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thekuanysh

76 karma · joined April 3, 2020

website: kuan.sh email: captain@mm.st
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thekuanysh··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
Yea, that's what I do so I don't see the issue.
thekuanysh··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
so what's the point? you can use claude sub.
thekuanysh··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
what a throwback feel, nicely done
thekuanysh··on Building Pi with Pi
Maybe that's the jargon to use to avoid us anthropomorphizing this technology. What is it if not a clanker that spits out random non-deterministic bullshit depending on time of the day and generosity of these providers?

I also find this sentiment to be a uniquely American phenomenon. They tend to see racism and discrimination where it has no place being. My impression is that they have dreams about it. Bonkers to me.

thekuanysh··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
It's not about the status quo. It's about the speed of change and focus. While I'm all in on building custom agentic loops and building extensions for my pi I have enough bandwidth and xp to see that it's quite easy for business people to be focused on the matters that are completely non-technical. That plus plain sunk cost fallacy and blind denial ofc.
thekuanysh··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
You on the other hand keep assuming that startup founders, even in SV are technical enough to envision AI or can change the thesis of their business on a whim of technology change that has been introduced less than a year ago. It's not realistic. Businesses have systems, people, obligations, legacy, etc.
thekuanysh··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
Yeah I get what you're saying. Sounds like this guy is driven, smart and savvy then? Definitely a bleeding edge minority who goes where the puck is.

As to my original point I'll go and say that 95/100 of business owners out there in the world don't have any idea about Claude Code, Codex or anything of that caliber. It's too early. By the time that group gets to it there'll be tools tailored to their needs, not a terminal-based coding agent messing up filesystem.

thekuanysh··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
- Fair enough but tech CEOs aren't necessarily technical, developers or keep up-to-date with the tech on the daily like HN crowd.

- The AI jump happened in Q3-Q4 2025 with Opus 4.5 so it's been six months or so? Not long enough.

- Most developers out there use AI for their coding work, not for re-envisioning business models.

thekuanysh··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
Look around, you're most definitely in a bubble. LLMs are bleeding edge by themselves. Using agentic anything is mega bleeding edge. Having something actually working reliably is a tiny sliver of the bleeding edge audience. We have barely entered early adoption phase. Most AI users out there are Q&A'ing it and they have no idea what agents, tool calling or context compaction are.
thekuanysh··on Your Startup Is Probably Dead on Arrival
I dig MPO as a term and that's exactly what I think of implementing agentic systems.
thekuanysh··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Working on Wordspike.com which I launched earlier this month. It exists to help you extract information from videos so that you save time and get a text to work with. It’s freemium model.
thekuanysh··on Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners
Rakhim, nice to see you. Check out wordspike.com (launched last week), it’s def up your alley.
thekuanysh··on Ask HN: LLM Prompt Engineering
What kind of IO do you have? JSON or plain language?
thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
Yes. Modern problems require modern solutions.
thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
Good to hear! Thanks for letting me know.
thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
The UI for table of contents has been updated. Should be much more indicative of the current place on the page. Thanks again!
thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
All important points, thanks for the feedback!

I'll update UI for the table of contents in a moment.

As for LLMs, my vision for Wordspike’s not to replace human voice, but to act as a filter. It's an add-on to see what video content is valuable to watch in full. It's my attempt to built a counter-weight to the endless amount of shorts and slop I see online.

thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
Should be fixed now! Thanks again.
thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
Noted, will fix momentarily! Thanks for letting me know.
thekuanysh··on Mother of All Demos (1968)
Tragic indeed. This has always been a tough business. Apple, Xerox, Facebook, OpenAI…
thekuanysh··on Show HN: Wordspike–AI spikes from any YouTube video (multilang, Kindle export)
Hey HN, I'm the creator of Wordspike.

I built this because I have a love-hate relationship with YouTube. It's an incredible resource, but the platform's design makes it a major productivity trap. I wanted a way to get the knowledge without the time sink.

Wordspike takes any YouTube link and turns it into a clean, readable article with summaries and key insights. It also has a one-click "Send to Kindle" feature. I built the first version in about two weeks using React, Bun, Postgres, and Redis.

The site is live at: https://wordspike.com

I would be grateful for any and all feedback from the HN community—on the product, the tech, the business model, anything.

As a thank you, I'd be happy to set up anyone from HN with a promo Pro account. Just leave a comment here or my email is in my profile.

Thanks for checking it out!

thekuanysh··on Ask HN: Slimvoice Alternative?
Too bad, it’s a great web-app. I wonder why not open-source it if the owner is not interested in keeping it up?
thekuanysh··on Ask HN: What is the purpose of mobile applications?
It‘s wicked fast, good job.
thekuanysh··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
Why do you have to add “Chinese”?