Hacker News: alxhslm

New comment by alxhslm in "Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents"

alxhslm — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:10:17 +0000

I’ve found that Claude can make decent mermaid diagrams pretty reliably. Not sure I quite understand what problem Zindex solves

New comment by alxhslm in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

alxhslm — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:02:06 +0000

Annoying, signed up for a personal pro account a couple of weeks ago. No way I’m going to spend $200 just for a few personal projects.

New comment by alxhslm in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

alxhslm — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:56:28 +0000

Agree with this. Maybe we should start making PRs with the proposed spec and then the maintainer can get their agent to implement it.

This is similar to what we’ve started to do at work. The first stage of reviewing a PR is getting agreement on the spec. Writing and reviewing the code is almost the trivial part.

New comment by alxhslm in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

alxhslm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:38:58 +0000

In my experience, it was fine for simple tasks - but CC was well ahead for anything which required substantial “thinking”.

New comment by alxhslm in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

alxhslm — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:28:35 +0000

Seems like an admirable project but they’re building on creaky foundations. Even the way TexLive is released feels like something from academia than a real piece of software.

New comment by alxhslm in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

alxhslm — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:25:10 +0000

Stared typst ages ago. Thanks for the reminder to try it out. Now the cost of switching is so low too