Hacker News: aulin

New comment by aulin in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

aulin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:31:50 +0000

> I need to try the command line version.

Is there any other?

New comment by aulin in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

aulin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:38:43 +0000

GH Copilot is still the best deal, while it lasts

New comment by aulin in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

aulin — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:29:54 +0000

Admit I didn't follow the announcements but isn't that a matter of UI? Doesn't seem something that should be baked in the model but in the tooling around it and the instructions you give them. E.g. I've been playing with with GitHub copilot CLI (that despite the bad fame is absolutely amazing) and the same model completely changes its behavior with the prompt. You can have it answer a question promptly or send it on a multi-hour multi-agent exploration writing detailed specs with a single prompt. Or you can have it stop midway for clarification. It all depends on the instructions. Also this is particularly interesting with GitHub billing model as each prompt counts 1 request no matter how many tokens it burns.

New comment by aulin in "Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard"

aulin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:36:11 +0000

If you are on a us ansi keyboard and switch to a iso layout (most European layouts are iso) you have I believe two unreachable keys. And the arrangement of the others is slightly different you will have to adapt your muscle memory anyway.

Altgr-intl is pretty good for when you code and write English most of the time and occasionally need accented letters. If you need to write a lot in your native language it's better to get a local layout keyboard.

New comment by aulin in "When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions"

aulin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:30:12 +0000

Seems to me the most expectations they had with the library was about the compression stuff and it did not include that. So in the end it was mostly rev eng. Also in this specific case you are using the library code as documentation about the hardware, the code itself has little value. I doubt it would configure as license violation.

New comment by aulin in "Why is the world losing color?"

aulin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:45:17 +0000

They don't get as hot when parked under the sun though.

New comment by aulin in "The role of developer skills in agentic coding"

aulin — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:34:14 +0000

I am not wrong. You simply are not the kind of developer I am thinking about. And believe me the other kind is way more represented.

New comment by aulin in "The role of developer skills in agentic coding"

aulin — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 05:43:27 +0000

In my every day experience that's pretty risky. The periphery as you call it is often an area where you lack the expertise to spot and correct AI mistakes.

I am thinking about build systems and shell scripts. I see people everyday going to AI before even looking at the docs and invariably failing with non-existent command line options, or worst options that break things in very subtle ways.

Same people that when you tell them why don't you read the f-ing man page they go to google to look it up instead of opening a terminal.

Same people that push through an unknown problem by trial and error instead of reading the docs first. But now they have this dumb counselor that steers them in the wrong direction most of the time and the whole process is even more error prone.

New comment by aulin in "Pi-hole v6"

aulin — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:49:49 +0000

I use pihole for dhcp and it's extremely easy with dnsmasq. Hope their settings overhaul does not break this.

dhcp-option=tag:nospam,option:dns-server,x.x.x.x dhcp-option=tag:spam,option:dns-server,y.y.y.y dhcp-host=client1...,set:nospam dhcp-host=client2...,set:spam

New comment by aulin in "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)"

aulin — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:31:53 +0000

Self-esteem that easily turns into hubris though. I think the real seniority shows when you are able to work on a legacy codebase full of the shittiest code and not have the slightest desire to rewrite it all.

New comment by aulin in "Have Gemini stage and write commit messages for you"

aulin — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:57:06 +0000

Also when the issue is a bug the information you'll find in the tracker is usually about the symptoms and says nothing about the fix.

New comment by aulin in "How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers"

aulin — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:37:16 +0000

I prefer email. I'd really prefer if people read what I write though. The big problem with email is people can't read.

New comment by aulin in "How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers"

aulin — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:31:53 +0000

No experience with slack but channels in teams are pretty terrible.

Notifications off by default so people create new channels with you as a member, write extremely important information inside them and you find out weeks later.

Each post is like an announcement so nobody uses them for the everyday trivial stuff you need a channel for. For casual technical discussion, asking for help. Whenever you post in a channel, assuming people enabled notifications and your post will be actually seen, everyone is compelled to answer as the UI screams for attention.

And don't get me started about it hiding part of a post by default so you answer thinking you read everything but you missed an essential part because post was 4 rows and 2 were hidden.

New comment by aulin in "Be Aware of the Makefile Effect"

aulin — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:18:04 +0000

you don't have the time because you spend it bruteforcing solutions by trial and error instead of reading the manual and doing them right the first time

New comment by aulin in "How I program with LLMs"

aulin — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:18:40 +0000

Yes I've had plenty of experiences with orgs that self host everything, I don't think it's a minority it's just a different cluster than the one most represented here.

Still I believe hosting is somewhat different, if anything because it's something established, known players, trusted practices. AI is new, contracts are still getting refined, players are still making their name, companies are moving fast and I doubt data protection is their priority.

I may be wrong but I think it's reasonable for IT departments to be at least prudent towards these frameworks. Search is ok, chat is okish, crawling whole projects for autocompletion I'd be more careful.

New comment by aulin in "How I program with LLMs"

aulin — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:25:37 +0000

This subthread started with someone from a no AI policy company, people are dismissing it with snarky comments, along the line of your code is not as important as you believe. I'm just trying to show a different picture, we work in a pretty vast field and people commenting here don't necessarily represent a valid sample.

New comment by aulin in "How I program with LLMs"

aulin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:24:41 +0000

Those are risks both for the individual and for the company when there are contracts in place with third parties involving code sharing.

Other risks include leaking industrial secrets that may significantly damage company business or benefit competitors.

New comment by aulin in "How I program with LLMs"

aulin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:47:02 +0000

> Thought exercise: what would seriously happen if you did let some of your proprietary code outside your network

Lawsuits? Lawful terminations? Financial damages?

New comment by aulin in "How I program with LLMs"

aulin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:27:33 +0000

One thing is consciously sharing IP with third parties violating contracts, another is falling victim of malicious code in the toolchain.

Npm concern though suggests we likely work in very different industries so that may explain the different perspective.

New comment by aulin in "It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)"

aulin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:50:06 +0000

Life and work can be very well separated even without working 8 hours straight from 9 to 5. That's the obsolete part.