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klntsky

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klntsky··on LLMs are mirrors of operator skill
Use always-enabled cursor (or your agentic editor of choice) rules.
klntsky··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

  Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, PureScript, LLMs, EVM tooling
  Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
  Email: my username at google's mail service
I'm mainly interested in LLM automation, FP, and DeFi.
klntsky··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote, Part-time | SWE, LLM automation

I want to build LLM chatbots/workflows/agents for others to have some business cases to advance my own set of LLM automation tools. DM me if you have non-critical projects for me to experiment on.

CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf

klntsky··on Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste
Advertise this to hackerspaces
klntsky··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
I would argue that they are never led astray by chatting, but rather by accepting the projection of their own prompt passed through the model as some kind of truth.

When talking with reasonable people, they have an intuition of what you want even if you don't say it, because there is a lot of non-verbal context. LLMs lack the ability to understand the person, but behave as if they had it.

klntsky··on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
> Think of it as an “MyAnimeList for donations”, or a “Goodreads for open projects”, list out which projects you personally have your sights on you think are important that other people also hear about.

Sounds like an app idea. Who would use it?

klntsky··on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
The status quo of the US society was largely overwritten by a single man back then. This included extraordinary (for the US) measures like expropriating gold[0] and The New Deal (which concentrated a lot of power in the hands of the state). But then everything went back to normal (he's the reason why there is a maximum of 2 presidential terms now).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

klntsky··on Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
> I had to micromanage them infinitely

You are missing a crucial part of the process - writing rules

klntsky··on The value isn't in the code (2022)
The value can be negative. Regardless of the sign, it is mostly in the people.
klntsky··on Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers
I suggest you to remove the opt-out functionality and let it scrape private servers that it discovers via publicly posted invite links. You don't owe anyone posting on a public forum any privacy. Moreover, the most valuable data to search for is probably somewhat obscured.
klntsky··on Thoughts on thinking
Pointlessness is a feeling within. People are just rationalizing it conveniently by blaming LLMs (they used to blame other things in the past).

Same with doom anxiety.

Literally just look up some good therapist prompts for chatgpt

klntsky··on Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
Shameless plug: I'm working on a public contest website for prompts compressing other prompts.

It will include evaluations and a public scoreboard.

It's not usable rn, but feel free to follow: https://github.com/klntsky/prompt-compression-contest/

klntsky··on I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
You probably triggered LLM blindness with your proposal. Never use formal style speech in markdown with bullet points.
klntsky··on Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
Any way to add sound?
klntsky··on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
It always felt strange to me that although the US is clearly a guilt-driven culture, it has shame-based mechanics of control when it comes to finances. May it be due to protestant christianity losing its former position of influence? So that more archaic forms of human behavior control take precedence?
klntsky··on Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)
A little something is better than nothing, so the board can dilute if a shutdown is on the horizon.
klntsky··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

  Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: LLMs, Rust, Haskell, TypeScript, PureScript, EVM tooling
  Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
  Email: my username at google's mail service
I'm mainly interested in LLM automation, crypto and FP.
klntsky··on Show HN: Hyperparam: OSS Tools for Exploring Datasets Locally in the Browser
That's a lot of names for a bunch of tools that do a single task each.

What I would really benefit of is a hypothetical LLM chat app that is focused on data migration or processing pipelines.

klntsky··on I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
Moreover, habr is a great example why you should not let your site be 'out of politics' (which basically means making a silent deal with fsb to let their ambassadors roam free in the comment section for the luxury of not being blocked). At a certain point in time the site pivoted from being somewhat anti-censorship to a cesspot full of turbonormies, all because of the owners desire to stay highly monetized. There is nothing they would not force you to accept if you are only interested in views and money, but you will get neither in the end.
klntsky··on Show HN: Web-eval-agent – Let the coding agent debug itself
I told windsurf to install playwright, identify crucial workflows of the app and add tests for them. Not without my input, but I got what I wanted without getting the hands dirty.

Does this thing add much on top?

klntsky··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
I don't think stock prices matter as much to him (everybody knows there are lots of expectations baked in the price).
klntsky··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
I don't want to contribute to this giant propaganda machine by making it more valuable. Structural problems must be fixed first.

"If your solution consists of 'everyone should just X', you don't have a solution"

klntsky··on Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury
> if combat soldiers are, as a rule, psychologically unharmed by killing an enemy, does this increase the risk that they may be willing to kill captives or civilians who they have come to class as 'the enemy'?

It's obviously the opposite: the more traumatized one is, the more likely he is to commit a war crime.

klntsky··on The dark side of the Moomins
It's funny that you made a throwaway just to post an opinion on a book for children on this site
klntsky··on Everything wrong with MCP
MCP tools are completely static. If you have to expose some APIs bypassing MCP, then you don't need MCP in the first place, because you don't have the tools abstracted anymore.

I believe it is possible to build nuanced workflows with well abstracted / reusable / pluggable tools, it's just not as simple as implementing a static discovery / call dispatch layer.

klntsky··on Everything wrong with MCP
MCP is a dead end for chatbots. Building valuable workflows requires more than tool calling, most importantly, understanding the context of a conversation to adjust the tools dynamically.
klntsky··on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
The difference is not in the ability to be heard. The difference is in the consequences: jail or even death vs. merely not being heard.
klntsky··on Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?
> Open source is for privileged fools who don't understand reality or human nature.

I get what type of people you are refering to, but it's possible to be fully aware of the reality of human nature and nonetheless to choose open source. There are other business models, like selling consultancy services, educational materials and such, that work well alongside open source codebases.

klntsky··on What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear

It's naive to think so. The obvious argument against that is that the behavior of the consumer, not the producer, is what constitutes the problem

klntsky··on Who Is Free Software For?
Nah. OSS is low quality because the feedback loops do not include its users unless they are also developers.

There are exceptions, but the ideology of OSS resists attempts to make good products. Or, rather, people who are associated with the OSS ideology fail to build products.

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