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New comment by bdcravens in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

bdcravens — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:21:42 +0000

If only we had the same amount of concern about oil refineries and gas stations.

https://environmentalintegrity.org/news/13-oil-refineries-in...

https://www.theenergymix.com/gas-stations-leave-behind-toxic...

New comment by bdcravens in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

bdcravens — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:47:56 +0000

The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels.

"From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."

New comment by bdcravens in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bdcravens — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:30:53 +0000

I think of Jenkins as a project, not a vendor. (if you're looking for alternatives to Github, I'd assume it being a managed solution is a requirement)

New comment by bdcravens in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bdcravens — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:42:46 +0000

Classic CI vendors like Semaphore, Circle, etc are options.

New comment by bdcravens in "DeepSeek Harness"

bdcravens — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:02:52 +0000

Many of the libraries and executables in Linux are cross-compilable with other ecosystems. It's the difference between opening the door to an existing ecosystem and birthing one.

New comment by bdcravens in "DeepSeek Harness"

bdcravens — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:00:03 +0000

Most vendors that create a plugin-based system end up creating a large library of plugins to kickstart the ecosystem, which many users end up trusting those more because they're "official", so they essentially created an mono-vendor ecosystem with extra steps.

New comment by bdcravens in "Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API"

bdcravens — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:34:22 +0000

"Built by the team behind Brainfish"

Perhaps I'm the wrong market for this project (despite much of my bread and butter being types of workflows) because I have no idea what Brainfish is.

New comment by bdcravens in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

bdcravens — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:09:20 +0000

They make it up by making you walk through the store to get to them

New comment by bdcravens in "Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket"

bdcravens — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:14:55 +0000

Correct, never has been. It's marketing in the vein of "serverless" and "wireless".

New comment by bdcravens in "Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket"

bdcravens — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:13:39 +0000

Even if you're under the limit, if they have a way of knowing when you were not there (eg, camera footage), they use the rate of alcohol metabolization to determine what your BAC would have been when you drove there.

New comment by bdcravens in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

bdcravens — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:23:33 +0000

If it hadn't died, you'd still be running it.

New comment by bdcravens in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

bdcravens — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:19:48 +0000

> A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden.

This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away and rebuild it

This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess".

New comment by bdcravens in "Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas"

bdcravens — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:52:47 +0000

It's satire, because this is an expansion of the border wall.

"....the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote national parks."

New comment by bdcravens in "Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas"

bdcravens — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:50:52 +0000

A majority did, but Texas isn't unified politically. There's actually more blue voters in Texas than in many "blue" states. (And the inverse is true in California)

New comment by bdcravens in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

bdcravens — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:09:18 +0000

I wonder if there will be any funny data issues that happen because companies keep track of such requests in a table named "drop"

New comment by bdcravens in "RamenHaus"

bdcravens — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:43:45 +0000

Happy to see they have a selection from the location (Ramen Tatsu-ya, in Austin) that started my love of ramen

https://ramen.haus/united-states/austin/tatsu-ya-the-og/

New comment by bdcravens in "Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)"

bdcravens — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:45:55 +0000

Nice app, though the naming is very close to others

https://github.com/termix-ssh/termix

New comment by bdcravens in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

bdcravens — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:26:13 +0000

Some of our biggest wins were in a legacy code base, where changes would require a lot of archaeology. I feel like Claude (and probably most coding LLMs) really shine when optimizing fat blocks of SQL, given the complex relational calculus.

New comment by bdcravens in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

bdcravens — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:26:43 +0000

I recently handed off a prompt to redesign our customer site and give me 10 potential designs. I did it in Claude Opus 5 and Fable (on $200 plan), and then on Codex using 5.6 Sol. Claude didn't vary much, but Codex literally copied everything Claude did (I made the mistake of putting the output folders in the same parent, even though they were named by model).

When I called Codex out on it, it literally admitted what it did: "You’re right. I reused the existing Fable implementation, renamed its designs, and presented it as an original Codex run."

New comment by bdcravens in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

bdcravens — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:37:38 +0000

I'm probably in the 5x-10x range, but we are a very small team, and we've been accumulating a backlog of ideas over the years. I drive the architecture, and have almost complete autonomy over the work I do. I think someone in my shoes will see a greater result than someone trying to do the same thing in large team, with all the usual process and ceremony, only wanting to go faster.