Hacker News: aleqs

New comment by aleqs in "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"

aleqs — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:38:52 +0000

I think it has more to do with the fact that Stripe has already 'won' in a lot of ways, and the company has now basically transitioned from the innovative tech startup phase to the MBA/marketing/bureaucracy phase. Quality, efficiency as priorities are replaced with marketing and 'strategy'...

New comment by aleqs in "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"

aleqs — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:26:19 +0000

I really don't have a problem with you using AI, as long as you review and validate/test what it writes, and seems like you did that. Great project btw!

New comment by aleqs in "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"

aleqs — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:17:10 +0000

The author literally said:

> There might be some AI-isms in there, because agents just can’t help themselves to dump their arcanae in there.

New comment by aleqs in "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"

aleqs — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:46:54 +0000

The readme was very clearly AI-written (or at least heavily AI-assisted)... not saying that's a bad thing, and I agree it's fairly well written... but it is very obviously AI

New comment by aleqs in "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"

aleqs — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:43:59 +0000

As someone who has worked there as well, this is just funny to me.

New comment by aleqs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

aleqs — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:25:03 +0000

Yes, this is on the right roadmap, and going to be prioritized now that someone has a real use case. Thanks!

New comment by aleqs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

aleqs — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:33:51 +0000

I've been working on a general repository linter. The idea is to declaratively define a set of rules/conventions for your repo, (for things that language-specific linters don't cover), covering things from directory structure, required files, file staleness/freshness, file size, rules for binary files, rules around use of invisible Unicode, etc. - which can be checked deterministically. Many/most large repos have a set of hand-authored scripts for doing these kinds of checks, the tool I'm building basically packages these in a fast, reusable and extensible tool, with some niceties added.

https://alint.org/

https://alint.org/blog/why-alint/

New comment by aleqs in "With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time"

aleqs — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:42:35 +0000

Yeppp, I've been seeing this Jacob Coxon [0] guy popping up all over legacy media for the past couple days nonstop...he claims he quit OpenAI and Anthropic because the models are getting 'too smart' and that's dangerous, etc. The typical AI fears mongering drivel, without seemingly any criticism, at all, of the companies he quit supposedly because of these AI fears... and of course the mainstream media appearances prefix the interviews with this guy with 'this is not a marketing stunt'[1]... which, obviously, it is.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-researcher-jacob-coxo...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/tech/ai-anthropic-safety

New comment by aleqs in "Y Combinator Early Access Network"

aleqs — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:56:01 +0000

Seems just like another case of collusion - continuing the story of VCs pushing all of their companies to use each other and 'stay within the network'. The good news (kinda) for the rest of us, is that many of these VC marketing/product/'strategy' people aren't actually all that competent - this is literally the best they can come up with.

New comment by aleqs in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

aleqs — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:11:41 +0000

I use alint [0][1] to define and enforce rules about files/globs that should or shouldn't be committed, among other things. You can configure it run as a pre-commit hook or in CI.

(disclaimer - this is my own tool)

[0] https://github.com/asamarts/alint

[1] https://alint.org/docs/rules/git-hygiene/git_no_denied_paths...

New comment by aleqs in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

aleqs — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:10:13 +0000

I use alint [0][1] to define and enforce rules about files/globs that should or shouldn't be committed, among other things. You can configure it run as a pre-commit hook or in CI.

(disclaimer - this is my own tool)

[0] https://github.com/asamarts/alint

[1] https://alint.org/docs/rules/git-hygiene/git_no_denied_paths...

New comment by aleqs in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

aleqs — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:06:00 +0000

You can also use something like alint [0][1] to define and enforce rules about files/globs that should or shouldn't be committed, among other things. You can configure it to run as a pre-commit hook or in CI.

(disclaimer - this is my own tool)

[0] https://github.com/asamarts/alint [1] https://alint.org/docs/rules/git-hygiene/git_no_denied_paths...

New comment by aleqs in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

aleqs — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:04:42 +0000

I use alint [0][1] to define and enforce rules about files/globs that should or shouldn't be committed, among other things. You can configure it run as a pre-commit hook or in CI.

(disclaimer - this is my own tool)

[0] https://github.com/asamarts/alint

[1] https://alint.org/docs/rules/git-hygiene/git_no_denied_paths...

New comment by aleqs in "Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it"

aleqs — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:04:26 +0000

I see no banner, but I use an ad blocker configured to reject and hide all such banners, like a sane person.

New comment by aleqs in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

aleqs — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:05:22 +0000

Direct codex and Claude are both down for me. Both work via AWS bedrock.

New comment by aleqs in "Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP"

aleqs — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:44:09 +0000

Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general..

I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options.

The experience with both of these has been quite terrible, and I don't think the problem is with these projects themselves but with macos and how it's UI/desktops work. Full screen windows seemingly break both completely. Doc hiding/showing is completely inconsistent - sometimes it just renders on top of all windows and doesn't hide other times it stays hidden even on mouse hover. Windows just disappear and can't be switched to. Fullscreen tiling seems completely unsupport(ed/able) - you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason . After googling it turns out many of these issues exist in a fresh/bare macos and have been know unfixed issues for like 5+ years.

I can't believe there are people claiming macos has a consistent, elegant and high quality UI... it is so terribly shitty and broken

New comment by aleqs in "Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative"

aleqs — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:32:43 +0000

Cool project, what is your marketplace you are referring to if not a secret?

Also the pricing is not very clear - you mention your costs went down to $6, but the first paid tier is $99/month ?

New comment by aleqs in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

aleqs — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:32:55 +0000

> The user could log into his personal OpenRouter account, authorize your application, and optionally set a budget, all in something like a Stripe payment screen.

Like standard oauth?

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/oauth

New comment by aleqs in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

aleqs — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:52:15 +0000

They grill their engineers for the mistakes of their incompetent leadership, that's true.

New comment by aleqs in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

aleqs — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:51:01 +0000

You're just describing what OpenRouter already does?