Hacker News: Huggernaut

New comment by Huggernaut in "MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems"

Huggernaut — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:35:40 +0000

What do you think the `tools/call` MCP flow is between the LLM and an MCP server? For example, if I had the GitHub MCP server configured on Claude Code and prompted "Show me the most recent pull requests on the torvalds/linux repository".

New comment by Huggernaut in "Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed"

Huggernaut — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:14:21 +0000

Look there are two options on the table so it's 50/50. Ipso facto.

New comment by Huggernaut in "The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)"

Huggernaut — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:46:03 +0000

I don't see any blame assigned in the previous comment.

New comment by Huggernaut in "My Clients, the Liars"

Huggernaut — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:12:12 +0000

Aye aye aye I got more and more confused reading this wondering how this was going to relate to the Elves.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Git Worktrees and GitButler"

Huggernaut — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:31:39 +0000

Sure. In terms of steps taken it's not particularly different though. Stash at the start and pop at the end vs commit at the start and reset at the end, right?

I mean, if it's not a problem to do that (and I don't find either option a problem personally) then fine, but it doesn't seem like it's a "better" option except in some small cases (like forgetting you stashed).

New comment by Huggernaut in "Git Worktrees and GitButler"

Huggernaut — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:43:43 +0000

I don't particularly care either way but how is that meaningfully different from option 2? You need to do something with your WIP in either case before switching to the new branch.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

Huggernaut — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:33:45 +0000

I think some of your job posts still say Terraform by the way, which I think maybe was an old name for the company?

New comment by Huggernaut in "Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths"

Huggernaut — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:10:25 +0000

At my primary school there were twin boys, with 3 older brothers, 1 younger and no other siblings so they were damn close!

New comment by Huggernaut in "A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy"

Huggernaut — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 06:05:02 +0000

In the Netherlands, for the 8 days after you give birth, someone comes to your house for some number of hours per day (in our case 8) to teach you these things, maybe do some tidying and cooking but most importantly, take the baby so you can sleep! This is called kraamzorg.

It also has some similar pitfalls, as they are not necessarily specialists and it's still hard to disagree or do something else even if in your own home in the face of the supposed expert.

New comment by Huggernaut in "GitHub Actions could be so much better"

Huggernaut — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 05:22:44 +0000

Less Pivotal and more VMWare post acquisition dismantling I'd say. There was a lot of love internally for Concourse (I left before the acquisition though).

SSH debugging and one off tasks absolutely dreamy.

New comment by Huggernaut in "GitHub Actions could be so much better"

Huggernaut — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 05:14:55 +0000

Vito is at dagger.io now so hopefully we can expect some good stuff in the CI space there.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Neopets is still around"

Huggernaut — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 05:00:29 +0000

I was one of the lucky 2,000 players to receive 500,000 neopoints as part of the billion neopoints giveaway in 2000. I was 11 and some time later gave my password away to someone claiming they would make me a moderator so you know... important lessons were learnt.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?"

Huggernaut — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:19:10 +0000

I had an interview for a large well-known bank software internship maybe 15 years ago. One interview was a role-play in which I was attending a meeting in lieu of my boss with someone from another division of the bank to discuss a behind-schedule project.

Role-play starts and this guy storms in, slams the door and starts shouting about how the software department are useless and how are we going to proceed. At one point he yelled that without his department we wouldn't have money to keep the lights on.

In retrospect, I'm sure this was a lot of fun for him and it might have been a good filter but I also am more than happy that I did not proceed to the next round if this is what they wanted to show me about their culture.

New comment by Huggernaut in "FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang"

Huggernaut — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:33:52 +0000

Just in support of your position, the Google Style Guide says the following:

> If a function returns an error, callers must treat all non-error return values as unspecified unless explicitly documented otherwise

It is absolutely not idiomatic to give any meaning to non-error values under error conditions in the usual case. That is extremely unusual and would be generally confusing.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/decisions#returning-e...

New comment by Huggernaut in "Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)"

Huggernaut — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:27:29 +0000

Article says the referral of [REDACTED] was made by Ben Goodger.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Do watching skateboarding tricks frame by frame make you progress faster?"

Huggernaut — Sat, 06 May 2023 08:40:34 +0000

A few years ago I realised I left my laptop in the car some distance away in London. I hadn't skated for maybe a decade but my roommate had a skateboard. I texted him telling him I was taking it and was going to do "so many kickflips". Next text was from the hospital with bruised / cracked after I caught a lip and supermanned the pavement.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Your "simulation" might not need state"

Huggernaut — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 08:32:29 +0000

I _think_ the color changing implementation could result in the dvd logo changing color when the window is resized. That may be fine of course but I'm just curious what you would do to avoid that, if it were required not to.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?"

Huggernaut — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 07:18:17 +0000

Some interesting approaches that companies are taking around this are described in Matt Parker's book, "A Radical Enterprise" for example, companies being made up of many microenterprises.

Once you can break away from many traditional imaginations of what a business is and how it should run there are some interesting possibilities.

Very challenging and easy to get wrong though I'd guess.

https://itrevolution.com/articles/radical-enterprise-pioneer...

New comment by Huggernaut in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

Huggernaut — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:54:49 +0000

Otherwise it's just sparkling government overthrow.

New comment by Huggernaut in "Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?"

Huggernaut — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:57:02 +0000

Neat project. For what it's worth I want to poke around at it to discover "what kind of places might you recommend near me" to find out if I'm interested but I don't want to sign up without any sense of its value so I just closed the page.