Hacker News: alxndr

New comment by alxndr in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

alxndr — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:32:45 +0000

Darkly funny that Pangram 3.3.1 thinks "100% of this text is AI generated"

New comment by alxndr in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

alxndr — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:23:04 +0000

I’ve had to talk to company lawyers about specific commits. Case was settled afaik

New comment by alxndr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

alxndr — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:45:09 +0000

As a member of that group of 1300+, I'm wondering if there's something specific you're looking for which no one has addressed?

New comment by alxndr in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

alxndr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:30:19 +0000

"The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it" —William H. Whyte

New comment by alxndr in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

alxndr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:10:30 +0000

I have been trying to convince Claude to use "Claude" instead of first-person pronouns, and only recently have gotten it to say stuff like "Claude'll go ahead and take care of that now", but it's very inconsistent (shocking).

New comment by alxndr in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

alxndr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:19:29 +0000

This is the approach I’m taking, along with being much more verbose than my normal style with comments in the code and commit messages (including snippets of the prompts/insights that inspired the change).

New comment by alxndr in "Your File System Is Already A Graph Database"

alxndr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:08:48 +0000

> […] the knowledge base isn’t just for research. It’s a context engineering system. You’re building the exact input your LLM needs to do useful work. > […] there’s a real difference between prompting “help me write a design doc for a rate limiting service” and prompting an LLM that has access to your project folder with six months of meeting notes, three prior design docs, the Slack thread where the team debated the approach, and your notes on the existing architecture.

Your File System Is Already A Graph Database

alxndr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:06:16 +0000

Article URL: https://rumproarious.com/2026/04/04/your-file-system-is-already-a-graph-database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656518

Points: 186

# Comments: 75

New comment by alxndr in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

alxndr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:46:22 +0000

Noticed that and was wondering, thanks for the explanation. Does this imply that human-people need to go “vouch” for the flagged comments to bring them back into HM’s good graces?

New comment by alxndr in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

alxndr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:29:22 +0000

I think if you treat it like a coworker who you respect, it will speak to you like a coworker who respects you, but will still make some idiotic mistakes...

New comment by alxndr in "Shall I implement it? No"

alxndr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:26:15 +0000

Yesterday it was showing a hint in the corner to use "/btw" but when I first tried it I got this same error. About ten minutes later (?) I noticed it was still showing the same hint in the corner, so I tried it again and it worked. Seemed to be treated as a one-off question which doesn't alter the course of whatever it was already working on.

New comment by alxndr in "Backing up Spotify"

alxndr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:57:36 +0000

FWIW archive.org has a lot of live music as well

New comment by alxndr in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

alxndr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:35:21 +0000

Is this synonymous with AI-assisted coding now??

New comment by alxndr in "Advent of Code 2025"

alxndr — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:30:03 +0000

IMHO they’re starting off harder this year!

New comment by alxndr in "A better future for JavaScript that won't happen"

alxndr — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:26:00 +0000

Isn’t this already (slowly) happening?

New comment by alxndr in "The Onion buys Infowars"

alxndr — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:27:23 +0000

That’s not how defamation laws work.

New comment by alxndr in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

alxndr — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:49:10 +0000

Counterpoint: DARE didn’t scare me away from drugs at all, and in fact taught me how to do the more common ones and what “street names” to ask for at an age where I wasn’t otherwise being exposed to that knowledge.

New comment by alxndr in "Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript"

alxndr — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 07:39:47 +0000

In the first decade of this millennium, writing JS was a pretty frustrating, and JQuery papered over a lot of the nastiness.

New comment by alxndr in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

alxndr — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:42:52 +0000

https://alxndr.blog

infrequent posts, tech-focused mostly, sometimes about human languages or nerdy jokes...

New comment by alxndr in "'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm"

alxndr — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:34:17 +0000

Maybe the distribution is relative to the company's Eng org?