Hacker News: briandoll

New comment by briandoll in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

briandoll — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:06:55 +0000

This is the first live launch I've seen on TV (well, YouTube in this case) since the Challenger disaster. Was a nice relief to see this one go so smoothly.

New comment by briandoll in "Agents create work. Daemons clean up the mess that agents leave behind"

briandoll — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:49:48 +0000

Love this. This enables the split many of us have been aiming for - fully autonomous workflows for repeatable tasks that are reasonable to spec out and set-and-forget, and the more collaborative agentic-assisted workflows where more human intervention and guidance is required.

New comment by briandoll in "Daemons that clean up the mess agents leave behind"

briandoll — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:21:15 +0000

Being able to codify these important-but-often-forgotten workflows in such a way that you can set-it-and-forget-it and keep shipping at multi-agent speed is pretty dope.

New comment by briandoll in "Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included"

briandoll — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:25:05 +0000

The biggest value IMHO of OpenClaw is that it's in the Apple ecosystem, so it leverages Reminders, iCloud sync for Obsidian values, etc., so not having a Mac option is pretty limiting for anyone who's relying on those integrations currently.

New comment by briandoll in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"

briandoll — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:08:40 +0000

Good post on URL design (GitHub design team): https://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/

New comment by briandoll in "Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations"

briandoll — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:14:39 +0000

The fact that this took SO LONG to come out after their PR crisis on this topic is more problematic than the claims themselves

New comment by briandoll in "Vouch"

briandoll — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:07:28 +0000

This reminds me of the time that Ripple launched a marketing promotion, giving developers some amount of Ripple to encourage micropayments. They defined "developer" as "someone who has had a GitHub account for 1 year prior to this announcement" to stop folks from creating hundreds of new accounts to claim credits. This essentially created a bounty on existing GitHub accounts and led to thousands of account compromises due to poor password hygiene. GitHub account security is much better now than it was back then (Nov 2013), but this solution similarly puts a bounty on highly-vouched accounts.

New comment by briandoll in "Eat Real Food"

briandoll — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:10:36 +0000

Pretty rich for the administration that deregulated OSHA and massively harmed our ability to ensure food safety to tell people literally anything about food.

New comment by briandoll in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

briandoll — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:24:50 +0000

You can't possibly be serious right now. This administration has done nothing but skirt every law at every level. Look around.

New comment by briandoll in "Chess.com regional pricing: A case study"

briandoll — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:53:38 +0000

In short, the leadership team has a fiduciary responsibility to their investors. Privately held lifestyle businesses don't, at least not as much.

New comment by briandoll in "An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear"

briandoll — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:42:04 +0000

And yet not a single doctor in the United States will permit you to care about early signals, preventative medicine, or routine deep dive bloodwork, in order to stave off those diseases. Anyone who's on top of this is paying fully out of pocket for individual tests, screenings, medicines. Manageable for some, unattainable for most.

New comment by briandoll in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

briandoll — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:33:02 +0000

After a day of trialing many apps, briefly settling on Gmail (iOS, and Unite to make a desktop app), I'm pretty happy with Spark for MacOS and iOS.

New comment by briandoll in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

briandoll — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:50:50 +0000

This does seem pretty seamless to swap to, thanks!

Now to figure out iOS ;)

New comment by briandoll in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

briandoll — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:59:10 +0000

I've been looking to replace Superhuman recently. None of their AI or Team features matter to me. I just wanted what they originally set out to build -- a super fast, keyboard driven, desktop email client. There are daily paper cut bugs and search issues that have persisted for many years, and I'm not going to stick around through this transition which will surely make the product worse.

What do folks like for desktop email that's keyboard driven? At this point I almost want to go back to Pine ;)

New comment by briandoll in "Sly Stone has died"

briandoll — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:03:58 +0000

Everyone should go watch Sly Lives! - The Burden of Black Genius

New comment by briandoll in "Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26"

briandoll — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:24:19 +0000

I've been all-in on Bear for iOS and MacOS and have never once missed Apple Notes functionality

New comment by briandoll in "Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook"

briandoll — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:37:34 +0000

Folks interested in this will also appreciate The Shell Haters Handbook: https://shellhaters.org/deck/

New comment by briandoll in "Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database"

briandoll — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:02:18 +0000

Real and open nutritional datasources exist: https://support.cronometer.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001823947...

New comment by briandoll in "Matt's Script Archive (1995)"

briandoll — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:51:03 +0000

Looking back, discovering Matt's Script Archive along with a used copy of Learning Perl in 1997 was probably the biggest influence in the trajectory of my entire career. Thanks, Matt!

New comment by briandoll in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

briandoll — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:51:41 +0000

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