Hacker News: Xenoamorphous

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

Xenoamorphous — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:19:13 +0000

It does.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Magnifica Humanitas"

Xenoamorphous — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:08:10 +0000

> Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

From Crichton's book Jurassic Park, which like most of his books is about the perils of technological advancements.

They used the quote in the movie, slightly tweaked.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Xenoamorphous — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:54:40 +0000

Even if agents failed at that I'd wager that's a very small percentage of software projects anyway.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

Xenoamorphous — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:48:29 +0000

Yeah, just read the first couple of paragraphs and then stopped because that’s not my experience at all with Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7.

If you ask it with a prompt that leaves room for criticism it’ll definitely go for it when warranted.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

Xenoamorphous — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:25:47 +0000

Pelican in a white Testarossa.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different"

Xenoamorphous — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:26:41 +0000

If it’s a retry of the same request it should have the same key. If it’s not a retry, a different one. I don’t see the issue.

If the client sends the same key but a different payload that’s a 400 or 409 in my eyes.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

Xenoamorphous — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:37:42 +0000

Has SQL somehow become less relevant?

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

Xenoamorphous — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:57:03 +0000

Receiving one of those sounds really scary.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Codex for almost everything"

Xenoamorphous — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:01:50 +0000

Couple of people in my company have vibe coded some chat interface and they’re passing skills and MCPs that give the model access to all our internal data (multiple databases) and tools (Jira, Confluence etc).

I wonder if there’s something off the shelf that does this?

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "An Interview with Pat Gelsinger"

Xenoamorphous — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:14:43 +0000

Grok.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

Xenoamorphous — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:55:02 +0000

I use both and don't feel they're mutually exclusive.

E.g. if I have some ElasticSearch cluster, I use a skill to describe the data, and if I ask the LLM to write code that queries ElasticSearch but to test it first it can use a combination of skill + MCP to actually run a query.

I think this model works nicely.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Xenoamorphous — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:51:30 +0000

Scott Alexander are his first and middle names, and Siskind his last name, or that's what I've understood.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Every GPU That Mattered"

Xenoamorphous — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:30:10 +0000

Oh, my beloved TNT2 Ultra.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

Xenoamorphous — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:29:50 +0000

One I’ve noticed is download/upload progress.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

Xenoamorphous — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:53:04 +0000

> I like the approach of running everything locally. I'm strongly of the opinion that the privacy angle for local models is going to keep getting stronger and more relevant.

In HN circles perhaps. Average Joes don’t care.

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Significant Raise of Reports"

Xenoamorphous — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:20:34 +0000

Just think of 8 and 16 bit video console games. Those cartridges were expensive so just how sure they had to be they were bug free before making millions of them?

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "ARC-AGI-3"

Xenoamorphous — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:49:05 +0000

NGI - Natural General Ingelligence

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

Xenoamorphous — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:48:23 +0000

Astrophagology?

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

Xenoamorphous — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:48:43 +0000

Maybe look at MPE-DASH?

New comment by Xenoamorphous in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

Xenoamorphous — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:10:10 +0000

Mercurial?