hemc4's comments

On: Under sea internet cables need backup

[hemc4]

Satellite internet is the true backup with least probability of geopolitical disruption.

On: Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language

[hemc4]

It started with all courses teaching algorithms but on the day job you wrote all algorithms by searching it on web or via a library.

Now they teach language but you just ask agents to check the accuracy of code and rarely read it.

Only few devs wrote new algorithms and only few devs will now write the actual new code. These few devs don't need courses but all other devs need to pretend that they are part of these "few" so they need all the courses, just in case...

On: Your phone is about to stop being yours

[hemc4]

This is reason I don't use ios. I will be happy to use a new OS forked from android at this point of time. Any suggestions? I don't care where it originates from.

[hellcow → hemc4]

https://furilabs.com/

It runs a modified Debian and can run Android apps in containers. To my knowledge this is the closest we come to "open-source phone that actually works as a phone" today.

[benjaminoakes → hemc4]

GrapheneOS, /e/OS, LineageOS

Ideally buy a phone with it pre-installed

On: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

[hemc4]

Wow. Thanks for this update. It streamlined a lot of tasks.

Apart from this, next step will be to add suport for building android apps on the android phones itself. No desktop needed.Building on the laptop with agents and installing the build in the phone and testing doea not seem AI native. If everything can run on my android phone, development cycle will speed up.

[xstas1 → hemc4]

you already could! just install Termux, npm install your favourite agent harness (pi for one has explicit Termux support, but its AGENTS.md works just fine with Claude Code for example - https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/packages/codin...), and say you want an android app. It problem solves for a bit, then spits out an apk out to your Downloads folder.

[hemc4 → xstas1]

Let me try this. Last year this was a dream. Can't belive we are so close to automate all of this.

My major issue last time was providing the feedback to the agent by running the apk on phone i.e, pass the debug log from the apk back to agent so it can iterate on it without me providing any input.

[fragmede → hemc4]

ask the agent to run adb log so it can read it for itself

[xstas1 → hemc4]

Also coding agents will happily compile android applications (of maximum complexity) via Github Actions where you can just pick them up with Obtainium. No PC needed

[laxisOp → xstas1]

What is obtainium.

[intuxikated → laxisOp]

An android app that tracks releases to install the latest versions of apps directly from github.

[aquariusDue → intuxikated]

Also it works with private repos too if you provide a personal access token (fine-grained) in the Obtainium app settings. Just make sure to "release" (on the Releases tab) the .apk file on the GitHub repo and tag it latest.

I use 'just' (command runner) and the 'gh' CLI to automate this:

    # Build and publish a GitHub release
    release: apk
        VERSION="v$(date +'%Y.%m.%d')-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"; \
        APK="build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-release.apk"; \
        REPO="$(git config --get remote.origin.url | sed -E 's#.*github.com[:/](.*)\.git#\1#')"; \
        echo "Releasing $VERSION to $REPO"; \
        git tag "$VERSION" 2>/dev/null || true; \
        git push origin "$VERSION"; \
        gh release create "$VERSION" "$APK" \
            --repo "$REPO" \
            --title "$VERSION" \
            --notes "Automated release for $VERSION" \
        || gh release upload "$VERSION" "$APK" --repo "$REPO" --clobber

[pjmlp → hemc4]

I have programming apps for Python, Pascal, C#, Lisp, Java, GLSL shaders installed.

[smalltorch → hemc4]

You actually can right now on termux.

On: Show HN: WebBridge turns any website into MCP tools by recording browser traffic

[hemc4]

Would love to see some real world examples usecases for a website automation.

On: Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?

[hemc4]

I do search from openai app with search option tunred on. It has better filtering than Google which shows all the irrelevant and low quality links like fake news as well. Quality of the search matter. Google does not have a way for me to mark what all websites i don't want in my search results so we need to rely on a more authentic source to filter all the chaos on the internet.

On: Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas

[hemc4]

This is promising.

Does it works on local without any login? I review github pull requests in vscode and this seems extention of that workflow where I can visualise the PR

[akshaysg → hemc4]

As of now, you need to log in on desktop to review pull requests. Theoretically, we would not require login if your pull requests are in a public repo. If that's the case, I can get a change in for this ASAP!

EDIT: By log in, I mean you have to log in to GitHub. There's no separate Haystack log in.

On: Show HN: Genious.name – AI Domain Generator That Checks Availability

[hemc4]

Can't access this site. It is still live ?

On: $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating

[hemc4]

No wonder this is the favorite car of taxi drivers and widely used car in India.