Hacker News: cobolexpert

New comment by cobolexpert in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

cobolexpert — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:42:40 +0000

Also reading IJ! Got to 50% this week, but it took me about 10 months. I’m a slow reader I think. However, I’m taking notes as I read to help me track how the different characters are connected.

New comment by cobolexpert in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

cobolexpert — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:35:32 +0000

Not for me

New comment by cobolexpert in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

cobolexpert — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:16:34 +0000

You closed the gap

New comment by cobolexpert in "Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free"

cobolexpert — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:27:39 +0000

Any connection to https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune ?

New comment by cobolexpert in "Flux 3"

cobolexpert — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:22:20 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up

New comment by cobolexpert in "Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code"

cobolexpert — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:29:09 +0000

Makes sense! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by cobolexpert in "Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code"

cobolexpert — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:39:27 +0000

How does the classifier work? I see some JSON files with commands in them.

New comment by cobolexpert in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

cobolexpert — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:57:36 +0000

What do you mean I'm not helping?

New comment by cobolexpert in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

cobolexpert — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:35:44 +0000

I like this tree visualization! The background with little squares is making the text difficult to read, though.

New comment by cobolexpert in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

cobolexpert — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:17:45 +0000

Had a funny experience with this some weeks ago. I started developing a small side project and after a week I wondered if this existed already. To my surprise, someone had already built something relatively similar _with the exact same name_ (though I had chosen mine as a placeholder, still funny though) only 2 weeks before, and posted it in Show HN.

I took a look at the project and it was a 100k+ LoC vibe-coded repository. The project itself looked good, but it seemed quite excessive in terms of what it was solving. It made me think, I wonder if this exists because it is explicitly needed, or simply because it is so easy for it to exist?

New comment by cobolexpert in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

cobolexpert — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:13:35 +0000

Changed 50 meters to 43 meters with Opus 4.6:

“Walk. 43 meters is basically crossing a parking lot. ”

New comment by cobolexpert in "65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation"

cobolexpert — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:48:37 +0000

Same here, I find most of these skills/prompts a bit redundant. Some people argue that in including these in the conversation, one is doing latent space management of sorts and bringing the model closer to where one wants it to be.

I wonder what will happen with new LLMs that contain all of these in their training data.

New comment by cobolexpert in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

cobolexpert — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:10:44 +0000

Yep exactly, a Perl script

New comment by cobolexpert in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

cobolexpert — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:42:40 +0000

As it slowly starts working on another platforms, it can fill in Bazzite's role (a bit ironic I guess, given Bazzite is inspired on SteamOS)

New comment by cobolexpert in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

cobolexpert — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:03:17 +0000

Maybe SteamOS will help with this!

New comment by cobolexpert in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

cobolexpert — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:36:35 +0000

Relevant comment from some months ago [1].

Personally I find that sticking to distros backed by companies or very large communities is just easier in the long term (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092225

New comment by cobolexpert in "Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation"

cobolexpert — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:05:46 +0000

Dumb question: is the quadratic time complexity for training, inference, or both?

New comment by cobolexpert in "The Codex App"

cobolexpert — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:40:20 +0000

In the end this and all other 89372304 AI projects are just OpenAPI/Anthropic API wrappers, but at least one has 1st party support which maybe gives it a slight advantage?

New comment by cobolexpert in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

cobolexpert — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:27:09 +0000

Copilot wanting to name everything Copilot is a funny thought, for some reason.

New comment by cobolexpert in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

cobolexpert — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:41:35 +0000

Indeed, but nowadays it’s common to add the annotations to claw back a bit of more powerful code linting.