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gosen

60 karma · joined September 10, 2026

Senior Software engineer with 16+ years of experience. Indie builder, creator of https://stackness.dev and https://kantamigo.com/
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gosen··on I turned live air traffic into jazz
awesome idea and nicely implemented! I'd be also cool to have it as a radio station when it changes the airports from time to time
gosen··on [dead]
I've re-created all my productivity techniques which I use for the last 8 years as AI skills. Nothing fancy - just a bunch of markdown files, and you'll still have to do all the thinking work by yourself (sorry). Actually you don't have to use AI with them, they're working great with a notepad and a pen too, but it's up to you to decide.

I cannot live without my personal task manager and daily / weekly routines which I do to keep my life organised. Maybe because I cannot stand of unfinished / disorganised tasks anymore, maybe it's just a good habit I've developed over the years. I've called them "clear head" because surprise-surprise, they help me keep my head clear It's especially relevant in the AI era we're in where we have to process a lot of information (yes, I see the irony that AI skills can help with an overloaded mind because of AI, but they can ).

Please check them out and let me know if they were useful for you, and it's open-source so you can contribute.

gosen··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
it's kind of entertaining as a game for sure, but I guess last few years changed me in a way that I felt sad when I played.. I guess because I thought that it can easily be a reality and it is a reality in a few places right now :(

of course there're still many games with violence which I played and I don't want to be a moralist, but here something clicked differently, is it the "real buildings" maybe?

gosen··on Deus Ex
what a great game! *nostalgic tears dropped*
gosen··on Ask HN: Engineers Focus Using AI
sometimes it's easier, because you can handle some of their requests with a quick AI-vibecoded prototype instead of having endless discussions

on the other hand non-tech people now also expect devs to be insanely fast because they think "AI will do this for you" while ignoring SDLC reality

so I'd say it's the same in the end

gosen··on Pangram Image 1.0
that's really nice, I was so impressed by pangram AI text detector so I hope image detector is also that good
gosen··on Window Sweaters
such a good timing for the sweater weather
gosen··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
Maintaining my indie social network for tech people https://stackness.dev/ (currently struggling to keep users on the platform, even games and achievements didn't help, can you believe that? :D)

and this weekend I'll finally launch a tool for guitarists and their friends https://kantamigo.com/

gosen··on Brush paint mini-game inspired by spreading liquid
I was playing with https://mofu-dev.com/en/blog/fluid-foundation/ which was shared today on HN and mixing colors was the most enjoyable moment for me, so I've created a mini thingy to mix colors. I'm not sure if it's possible to actually paint something meaningful with it, but I feel oddly satisfied to just move it around and mix :D
gosen··on Spreading Liquid with Three.js
that's so satisfying, except the moments when I tried to spread it on static images :D
gosen··on sshole
I really like creativity in the name, the way website built and the content

"tl;dr" was a bit of a downgrade though, but that's fine

it's a nice way to promote the company behind it

gosen··on Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
It's kind of inevitable that they stale because of the growth. Let's say it is about programming language - if it's good language then there're more good materials about it, that means more content to maintain in an "awesome repo", and then again and again, with or without AI it would go fully stale or unmaintainable.

I guess there's no solution, these things should go to history and we need to find a better way to find "best of the best" individually while avoiding SEO-hacked resources with some bs. I actually think there's future in individual learning, so everybody will have their own learning plan, their own learning materials and all that adapted to the way they think and consume information.

gosen··on A new Go API for JSON
wohoo, good news indeed better later than never :D as an active Golong user I'm very happy
gosen··on Conductor is joining Meta
Glad for the team, sad for the product
gosen··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
It's just a cherry on top of the existing hiring process in the IT. It wouldn't surprised that it will make things even worse - companies will be more scared to talk to anyone and good candidates will be scared to reply
gosen··on Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman
The UI looks a bit outdated, it gives me vibes of some old software from 2000s somehow (probably because of the Java). And it would be really helpful to clearly state benefits of using Milkman instead of Postman right on the home page (e.g. performance benchmarks, UX, extendability, etc.). I see that it has some users and 1.3k stars so there're definitely some cool things in Milkman, probably you could just present them better
gosen··on We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
ahh, I need to add SOUL.md I guess :D but I agree, it will always has a limit
gosen··on We're Training a Figma-Fluent Editing Model
I'm curious if they'll make this model to be a bit more creative than existing models. I know it's weird to ask for creativity in such case, but I'm already a bit annoyed that Opus 5.5 or Sol or whatever else is quite good at creating clean / consistent but soulless designs. In order to get something really out-of-template it needs a lot of iterations and preps. Or maybe I'm just bad at UX/UI design and my AI setup feels that :D
gosen··on Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands
cool! but I have a problem, how can I exit this game?
gosen··on Why can't Claude agents running in the cloud do everything on GitHub?
for security?
gosen··on Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
I've quickly checked and guestimate of the rental would be ~250-300k per month for this kind of usage they claim to have. It's all based on open prices from together.ai. So probably it worth the switch for them afterall, I can imagine that 56 engineers can burn tokens for more than 300k per month
gosen··on Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
yeah, seems like they're renting (according to the info from the video), but doesn't it make the bill worse? I mean the provider makes money somehow, so it should be more expensive for revolut. I guess it's a lot anyway
gosen··on Show HN: Hacker News Analytics
I was trying to get some insights / observation form the data, and noticed that 2 out of 5 "top stores" in the last month is about death. And then I saw that all-time record #1 story is also about death. I have mixed feelings and I'm not sure what to do with that knowledge :D

But the website is nice, I had some fun clicking around and check the most popular stuff

gosen··on Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
> Per David Abitbol, who leads AI ops there: 56 Nvidia B200s, a blended 30 cents per million tokens, roughly a tenth of what they paid Anthropic and OpenAI.

So they've invested around $2.5M-3M into hardware + monthly operating costs (electricity, updates, cooling). I wonder how much did they spend on tokens to decide to make such a switch. I mean if they used to spend $500k-1M per month just on tokens then it would pay off in a year or so, assuming their infra will be stable and efficient.

We'll see if that's a trend for mid-big companies or just an experiment.

All that math is assuming that it's all self-hosted in their data center or so and not paying to a cloud provider, which will be probably more expensive.

gosen··on Show HN: SpotKat – a free cat register with a lost-cat network
Yeah, that makes sense. The "care" package also sounds very good, do you plan to expand to other countries beyond NL? I used to live in Spain and people own a lot of dogs there, so I think both websites will be quite useful there
gosen··on Resisting Cognitive Surrender
What an amazing article! It's really hard to find the balance between "ship faster, fix later because AI will help" and "efficient thoughtful engineering" these days. The world is kind of pushing everybody to work faster because "with AI you're more efficient" and it's also pushing to surrender and just accept it from time to time. Maybe that's occasional thoughtful surrender mentioned in the article, or it's just lack of energy to resist to it at that point.

The article is inspiring though, I have more motivation to work on my thinking process and my engineering setup (and vibe limit haha) to be more thoughtful, thank you.

gosen··on Ask HN: How are you protecting your apps and infra after recent vulnerabilities?
I don't think anything unique should be done now, solutions are the same as always: keep your infra and software up-to-date. Configure dependabot or similar, make updates weekly, enforce 2FA everywhere, instruct the team to be more responsible, make backups (and probably backups of backups) and be consistent in all these boring chores.

I still believe that majority of recent incidents were related to human factor, all these "we'll update it somewhere next sprint or next year" kind of people sitting on Python 2.7 / PHP 7 just paid for their irresponsibility, unfortunately. These days it's just easier to reach these vulnerable places

gosen··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
ok, that's a bit scary..
gosen··on Entire's Trail vs. the Pull Request
I'm curious if GH and the like will adapt to the "agentic era" in their products
gosen··on Show HN: Take a break, play some puzzles
Yeah, I understand that completely, the goal is to relax so time pressure would kill it :) But as a separate mode in the future for "hardcore" games might work. Great job anyway!
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