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by saadn92 6mo ago
thank you!
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by saadn92 6mo ago
This being on the front page the same day as "Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly have the same vibe-coded look" is nice to see. One person spends 6 years understanding Win9x internals to run a modern Linux kernel inside it
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by saadn92 6mo ago
Very cool: did something similar here as well: https://github.com/saadnvd1/hydra
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HackerFork – Surfaces HN posts that never make the front page(hackerfork.com)
2 points by saadn92 6mo ago|1 comments
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by saadn92 6mo ago
Hey all! Tons of good posts get submitted to HN and die in /new within an hour or two. It's happened to me quite a few times, so I thought: why not bring those posts to the front page? HackerFork watches /new and imports post
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by saadn92 6mo ago
What bites people: rotating a vercel env variable doesn't invalidate old deployments, because previous deploys keep running with the old credential until you redeploy or delete them. So if you rotated your keys after the bulletin but d
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by saadn92 6mo ago
Networking was the most straightforward part actually. You run the real client and then point it at your server, and use a packet sniffer to capture everything.
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Show HN: Hydra – Never stop coding when your AI CLI hits a rate limit(github.com)
9 points by saadn92 6mo ago|2 comments
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by saadn92 6mo ago
that'd be great, thanks!
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by saadn92 6mo ago
I had to get a job and I just stopped working on it as time flew by. Fun times though
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by saadn92 6mo ago
WoW (classic era through MoP) stores all game assets in MPQ archives. The client has a built-in override system it loads patch files in order (patch-1.mpq, patch-2.mpq, ... patch-A.mpq, patch-B.mpq etc...) and later patches override earlier
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by saadn92 6mo ago
ha, if anyone is interested, I wrote about how I migrated away from Vercel. good timing: https://saadnaveed.com/writing/vercel-to-hetzner/
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by saadn92 6mo ago
I ran a private server years ago. Two things people in this thread are getting wrong: The engineering is way harder than anyone gives credit for. You're reverse engineering a server protocol from the client binary, writing your own spe
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by saadn92 6mo ago
What's the timing like between the lid sensor firing and sleep actually kicking in on Apple Silicon? I ship a couple menu bar apps on M2 and listening for NSWorkspaceWillSleepNotification feels like you get maybe 200ms before the syste
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by saadn92 6mo ago
I'm doing this right now -- AI automation for small businesses, started on Upwork about two months ago. The thing that actually moved the needle was writing proposals that were basically free mini consultations. Someone posts about nee
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by saadn92 6mo ago
I built something like this but much worse. No extension, no recording, I literally sit there with Chrome devtools open, do the action manually, copy the 3-4 network requests into a Python script, and replay them with urllib and a cookie ja
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by saadn92 6mo ago
This is PrivateBin for markdown, right? Same URL fragment trick. My actual problem with markdown isn't previewing, it's search. I've got maybe 50 .md files scattered across different project directories from AI coding session
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by saadn92 6mo ago
Built in Go, 6 MB single binary, that's nice. The saved commands per venv thing is something I haven't seen in other venv managers. I keep a shell alias per project that activates the venv and runs the dev server but having that s
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AI Meeting recorder that runs on your Mac(quietly.fastclick.ai)
3 points by saadn92 6mo ago|0 comments
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by saadn92 6mo ago
What probably happened here is depressingly common in early-stage startups. Someone finds an open source tool that does 80% of what they need, forks it, strips the branding, and then ships it. Nobody thinks about the license because the com
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The xAI piece is the one that stands out to me. $258B for a lab that's burning $1.46B/quarter against $430M revenue, valued almost entirely on a merger anchor from four months ago.
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The hooks performance finding matches what I've seen. I run multiple Claude Code agents in parallel on a remote VM and the first thing I learned was that anything blocking in the agent's critical path kills throughput. Even a few
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The stability question is real but I think it's framed wrong. The issue isn't whether an agent can write correct code in a single session -- they can, and pretty reliably now. It's whether there's a human with enough und
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I Read Claude Code's Leaked Source – Here's What's Inside(saadnaveed.com)
1 points by saadn92 6mo ago|1 comments
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The feature flag names alone are more revealing than the code. KAIROS, the anti-distillation flags, model codenames those are product strategy decisions that competitors can now plan around. You can refactor code in a week. You can't u
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by saadn92 6mo ago
this is the right question to ask
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The closing point is the one that should get more attention — every single one of these apps could be replaced by a web page. And from a product standpoint, there's really only one reason to ship a native app when your content is just
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The thruster fix is the part that gets me. They sent a command that would either revive thrusters dead since 2004 or cause a catastrophic explosion, then waited 46 hours for the round trip with zero ability to intervene. That's a produ
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by saadn92 6mo ago
The "we chose a validated market so we could focus on learning distribution" framing is really smart and honestly something I wish I'd done earlier. I'm building a workspace/collaboration tool and spent way too long
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by saadn92 6mo ago
This. That's the only reason I'm on there too. I completely avoid the news feed, but it does help when you having people reaching out and you need jobs.

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