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willchen commented on Deepseek R1-0528   huggingface.co/deepseek-a... · Posted by u/error404x
willchen · 3 months ago
I love how Deepseek just casually drops new updates (that deliver big improvements) without fanfare.
willchen commented on Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust   desktopdocs.com/?v=2025... · Posted by u/katrinarodri
willchen · 3 months ago
I recently built an Electron app (http://dyad.sh/) and I looked at other options like Tauri, but Electron has such a mature ecosystem (e.g. https://www.electronforge.io/) that I was able to ship a cross-platform app in a couple weeks (Mac+Windows) and then adding Linux support was pretty trivial.

The only downside from my point of view is the large installer size for Electron apps, but it hasn't been a big issue for our users (because they will need to download quite a bit of other stuff like npm packages to actually build apps with dyad)

willchen commented on Launch HN: Relace (YC W23) – Models for fast and reliable codegen    · Posted by u/eborgnia
willchen · 3 months ago
I tried sending an email to support@relace.ai (which was linked in the doc) and got:

Your message wasn't delivered to support@relace.ai because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.

btw, I'm interested in trying out relace for my AI app generator tool: http://dyad.sh/

willchen commented on Show HN: Dyad – free, local, open-source AI app builder (v0/lovable alternative)   dyad.sh/... · Posted by u/willchen
cadamsdotcom · 4 months ago
It's a beautiful app, well documented, with lots of potential and a few rough edges still.

But it does local models via ollama, supports multiple chats, and can get an app stood up just the same as Bolt, v0, Lovable, et al.

Stoked this is being built, looking forward to seeing what it becomes!

willchen · 4 months ago
thank you! agree there's still rough edges, making lots of improvements each week to make it better :)
willchen commented on Show HN: Dyad – free, local, open-source AI app builder (v0/lovable alternative)   dyad.sh/... · Posted by u/willchen
davidfiala · 4 months ago
Very nice!

Regarding the localness, are you optimizing or targeting users that prefer only local inference? The part about API keys at the end makes me wonder if there's any practical difference outside of lower local resource requirements and access to private models on the clound.

Do you recommend or force that people use any specific languages or frameworks that dyad is optimized to render or iterate on locally?

willchen · 4 months ago
thank you!

I definitely want to support users who want to use cloud inference or local inference because you do need a pretty beefy machine to run the top open source models.

Right now Dyad supports React (vite), but i'm working on supporting more frameworks in the future! (other languages is probably further off)

I think practically, the nice part with Dyad is that all the code is on your computer, so if you want to switch back and forth with Cursor/VS Code, it's seamless.

willchen commented on Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?    · Posted by u/mywittyname
medhir · 5 months ago
Personally found the best mileage out of sticking to chat interfaces.

Using Cursor, I felt like it was too easy to modify too many things in one go.

I keep my prompts scoped to drafting / refining specific components. If I feel stuck, I’ll use the chat as a rubber duck to bounce ideas off of and rebuild momentum. Asking the model to follow a specific pattern you’ve already established helps with consistency.

Recently been impressed with Gemini 2.5, it’s able to provide more substantive responses when I ask for criticism whereas the other models will act more like sycophants.

willchen · 5 months ago
If you like chat interfaces, you might like this open-source tool I built, which is basically a chat UI but it saves you the hassle of copying and pasting files https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad

Basically it's running a chat UI locally on a Git repo and you can reference files like "#foo.py" and then if you want to edit a file, you hit "Apply code" for a markdown code block and then it shows you a code diff so you can review the changes before actually updating the files. I've found this makes it much easier to curb stray edits and keep the LLM edits focused on what you actually care about.

willchen commented on Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?    · Posted by u/mywittyname
willchen · 5 months ago
If you're just getting started and want to keep using Pycharm, you can check out https://dyad.sh/ it's an open-source standalone AI pair programming tool so you don't need to switch IDEs. It's also focused on making it like you're pair programming with a real engineer, asking you clarifying questions and having you pick from different options when the request is unclear.

You can also check out the GitHub repo at: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad

(disclosure: I created Dyad)

u/willchen

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