Hacker News: danmaz74

New comment by danmaz74 in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

danmaz74 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:05:48 +0000

I've been using it to vibe code a personal application while I'm using a more "powerful" setup for my main agent assisted coding, and I have to say that it's been very good so far. I just wished that it was easier to hand off some tasks to codex web, like I tried to do today as I was starting a boat trip.

New comment by danmaz74 in "The German Mittelstand"

danmaz74 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:59 +0000

Come on, it's not just MBAs. I remember when patio11 (nothing against him personally, it's just the best example I can remember) became a star here on HN by saying that the solution to every problem as a consultant was to hike your rates. The idea of just asking as much money as you can get away with, which was seen as reprehensible by most of the population (my guesstimate, I don't have hard data) until more or less the eighties, Reagan and Thatcher era, has now permeated Western society at most levels, not just MBAs.

PS Chinese companies were (and probably still are, when they can) stealing IP, just like the USA did when it had more IP to steal from Europe than to protect from others. Western companies were very happy to let that happen when in exchange they could make more profits in the short term by using cheap Chinese labor and infrastructure.

New comment by danmaz74 in "US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market"

danmaz74 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:14:49 +0000

> hope their bet on JPY vs EUR pays off in the long-term

Which bet?

Claude Code – Don't Attach Open File by Default

danmaz74 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:00:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/63925

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142870

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by danmaz74 in "Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow"

danmaz74 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:18:50 +0000

The plug in "balcony panels" are usually limited to 800W here in Europe, so having them without a battery can make sense because you're probably going to use that power on the spot most of the time.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries"

danmaz74 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:45:22 +0000

Russia has been doing the same for years - especially trying to destroy all electrical and heating infrastructure during Winter. Ukraine has the right to retaliate, now that they're able to.

New comment by danmaz74 in "I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64"

danmaz74 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:56:25 +0000

For many of us, it was our first computer. It was very simple to understand at every level and very hackable. I was very young when I used it, but I learned so much about the internals of computers.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

danmaz74 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:29:07 +0000

You won't get 12% return if your panels generate electricity which is only paid between 18 and 19, because there is already overcapacity between 16:30 and 18.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

danmaz74 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:53:04 +0000

I've read several comments in the last few months citing this kind of approach. What I'm trying to do is to make the implementation phase more reliable.

By the way, if you're not doing that yet, something that can really help when doing UI/UX work is to have the agent create some mockups, and then tests based on those - I'm using Cucumber with some extra sauce for this. It's a very nice way to guide the agent in a falsifiable way.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

danmaz74 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:50:06 +0000

Wait until you hear about the giga-factories...

But seriously, if you care, this is just like using an existing library to do the lower level development work which I think is already pretty well done by the existing agents. It's not a design decision.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

danmaz74 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:46:45 +0000

Interesting. From time to time I'm thinking about completely replacing the agent layer with my own, so that I would be able to enforce some rules at a lower level, but I'm wondering if it's worth it. What's been your experience with that?

New comment by danmaz74 in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

danmaz74 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:07:15 +0000

Yes, like many others I've been experimenting a lot. What I've got so far is a harness-of-harnesses - ie, a harness which sits on top of Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode. I still use Claude Code or Codex directly for the initial planning of features, to investigate issues, and for small fixes, but whenever there's something even just a bit complex to do, I use my second-level harness.

Summarizing it a lot, what it does is:

* help you make better plans

* split plans into iterations, in a module-aware way for projects which have strict modularity (for now I'm doing this specifically with TypeScript and dependency cruiser) - this helps a lot when a project becomes complex

* ask an agent to implement an iteration, and then programmatically run a lot of checks after each iteration - not just regression tests, but also checks against project principles and conventions

* when possible, automatically fix deviations; when not possible, raise them to myself for an end-of-plan review

In this way, instead of having to constantly be engaged with the chat interface, with all the shorter or longer wait times which break my flow, I spend a lot of highly focused time during initial planning and final review. A plan implementation can go on for hours, and the various anchoring mechanisms added to the tool keep drift to a minimum.

At some point I'm planning to release this tool as open source. As this is the result of months of trial and errors, dogfooding, and vibecoding on the tool itself, the codebase is chaotic and the UI is still full of experiments I mostly basically abandoned, and I'm not used to releasing stuff in this status. But perhaps, in this brave new world, I should just do it and see what happens?

New comment by danmaz74 in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

danmaz74 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:26:14 +0000

Thanks. Then it could definitely be remote controlled often enough.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

danmaz74 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:48:52 +0000

How much does the monthly subscription cost?

New comment by danmaz74 in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

danmaz74 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:10:19 +0000

> don't know why the EU wants to trust the USA so bad

Because not trusting them is very expensive. But unfortunately, it's necessary.

New comment by danmaz74 in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

danmaz74 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:02:51 +0000

No, we shouldn't act like (stupid) children. We should enact a transition based on what we can do and when. I know that nuanced and complex solutions to complex problems don't fire up voters anywhere, but that's the only way to not shoot our own feet.

New comment by danmaz74 in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

danmaz74 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:57:28 +0000

> There's many great candidates

Perhaps for top-paying companies, but that's never been my experience when I was involved in interviewing and hiring.

New comment by danmaz74 in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

danmaz74 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:18:16 +0000

Of course life isn't fair. But here the result is that companies will ignore potentially great candidates which dedicate all their programming time to their job and instead consider candidates which may be not just worse programmers, but also are more interested in their hobbies (or padding their CV) that doing their job.

I'm saying this as somebody who most of the time has some side project going on.

New comment by danmaz74 in "The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It"

danmaz74 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:30:01 +0000

What will happen is that the EU will start treating the US as a hostile nation, develop its own computer tech to replace American tech (probably together with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, UK, Canada, Australia) and THEN they will start denying ASML tech to the US. Bullies always think that there will be no consequences to their bullying... until they find out.

New comment by danmaz74 in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

danmaz74 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:01:36 +0000

We'll see. Helping Trump in destroying USA's traditional alliances is probably worth more to China than keeping a Mythos for themselves.