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ctxcon The challenges of soft delete

And why would one do that? For marginal gainz?

ctxcon Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

My thoughts exactly! The barrier could be mental, induced _by_ the app

ctxcon GitHub Incident

My az services seem to be up.

ctxcon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://dvsj.in

Weird, but I like to call it whimsical ;)

ctxcon Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

Haha, thank you! I just checked Mantine out thanks to you. Going to use it on my next side project :D

ctxcon Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

Haha, thank you! Glad to hear it :D

ctxcon Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

Not as impressive, but - making my website weirder. Not a frontend dev at work.

Top of my ideas now: add "ask your LLM" buttons to my email submission form that opens ChatGPT/Perp/Claude and auto-fills a query asking it why you should be friends with me.

Sample links (I hope it says nice things about me!):

Claude: https://claude.ai/new?q=Do+deep+research+on+a+person%2C+dvsj....

ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/?q=Do+deep+research+on+a+person%2C+d....

Also working on a PRM. My website is https://dvsj.in - open to any feedback!

ctxcon How Markdown took over the world

That's so cool! I built a CLI app for myself and am totally going to do a gradient now!

ctxcon The Jeff Dean Facts

"Why do you pick on Protocol Buffers so much?

Because it’s easy to pick on myself. :)"

Damn!

ctxcon Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware

This is pretty cool! Never considered this

ctxcon A4 Paper Stories

TIL GSM is just g/sq m. Like duh, feel so stupid xD

ctxcon enclose.horse

Has to be my favourite comment, haha!

ctxcon The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

The towel section was my favorite part of the book growing up!

ctxcon 2025: The Year in LLMs

Some people cannot be convinced simply because their expectation of "novel" is something that appears in an Asimov novel.

I for one think your work is pretty cool - even though I haven't seen it, using something you built everyday is a claim not many can make!

ctxcon Tell HN: Happy New Year

That's interesting! What was your thesis about?

ctxcon Tell HN: Happy New Year

Congrats and all the best!

Page isn't optimised for mobile btw.

ctxcon Tell HN: Happy New Year

Had to Google CVD, cool stuff!

ctxcon Tell HN: Happy New Year

Happy new year! I'd love to take a look at some of the side projects you're working on :)

ctxcon Tell HN: Happy New Year

Happy parenting my man. Enjoy what the kid does at each stage, don't rush it, and have a great year!

ctxcon Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence

Surely you must see the difference between what is a utility and...firearms and alcohol?

ctxcon Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)

Hmm maybe, a blooper on their part

I just switched networks (wifi/mobile) and it worked, only that provider seems to block it

ctxcon Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)

Oh well...

https://ibb.co/BVrzQRWH

ctxcon Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming

I recall bookmarking this before (guilty!), thanks!

ctxcon You Need to Ditch VS Code

Tbh it's the default way I start my app in, debug mode xD

ctxcon MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025

Acc to a comment I read elsewhere, it's in the thousands (shodan result)

ctxcon Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?

Thanks, that's pretty cool! Haven't seen that before.

ctxcon Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?

Thank you, will check it out! :D

I'm building a voice assistant that does things for me (basically computer use with extra steps). Ideally no LLM involved for execution.

I'm trying to start with common commands: "open HN" "open Claude" "Copy paste errors into IDE claude (which copies trace from Chrome and pastes it into the integrated IDE terminal)"

ctxcon One million (small web) screenshots

Thank you so much!

Nice catch, fixing :D

ctxcon Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?

Polishing my website (https://dvsj.in) and building a PRM for myself (CRM, but personal). I have a _very_ bad memory unfortunately!

[Request for help]

I'm also building a Mac app that helps automate frequent actions. Eg: 1. Open a URL in a browser, switch to tab if it exists already 2. Open a bunch of apps (VSCode project, Slack, Github on web) 3. Copy last error stack trace from Chrome 4. Open VSCode, switch to the terminal where Claude Code is opened

1, 2 are trivial with AppleScript.

How would you approach 3, 4? A browser extension and a VSCode extension that communicates with the Mac app might work, but wouldn't scale for more apps (and is a maintenance nightmare)

ctxcon One million (small web) screenshots

Very surprised to see my website on there. But I'm assuming it's >6 months old because I went batshit crazy on the UI recently.