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Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:02PM (#49885071)
It's an easy way to compare the coding and creative strengths of models. I prefer them over reading a tabular comparison of benchmarks which you have no real insights into.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:19PM (#49236027)
https://runnit.io - work / project management and automation for creative teams
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:18PM (#49236022)
https://runnit.io - creative team work/project management system

Show HN: Runthru – open-source Interactive Demos

https://github.com/marktolson/runthru

I was looking for a tool to create interactive demos / walkthroughs for web based software. I was amazed that many companies charge well over $1000 per month for something pretty basic.I made this which so far works well for me. You can point it at a site and either let AI (byo OpenAI or Anthropic keys) record and polish the whole thing or do it manually yourself (or a mixture of both).Here is...

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Looks cool but I just ran the results url through gpt and asked it to create a plan for better optimisation. What would the point of the upsell be?
True, but resetting context to avoid bias doesn't require different agent personas with limited scope, it requires refreshing the context which can be done with a single agent.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:28AM (#48889540)
https://runnit.io - automated work management and ops for creative teams
I got it to transcribe this: "Create tests and ensure all tests pass" and instead of transcribing exactly what I said it outputs nonsense around "I am a large language model and I cannot create and execute tests".

Other than that issue I like it.

Re:OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:59PM (#47645134)
Genuinely impressed with this! Thank you!
Re:SQL Studio on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:49PM (#46547635)
Crashes on Mac trying to open up a fairly small workspace (max 97,000 rows).
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:55PM (#46319974)
Looks good but there is no way I'm installing powershell as a dependency.
Re:N8n raises $180M on Thursday October 09, 2025 @07:26AM (#45526174)
I represent one of those stars. N8N is an amazing system. I use it daily and have seen incredible progress made consistently over the past few years. Currently my team use it for processing millions of workflows each year on a very small server and it hasn't cost us a cent so I would give them more than 1 star if I could. I wouldn't build a new system without it to be honest.
Not sure if you read the description but I clearly stated that I wanted no middleman, so I'm not sure how this solves my use case. Also not sure how it requires the same amount of time, and 'manual intervention every time'? You provision a remote server, install docker then update the local config file and it's done. One line deployments everytime. And why would I update the code inside the container when you need a build process to install dependencies? If you want to update code while the app is running then restart, then docker is not the right solution.

Additionally there are a million different and better ways to deploy services, this suits the use case I described.

Better off trying to get it brownlit.
It's not based on k8s, it's just pushing your local app to a server and spinning up a conainer with one CLI call.
Here is my main use case. I have lightweight services that I need to update and deploy regularly (until I movee to K8s or a proper production env). Using pooshit, I can push my entire local dev folder to a remote server then destroy the old image, rebuild the new image and spin up a new container with one call. Your config file contains your remote config. You need nothing in between you and your remote server and it only relies on SSH and docker, nothing else, no middleman, repos, and no deployment containers running on your VM.
Probably pretty similar except you get to just write "pooshit" instead.
Yes.

Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers

Pronounced Push-It....I'm a lazy developer for the most part, so this is for people like me. Sometimes I just want my local code running in live remote containers quickly, without building images and syncing to cloud docker repos or setting up git workflows or any of the other draining ways to get your code running remotely.With pooshit (and a simple config file), you can simply push your local...

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Re:Pooshit – sync local code to remote Docker containers on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:20PM (#45217737)
Pronounced Push-It....

I'm a lazy developer for the most part, so this is for people like me. Sometimes I just want my local code running in live remote containers quickly, without building images and syncing to cloud docker repos or setting up git workflows or any of the other draining ways to get your code running remotely.

With pooshit (and a simple config file), you can simply push your local dev files to a remote folder on a VM then automatically remove relevant running containers, then build and run an updated container with one command line call.

It works well with reverse proxies like nginx or caddy as you can specify the docker run arguments in the pooshit_config files.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @12:09AM (#44093899)
Oh man please make this open source! I'd love to host it in a container.
Re:Sail-Trim Simulator on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:37PM (#43777853)
I like the idea but I don't get this at all. Shouldn't the speed change based on the mainsail trim relative to the heading? I pointed the boat dead downwind, eased the mainsail all the way out and the speed is 0 kn. I can't even see the value for the trim, just speed, but you get speed from correctly trimmed sails.
Re:CSS Hell on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @08:47PM (#43767651)
I thought the site was broken for the exact same reason. Instead of being a troubleshooting / practice type test it's more of a puzzle that I do not care to solve.
I love it! I'm going to show this to my 6 yo tonight. I know for a fact she'll enjoy it.
Looks good but having to download, then sign up just to see the pricing is infuriating.
Re:Essential AI on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:27PM (#38619587)
This has got to be the easiest money ever made. Even the companies that joined in on the 2018/2021 crypto hype train had to write whitepapers. Not only do these guys not have a product, they don't even have a clear mission or a legit looking website. Yet somehow, they have tons of funding!?

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