Hacker News: Yeroc

New comment by Yeroc in "Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy"

Yeroc — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:59:28 +0000

How does this solution compare with using pg_squeeze? We ran into this situation with a queuing solution and we've been testing it out... seems to work.

New comment by Yeroc in "The Codex App"

Yeroc — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:06:53 +0000

The web sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

New comment by Yeroc in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

Yeroc — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:26:37 +0000

Seeing similar comments across different articles and technologies and it makes me wonder how much AI is going to hold back the adoption of new technologies going forward.

New comment by Yeroc in "Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in"

Yeroc — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:56:16 +0000

What are the trivial changes Canada could make if it wanted to be serious about startups?

New comment by Yeroc in "Proof of Corn"

Yeroc — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:59:10 +0000

Agreed. Growing up on a small farm (~1120 acres) our garden alone was probably at least 5 acres in size. It's laughably small, the only way he'll succeed is for a neighbouring farmer to take pity on him.

New comment by Yeroc in "Proof of Corn"

Yeroc — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:30:17 +0000

If you spend time on the website you can see the plan is to rent (only!) 5 acres of land for this project. Since it's a lease only and such a small plot it seems unlikely to get him into trouble. Given the small size though I'm dubious he'll find it easy to get any custom operators interested in doing a job that small!

New comment by Yeroc in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

Yeroc — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:13:30 +0000

Most of those 10 squashed commits likely had commit comments like: "Cleanup based on PR feedback." etc.

New comment by Yeroc in "Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation"

Yeroc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:14:18 +0000

Easy if you ignore the security aspects. You want to hand over your tokens to your LLM so it can script up a tool that can access it? The value I see in MCP is that you can give an LLM access to services via socket without giving it access to the tokens/credentials required to access said service. It provides at least one level of security that way.

New comment by Yeroc in "Google Antigravity"

Yeroc — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:12:47 +0000

Fair enough. I use git worktrees (with a script that creates the git branch, worktree and opens a new vs code workspace). You're right, managing more than about two active sessions at once is probably the limit though I'm somewhat hopeful that better tooling similar to the Agent Manager window here would allow me to scale a bit past that especially if some of those sessions are more design explorations.

New comment by Yeroc in "Google Antigravity"

Yeroc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:55:12 +0000

It won't matter. The core ideas of an Agent Manager view will be copied and improved by others in many project in the future.

New comment by Yeroc in "Google Antigravity"

Yeroc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:51:27 +0000

I haven't used Windsurf (been using Claude Code and similar). Does it provide an Agent Manager window/view? This to me looks more useful to me than the browser integration piece.

New comment by Yeroc in "Google Antigravity"

Yeroc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:44:40 +0000

The Agent Manager view providing a unified view of all active agents and allowing you to immediately respond to any approval requests or followup questions looks very useful regardless of which VCS you're using under the covers. Am I missing something here that jj does?

New comment by Yeroc in "Google Antigravity"

Yeroc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:37:48 +0000

The Claude Code extension on VS Code does very little (too little in my opinion). The integration level with agentic functionality provided by Antigravity goes much deeper in my 20 minutes or so of playing with it. The biggest value pieces I see is: Agent Manager window which provides a unified view of all my agents running across all my workspaces (!) where I can quickly approve or respond to followup questions and quickly brings me to the code in context for each agent, additionally, I can select a piece of code and comment on it inline and that comment gets sent to the correct, active agent. These two things alone are items which I have been looking for... Too bad I only have approval to use Claude Code at work. This looks promising.

New comment by Yeroc in "Oracle has adopted BOOLEAN in 23ai and PostgreSQL had it forever"

Yeroc — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:58:07 +0000

My experience has been the opposite. Oracle (the database) is actually a really solid product for the most part. Oracle (the company) is a different story. My eyes were really opened to some of the technical shortcomings in Postgres when we migrated from Oracle to Postgres a few years ago at $DAYJOB. Things like: a) global temp tables (there's an open source extension we had to use to fake this out), b) RLS (exists in PG but most functions that you might need to build on top perform badly), c) crashes in PG take out the whole database and a host of other smaller items. I'm not saying it wasn't worth it, but I wouldn't pretend Postgres is the best database either.

New comment by Yeroc in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

Yeroc — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:41:41 +0000

You would typically want to use the same database instance for your queue as long as you can get away with it because then transaction handling is trivial. As soon as you move the queue somewhere else you need to carefully think about how you'll deal with transactionality.

New comment by Yeroc in "I've been loving Claude Code on the web"

Yeroc — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:25:09 +0000

Also add `"includeCoAuthoredBy": false` to your `settings.json` file (you may also need to reinforce this in your commit prompt YMMV).

New comment by Yeroc in "Traffic Light Protocol"

Yeroc — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:26:24 +0000

We definitely have this system in place in some cities in Canada, primarily for express bus routes.

New comment by Yeroc in "Claude Code on the web"

Yeroc — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:31:21 +0000

I tried Happy Coder for a bit. It seemed exactly what I was missing but about 1/2 the time session notifications weren't coming through and the developers of the tool seem busy pushing it off in other directions rather than in making the core functionality bullet-proof so I gave up on it. Unfortunate. Hopefully something else pops up or Anthropic bakes it into their own tooling.

New comment by Yeroc in "Claude Skills"

Yeroc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:04:11 +0000

We also have the same issues with our fellow humans. LLMs do not replace the need for imperative programs that reliably execute well-defined steps. Turn it inside out. Use the LLM to write the imperative program to execute the workflow. Where necessary, insert the LLM into the workflow to perform the task(s) that can't be done imperatively.

New comment by Yeroc in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

Yeroc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:46:54 +0000

That's going to be a lot less efficient context-wise and computing-wise than using either a purpose-built MCP or skill based around executing a script.