Hacker News: andersco

New comment by andersco in "Why the heck are we still using Markdown?"

andersco — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:19:21 +0000

Because I think it’s fair to say it’s becoming a standard format for ai agent specs docs etc. It’s not going away anytime soon.

New comment by andersco in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

andersco — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:53:09 +0000

Input: this project was a complete shitshow.

Output: This project provided us with numerous unexpected learning opportunities and allowed us to demonstrate significant agility in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.

New comment by andersco in "Tilly Norwood music video is so bad; AI won't be putting actors out of work"

andersco — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:04:50 +0000

Watched the video. Yeah, it’s cheesy, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty f-ing good nonetheless. IMO, this article reads like a stodgy old English professor berating a freshman essay because it wasn’t world class literature.

New comment by andersco in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

andersco — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:25:05 +0000

https://www.anders.co/

New comment by andersco in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

andersco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:56:16 +0000

Rob Pike is my hero

New comment by andersco in "Apple Services Experiencing Outage"

andersco — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:03:20 +0000

Also seeing outages relating to App Store Connect, currently unable to submit builds to TestFlight.

New comment by andersco in "Writing a good Claude.md"

andersco — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:34:13 +0000

I have found enabling the codebase itself to be the “Claude.md” to be most effective. In other words, set up effective automated checks for linting, type checking, unit tests etc and tell Claude to always run these before completing a task. If the agent keeps doing something you don’t like, then a linting update or an additional test often is more effective than trying to tinker with the Claude.md file. Also, ensure docs on the codebase are up to date and tell Claude to read relevant parts when working on a task and of course update the docs for each new task. YMMV but this has worked for me.

New comment by andersco in "Oncle Bob: static sites for everyone"

andersco — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:10:06 +0000

I didn’t read the title closely enough and thought this was Uncle Bob recommending static sites.

New comment by andersco in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

andersco — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:53:48 +0000

Yes, there is a “Hello” in the noise, made visible through contrast and animation.

New comment by andersco in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

andersco — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:03:37 +0000

For this to truly be funny, it needs to be installed on on an unsuspecting user’s laptop, preferably some C-level type about to join an in-person board meeting.

New comment by andersco in "Tell HN: HN is becoming too political"

andersco — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:46:43 +0000

Can you provide specific examples of threads that drift into politics?

New comment by andersco in "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose"

andersco — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:34:48 +0000

https://archive.is/aISbM

New comment by andersco in "The Monster Inside ChatGPT"

andersco — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:36:36 +0000

https://archive.is/VSvpv

New comment by andersco in "The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next?"

andersco — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:54:39 +0000

https://archive.is/4jyjL

New comment by andersco in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

andersco — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:47:45 +0000

Still an extraordinary experience after all these years and possibly the best use of horizontal scrolling I’ve seen. Lots of previous discussions and posts on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=if+moon+only+1+pixel

New comment by andersco in "Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?"

andersco — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:53:42 +0000

Yes, thanks for the clarification. One of this law firm’s main clients was one of the big tobacco companies. Also this was in the mid 90s before the big tobacco settlements.

New comment by andersco in "Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?"

andersco — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:39:01 +0000

Yes, after working as a dba for a law firm and discovering that I was the administrator for thousands of lawsuits against tobacco companies. In many cases the victim had already died of lung cancer and the suit was being brought by family members. Many of the families’ income was near poverty level. At the same time, the law firm was in a plush nyc office building. I spent day after day feeling like I wanted to throw up and finally quit.

New comment by andersco in "Shadcn/UI is taking over the internet"

andersco — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:12:21 +0000

Love shadcn, only gripe I have is I still need to use —-legacy-peer-deps due to using React 19.

New comment by andersco in "Stop Uncapped Cloud Billing"

andersco — Sun, 04 May 2025 17:48:30 +0000

I recently had an experience where I was trying out the AWS Bedrock service using their knowledge base quickStart. I followed their flow for creating a knowledge base and then played with it a bit but decided it wasn’t for me. That was in April. On May 1, I received a bill from AWS for several hundred dollars. It turns out this index I created was costing me about $16/day. I had set up a budget alarm for $20 but it was never triggered. I contacted AWS support and they were very apologetic but would not offer any kind of refund. On the one hand, sure I should have deleted those indexes after trying them out, but there was no info or any indication provided that they’d incur a daily expense even when not in use. In fact, even after I received the bill I was not able to find the source of the expense because it was described as coming from OpenSearch, which I had not used. It was only after contacting AWS support that I was able to determine that the source of the expense was Bedrock.

New comment by andersco in "WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages"

andersco — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:17:56 +0000

Fail: I tried “knulla”, Swedish for “to fuck” which it caught immediately. However, I then tried “prutta”, Swedish for farting and it did not catch that one. (Though it did flag it as Australian slang for having sex, so I guess it caught it through dumb luck.)