Hacker News: SerCe

New comment by SerCe in "Write some software, give it away for free"

SerCe — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:51:26 +0000

Or don't. I've done both, published OSS projects and sold some software. The level of entitlement in some comments I received on the OSS side was pretty crazy at times. While with the paid software, all of the interactions I had were so much more constructive. YMMV, but willingness to pay is a great filter.

From Skills to Talent: Organising Heterogeneous Agents as a Company [pdf]

SerCe — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:25:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22446

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943106

Points: 2

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Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra

SerCe — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:38:02 +0000

Article URL: https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26/branimir-lambov-from-ibm-on-cassandra.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917473

Points: 2

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I Put a Full JVM Inside a Browser Tab. It "Works". Technically. Eventually

SerCe — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://bmarti44.substack.com/p/i-put-a-full-jvm-inside-a-browser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855360

Points: 2

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New comment by SerCe in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

SerCe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:33:01 +0000

While I somewhat understand the impact on the craft, the agents have allowed me to work on the projects that I would never have had enough time to work on otherwise.

New comment by SerCe in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

SerCe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:29:46 +0000

> Do you have any examples or resources that worked well for you?

Using this particular example, if you simply paste the exact code into the prompt, the model should able to reproduce it. Now, you can start removing the bits and see how much you can remove from the prompt, e.g. simplify it to pseudocode, etc. Then you can push it further and try to switch from the pseudocode to the architecture, etc.

That way, you'll start from something that's working and work backwards rather than trying to get there in the absence of a clear path.

New comment by SerCe in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

SerCe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:47:10 +0000

If you've got some time, I highly recommend going through the exercise of trying to change the prompt in a way that would produce code similar to what you've achieved manually. Doing a similar exercise really helps to improve agent prompting skills, as it shows how changing parts of the prompt influences the result.

Sneak peek at the redesigned Stack Overflow

SerCe — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/25/your-sneak-peek-at-the-redesigned-stack-overflow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258271

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity

SerCe — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242765

Points: 240

# Comments: 91

New comment by SerCe in "Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders"

SerCe — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:29:15 +0000

What's incredibly ironic is that research labs are releasing the most advanced hacking toolkit ever known, and cybersecurity defence stocks are going down as a result somehow. There’s no logic in the stock markets.

New comment by SerCe in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

SerCe — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:59:27 +0000

In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is.

In large projects, having a specific AGENTS.md makes the difference between the agent spending half of its context window searching for the right commands, navigating the repo, understanding what is what, etc., and being extremely useful. The larger the repository, the more things it needs to be aware of and the more important the AGENTS.md is. At least that's what I have observed in practice.

Screenshots from developers and Unix people (2002) (2015)

SerCe — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943537

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

We are QA Engineers now

SerCe — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:22:20 +0000

Article URL: https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928778

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Why I Joined OpenAI

SerCe — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:45:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920487

Points: 222

# Comments: 194

We are QA Engineers now

SerCe — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905091

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server

SerCe — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:40:04 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/unlocking-the-codex-harness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46894965

Points: 2

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A Short History of Performance Engineering

SerCe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/a-short-history-of-performance-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351395

Points: 1

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Vector Prism: Animating Vector Graphics by Stratifying Semantic Structure

SerCe — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:21:41 +0000

Article URL: https://yeolj00.github.io/personal-projects/vector-prism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311800

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by SerCe in "A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock"

SerCe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:42:16 +0000

Great article! Just yesterday I watched a Devoxx talk by Andrei Pangin [1], the creator of async-profiler where I learned about the new heatmap support. To many folks it might not sound that exciting, until you realise that these heatmaps make it much easier to see patterns over time. If you’re interested there’s a solid blog post [2] from Netflix that walks through the format and why it can be incredibly useful.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-S-Hn-7Do

[2]: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-flamescope-a57ca19d47bb

How the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex Inspired 'Severance'

SerCe — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:03:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-bell-labs-holmdel-complex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46251289

Points: 21

# Comments: 4