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New comment by dheera in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

dheera — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:47:46 +0000

> but if you made them and only asked Claude to commit them, how does it know "why" you made those changes?

It's an LLM. It can diff and figure out why I did what I did, in most cases

> Does it have access to your bug tracking system, for example?

You can give it access and tell it to look there

New comment by dheera in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

dheera — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:08:59 +0000

Squeeze horns are usually loud enough to be heard by cars in my experience.

New comment by dheera in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

dheera — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:38:30 +0000

I just use Claude Code as a terminal for git these days. It writes up better commit messages than I would write anyway. No more "git commit -m fix"

New comment by dheera in "The cult of vibe coding is insane"

dheera — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:25:05 +0000

> It shows that you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code.

That was always the case. Landlords still want rent, the IRS still has figurative guns. Shipping shit code to please these folks and keep the company alive will always win over code quality, unless the system can be edited to financially incentivize code quality. The current loss function on society is literally "ship shit now and pay your taxes and rent".

New comment by dheera in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

dheera — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:15:52 +0000

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

New comment by dheera in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

dheera — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:03:58 +0000

A TCP over websockets VPN would be fairly simple to write, or ask an AI to write for you

New comment by dheera in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

dheera — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:19:30 +0000

Probably a lot? It would be much more tax-advantageous to do it this way, $50B worth of credits != $50B worth of spend on Amazon's part, and they might meet in the middle about how much equity that translates to.

New comment by dheera in "Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements"

dheera — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:05:26 +0000

With residential PG&E levels of reliability, nope. And no I don't want a 100 kWh lithium battery in my house.

New comment by dheera in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

dheera — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:04:34 +0000

> The aliens have the same physics we do. Science isn't magic.

Show a spacecraft to someone from the middle ages and they would think it's magic.

There is physics that has not been discovered. Lots of things are still unexplained.

> no, the aliens are not able to collect radio waves from below the noise floor

Before we had quadrature modulation and quadrature phase shift keying, we thought we had hit the noise floor for wireless bandwidth. After we thought we really hit the ceiling, we had beamforming. There's stuff that hasn't been thought of. We don't know the unknown unknowns.

New comment by dheera in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

dheera — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:01:02 +0000

> I do not like to get banned

This is why I do such experiments on ChatGPT and not Claude.

I don't want to get banned by Claude but I couldn't care less if ChatGPT bans me.

New comment by dheera in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

dheera — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:05:50 +0000

Imagine how far technology has come in 100 years. Then imagine if the alien had just a 1 million year head start to technology. 1 million years is less than 1/1000 of the age of the universe earlier.

We have literally no idea what technology the alien could have.

New comment by dheera in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

dheera — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:27:16 +0000

I frankly wish we'd stop developing C++. It's so hard to keep track of all the new unnecessary toys they're adding to it. I thought I knew C++ until I read some recent C++ code. That's how bad it is.

Meanwhile C++ build system is an abomination. Header files should be unnecessary.

New comment by dheera in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

dheera — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:24:17 +0000

Oh fun so now we're effectively draining users' phone and laptop batteries now just to prove that they have batteries and somehow that's a proxy for them being human

New comment by dheera in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

dheera — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:22:50 +0000

Exactly. For the most part all this bot protection is only protecting these websites against humans.

I don't do free work. I'm not going to label 50 images of crosswalks and motorcycles for free.

New comment by dheera in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

dheera — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:17:26 +0000

I don't get this kHash thing. Do we have captchas mining bitcoin in a distributed fashion for free now?

New comment by dheera in "The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)"

dheera — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:38:01 +0000

This sounds like a case where we should just change the syntax. If Betty is the maid it should be written:

    They went to Oregon with Betty [a maid], and a cook.

New comment by dheera in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

dheera — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:05:11 +0000

> Two-thirds of Americans now believe that professional athletes sometimes change their performance to influence gambling outcomes.

I'm not sure this is a bad thing. It's just bringing to public visibility exactly what happens across the stock market. Public companies do this all the time -- engineer their performance end earnings to influence ~~shareholder~~ gambler expectations on earnings day.

New comment by dheera in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

dheera — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:04:18 +0000

Also a fellow astrophotography enthusiast here! I love to photograph deep sky objects in the context of their landscapes. There is a lot of math, stacking, tracking, and denoising in the process, but I keep every image very real as what you would see if your eyes were a lot more sensitive. A lot of people don't realize how big some objects are in the night sky -- for example, Barnard's Loop is as large as about half the entire constellation of Orion, and Andromeda appears 6 times the size of the moon. We just don't see them because many of these objects are very dim -- not small.

https://www.instagram.com/dheeranet

New comment by dheera in "Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla"

dheera — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:36:12 +0000

> I get about 15% more range than advertised, should I have to pay a penalty for this?

No. You are just one datapoint within the distribution. If the distribution aligns with manufacturer's advertised distribution, nobody gets a rebate. If distribution is not aligned, manufacturer is penalized and everyone gets a rebate for being misled.

New comment by dheera in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

dheera — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:50:21 +0000

Humans fear discomfort, pain, death, lack of freedom, and isolation. That's why holding them liable works.

Agents don't feel any of these, and don't particularly fear "kill -9". Holding them liable wouldn't do anything useful.