madprops
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:48AM (#49240153)
I don't know if you are being funny, but I say stuff like "arguments" because it has 452 of them, because I wanted to make almost everything configurable.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:57PM (#49237576)
For the last couple of months I was working daily, and intensely, on Meltdown. The project started in 2024, but I retook it recently and improved/extended it a lot.
This is an AI Harness + Platform, made in Python and Tkinter.
It has a lot of advanced features, arguments, commands, shortcuts.
Lots of widgets and the markdown parser were done from scratch.
It has a powerful API to create conversational sessions interactively.
You can learn about it on a blog post I made:
https://github.com/madprops/blog/blob/main/docs/meltdown/mel...
Re:A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:13AM (#49228868)
Hah. Just now I was reading about how Sony hated Michael Jackson because he owned half of the music licenses, and some say Sony might be been involved in his demise. My point being, maybe Sony is not a nice company.
Re:Python string literals are kinda funny
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:39PM (#49225693)
Great new way to write blog posts!
Re:Taste Is All That's Left
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:51PM (#49202361)
I tend to like images in a split second, when they try to achieve a certain aesthetic at least. I can later inspect them more carefully and understand why they're good.
Reading text, it can either grab me or it doesn't. I've asked about that to an AI and there's some reason for that. Some text is more compatible with me, due to the rhythm or combination of chars/words used, how they actually look/feel, it's not just about the content. So I'm assuming some writers are going to be more compatible with me while others will make me dismiss them quickly or just skim.
I like to think I have the correct objective taste in music, but everybody thinks that about themselves.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs f...
on Friday July 03, 2026 @07:31AM (#48773778)
Just use both. vscode + copilot for autocomplete and antigravity for prompting. My main editor is vscode and I do heavy manual edits, and I also heavily use antigravity. I feel like I've become very productive and not actually renouncing the ways of the programmer, but augmenting them, as long as I'm careful enough with the generated code by checking every file it touched.
Re:Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @08:00PM (#48703009)
Some months ago I made this Morse Code Universe where people travel through zones, stumble upon each other, and communicate in morse code.
All they can do is use morse code to communicate, even the names are assigned automatically. There is a zone map with hundreds of zones, zones with recent activity get a red hue. Secret zones can be unlocked if you happen to use one of the sekrit morse code words.
It's a casual mmorpg/townsquare that is fundamentally safe since the best you can do is focus to type a very offensive word in 20 seconds.
I stumbled upon some random people who visited the site as I was developing it. Taught some the words to enter the secret zones as a game, took them on a tour. Also met a morse code aficionado and we had a little conversation in morse code, eventually met him in another site I have.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:49PM (#48694370)
AI is probably old italian tech
Re:We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:47AM (#48685522)
Concerning globo-list. Centralization/takeover, aka an eventual "we will manage you"; which might be the true colors of the Linux Foundation. Forks would just get absorbed and used internally instead of depending on the performance of random informal earth citizens. The site is not even pleasant to read with that font. Villainy is parodied in this world heavily, names like Discord, Palantir, AI Companies talking about doom scenarios and enjoying it: so it's cool and expected to be a villain, to wrestle with the other kinds of power. I just want some fresh choices to polish the kind of company I want to get around me, which would likely be the opposite of who signed that letter.
Re:Doing a masters while working in Spain
on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:37AM (#48682721)
Felicidades. Sometimes I think about returning to a public university to have something structured to do, especially since I've been in a way educating myself through AI and I appreciate the idea of an environment dedicated to people with a similar intellectual interest. I don't really care about academia, if I do it it would be an experimental change of environment. If there is even a place for people like me in that public university at all (older people).
Re:No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:33AM (#48682349)
All you need is a gun and a car. AI psychosis if you don't have a heart.
Remember that Terrans are the most based race in StarCraft. Protoss got too stiff.
Re:
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:15AM (#48669224)
Made entirely in Python, it has a lot of stuff and polish, custom widgets, very lightweight.
And recently I added an API so python scripts can be made to interface with the models and the interface.
Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds i...
on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:28PM (#48498312)
I forgot to fully describe the prompt since I already described it a bit on the title of the submission, which might be a problem. I hope the title of the submission itself is included alongside the prompt when giving instructions to the AI.
Adet tells you how people do things here
Things I Hate
X THING WILL APPEAR HEREokay :( click to closeTHIS THING IS NOW SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTokay :( click to closeIF YOU WANT X YOU CAN SWIPE RIGHTokay :( click to close------------Lack of Tooltips: You'd think GitHub would have developers that carefully document action buttons like "Re-run all jobs". Would be great that if I hover over that button some text with hints about what it actually...
Re:LLM platform being built with Python and tkinter
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:05AM (#48457593)
LLM platform being built with Python and tkinter
Ask HN: How do I whitelist commands in Antigravity?
I use the settings gui to add commands like "grep" or "git diff" yet it just ignores them and I have to approve them everytime.
Meltdown Now Supports OpenRouter
Conversational LLM Client Made in Tkinter
Re:Show HN: Compare Similar Audio Tracks
on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:24PM (#48103475)
Show HN: Compare Similar Audio Tracks
Re:LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:37PM (#48079401)
Simple quick blind test for fun: https://w.merkoba.com/pickabot/
Re:I’ve banned query strings
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @05:15PM (#48078346)
>Right click a youtube video from the results to copy the URL. I would have liked a short URL ready to share with people in chats, but no, I get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFfLCuHSZ-U&pp=ygUNcmF0Ym95I...
>Want to share an amazon product on a chat to discuss about it. I would have liked a nice short url that I can copy, instead I get a monstrosity, it forces me to manually select only the id portion of it if I want to share it.
Meltdown: LLM Client Made in Python and Tk
Re:Ask HN: How many tabs do you have open in the browser(s) and why?
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:58PM (#47942479)
I'm currently optimizing my firefox tab manager (Grasshopper) to handle a user that has over 20k tabs.
Re:Slide – Strudel Live Coding
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:15PM (#47938286)
Try the Auto Menu at the bottom to see some action.
Slide – Strudel Live Coding
Re:Grasshopper: Advanced Tab Manager
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:18PM (#47871947)
Not a single line of the 66k lines were vibe coded except some specific focused fixes.
And don't tell me what to do nerd.