This is fantastic. I am proud of my invention: https://anycrap.shop/product/headphones-that-play-outwards
Though the AI-generated image didn't capture it that well :(
The perfect headphones to listen to while on the bus.
Readit Newsshortcord commented on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search anycrap.shop/... · Posted by u/kafked
shortcord commented on Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself haystackeditor.com... · Posted by u/akshaysg
I think tools like this are useful, but they can never replace the quality of the narrative that someone who actually wrote the code can come up with.
There's just so much contextual data outside of the code itself that you miss out on. This looks like an improvement over Github Co-Pilot generated summaries, but that's not hard.
shortcord commented on Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself haystackeditor.com... · Posted by u/akshaysg
As I work more with AI, I’ve came to the conclusion that I have no patience to read AI-generated content, whether the content is right or wrong. I just feel like it’s time wasted. Countless of examples: meeting summaries (nobody reads them), auto generated code (we usually do it for prototypes and pocs, if it works, we ship it, no reviews. For serious stuff we take care of the code carefully), and a large etc.
I like AI on the producing side. Not so much on the consuming side.
I tend to agree. Except if it's text generated by me for me.
I don't want you to send me a AI-generated summary of anything, but if I initiated it looking for answers, then it's much more helpful.
shortcord commented on LiveStore: State management based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine livestore.dev... · Posted by u/akoenig
Hi folks, creator of LiveStore here (prev. founder Prisma).
Very excited to launch LiveStore in beta today after having worked on it over the past 4 years. I've built it for myself working on Overtone, an ambitious music client aiming for a native-grade high-performance app feel.
LiveStore embraces SQLite by adding a signals-based reactivity layer and combines it with event-sourced based syncing (similar to Git).
Happy to answer any question! Looking forward to thoughts and feedback!
I'm so glad to see this.
I was just looking into LiveStore this past month for a hobby project, but it was behind a beta preview, so I hope to be able to dig in soon to see if it can be useful to me.
I love how you're pushing forward the localfirst conversation.
If you've spent any time building offline capable web apps with some sort of syncing mechanism, you begin to very quickly see the usefulness of a sync engine.
shortcord commented on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
> Gemini 2.5 Pro now ranks #1 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard
It'd make sense to rename WebDev Arena to React/Tailwind Arena. Its system prompt requires [1] those technologies and the entire tool breaks when requesting vanilla JS or other frameworks. The second-order implications of models competing on this narrow definition of webdev are rather troublesome.
[1] https://blog.lmarena.ai/blog/2025/webdev-arena/#:~:text=PROM...
Not a fan of the dominance of shadcn and Tailwind when it comes to generating greenfield code.
I use them as follows:
o1-pro: anything important involving accuracy or reasoning. Does the best at accomplishing things correctly in one go even with lots of context.
deepseek R1: anything where I want high quality non-academic prose or poetry. Hands down the best model for these. Also very solid for fast and interesting analytical takes. I love bouncing ideas around with R1 and Grok-3 bc of their fast responses and reasoning. I think R1 is the most creative yet also the best at mimicking prose styles and tone. I've speculated that Grok-3 is R1 with mods and think it's reasonably likely.
4o: image generation, occasionally something else but never for code or analysis. Can't wait till it can generate accurate technical diagrams from text.
o3-mini-high and grok-3: code or analysis that I don't want to wait for o1-pro to complete.
claude 3.7: occasionally for code if the other models are making lots of errors. Sometimes models will anchor to outdated information in spite of being informed of newer information.
gemini models: occasionally I test to see if they are competitive, so far not really, though I sense they are good at certain things. Excited to try 2.5 Deep Research more, as it seems promising.
Perplexity: discontinued subscription once the search functionality in other models improved.
I'm really looking forward to o3-pro. Let's hope it's available soon as there are some things I'm working on that are on hold waiting for it.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is quite good at code.
Has become my go to for use in Cursor. Claude 3.7 needs to be restrained too much.
shortcord commented on ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod arktype.io/... · Posted by u/nathan_phoenix
We use it heavily for backend code, and it is a bit of a hot path for our use cases. However the biggest issue is how big the types are by default. I had a 500 line schema file that compiled into a 800,000 line .d.ts file — occupying a huge proportion of our overall typechecking time.
That sounds absolutely absurd.
Are you using a lot of deeply nested objects + unions/intersections?
shortcord commented on Black coffee can be good for your heart, studies show edition.cnn.com/2021/02/0... · Posted by u/jb1991
I love coffee. Even as a child when I smelled it from the kitchen and my parents were having breakfast already I wanted a sip.
Coffee has been a "side hobby" of mine for years. Different beans, grinders, you name it.
But now that I am older I can see how bad it is for me. My sweat smells different (as if I haven't showered in days), my jitters are increasing, I get very unfocused and aggitated and worst of all, mild panic attacks.
I spent few years thinking that something was really wrong with me until I noticed that coffee has a huge negative effect when I am on crunch time.
I started with teas, still not a fan, and decreasing coffee. Also moving to decaf, where are hard to enjoy because of taste.
Not sure if anyone is on the same boat.
I had similar experiences and started cutting my coffee with decaf. I’ve gotten down to a half and half ratio now.
Will typically drink 2 cups in the morning and an espresso immediately following lunch.
I’ve noticed a big difference. I rarely get jittery unless I’ve drunk no water in the morning.
shortcord commented on Getting our first thousand users in one day francescodilorenzo.com/ty... · Posted by u/frankdilo
Increase your time horizons to see things aren’t even close to as bad as they can be. Our lifetimes are a vapor.