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Hey HN, I'm Eric. I wanted programmatic access to my own bank transactions but every time I tried, the friction got the best of me. CSVs from five banks in five formats, or Plaid, …

As you mentioned, the format of these documents can be wildly different between countries. Curious, do you normalize them to some sort of intermediate representation before running…

Yeah, I’ve redirected manually to some success but nothing hook based yet. I need to put some plumbing together to try these ideas out.

Nice. I've been thinking about something tangential: using the same hook mechanism to guide the agent toward better tools, not just block bad ones. Claude Code sometimes issues Bas…

I missed that important detail :) thanks

I 100% agree that we need tools to understand and audit these workflows for opportunities. Nice work. TBH, I am very hesitant to upload my CC logs to a third-party service.

Remember when you'd get a letter in the mail, "you identity has been compromised, here is a subscription to an identity monitoring service." The system is broken. We shouldn't be s…

If I have to physically still go to the bank, it really hasn't disrupted much. The iPhone created an opportunity... the banks investing around the technology is the disruption. ATM…

Nice work. I love getting more data accessible via API. What are the sharp edges if someone wanted to do this themselves? I assume there are official sources for this data but it's…

Totally makes sense. Eventually being confronted with the measurement is its own motivator. Some sort of “future self” awareness or something.

Bravo. This is my dream and also my nightmare. I was super into the quantified self movement a while back, before Apple Watch, writing Withings Scale API wrappers in Ruby and Fitbi…

oh man... I am not sure I am ready to trust CC at that level. Though, this year I did vibe an expense tracker and heavily used CC to look at and categorize entries and apply approp…

I am also a fortunate owner of a 100+ year old home. Why is the lath and plaster so susceptible to cracking?! That is my nemesis. I haven’t tried to hang a TV though yet.

Why does a 1 hour cycle wash better than a two hour cycle? This article is pretty light on details.