Hacker News: Fizzadar

New comment by Fizzadar in "Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality"

Fizzadar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:50:51 +0000

Somewhat ironic that the site is completely broken on mobile, the text doesn’t render until you scroll near past it. Production code eh?

New comment by Fizzadar in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

Fizzadar — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:24:03 +0000

Exactly! Would like to understand more how that came about. PEP exists for a reason.

New comment by Fizzadar in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

Fizzadar — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:31:37 +0000

Indeed! (I am that original contributor :)), lots of work ongoing to address this, we now have a small maintainers group and are sharing out review and release loads.

New comment by Fizzadar in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

Fizzadar — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:26:51 +0000

This! Been trying to find the best (least worst) solution to this since 2015 when I started pyinfra. Done ast parsing/hacking, done weird context managers instead, tried rewriting statements to context managers. _if is the latest, and I think least worst, option right now.

Basically a flaw of the entire model where you write code as if executing a single host which is then executed on many in parallel, forcing the two step diff and deploy that causes this.

Funny thing is since v3 this behavior (diff then execute) is even desired with the yes prompt like terraform.

New comment by Fizzadar in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

Fizzadar — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:03:33 +0000

Pyinfra creator here - thank you so much for all the kind words, really means a lot to myself and the other maintainers, feeling the love.

New comment by Fizzadar in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

Fizzadar — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:00:31 +0000

Absolutely zero sympathy. You’re responsible for anything an agent you instructed does. Allowing it to run independently is on you (and all the others doing exactly this). This is only going to become more and more common.

New comment by Fizzadar in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

Fizzadar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:29:32 +0000

One silver lining this is finally going to push me to switch to a dedicated camera and some niche unrestricted Linux or graphene device as a phone. Goodbye iPhone. (I say this as someone with an Apple account old enough to auto “qualify”, how lucky).

New comment by Fizzadar in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

Fizzadar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:23:53 +0000

Also parent in the UK - strong disagree, it’s part of our parental responsibilities to set this up, not doing it is the same as not watching a newly walking baby on the stairs (/etc). Compromising everyone’s privacy for a subset of lazy parents is a failing of society.

New comment by Fizzadar in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

Fizzadar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:20:00 +0000

I’m predicting a wave of such incidents to start appearing over the next few months/years.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Claude Code Remote Control"

Fizzadar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:51:20 +0000

There's https://happy.engineering/ which already does this with many fewer bugs and supports codex.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Mato – a Multi-Agent Terminal Office workspace (tmux-like)"

Fizzadar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:16:39 +0000

All of these agent wrappers/claws/whatever seem to encourage wildly irresponsible usage of AI. Sure it can get stuff done in what is effectively a simple loop but without review we’re just playing with fire.

I was experimenting with Claude code doing similar (don’t need wrappers really) and the result was a huge amount of mediocre code and my weekly limit burnt. The code “works” but oh my the duplication and potential bug surface is off the chart.

Stopped my experiment and back to human in the loop plan->execute cycle which is way more effective.

Thankfully I don’t think we’re at jarvis levels yet.

New comment by Fizzadar in "GitHub Actions is broken again"

Fizzadar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:48:12 +0000

Worse than yesterday I reckon - no status page update, actions/etc are delayed by 15-45 minutes, some just never run. Bit of a mess!

GitHub Actions is broken again

Fizzadar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:45:01 +0000

They just don't even start now, no new statuses on commits. Fun. Second day in a row.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871583

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

AppleUnsold

Fizzadar — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:10:51 +0000

Article URL: https://appleunsold.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802282

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by Fizzadar in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

Fizzadar — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:55:46 +0000

Damn I ripped all our telephone lines out and ran cat6 up through the house to my office and I could have just done this?! Well shit.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Fizzadar — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:31:41 +0000

http://pointlessramblings.com (though ramblings are rare these days!)

New comment by Fizzadar in "Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them"

Fizzadar — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:24:30 +0000

As a primarily Go dev - 100% agree. The endless check and wrap error results in long chains of messages you have to grep for to understand the call stack. For what benefit? Might as well just panic and recover/log the stack in many cases.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Clock synchronization is a nightmare"

Fizzadar — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:40:36 +0000

The key here is a singleton sequencer component that stamps the new versions. There was a great article shared here on similar techniques used in trading order books (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192181).

Agree this is the best solution, I’d rather have a tiny failover period than risk serialization issues. Working with FDB has been such a joy because it’s serializable it takes away an entire class of error to consider, leading to simpler implementation.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars"

Fizzadar — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:46:35 +0000

Absolutely fascinating. Hubble pictures are always mind blowing.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?"

Fizzadar — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:56:15 +0000

Eight, but half of them exist as long running test accounts for Kanmail (kanmail.io) so arguably do not count. I do use them for legit emails though, new services usually get one of four test emails.