<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: TheCapeGreek</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheCapeGreek</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:48:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TheCapeGreek" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheCapeGreek in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>[...] you are asking it to continuously compress its output into a lower-bandwidth format. That compression is lossy.<p>Yes, that's <i>exactly</i> what I want. I want to know what is done with a high level why, NOT a paragraph explaining each line of code modified.<p>A frequent tweak I've made on coding work with Claude in the last month is asking it to restrict its comment length to 1 line/sentence max. I just want `// This happens because XYZ upstream`, not `// Historically from ticket blahblah there was some dummy code where we discovered ancient runes and that led us to looking into your birth records and then triangulated an issue in XYZ upstream that we compensate for here`.<p>The model's "most information dense representation" is very similar to how we compress data in the first place: most of it is redundant or unnecessary for the purposes of storage. I'll "decompress" the 1-liner context myself when I read it again in 6 months. But I can't stand reading just <i>so much</i> slop commentary when we're all writing more code at once and having to review more than ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254206</link><dc:creator>TheCapeGreek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheCapeGreek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Building South Africa's version of TCGPlayer/Cardmarket/etc, for Yu-Gi-Oh! <a href="https://lekkerduelist.co.za" rel="nofollow">https://lekkerduelist.co.za</a><p>There's competition in the other TCGs, and of course a 2-sided marketplace is one of the hardest things to seed. So this is mostly just a project that I can put any fresh ideas into that I wouldn't be able to at my dayjob.</p>
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<p>Because VILT is dead and Livewire is now on version 1100?<p>I've worked on both stacks in the last few years across several clients. Honestly like with anything in tech it seems to mostly fall apart with half-regarded usage of the tools in growing teams that don't care about their quality in favour of "get ticket done".</p>
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<p>In a small local scene with several whatsapp groups, I put "don't be an edgelord" as a catch-all rule rule when I started a discord in the community.<p>Lo and behold, the EXACT person I had in mind when making the rule, moaned about it.<p>Works as intended.</p>
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<p>For better or worse, AI is beating on video essays too.<p>Maybe my attention span is truly stuffed, but I really can't stand it when a video essay is the most succinct source on a topic - waiting for someone to express their thoughts in speech, with sometimes slow cadences or their own waffling, combined with sponsor segments (yes I use SponsorBlock, but sometimes or on other devices ads get through), etc.<p>So I use AI summary for a lot of informational videos now unless I actually am watching it for the entertainment and production value. I don't need 10 minutes on "this will change the way we look at XYZ" that has only 1 minute of real information in it.</p>
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<p>Yes, which is why I commented why I did - poster was pointing at the Netherlands which seemed to misconstrue the current state of the problem.</p>
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<p>Personally I think the verdict is still out on if Opus & co are actually worse, or the rate at which we move with these tools now is faster than we're used to for managing tech debt and compounding complexity with rapidly built software.<p>If nothing else, using the smart model for planning to hand off to the previous gen for implementation still seems like a useful pattern.</p>
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<p>Is this about EU Chat Control? Because that was mostly pushed from Denmark no?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:31:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500989</link><dc:creator>TheCapeGreek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheCapeGreek in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll mirror some other anecdata here: Not finding Fable to be amazingly godlike at actual coding, but it does seem better at planning, architectural thinking, and <i>reviewing</i> code. Used it to think through some longer form refactors that involve some product decisions and changes, and found it to provide more thoughtful feedback. However that's just my subjective experience, and I don't think it's provably that much better to make me want to go pay for API pricing when the free trial is over.<p>My plan is to make hay while the sun shines: get some planning in over the next week or so, and just let Opus take care of it when I get to actual implementation.</p>
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<p>There is one underrated feature that I switched to Bitwarden <i>for</i>, away from KeePass: the emergency contact access. You can designate contacts that can request access to your account. If you don't deny the request within a time frame, they are granted access.<p>So much of our lives is now digital. Important accounts of all kinds, banking, etc.<p>Waiting on several giant corps to grant your loved ones access after they go through the bureaucratic hole of documentation is... rough.<p>Putting my master password in my will feels the same as just writing it on a note on my desk. Putting it in a note in a safety deposit box is high effort and cost.<p>Anyone got a better alternative way to set this up if self-hosting and not going with Vaultwarden?</p>
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<p>Responding here to short-circuit all the replies to this:<p>You shouldn't be looking at just various kinds of earplugs as options for this. You can get custom made earplugs for your ears for differing use cases (sleep, concerts) at an ENT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:59:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110135</link><dc:creator>TheCapeGreek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheCapeGreek in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Images buy you a versioned artifact with all the code-level dependencies baked in.<p>Fair enough, that buys a little bit of time to not break deployments I supose.<p>> When the build process completes, it tears down the overlayfs<p>Ah okay, I misunderstood you then - I was referring to Docker-less servers and my build steps running there, not building the images on the machine.<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
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<p>I guess what I'm asking for is what the point is of a "baked" image for interpreted language ecosystems. Already using multi stage builds.<p>"Builds" are the same as deploys, so when working with server(s) instead of larger scale deployments, I'm not seeing the benefit of the whole "build image, pull on server" pipeline when I can just ditch the registry and added layers by doing those steps on the server as I would normally in other kinds of scenarios.<p>But I have seen this in action, which is why I'm wondering if I'm missing something.<p>The clearer benefit to me seems to be in this scenario to use it as a fast environment provisioning tool.</p>
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<p>> you end up having to copy all the build dependencies (source code) to the host<p>> disk, i/o exhaustion<p>This is why I mentioned specifically for ecosystems like PHP, which are interpreted. I'm specifically asking for that use case.<p>I'm not building binaries, my "build" steps are actually deployment steps (npm build, composer install, etc) that I'd be running in exactly the same way on the host. The image I'm deploying by definition also contains my source code because I'm not deploying anything compiled.</p>
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<p>> IP ratelimited for Docker Hub<p>How? What I'm describing is using Docker <i>less</i>.<p>> The build process can exhaust resources on the host<p>Maybe, but I've yet to have a host where that's the case for usual CRUD fare.<p>> The advantage is simplicity, and it's often worth the risk.<p>That's basically what I'm evaluating for here.<p>For bog standard LAMP or similar stack applications, I've not understood the advantage of going through the build-image-then-pull-on-host rigmarole. There's more layers involved there than something like provisioning with Ansible and just having a deploy script to run the usual suspects.<p>But I have seen that done fairly often, hence was wondering what the point was.</p>
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<p>Somewhat adjacent in how I look at using Docker <i>at all</i> in prod, here's what I always wonder:<p>Is using Docker/Compose "just" as the layer for installing & managing runtime environment and services correct? Especially for languages like PHP?<p>I.e. am I holding it wrong if I run my "build" processes (npm, composer, etc) on the server at deploy time same as I would without containers? In that sense Docker Composer becomes more like Ansible for me - the tool I use to build the <i>environment</i>, not the entire app.<p>For the purpose of my question, let's assume I'm building normal CRUD services that can go a little tall or a little wide on servers without caring about hyper scale.</p>
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<p>Apple's RAM price bumps were already insane, now they'll get worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:17:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232697</link><dc:creator>TheCapeGreek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheCapeGreek in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>East-West in US is a lot different to a 1 hour shift. Hence <i>minor</i> jetlag.</p>
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<p>Nice. Love seeing simpler solutions like this pop up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:37:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230974</link><dc:creator>TheCapeGreek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheCapeGreek in "Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firefox has lost the plot, Orion is close but still has the odd UI bug that makes it tough to recommend, Safari is just Safari.<p>There is no truly good, independent, feature complete browser out there right now if you want to avoid Chrome and have something that a) works and b) isn't hostile to the userbase.<p>Brave at the very least said they'd keep supporting Manifest v2 extensions, though not sure how you'd acquire them anymore unless Chrome web store has kept the listings up.</p>
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