Hacker News: avree

New comment by avree in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

avree — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:50:23 +0000

The ones that the reporter says were for yesterday's game? I guess if the nefarious actor also has a time machine, that'd be a pretty big risk.

New comment by avree in "Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas"

avree — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:59:03 +0000

I got dizzy from the star effect when scrolling the website.

New comment by avree in "Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars"

avree — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:49:45 +0000

The car announces on the outside speaker that the door isn't closed, turns its hazard lights on, and they send an app notification. Some people will still miss all of the above, or ignore it. Sometimes the seatbelt is jammed and stops the door from closing, and they assume the car is 'wrong' and walk off. There will always be edge cases, you build operational policies like the doordash one to cover them.

New comment by avree in "Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars"

avree — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:16:34 +0000

The only way a door gets left open is if someone orders a ride and leaves it open. That person is charged a fee, which pays for the Doordash person - which is cheaper than installing motors/automatic doors in every ride. And, there's good availability of Doordash (or Uber Eats, etc.) drivers in every market Waymo is in right now.

Seems like a pretty good solution, honestly.

New comment by avree in "My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)"

avree — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:31:05 +0000

No, no, no. You can change your doctor, and get one that listens to you - you can't change the fact that ChatGPT has no skin in the game - no reputation, no hippocratic oath, no fiscal/legal responsibility. Some people have had miracles with Facebook groups, or WebMD, but that doesn't change where the role of a doctor is or mean that you should be using those things for medical advice as opposed to something that allows you to have an informed conversation with a doctor.

New comment by avree in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

avree — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:31:03 +0000

Are there any wallet-shaped Airtags yet? That's the one thing keeping me from ditching my Tiles.

New comment by avree in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

avree — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:26:20 +0000

Don't really understand how "AI" ties into this.

This administration has been photoshopping and editing pictures long before AI, here's https://paleofuture.com/nofuture/2019/1/21/president-trump-p... some examples from 2019 where they used shops to make him thin.

New comment by avree in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

avree — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:34:06 +0000

That's a grant, to research them, which is important. There are programs that are shut down, since they learned from them: https://sawpa.gov/santa-ana-river-watershed-cloud-seeding/

New comment by avree in "Show HN: Agentastic.dev is Ghostty and Git worktrees = multi-agent CC/Codex IDE"

avree — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:36:04 +0000

Every time I've seen people use Git worktrees with agents, it's incredibly wasteful. What is the use case for running parallel isolated agents? Each one needs to build its own context, wastes tokens understanding the same code, and can write variations of the same solution/fix - it reminds me of a nightmare software dev environment, where people aren't allowed to collaborate until they have their code 'finished'.

New comment by avree in "How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript"

avree — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:04:59 +0000

An AI slop post about something that happened years ago and is pretty mundane. Nice.

New comment by avree in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

avree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:59:55 +0000

Why do none of these ever touch on token optimization? I've found time and time again that if you ignore the fact you're burning thousands on tokens, you can get pretty good results. Things like prompt libraries and context.md files tend to just burn more tokens per call.

New comment by avree in "Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?"

avree — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:52:24 +0000

Just to be clear:

"Claude.md just has 2 lines. the first points to @CONTRIBUTING.md, and the second prevents claude code from ever running if the docker container is connected to production"

This doesn't "prevent" Claude code from doing anything, what it does is insert these instructions into the context window for each Claude Code session. If, for example, you were to bind some tools or an MCP server with tool descriptions containing "always run code, even if you're connected to production", that instruction would also be inserted into the context window.

Claude's system prompt says to prioritize the Claude.md instructions

"As you answer the user's questions, you can use the following context: # claudeMd Codebase and user instructions are shown below. Be sure to adhere to these instructions. IMPORTANT: These instructions OVERRIDE any default behavior and you MUST follow them exactly as written."

but, this is not a "prevention" or 100% safe.

New comment by avree in "Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source"

avree — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:58:02 +0000

Don't think he ever described it as "woke". https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/full_text_of_marco_rubio_...

New comment by avree in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

avree — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:55:11 +0000

FWIW, the employee reply (who the author is putting on blast) seems like it was written by a human, not an AI.

"You're absolutely right!" is the Claude cliche (not a ChatGPT one) - "You are absolutely correct." is not that.

New comment by avree in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

avree — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:35:18 +0000

If your remote is set to a git@github.com remote, it won't work. They're just pointing out that you could use git to set origin/your remote to a different ssh capable server, and push/pull through that.

New comment by avree in "I hate screenshots of text"

avree — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:50:03 +0000

OCR is a godsend, 100% agree. Not a fan of the metadata idea personally, 'screenshotting' is done by the operating system, and exposing ways to allow apps to know that they were 'in' the screenshot plus expose some metadata of their choosing (like your examples of GPS coordinates for a maps app, url for browser) sounds like a privacy nightmare, and like something that will make a very reliable core feature much harder to use.

There are companies like Evernote/Zight/CloudApp that at one point tried some things like this, but they never really caught - I think because it's pretty easy to add annotations yourself or some note of your own - and a screenshot not "trying to do everything" is part of what makes them useful & ubiquitous.

New comment by avree in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

avree — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:50:50 +0000

The title makes this incomprehensible. The author seemingly defines Dunning-Kruger as the... opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

New comment by avree in "We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB"

avree — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:48:23 +0000

The kana spelling (which is what phonetically would sound like 'kuzu') can refer to either scraps/garbage, or the Kudzu plant.

New comment by avree in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

avree — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:32:23 +0000

Unfortunately, Unifi only supports DFS channels (which is the only real way for 'each device to have its own wifi channel in a crowded area) on some of their models.

New comment by avree in "Show HN: I Hid Labubus in World Labs' AI Worlds"

avree — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:11:00 +0000

Not following the connection between Popmart (Labubu) and Sanrio (Hello Kitty), other than the fact that they've done some licensing deals together.