<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bradgessler</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bradgessler</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:53:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bradgessler" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The constant has always been tools that maximize developer productivity. What's changed is that LLMs are now the best way for developers to tell machines what to do. We've all been given a much bigger lever we can use to spend our waking hours (and even sleeping hours if you run agents overnight) to move even bigger mountains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846723</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The solution is legal and political, not technical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:54:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716210</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure KYC is next.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:57:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665282</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When building web apps, I prompt humans and AI with “the best design is accessible design” and start from there.<p>It always ends up being faster, clearer, simpler, and better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:53:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487580</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I asked Borris at an Anthropic event in SF this week why Opus 5 and Fable 5 seem to forget so much when I give it rapid fire tasks when I'm reviewing a UI or something. He told me to run in safe mode, which didn't help at all.<p>My tinfoil hat theory is Anthropic is trying to get their new models to take on higher-level longer-running tasks, which has a trade-off against rapid-fire tactical use of an LLM.<p>For these reasons, I've always found the 5 series models from Anthropic aren't great and use 4.8 for a lot of my work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:22:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304089</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd like to see real numbers that compare Docker Desktop for macOS before microVMs to post-microVMs.<p>I stopped using Docker on macOS because host file system performance was so slow, even with all of the caching hacks piled on top of it, that it made the whole thing effectively unusable for development.<p>Directionally the post shared sounds great, but it seems "too good to be true" that we'd have a performant microVM for macOS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:12:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249052</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Human Code Dump → AI Code Dump<p>Also, water is wet and the sky is blue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656958</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What happens when the backup breaks?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 22:44:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069663</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminds me of an “all you can eat” buffet I was at once where the owner told me, “that’s it, that’s all you can eat” and cut it off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:27:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676857</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Never buy a .online domain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got og.plus that expands to OpenGraphPlus.com.<p>At first I was stoked to have a two letter domain, but then I looked into it and learned these companies will get you hooked with a low initial price, then jack up the prices as the domain becomes established.<p>Quite the grift. My plan is to tread lightly on that domain and be ready to back away from it when the rent seekers move in.<p>You’d think there would be some sort of rules to the neutrality of these TLD administrators, but nope.<p>The second time around I wised up and go ogplus.net for an API domain instead of ogplus.media. I’ll take neutrality over vanity any day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155344</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Show HN: ThinkingScript - Self-Improving AI Executables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m super early stages with this project and exploring what it would look like agents were just unix programs running securely along side other Unix programs. A big benefit of that is I can pipe one agents output into another agents input.<p>Another idea I’m exploring is having agents write code for simple tasks. First example, if you run “hello world” with agent script, the first time an agent reads the text file, understands its simple, then writes a static memory.js file. When the program runs again, it hits that file and never invokes the agent.<p>Where things get interesting are the cases where a script works for some cases, but not all. When that happens, the memory.js script can call agent.resume() during a static run so the agent can take over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129881</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: ThinkingScript - Self-Improving AI Executables]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://thinkingscript.com/">https://thinkingscript.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129751">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129751</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:12:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://thinkingscript.com/</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember thinking Google paid an absurd and ridiculous sum of money when they acquired YouTube. I couldn’t have been more wrong, what an incredible acquisition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:20:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970774</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967019</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been working on <a href="https://og.plus" rel="nofollow">https://og.plus</a>, a service that creates unique Open Graph images per page on a website.<p>It does this by taking a screenshot of the page, but before it does that, you can modify what’s displayed in the screenshot with CSS, tailwind classes, meta tags, or HTML templates.<p>If you connect your website to it, the only thing you need to deploy to your web app are a few meta tags. The OG+ servers do the heavy lifting of processing the meta tags to setup the page, take a screenshot of it, and serve it up to the consumer.<p>The other cool thing it does is generate a different Open Graph images per social network so they all get an image for the exact size they works best in their previews. The CSS or HTML templates are aware of this too so you can display different content to specific social networks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941553</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Package management is a wicked problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Today, sales and marketing are the two hardest problems in computer science.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:46:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797840</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm beginning to put together that party-lines are strictly about gaining and holding power at all costs. Irony disappears through that lens and the way people act makes much more sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:08:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787703</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember all the grievances about the previous executive administration's "Twitter Files" censorship? Rules for thee, but not for me.<p>To be clear, I think both censorship regimes are not good, but I can't say I'm surprised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784625</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any recommendations on sandboxing agents? Last time I asked folks recommended docker.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746756</link><dc:creator>bradgessler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bradgessler in "San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For all we know the Coyote could have been from Oakland or Sausalito.</p>
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