Hacker News: MikeNotThePope

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Plan mode is dead"

MikeNotThePope — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:31:17 +0000

Try /grill-with-docs, too.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:27:03 +0000

And higher taxes on capital gains & dividends.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:01:55 +0000

I'm doing all this myself, and it's my first time getting a consumer facing product from zero to revenue generating on my own. I wouldn't bother doing this without AI, the project is too big. That being said, doing it with AI comes with a learning curve & many things I've never done before.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

MikeNotThePope — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:46:03 +0000

How are you speeding up the provisioning? Most of my tests run pretty quick, but spinning up a new runner takes probably most of the time. I haven’t tried optimizing this yet.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

MikeNotThePope — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:42:50 +0000

Probably half the generated tests in my app are for markdown files.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

MikeNotThePope — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:41:41 +0000

That’s what I’m doing! Results yet to be measured.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

MikeNotThePope — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:26:02 +0000

Personally I’m leveling up on using AI to develop a project. My speed at knocking out PRs has increased a lot, but much of that is massaging the process of using AI, including managing CI bottlenecks and costs. I’ve never had to deal with 15+ PRs being developed in parallel before. It’s interesting work, but there’s a lot of doing stuff to get to the stuff I want to do.

Examples of things I’ve tackled this week:

- GitHub Actions costs exploding and looking into self hosting options (gonna try a box in Hetnzer)

- figuring out how to handle unattended builds

- tinkering a lot of email, from how to manage domain reputation and worrying about bots spamming from my server because they started filling out forms

- figuring out how to manage AI development from my phone

- setting up a process to prevent unintended destructive database migrations

- finding a way to know have to babysit the AI but approving a constant stream of questions and permission requests

- all the random little issues that the AI files to fix an endless amount of little things

- finding the right model(s) to use to most efficiently make use of the limits of my subscription

And so on.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

MikeNotThePope — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:13:49 +0000

To be fair, so do humans.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe"

MikeNotThePope — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:29:19 +0000

Missing Lukla in Nepal. Where is the claim to be every live camera coming from? This looks like dozens, not a lot more than that.

WEBCAM NEPAL LIVE: LUKLA AIRPORT - LIVE STREAMING FROM HIMALAYA LODGE LUKLA, SOLUKHUMBU, NEPAL - https://www.youtube.com/live/am9KDRSZQ-0?si=IjVDTSU_IZ418fyT

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:24:32 +0000

We are the just-in-case USB 1.44mb floppy disk drive sitting in the bottom drawer of some neckbeard’s desk.

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

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:11:39 +0000

Sounds interesting. Any plans to open source it? I didn't see a GitHub link.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:45:10 +0000

It does in the sense that they're losing business, as people describe in this thread. But I get your point, Google seems to be enjoying the profits more than the harm to their reputation. If it gets bad enough, maybe they'll rethink.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework"

MikeNotThePope — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:33:13 +0000

It should be sponsored by a model provider.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:51:09 +0000

I have a dumb question. What is the eventual of efficient land use? Say we bulldoze a bunch of single family homes and get 10x as dense. Now we have 10x as many people per square kilometer. Is that an efficient use of land? Will there be someone saying at 10x population density that it's an inefficient use of space? If yes, what would they propose instead?

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

MikeNotThePope — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:59:27 +0000

I remember talking to a person who worked in marketing Kingsford, which at the time had like over 90% of the marketshare for USA charcoal. They had a marketing budget that was willing to spend money on any ol' stupid idea because they had already won & just wanted to stay on top by getting their name out there.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:40:27 +0000

I had not, good idea though. It hadn't come up enough to make me think of requesting it.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:50:21 +0000

I only have one minor complaint about Fastmail after 5 years. I can’t do a full-page screenshot of a long email on my iPhone.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:28:11 +0000

What energy sources do we have that don't ultimately derive from either solar of radioactive decay? Residual heat from object formation perhaps.

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

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:33:37 +0000

Nothing sexy. Just automating all the little recruiting tasks that suck up my time. Mainly MVP will just reduce, not totally eliminate, applications from people who aren’t serious or are clearly or a fit. A lot of nice to have features that are hard to bolt onto someone else’s ATS.

Here’s an example:

A client wanted me to post a job without compensation listed. They also didn’t want the interview team to know how much the position paid. So it was a pain to keep that information out of communication that everyone could see, I’d have to manually ask candidates outside of the ATS. So I’m addressing stuff like that. It’s not my job as the recruiter insist they make my job easier by divulging that info. I can only tell them it’s a time suck for me, and if they wanna pay me to do the work, then it’d be nice to free up my time by automating an easier way to get handle keeping compensation information as private as is reasonably possible.

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

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:13 +0000

Quit my job in May. Been working on a hiring platform that I’ve always wanted. I wanted it so bad I quit recruiting, taught myself to code, worked as a developer for 12 years, and now I’m building it :)