Hacker News: andrewrn

Ask HN: How do you keep agent-written PRs reviewable?

andrewrn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:23:54 +0000

Hi HN, I am curious what your teams' best practices are for facilitating human-agent collaboration on software teams.

I want to take advantage of coding agents, but since my team works on robotic software, everything still needs to be human-reviewed. Some folks submit very voluminous and needlessly verbose PRs that are challenging to review.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480531

Points: 2

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New comment by andrewrn in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

andrewrn — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:25:36 +0000

And in the case where a team gets overworked, there are legions more fresh and bright engineers to burn.

New comment by andrewrn in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

andrewrn — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:26:41 +0000

This is definitely made by some bitter YC reject. Amazing the vitriol of those types

New comment by andrewrn in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

andrewrn — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:49:52 +0000

At one particularly reprehensible job for which I was overqualified (job market was kicking my ass), I noticed that the higher in the food chain someone was, the more convincingly busy they appeared.

The middle manager above me was genuinely skilled at this. All day, when you passed his office, he looked like he was absolutely concentrated on something.

Unrelated to AI, but it was pretty interesting.

New comment by andrewrn in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

andrewrn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:07:23 +0000

This is a great book regarding animal tracking and other interesting clues in the outdoors. It’s very British-centric sadly though. https://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Guide-Outdoor-Clues-Signs-ebo...

New comment by andrewrn in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

andrewrn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:06:45 +0000

You might really enjoy this book, I really did: https://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Guide-Outdoor-Clues-Signs-ebo...

New comment by andrewrn in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

andrewrn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:04:37 +0000

I did a few flights in college but never got my license because there wasn’t an instructor light enough to meet weight requirements with me lol. Do you have yours? If so, how long did it take you?

New comment by andrewrn in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

andrewrn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:44:29 +0000

Oh this is sooo cool. I want to try and do this in the summer too. This might be of interest to you: https://youtu.be/XTnYVh7K6xQ

New comment by andrewrn in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

andrewrn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:57:38 +0000

57:42 here: https://youtu.be/m7LvNTbaqSI That one is borderline ^.

Then another dalton and Michael one can’t find.

New comment by andrewrn in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

andrewrn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:17:13 +0000

“By 2018, several Y.C. partners were so frustrated with Altman’s behavior that they approached Graham to complain. Graham and Jessica Livingston, his wife and a Y.C. founder, apparently had a frank conversation with Altman. Afterward, Graham started telling people that although Altman had agreed to leave the company, he was resisting in practice”

You can subtly see residue of this frustration in Dalton and Michael’s videos when Sam Altman comes up. It’s only thinly veiled that Sam was a snake while at YC.

Ask HN: How Does Retirement Affect Your Workplace?

andrewrn — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:41:31 +0000

I am trying to understand how long-tenured folks' retirements cause disruptions from loss of institutional knowledge. I've had some conversations so far, but I'd love to hear some more perspectives. I am particularly interested in fields that have embodied, tacit knowledge that walks out the door with retirees. Thanks in advance.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881535

Points: 1

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New comment by andrewrn in "The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself"

andrewrn — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:14:56 +0000

The author mentioned they’ve been self-employed for 15 years, then proceeds to make a bunch of claims about traditional employment, like being “your professional development being structurally supported,” but it’s important to remember the variance in normal employment, too.

When you’re valuable in a certain position at a company, trying to grow beyond it is like swimming upstream in a raging current. The pigeonholing that happens when you work for a big company is not to be underestimated.

Ask HN: How are P&IDs used after they're drawn?

andrewrn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:35:21 +0000

I’m trying to learn about how P&IDs are used by process safety, ops, and maintenance personnel.

I’ve worked as a P&ID drafter mostly doing redline changes, but I’m trying to learn how these drawings are actually used more broadly.

In your experience:

What do you personally do with P&IDs?

Would really appreciate perspectives from O&G, chemicals, or industrial ops.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404485

Points: 1

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New comment by andrewrn in "Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle"

andrewrn — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:57:24 +0000

This is a super cool game, nicely done.

New comment by andrewrn in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

andrewrn — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:28:19 +0000

As a counterpoint to the negativity in here. I purchased one of Angela Yu's basic webdev courses a couple years back and it springboarded my coding ability. I left it rather quickly to just build random stuff I wanted, but still, it was the spark.

New comment by andrewrn in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

andrewrn — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:43:37 +0000

True. I’m rooting for the lives as well.

New comment by andrewrn in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

andrewrn — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:29:52 +0000

There are billions of dollars motivated against this outcome

New comment by andrewrn in "Why Speed Matters"

andrewrn — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:25:39 +0000

To me, the kind of speed that matters is maximizing the rate that your idea/product/work contacts reality. This is only indirectly explained in point 2 at the bottom of this post.

Indiscriminately espousing raw speed for every step is a perfect recipe for burnout.

New comment by andrewrn in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

andrewrn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:11:53 +0000

Yeah fair fair. It's high variance. My roommate once had a bunch of his highschool friends over for a weekend and one of them sleep-peed onto my roommate's stack of books.

New comment by andrewrn in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

andrewrn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:16:01 +0000

Did anyone else actually enjoy dorm life? I was a freshman some years ago, so maybe it’s generational, but it was a very fond time.

I guess it’s probably high variance. My roomate was a great dude. I can easily see how it could go the other way.