Hacker News: andenacitelli

New comment by andenacitelli in "Show HN: Find the relevant Xkcd comic for your post using RAG"

andenacitelli — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:39:47 +0000

Successfully tracked down the Hyrum's Law one, nice work

> downstream developers will learn to depend on every possible behavior your API accomplishes, even the unintended ones

New comment by andenacitelli in "Fun with uv and PEP 723"

andenacitelli — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:49:07 +0000

+1 for Mise, it has just totally solved the 1..N problem for us and made it hilariously easy to be more consistent across local dev and workflows

New comment by andenacitelli in "GitHub API Is Down"

andenacitelli — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:48:17 +0000

some discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303052, which seems to have been posted first

New comment by andenacitelli in "Is GitHub Releases Down?"

andenacitelli — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:48:08 +0000

some discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303052, which seems to have been posted first

New comment by andenacitelli in "Is GitHub Down?"

andenacitelli — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:47:13 +0000

Their status page has updated w/ a GitHub Copilot degraded perf warning. Seems like they're at least aware of it

New comment by andenacitelli in "Is GitHub Down?"

andenacitelli — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:46:33 +0000

Yep. Some of it's working fine, but various file downloads are giving 500/503

New comment by andenacitelli in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

andenacitelli — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:24:52 +0000

Say what you want, Astral ships impressively fast and their stuff works well. Python has been looking for better tooling for a long time.

New comment by andenacitelli in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust"

andenacitelli — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:38:11 +0000

I’ve had this same thought. Ruff doesn’t support extensions / custom lint rules that I’m aware of, so maybe don’t get your hopes up.

New comment by andenacitelli in "Redis is open source again"

andenacitelli — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:51:08 +0000

AWS supports Valkey for Elasticache, and they actually bill it 33% cheaper. We use it and it works well.

New comment by andenacitelli in "The average college student today"

andenacitelli — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:29:18 +0000

Yes, this is it. You can usually find some discounted or free way to get most books, but I had classes where you literally submitted homework through the same system you accessed the book through, and it was like $150.

New comment by andenacitelli in "Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages"

andenacitelli — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:20:19 +0000

They yanked the relevant change and pushed a new one with a revert, this is now resolved

Took them seemingly forever to do. The reversion, sure, that might take a bit to proof, but the yank should have been done way sooner

New comment by andenacitelli in "Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages"

andenacitelli — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:41:00 +0000

From what I gather this has basically derailed CI for the morning for the majority of places out there. Only workaround is pinning build-time dependencies, which only pip and uv seem to let you do well. Poetry is SOL / heavily cache-dependent as to whether it works.

Python Tooling Guide (Evergreen)

andenacitelli — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:56:59 +0000

Article URL: https://andenacitelli.com/wiki/software-engineering/python/python-tooling-guide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43081592

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by andenacitelli in "What's Coming Next for ESLint"

andenacitelli — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:23:39 +0000

A full rewrite instead of finding a way to gradually increment already feels like a lot of risk. Asking your core dev team to potentially pick up an entirely new skillset in Rust would introduce too much on top and probably cause people to flake from the project.

Totally agree something like Rust would be good in a vacuum, but existing contributors and ecosystem would present problems. Having tooling built in the same ecosystem as the end product makes it way easier to contribute.

Malte Handbook

andenacitelli — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/malte-handbook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874975

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by andenacitelli in "Polars releases v1.0.0 – a Pandas alternative"

andenacitelli — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:31:20 +0000

"Pandas alternative" kind of undersells it -- it's drastically faster and supposedly has a much more intuitive interface. The limits of how long you can keep doing things entirely in-memory (and postpone the move to something like Spark) get higher and higher.

New comment by andenacitelli in "Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor"

andenacitelli — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:58:28 +0000

The installation and first five minutes of any kind of product is hugely make or break. I keep my resume in LaTeX via Overleaf, but probably wouldn’t bother with it if I had to get LaTeX running locally, which has always seemed fairly complex to me (though I’m admittedly no LaTeX has expert and may entirely be wrong).

New comment by andenacitelli in "Show HN: ThreadQuilt: AI-Free Thread Aggregator"

andenacitelli — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:44:27 +0000

“AI” (as absurdly broad of a term as it is) has legitimate use case. It isn’t JUST hype. However, because of the buzz, it’s being shoehorned into so many places it really just isn’t the proper fit for, and it’s hard to figure it where.

However, there ARE plenty of areas it IS the right fit for. Lots of “fuzzy” systems that would struggle to be rule-based and generalizable benefit hugely from LLMs and other fuzzy / intentionally broadly scoped tooling.

Source — I work at a “chat with your data” startup, and our product just categorically wouldn’t be worthwhile if the above weren’t true :)

New comment by andenacitelli in "Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs"

andenacitelli — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:25:43 +0000

Yes, but it’s true in the general case. Defaults are usually the defaults for a reason — someone putting thought into what makes sense for most users.

New comment by andenacitelli in "They make USB-C cables with displays now"

andenacitelli — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:50:38 +0000

I don’t closely follow the space, but Anker has always seemed like reasonable quality at a reasonable price. Maybe I’m easily marketed to or something. But I’ve had quite a few adapters and cables and such from them and have never had an issue.