Hacker News: Shorel

New comment by Shorel in "DeepSeek Harness"

Shorel — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:39:12 +0000

Because that hammer is their only tool!

New comment by Shorel in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

Shorel — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:35:02 +0000

Awesome, let's read what they have done! I open a new tab.

To install the harness, first use npm...

And tab is closed. No thanks.

New comment by Shorel in "Delta"

Shorel — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:59:49 +0000

You can learn Vim, Kakoune, Helix, in that order.

New comment by Shorel in "Delta"

Shorel — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:59:00 +0000

In my own agent there's no code editor, just the chat session.

I have not missed an integrated text editor.

New comment by Shorel in "Delta"

Shorel — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:46:27 +0000

Zed agent was so bad at using Ollama local models that I created my own agent to use instead. I think creating an agent is the hello-world of agentic coding, everyone is doing one.

I have zed installed, but honestly I still use SublimeText as my primary editor. Zed feels opinionated and hard to customise.

But good for them, surely some company will pay for their services.

New comment by Shorel in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

Shorel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:07:09 +0000

In principle I agree with you.

The missing part of mathematics education, IMO, would be to focus more into developing the intuition of what something means, instead of the current focus on getting some (numeric) results.

New comment by Shorel in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

Shorel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:45:18 +0000

I should add that text to the rant at my last paragraph!

New comment by Shorel in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

Shorel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:50:50 +0000

That really sounds like the kind of people who will complain in university about being forced to study calculus.

Natural consequence: Then they never grasped the concept of computational complexity.

O(n) Vs O(n²)? They have n, what's the difference? Python is fast enough. The only thing that matters is shipping features fast! Features! Our competitor will have this next week, we need to write code fast, everything else is a matter of adding more compute, which we will pay with revenue!

New comment by Shorel in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

Shorel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:54 +0000

> Is a self updating static binary a reasonable solution?

It's a reasonable antidote against DLL hell, so I would say yes, that's as close to an ideal solution as we can get.

New comment by Shorel in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

Shorel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:04:27 +0000

Nah, it is only using 90MB of RAM in my PC.

At the same time, Gmail is using 244MB.

My average tab opened is about 30MB, so the difference is only 3 times the memory.

Probably only the network connection struggles for a few seconds in my phone, and that's it.

New comment by Shorel in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

Shorel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:56:36 +0000

Now I read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_lettering

... and I find it distracting by how wrong it is. It should say "Single stroke Gothic", or even better: mention Gorton directly.

Instead, it says: "a Gothic sans-serif script", even if it mentions Leroy a few paragraphs later :)

New comment by Shorel in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

Shorel — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:48:41 +0000

It works in Europe, which is one of the few advantages we have over the US.

New comment by Shorel in "Carl's Required Reading"

Shorel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:21:52 +0000

Your DB query rule goes against my experience.

Sometimes longer and more complex queries run much, much faster. The users complain about "complexity", but when they see the performance comparison they change their minds.

New comment by Shorel in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

Shorel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:55:10 +0000

Viruses are not newly appearing forms of life, they are co-depending on the already present forms of life and they reuse some of their machinery. Viruses are the opposite of starting from zero, they start from a functional organism and stop existing if the base organism gets extinct. However, reading other answers, it seems the great oxygenation event is an even stronger argument against basic life appearing again. They would get oxidised and die.

New comment by Shorel in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

Shorel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:42:30 +0000

Because the moment life first appears, it multiplies and fills all easily available niches, and any new life is outcompeted by the more evolved pre-existing organisms.

New comment by Shorel in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

Shorel — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:29:04 +0000

The 32GB issue is more about one internal factor: the wasteful reliance on Electron and other JS runtimes for UI, and two external factors: the very high price of RAM, and the increasing adoption of Linux.

So they will make Windows run on 8GB because people can't purchase cheap RAM anymore, and they want to stop people migrating to Linux.

This is not directly caused by AI slop, only indirectly through RAM prices.

New comment by Shorel in "LLMs reward expertise"

Shorel — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:23:26 +0000

I vibecoded a Postman/Insomnia API tester program, and I use it everyday at work now.

But as another software engineer, I remove myself from that comparison, because the idea is to find out if a non technical person can do the same, that's the definition of vibe coding.

New comment by Shorel in "LLMs reward expertise"

Shorel — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:52:25 +0000

That's the terminology they have chosen because they believe they are "in control". It's a purely psychological thing, not different from calling different DB servers "master" and "slave". When I explain things to people, I say: the LLM is a big mouth, and it is a big mouth without hands. It can only talk. The agent is what gives some hands to the LLM, and then it can do some work.

New comment by Shorel in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

Shorel — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:43:44 +0000

Not that different.

AWS already has lots of AMI and docker are essentially image based.

We would version whole images in something like git, and that's all.

New comment by Shorel in "Using an open model feels surprisingly good"

Shorel — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:57:55 +0000

My own agent is cleaner and lighter. Written in D, now only the local models are the bottleneck.