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Fri May 20, 2016 3:58pm PST
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about
Founding engineer @ June (YC W21). F20 @ Recurse Center. Working on open-source tools fleurmcp.com, camelot, present, excalibur, and many more.

site: https://vinayak.io

twitter: https://twitter.com/vortex_ape

github: https://github.com/vinayak-mehta

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Fri Dec 19, 2025 2:34pm PST
Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast
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Self-driving SaaS: When software runs itself
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Fri Oct 10, 2025 3:15pm PST
When Will Quantum Computing Work?
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Thurs Oct 9, 2025 7:17pm PST
Ship Broken Things
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Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:42pm PST
Agentic Coding with Toad
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 11:02pm PST
Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding
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Sat Jun 28, 2025 9:08pm PST
Invisible Asymptotes
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Thurs May 22, 2025 7:47pm PST
The Urgency of Interpretability
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Mon May 19, 2025 12:14pm PST
Catch Up: Lessons Senior Engineers Know about ORMs
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Sun May 18, 2025 11:28pm PST
Sketch: Autonomous Software Apprentice
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Sun May 18, 2025 8:41pm PST
Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
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Wed May 14, 2025 11:15am PST
Airbnb Services and Experiences
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Tues May 13, 2025 10:12pm PST
How (memory) safe is Zig? (2021)
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Sun May 11, 2025 2:29pm PST
The future of AI interaction: Beyond just text
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Sun May 11, 2025 11:38am PST
Instrumenting Your MCP Server
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Sun May 11, 2025 11:00am PST
Test LLM-powered apps in TypeScript
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Fri May 9, 2025 11:45pm PST
A conversation with Jony Ive [video]
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Thurs May 8, 2025 12:52pm PST
Poking Around Claude Code
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Thurs May 8, 2025 12:45pm PST
Digging into the Claude Code Source
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Thurs May 8, 2025 10:41am PST
Non-Obvious Problems
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Wed May 7, 2025 7:39pm PST
MCP Is Not Good, Yet
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Sat May 3, 2025 9:47pm PST
Trust in the Age of AI
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Sat May 3, 2025 6:59pm PST
Testing AI's GeoGuessr Genius
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Fri May 2, 2025 1:28am PST
Some PEP talk, or: What is a pyproject.toml?
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Tues Apr 29, 2025 7:07pm PST
Do you need a Vector Search Database?
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Tues Apr 29, 2025 8:59am PST
Agency Is Eating the World
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Thurs Apr 24, 2025 7:42pm PST
YC Interview Simulator (2012)
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Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:06pm PST
When engineers say "that'll take months "
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Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:29pm PST
YC Interview Simulator
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Thurs Apr 10, 2025 9:26pm PST
Become an AI-Augmented Engineer
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 6:01pm PST
Choose Boring Technology
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Tues Apr 8, 2025 10:32pm PST
Globstar: Open-source static analysis toolkit
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Mon Apr 7, 2025 11:39pm PST
The Age of Abundance
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Mon Apr 7, 2025 11:38pm PST
Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key
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Sat Apr 5, 2025 2:16pm PST
Code for Altair Basic [pdf]
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Wed Apr 2, 2025 2:04pm PST
The Age of Abundance
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 4:20pm PST
Building a Memex [video]
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:53pm PST
Build and deploy Remote MCP servers to Cloudflare
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:21pm PST
MCP and the emerging enterprise AI OS layer
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Sun Mar 30, 2025 4:16pm PST
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
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Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:02pm PST
Teaching LLMs to Write Like You: Fine-Tuning vs. Prompting
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Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:11am PST
Every Emoji Kitchen combination in a giant zoomable image
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Sun Mar 23, 2025 4:38pm PST
Show HN: I made a Sonic Pi MCP to create music with prompts
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Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:05pm PST
Show HN: I made a Sonic Pi MCP to make Claude my jamming buddy
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Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:32pm PST
Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key
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Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:44pm PST
Axiomatic Engineering
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Mon Mar 17, 2025 5:36pm PST
Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 3:40pm PST
The Internet Desk
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 3:06pm PST
Become an AI-Augmented Engineer
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:59pm PST
Smile Like Zuck
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:48pm PST
Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:23am PST
Making a multiplayer action game in Haskell
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Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:26pm PST
Paris during the greatest tech boom in history [video]
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Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:51am PST
Building AI agents to query your databases
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Thurs Mar 13, 2025 2:48pm PST
What automated firms will look like
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Wed Mar 12, 2025 4:44pm PST
Show HN: Fleur, open-source app store for Claude
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Sun Mar 9, 2025 3:31pm PST
Show HN: Fleur, open-source app store for Claude
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Sat Mar 8, 2025 4:39pm PST
Show HN: Open-source app store for Claude
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Thurs Feb 27, 2025 12:00am PST
You don't need Python to build AI products
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Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:02pm PST
Building Friend Catchers
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Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:11am PST
Extreme Server Side Rendering
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Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:10am PST
Nil Channels in Go
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Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:31am PST
How to do sales with no experience
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Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:52pm PST
Finding Lookalikes of YC Companies
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Wed Feb 5, 2025 10:19pm PST
A standard interface for TypeScript schema validation libraries
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Tues Feb 4, 2025 4:55pm PST
React emoji picker component styled with Tailwind
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:06pm PST
I Use AI as an Intern
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Thurs Jan 30, 2025 8:50pm PST
JPEG compress your LLM weights
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Thurs Jan 30, 2025 8:47pm PST
Bright Lights in Dark Times
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Thurs Jan 30, 2025 8:45pm PST
Building Personal Software with Claude
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Thurs Jan 30, 2025 8:41pm PST
Croissant Maker: A short narrative cooking game
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Thurs Jan 23, 2025 7:17pm PST
Open-source tool to analyze Strava runs
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:23pm PST
Zen is a privacy-focused browser that blocks trackers
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:30pm PST
Reddit Is OpenAI's Moat (2023)
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:20pm PST
MIT Mystery Hunt 2025
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:16pm PST
Prototyping an Automatic Tattoo Gun
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:15pm PST
Dates in JavaScript
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:26am PST
iMessage-inspired website to chat with famous tech people
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:23am PST
Chat with private and local large language models
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:20am PST
How to build a notebook-based data platform
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Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:50pm PST
How to build a notebook-based data platform
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Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:37pm PST
How to build a notebook-based data platform
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:18pm PST
How to navigate and exit the idea maze
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 6:17pm PST
VS Code Pets
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Challenges to Funding Open Source
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:51pm PST
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:30pm PST
LLM Says Buttons
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:22pm PST
Programmable Intimacy
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Branchless UTF-8 Encoding
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