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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What's your favorite little script you've written?

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mastra.ai 1y ago

Mastra 101

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How do you find ideas?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage projects as a solo dev?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What's your favorite font stack for a personal website?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Asl HN: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What's your most interesting automation?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How do you manage your dotfiles?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What's your current side project?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What are your go to shell one-liners?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What are your favorite tiny, single purpose tools?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What are the most useful bookmarklets you use?

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) 22 days ago

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) 1 month ago

This is very cool!

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford 2 months ago

I meant your specific tweaks

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026) 2 months ago

What's the keyboard? I'm intrigued

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026) 2 months ago

Same here. I am a full-stack engineer but I'm not senior enough for this kind of role. Hope you find someone!

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford 2 months ago

This sounds neat - do you have this publicly available?

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 2 months ago

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.

Show HN: Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API 2 months ago

It's hard for me to figure out what to use all those tokens for

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence 2 months ago

Love this and I'm addicted - wish there were hot keys in the battle

Show HN: Sanjaya – Extract structured datasets from academic journals 2 months ago

Would love to try, but I can't access the app - looks like you've posted the wrong URL!

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) 2 months ago

Trying to do some work on a cairn[0], an embedded temporal document database built on SQLite. It's inspired by endatabas[1]

[0] https://github.com/nbbaier/cairn [1] https://www.endatabas.com/

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) 2 months ago

Loop me in when the demo arrives!

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) 2 months ago

Would be interested when this launches!

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) 2 months ago

this is a cool idea, props

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) 3 months ago

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.

What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI? 3 months ago

What do you think that reimagining looks like? Genuinely wondering

Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered 3 months ago

This is the exact same reaction I had

Ask HN: S3(AWS) vs R2(CF)–Which is better? 4 months ago

I've found CF infinitely easier to set up

Show HN: I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges 4 months ago

This is so cool. Could you share more about where I could find them?

Show HN: Web Push Notifications for Hacker News 4 months ago

Cool! I built something similar to this but using cloudflare workers[1] + a val town cron[2].

[1] https://github.com/nbbaier/hn-notifier [2] https://www.val.town/x/nbbaier/hnNotifierCron

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) 4 months ago

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley).

Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.

Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code 4 months ago

I want to know what's going on under the hood of the /adhd skill. Sounds immensely useful for me.

Show HN: LogicStamp – A Context Compiler for TypeScript 4 months ago

Do you have any benchmarks or evals about if/how much this improves LLM understanding on typescript codebases?

Show HN: Margo – Find the font your brain reads fastest 4 months ago

I really like this, well done!

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) 4 months ago

I'd really like to know more about the Cloudflare native headless CMS...got a github repo?

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) 5 months ago

Sounds neat - is there a repo?

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) 5 months ago

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SPARQL, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Git, Node.js, Bun, Deno, React, 
    Astro, HTMX, Hono, Cloudflare, Vercel, MCP, AI
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

I'm a former academic researcher (in linguistics) turned self-taught software engineer who'd like to transition into professional software development. I'm experienced across the stack using Javascript/TypeScript, Python, and SQL with platforms like Cloudflare and Val Town. I bring a research-driven approach from my Ph.D. in linguistics. I'm especially interested in working on AI tooling and integrations.

Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs 5 months ago

This is cool! I tried it out, running outside my agent with `cloudrouter start .` and got a password request to auth into the server. Opened an issue[1].

[1] https://github.com/manaflow-ai/manaflow/issues/1711

Ask HN: Tools to code using voice? 5 months ago

The only ones I know of require you to be in front of your computer still. When yo say "minimize screen time," I assume you're not wanting to be in front of the computer.

Might sound trite, but why not vibe code something to help you here?

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) 5 months ago

Looking forward to seeing this!