Hacker News: alyandon

New comment by alyandon in "Your AGENTS.md file doesn't do anything"

alyandon — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:13:36 +0000

I generally set up the rules of engagement for a project in the AGENTS.md file and if it starts to get large break out to more specific files referenced from AGENTS.md to keep the constant per-request token overhead lower.

For Python, I have the agent use `uv` (even for direct script invocations) so that the agent doesn't need to burn tokens concerning itself with the details that `uv` is managing behind the scenes.

New comment by alyandon in "Dolly Parton has died"

alyandon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:33:55 +0000

For a second I misread that as "The chipmunks at 16X speed" and was seriously confused.

New comment by alyandon in "In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat"

alyandon — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:27:19 +0000

I had a high school friend that was born here in the US but his family were Vietnamese immigrants many many years ago. We'd often hang out at his family's house and they were very welcoming and had a "family" style cooking approach with large pots of cooked rice, vegetables and other things set out and you were welcome to always grab a bowl. They often imported native food stuffs so I was fond of the spices and peppers they often cooked with.

One day, I ended up over at his house before he actually had returned home from school. I was hungry and no one was actually at the house at that moment in time and I just helped myself to a bowl of rice and vegetables and there was this extremely stringy looking dried meat that was also set out. So I helped myself to some of that as well.

As I was eating, my friend showed up and I commented on the unique flavor of the meat because it didn't taste like chicken, pork, etc and asked him what it was. He deadpan looked me in the face and told me it was dog.

After that, I always made sure to verify what exactly it was I was consuming rather than helping myself. I don't know what the point of this post really is - but I'm glad that dog meat consumption is on the decline and I could have lived the rest of my life without knowing what dog meat tastes like.

It wasn't bad.

New comment by alyandon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

alyandon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:22:35 +0000

I strongly suspect that it has had an impact on my insulin sensitivity as well.

New comment by alyandon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

alyandon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:19:26 +0000

My diet consisted mostly of lean meats like chicken and vegetables.

New comment by alyandon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

alyandon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:07:01 +0000

Similar experience here on minimal dose of GLP-1. There is definitely something going on here other than "you are just losing weight and that's really why you are healthier".

With my labs at my current weight you can not tell that I am a type 2 diabetic. Previously, when I was at this very same weight in the past - all my labs indicated I was prediabetic.

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

alyandon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:27:02 +0000

Replying since I can't edit - he tested it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EzVVj7DFPc

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

alyandon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:01:46 +0000

I noticed he does pay attention to feedback on his videos and I think some people have pointed that out.

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen3.8-27B"

alyandon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:20:37 +0000

It's a relatively new channel - but yeah - I feel the guy puts a lot of effort into what he does and deserves more subs.

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

alyandon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:12 +0000

There is a down to earth guy on YT that performs a series of tests against LLMs running on non-god-tier commodity hardware. He will likely be testing this soon enough.

https://www.youtube.com/@lukesdevlab

I don't know if that is what you are looking for or not and as always your experiences may be different.

New comment by alyandon in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

alyandon — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:36:22 +0000

I really worry about what happens to Valve as a company after he steps down.

New comment by alyandon in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

alyandon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:39:37 +0000

Unless enterprise customers are screaming for MV2 compatibility I would expect Microsoft to make no effort at all to maintain a working MV2 implementation in Edge.

New comment by alyandon in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

alyandon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:38:21 +0000

Yeah, once Google has ripped all the MV2 code out of chromium it'll be very interesting to see how long the chromium reskins are able to maintain their private forks.

I also expect Google to be a bad actor and do everything in its power to pointlessly refactor the chromium codebase specifically to make keeping MV2 alive as painful as possible.

New comment by alyandon in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

alyandon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:06:53 +0000

I turned sample submission off permanently via group policy after catching defender uploading places.sqlite out of my Firefox profile.

New comment by alyandon in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:30:01 +0000

I'm not denying that X11 has known security issues. However, I don't tend to run untrusted random gui applications on my system so that factors into the risks I'm willing to accept.

New comment by alyandon in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:28:09 +0000

I stick with LTS releases so last honest attempt would have been on a Kubuntu 24.04 LTS system.

What is a compositor - thing that actually draws window content on the screen? Whatever KDE provides?

Edit: To be fair to KDE/Wayland, the Wayland Kubuntu 24.04 experience was vastly improved over Kubuntu 22.04.

New comment by alyandon in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:53:05 +0000

I empathize but every time I try a Wayland based desktop I always end up encountering weird bugs and corner cases with basic usability that drive me back to X11.

I'll be sad if that is still the case when 6.8 rolls around as then I'll be hunting for another DE.

New comment by alyandon in "Love systemd timers"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:35:38 +0000

That and systemd having actually useful man pages.

New comment by alyandon in "Flathub disallows AI-assisted code and documentation"

alyandon — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:54:55 +0000

I'm pretty much neutral on the whole LLM thing as it has positives and negatives just like most other technologies. If their declaration had been scoped to "don't use LLMs and automated tooling to submit PRs for our packaging workflows and processes" that would have been fine.

Instead they go well beyond that and include this:

  * Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.

So yeah, that's pretty much hysteria at this point. It's their project and their infrastructure though so they get to set the rules - I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and continue to not use flatpaks.

New comment by alyandon in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

alyandon — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:55:41 +0000

Same here but I'm using a ssh based proxy to avoid having my local ISP data mine my web traffic. Definitely not going to turn it off either to read a blog.

I really wish admins banned based on actual behavior instead of IP address != residential/mobile.