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New comment by armanckeser in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

armanckeser — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:01:02 +0000

Sounds like free market at work to me. I am just glad there is quite a lot of competition in a field that I would have assumed would have huge costs of entry

New comment by armanckeser in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

armanckeser — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:44:47 +0000

I wrote about how to redirect to nitter instances on any platform a month ago [1], and a few days later we had the cease and desist. Fortunately, you can redirect to twiiit.com and that will find a working instance for you.

[1] https://armanckeser.com/writing/redirecting-x-com

New comment by armanckeser in "Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive"

armanckeser — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:49:27 +0000

Why assume token costs will increase as opposed to become commoditized?

New comment by armanckeser in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

armanckeser — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:07:25 +0000

I am not sure the author of the comment you are replying to understands that LLM systems have prompt caches

New comment by armanckeser in "Making x.com links open xcancel automatically"

armanckeser — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:25:17 +0000

There are many reasons why one might not want an account, and I presume your view is exactly why X created this gate in the first place. However if you are like me and your main use case was say Android, a simple app install is basically no work. I wish I were able to do it on the network layer without a CA though, that would have been the silver bullet

New comment by armanckeser in "Ask HN: How to Start with LLMs/Vibecoding?"

armanckeser — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:59:11 +0000

If your aim is to just get started, get yourself a Claude account and just download Claude Code. You don't really have to read anything on it, as you use agents you will get to learn what they are good and bad at but defaults are quite good anyway if you use a capable model like Opus 5. Truth is there are a million guides and plugins in the open but they really provide incremental gains for a beginner as they would overwhelm you.

If you are more conscious of the price, try out opencode or pi and research OpenRouter or similar for coding with models like GLM 5.2 or Kimi K3 or even Deepseek 4, they will be less out of the box but cheaper.

Making x.com links open xcancel automatically

armanckeser — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:47:52 +0000

Article URL: https://armanckeser.com/writing/redirecting-x-com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059885

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by armanckeser in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

armanckeser — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:53:55 +0000

Places like r/selfhosted try this and to be completely frank, puts that community into the "naive" side of history. One day not so far in the future AI assisted/generated will mean more reliable, better tested, better documented by default, and do you think AI companies are not focusing on making their LLMs not sound like AI? In 2 generations everything we know about identifying LLM generated content will be obsolete. Only thing that matters is if the content is quality or not.

New comment by armanckeser in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

armanckeser — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:58:20 +0000

Tangent but what a horrible website at least on my android. Starts as light mode, suddenly shows three streched columns, turns to dark mode and the title is hidden behind the header. After years of being around how can they end up with something like this

New comment by armanckeser in "AI 2040: Plan A"

armanckeser — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:52:22 +0000

I personally find AI doomsday preaching incredibly arrogant. You think that we will create super intelligence, something that will exponentially get smarter, and the thing it will do is... end humans? Why wouldn't it just find solutions to problems we struggle with? Also people don't live to work, its asinine to argue AI replacing jobs is the problem, obviously the problem is the gains being concentrated higher up. Another thing is, we argue AI needs to be maximally useful to everyone in the world, and the argument to do that is government control??? I would rather push for AI to be superintelligent faster than any one human can control it. Frankly human controlled superintelligence is likely a worse outcome then uncontrolled superintelligence, at the very least there is no guarantee one will be better than the other.

New comment by armanckeser in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

armanckeser — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:31:56 +0000

I don't use poetry anymore but do check the updates before claiming such things

https://python-poetry.org/blog/announcing-poetry-2.4.0/

New comment by armanckeser in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

armanckeser — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:38:34 +0000

I think even just seeing the number of open PRs might be a deterrence to contributors thinking of opening PRs.

New comment by armanckeser in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

armanckeser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:01:21 +0000

So this is exactly what's unintuitive about queues, an analogy would be car lanes. Intuition might lead you to conclude that if a 2 lane road has traffic constantly going to 4 lanes will solve the traffic. But this is not true. Many people that would have used the road might have been using public transport or just decided not to commute or stay inside normally will join the traffic until it once again equilibriates. Adding more maintainers without addressing the core problems of the queue won't lead to success

New comment by armanckeser in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

armanckeser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:03:52 +0000

Fair call-out, although couple things to point out, I am used to a Squash Merge workflow which I think makes reviews easier based on comments as the reviewer gets to see what changed after their comment easier. Many of the commits are merge commits. If you actually look at the timeline of the original PR, you will see that it also started with a smaller scope but as time passed I also went through the cycle of "while at it, let me also fix this" loop that I mentioned in the article.

The point of the article is: there is a feature that people would like, there is someone who wants to add it, the appropriate time and a lot more for this feature to be merged has been spent yet the feature is nowhere to be found. That's the two way street I am trying to get across. I wish I wasn't even able to open the PR, I wish the maintainer would utilize more automation tools to groom feature requests and potential contributors with agreed upon plans and agreed upon timelines so that both sides time could be used much more effectively.

As far as PR descriptions etc goes, I asked multiple times what the best route to merging would be. If that went through better descriptions, I was happy to do that, as you can see, I wasn't aware of the "no conventional commits" rule, so in my next PRs I used the correct approach, but that should be completely automatable. Yes, I should have spent more time studying Jellyfin's conventions, but I shouldn't have to, not because its unfair for me, simply because there are more contributors than maintainers, so maintainers should not rely on desired behavior from contributors, they should force that behavior as much as possible.

New comment by armanckeser in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

armanckeser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:09:51 +0000

Agreed. A problem I see with how AI reviews have been used is that after one kicks it off, now the maintainer has to review both the PR and the AI's review which doesn't really save time. Like you said, if AI review was used more intentionally, e.g. all PRs have to go through AI review that checks for the baseline requirements and only after the contributor signals "I addressed everything AI commented either by giving my disagreement reasons or making the changes", maintainers spending time on the review could save a lot of quality time.

New comment by armanckeser in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

armanckeser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:05:00 +0000

Thanks a lot! I appreciate the kind words. I do want to clarify that I think in Jellyfin-web's case, the maintainer does mean well and doesn't really have the "benevolent dictat... er, maintainer" approach. But there seems to be this defeatist argument of: we have one maintainer which means 6 months per PR and features not being merged, that I think Open Source projects could do a better job at

New comment by armanckeser in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

armanckeser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:30:43 +0000

It is a rite of passage. Meet Jellypin, my fork that only allows watching media with subtitles

The exponential curve behind open source backlogs

armanckeser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:37:56 +0000

Article URL: https://armanckeser.com/writing/jellyfin-flow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764265

Points: 72

# Comments: 49

Don't get used to Skills, they'll (mostly) be gone in a year

armanckeser — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://armanckeser.com/writing/skills-in-a-year

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676965

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by armanckeser in "Devin makers: you shouldn't build multi-agent systems"

armanckeser — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:37:31 +0000

I believe companies that don't understand this and invest heavily in multi-agent will be left in the dust in the AI race