but none of the T&Cs of those providers legally allow for this. There’s a market for that, but heads up.
toobulkeh··on Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
Clicking too fast zooms the browser which breaks the click placement. Native Mobile would be much better.

Great concept!

toobulkeh··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
It’s not his message, it’s the forum. Why host a rails conference, that he explicitly created because he was silenced from the main one…to them not talk about rails?

Why not adapt rails for this next generation?

Why do it this way? It’s like walking into a temple to yell about Jesus. It was absurdly obnoxious.

toobulkeh··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Both can be true. IP is real and they created new IP off of stolen IP.
toobulkeh··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
https://venice.ai/
toobulkeh··on Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
Looks powerful. If you focus on notion-like elements you’ll go far. The product roadmap is there—their pricing is nuts.
toobulkeh··on Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
Needs to be updated in the age of AI
toobulkeh··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
You’re mistaking the original term hacker, a tinkerer of systems, for the black hat variety.
toobulkeh··on Steam Machine launches today
Oh god I bought one of these. It was so terrible. Valve is definitely the right company (private) to pull this off. Gabe just needs to own a foundry and they’ll be set.
toobulkeh··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Not necessarily, as productivity is usually measuring output, not outcomes.

Even then, outcomes at companies require external factors, like markets and competitors, and often don’t majorly depend on the company’s efforts.

toobulkeh··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Why do you need to lock anything? To prevent someone else from working on it? To prevent duplicative work? That sounds like a management/coordination issue. Not a VCS issue. So you have version A and version B. Why are 2 artists working on the same asset without coordination? Do they not use task tracking or project management? Even if that’s ignored, then one person’s work gets wasted. That happens all the time in text based dev too if it’s lacking coordination.

Should coordination live in the VCS layer? That sounds like it creates more issues than prevents.

toobulkeh··on Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
This is a great argument for software factories. Writing the systems that build the system.
toobulkeh··on Klaser Cards, a printable personal collection
I really want this with RFID tags so the kids aren’t overloaded by streaming. Same for music. We’re missing out with anything on demand at any time that the value of collecting and favorites has diminished.
toobulkeh··on Incident with Actions and Pages
At some point I’ll need a status page for when it’s up
toobulkeh··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
I’ve found that it’s a lot like discovering a feature instead of designing it all up front. Like chiseling marble.

I’ve found it useful to write out a list of feedback / issues and have a bunch of sub agents work on them in worktrees with a loop bringing them all back together. That way it can work for a few hours while I just can review a bulk at a time.

toobulkeh··on Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
Testing
toobulkeh··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
I’ve been looking for this for forever. Finally, the right label.
toobulkeh··on OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)
Do you have examples of Anthropic doing so? I’d love to see it. To me it seems they have a proclivity to being hyper-accurate.
toobulkeh··on Claude mixes up who said what
But there could be, with 2 LLMs.
toobulkeh··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
1. There’s nothing human about hacker news. Since the telegraph, we lost human to human communication. We’ve gained a lot. But it’s naive to claim that HN is any semblance of human-to-human communication. 2. YC helped unleash the war that you’re now losing. This pleading screams too little too late. 3. Just because something “should” happen doesn’t mean it will. HMW Go build that future. HMW Replace HN with human verification and trust signals over AI slop algorithms that AI can’t produce. Pleading for change about it is not building. It’s the lawyers defense, not the engineers. I have only the utmost respect in YC and HN—but have heard this same argument for LI or any social media change. The networks’ defenses are crumbling and AI accelerated it.

Might be time to increase the value of trust signals over content.

toobulkeh··on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
I immediately tried this with my Seattle Orca card, but the barcode is different
toobulkeh··on Two kinds of vibe coding
Imagine if everyone got the opportunity to work on SOTA. What a world we would be.

Unfortunately that’s not where we’re headed.

toobulkeh··on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
Your job is also, arguably more important in certain scenarios, is to deliver maintainable code.

Remember, code does 2 things: 1. Tell the machine what to do 2. Tell the next developer what you were trying to do

toobulkeh··on Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found
It also talks about using PBT and Randomness for some reason. This is clearly just a test value of a non-AI library written by a human.

My take away is “don’t write your own input tests, use a library”. The rest is AI-slip

toobulkeh··on Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
What if picking took the item out to the side in a specific place. Like a little basket or drawer
toobulkeh··on Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens
They have an AI router they just released.

ngrok.ai

toobulkeh··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
Have you tried LibreChat? I spun that up to great success inside an org.

Personally, I use Raycast for all my personal work

toobulkeh··on Show HN: Kalendis – Scheduling API (keep your UI, we handle timezones/DST)
What’s the value prop of this over cal.com scheduling backend with higher primitives?
toobulkeh··on Laptops with Stickers
I would get these if they were all OSS alternative logos with the paid names.
toobulkeh··on Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
I used the new system tonight and it felt like a definite downgrade. Generated a few non-working basic apps, couldn’t handle CSS in a NextJS environment. Terminal context didn’t work. And it went back to not reasoning through the problem until resolution. And kept slowing down.

I’m assuming major release vs stable, but this is pretty lackluster so far. Switched back to Sonnet reasoning. Here’s to improving!

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