<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RicDan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RicDan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:08:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RicDan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Don't be a meat proxy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like to point out that if all people do is copy paste from an AI, then I can advocate to replacing them with AI directly. Usually wakes people up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:19:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153744</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Yet Another Markup Language Engineering Toolkit]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Over the past few weeks I've grown tired of these super, all in one, agentic AI Skill plugins, MCP servers and whatnot that promise you the world. Of course, there is a world of vibes that survives off that, but there is also a world of more constraints and responsibilities.<p>Hence I built Yamlet: A CLI tool with accompanying Claude Code skillset, that merges both deterministic checks with human like interface to help you define requirements - including acceptance criteria, which are then promptly used to generate adequate Gherking <i>.feature test files. The details are stored in a minimized fashion as </i>.yamlet.yaml files, which allow quick and easy review - without the usual multi page slop specs.<p>- And that's it. Everything else, depends entirely on the system you're working on. I stopped here because for me, this can not only be used in a system of pure agentic coding, but also with a normal dev team.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123254">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123254</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/RicardoMonteiroSimoes/Yamlet</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No? You work on something and finish it. At most I have 2-3 feature branches open. If none are in review, I have commits in them with current work. Maybe I use the stash 2-3 times a year when I am heavily experimenting with different implementations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:37:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845339</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Behavioural-dashboard, framework agnostic library for living dashboards]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Inspired by <a href="https://tanvin-alt.github.io/behavioural-dashboard/" rel="nofollow">https://tanvin-alt.github.io/behavioural-dashboard/</a> "Designing for the 100th use"<p>I stumbled across this UX mock about living dashboards, and thought that it was a neat idea - why not have interactions on a dashboard automatically align it to the users needs? If a user focuses more on one KPI, why not make the first interaction with it on the page more descriptive?<p>After some short talks with the original designer, I decided to write a library for it. Should work for whatever FE framework you favour, or none. Also 0 dependencies by itself, in addition to outputting a simple JSON you can store as you want.<p>Just putting this out there, for people that might want something like this :)</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753560">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753560</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://ricardomonteirosimoes.github.io/behavioural-dashboard/</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting how posts like these seem to be catapulted to #1 spot so quickly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:15:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573281</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Alexandria, free open source news aggregation and classification suite]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always felt it a bit hard to grasp how far news reach and all. Because I'm also a bit behind on python, I decided to build something from scratch.<p>It's really simple: docker compose, micro services connected to some very basic data pipelines using rabbitMQ, and some local NLP. The NLP portion is a bit slow as it's pure CPU and doesn't leverage GPU/NPE if you have them.<p>The tool offers you to define your own "labels" and "relations", which are then picked up by the local NLP models to assign it to news articles. Standard, there are only a few included.<p>But the goal is to have your own personal news aggregator, and adding/changing news sources (if they have a rss feed) should be pretty easy through the docker compose file.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528914">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528914</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/hephaistos-io/alexandria</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Observarium, a simple exception tracking library for Java]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey,<p>I've built a simple Java library that tracks exceptions for you and deals with posting them to $PROJECT_PLANNING_TOOL. This way, you will automatically get tickets for exceptions that are thrown on your system and potentially never discovered, because nobody is monitoring the logs 24/7. It always felt weird to me that you pay for $PROJECT_PLANNING_TOOL that contains your tasks, but then pay again for $BUGS_TRACKING_TOOL for yet another dashboard (and library to collect the information).<p>I did build this using AI (CC to be specific), to some larger parts to get more experience with using these tools. I try to keep the code in a state where I have no problem with `git blame` showing my name under it.<p>At the same time it's something I've tried building 8 years ago; but sadly work has gotten to a point where I never had the motivation in me to spend my free time on this. But somehow, I've gained it back - using CC has allowed me to focus on the fun parts of building things like these!<p>Let me know your feedback :) As it stands now, I'm trying to get some testing feedback on it (and it might be that some parts don't work practically!), but if you have an opinion on this I will gladly listen to it</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440846">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440846</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:11:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/hephaistos-io/observarium</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been working on and off on flagforge.dev<p>I have always hated how we deal with feature flags; often times as a dev I implement it, but then business decides how the flags are used, which comes back to us having to set them. I want to make this something that can be used by both easily, and priced fairly - looking at how much others charge for a feature flag SaaS is insane.<p>Currently I'm in heavy testing by myself, as I am quite worried about issues (that's just my personality), but yeah. It started as a normal side project for me to train a bit, then I added a bit of agentic coding to it to also learn it, and now it's here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:35:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956869</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great one, I've been hoping for a kagi alternative in the EU, will check it out :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:33:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956857</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really. If pay decreases it's because you're not required anymore or less, which is contrary to what has been shown. IF educating and enabling juniors etc. is not handled correctly, then senior pay will explode, because whilst they are much more efficient, their inherent knowledge is required to produce sustainable results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:44:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855350</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this a bot account? Why is it green and spouting nonsense? There is nothing quoted in the previous comment</p>
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<p>Skills are literally technical documentation for your project it seems. So now we can finally argue for time to write doc, just name it "AI enhancing skill definitions"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:53:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614892</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah this seems too insane to be true. I understand that wifi signal strength etc. is heavily impacted by the contents of a room, but even so it seems farfetched that there is enough information in its distortion to lead to these results.</p>
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<p>I've always wanted to know: Are people actually interested in more granular pricing options? I.e. give me 10x more tokens but miss me with that image generation, or give me more bandwith but still only one domain. It feels like nowadays 80% of stuff in pricing packages isn't really used by people paying for it, but they can't opt out of it...</p>
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<p>Definitely agree. I blame educational institutions (I know, they can't do much without enough freedom + budget) for not advocating enough to our democratic responsabilities. I do wish we adapted some stuff from early history (Athens to be precise) - democratic participants got a very low base salary, and they also could vote to ban people from democratic participation (and hence the city) whenever they got too power hungry. Seems like a loss of responsibility allows too much incompetence to prevail.</p>
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<p>We all wish that would be the real world - finally some good pressure to prioritise technical debt and issues. And some heads that would roll.</p>
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<p>No counter point there. It's a real issue, and I don't know how to handle it. There is also an issue of the current world not being in a very investment heavy mood - unless you're talking military...</p>
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<p>Can sort of confirm that. Wiped out is maybe the wrong word - they are more heavily being off-shored right now. Whilst there is some very obvious evaluations going on of replacing juniors with <insert your favourite llm>, it's quite obviously not there yet but management level interest is off the charts.<p>We are trying to motion against it as much as we can internally... by arguing that we can use <insert your favourite llm> as a good coaching/mentoring support for juniors to promote them quicker. But yea... We don't like where this is going, and right now it appears that not much can be done by how much money is being poured into this current LLM-based-delusion.<p>Edit: speaking specifically about SWE-Jr. jobs</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 14:15:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062274</link><dc:creator>RicDan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RicDan in "Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder why tho; humans by themselves should have an intrinsic interest in knowing how things work and behave, and being sure of it. Or maybe that's just influenced by my personality? Like I couldn't fathom doing things without being sure of it, due to being afraid of failure.
Are Far-Right populists considered those fear-/hatemongering? I can imagine that when you have a scapegoat defined to push any issue to, you lose the first appeal of actually understanding things?<p>This is quite an interesting topic, which would be fascinating to deeper understand, because from a superficial look it does appear that introducing directed hate makes masses much more susceptible to being controlled. Also helps my theory, that whilst the left did like Elon for quite some time, that doesn't mind they blindly trusted him and pointed out his issues when they came up, which pushed him to a more... comforting? right wing embracement.</p>
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<p>You are seriously underselling the potential impact of things happening has on planning. Any company worth their 2 cents has contingency plans ready for several situations - i.e. if President A wins vs B, if there is enough plausibility that it might come with serious impact to the business.</p>
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