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New comment by Arubis in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

Arubis — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:47:35 +0000

I probably put !expert in half my searches and rely on Kagi for most of my research that isn't just agent context gathering (and a fair amount of what _is_ just context gathering). It's excellent and cites good sources.

New comment by Arubis in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

Arubis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:16:48 +0000

Raising kids is fabulous experience for management. If you can convince a five-year-old that greens are tasty, you can motivate almost anyone.

New comment by Arubis in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

Arubis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:14:11 +0000

I have had to very deliberately and repeatedly let myself off the hook for ambitions while parenting. There is SO MUCH that I am hungry to do, and none of it is as important as being fully present with my kids.

Will there come a time when these are more complimentary than in conflict? Maybe! But while the kids are young, not often. And while I feel the conflict, it’s helpful to have somewhat pre-decided what I’d regret more, and it would be not having connected with them.

If there’s time later to do great things, especially with them, so much the better.

New comment by Arubis in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

Arubis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:45:49 +0000

You are responding to the original article, authored by John Gruber, who, last I checked, has been writing his own damn text multiple times every damn day for multiple decades as a primary vocation.

I’m willing to venture that Gruber is on the list of folks that get to hold the opinion choice of words matters.

New comment by Arubis in "Incident with Github.com"

Arubis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:41:57 +0000

> "Crypto had attracted grifters from the beginning, even though its most respected figures were more interested in changing the world. As Silicon Valley investors piled in after them, they wanted to fund companies that would become essential to the crypto economy, allowing them to make vast amounts of money. Entrepreneur after entrepreneur discovered that the best way to turn a profit in a decentralized economy was to figure out ways to centralize parts of it again." (Henry Farrell, Underground Empire)

New comment by Arubis in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

Arubis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:57:08 +0000

This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself spread across a bunch of disparate places and services. The stated need they satisfy (source control with a web interface and some technical features, like pull requests with reviews) will be fulfilled. But those emergent features like a core community and default expectation of where you can find someone will fade. And that is a very real loss for all of us.

New comment by Arubis in "Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents"

Arubis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:14:17 +0000

My go-to for forcing AI to at least attempt to follow BDD has been to demand that it use Phoenix Contexts.

New comment by Arubis in "The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”"

Arubis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:25:12 +0000

At the risk of sounding* pretentious, the ping-ponging across the recursive footnotes is an intended and crucial part of the book. The whole "shattered narrative" was deliberately modeled on the experience of going through the expansion of television media and the balkanization of individual attention in western culture in the 90's.

Of course, that never slowed down, and we have bloody TikTok now, so it's not like it's a novel experience anymore. Read it how you like :)

*who am I kidding, I'm low-key doing an I Read Infinite Jest move. Judge away.

New comment by Arubis in "The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”"

Arubis — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:10:18 +0000

My favorite rubric for this is: give yourself permission to put the book down and never pick it up again at page (100 - your current age). Which means that, yes, once your turn 100, you're allowed to judge a book by its cover.

New comment by Arubis in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

Arubis — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:53:32 +0000

Everyone involved should have their ankles broken so we can know them by their walk.

New comment by Arubis in "Join Me in Jamverse"

Arubis — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:48:59 +0000

Makes sense. A lot of the community overlaps onto Substack. I find the format there slightly better, though the ownership is worse.

New comment by Arubis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

Arubis — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:43:28 +0000

I don't know that SPICE was built for _usability_ in mind. I distinctly remember hand-drawing circuits on paper and numbering the nodes as I typed them into PSPICE because there was no schematic visualization functionality at all. I promise you, this was in this millennium, not last.

New comment by Arubis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

Arubis — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:42:15 +0000

Been going a while, working to shift into a verification layer on existing static scanners rather than a standalone product: https://rsolv.dev takes a highly opinionated TDD approach to _proving_ (or disproving!) scanner-indicated codebase vulnerabilities and writing red tests against the desired secure behavior, so that customers can trust that they're not just making code mutations without cause, and that the shipped fixes actually work, and that there's regression protection in their suite.

Aside from that, I've been getting into building hyper-local services around public data; it feels really rewarding and relatable to invest more locally!

Already up and running: https://hailpass.com/?ref=HAILHN9 (ref code there knocks $10 off the season price) as a "season pass" for latlong/street address level-targeted hail notifications, built specifically for damaging-size hail (not just _any_ hail) on the Colorado front range. Email is free, texts are on the season pass model.

On its way, likely first ship today: https://denverbroomsday.com, same season pass model with same free email/paid-per-season text split on reminders to move your car before street sweeping days in Denver.

New comment by Arubis in "Join Me in Jamverse"

Arubis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:03:33 +0000

Yes to the contest having expired; I was surprised to see this posted now instead of a month back. There's still a decent and growing community around all this on the Protocolized discord (https://protocolized.io/community) and there's bounties for both fiction and nonfiction pieces.

(I'm an enthusiast, but not a current producer. Too many other open threads in my life.)

New comment by Arubis in "Join Me in Jamverse"

Arubis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:10:26 +0000

Venkat's an advisor to Ethereum in some capacity. The Protocolized Reader has a couple essays that are blockchain-adjacent, but from the more utopian angle of using them to build a better world rather than just a vehicle for currency speculation and graft.

New comment by Arubis in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

Arubis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:08:16 +0000

Github Actions are rapidly becoming an argument against dogfooding into your critical path.

New comment by Arubis in "Western Sahara"

Arubis — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:32:23 +0000

Dakhla is actually pretty tourist-friendly, and spending time there will quickly do away with the notion that nobody lives in Western Sahara. It's well-known for kiteboarding and windsurfing, since it's got pretty consistent wind and surf and a hot-comfortably dry climate. Pretty heavy police presence and you're supporting Moroccan arguable-occupation by heading there, though, so it's a tradeoff.

New comment by Arubis in "Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge"

Arubis — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:39:15 +0000

An approximate, if imperfect, predictor of PPPoE usage is "did this organization previously deliver packets over twisted pair, especially DSL?". Xfinity/Comcast historically (and currently) delivered packets over coaxial cable -> no PPPoE. All the telcos delivered over DSL -> mostly PPPoE.

New comment by Arubis in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

Arubis — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:15:44 +0000

Kagi has so completely replaced other search engines for me that their appearance in other people’s browsers is disconcerting.

New comment by Arubis in "Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?"

Arubis — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:23:19 +0000

You have more flexibility in time than most. Dive in! Build stuff and see if it lands. You don’t have to finish your degree, though doing so is a wise default if nothing life-changing is landing. If you’re early to mid-senior year and the market is still this frothy, start making moves towards doing a masters degree. Unlike a Ph.D., masters are effectively professional and make you broadly more employable. And if while you’re in there you see market movement in an area of focus that you like, or you fall in love with a specialization, or the market is simply godawful and you need to delay your entrance, a doctorate may be viable as well.

All of which to say: the market is frothy and irrational, but you have a lot of optionality around timing your entrance.