Hacker News: drewnick

New comment by drewnick in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

drewnick — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:21:40 +0000

Wow, this is refreshing DX compared to iterating all messages like we did back in '24.

New comment by drewnick in "Claude Opus 4.8"

drewnick — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:53:50 +0000

While all these models are nondeterministic a feature bump is still necessary as the same input can have wildly different output on a new model. For API users being able to pin a model is a necessity.

New comment by drewnick in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

drewnick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:54:08 +0000

Great point on the playing with Linux growing up, it's second nature to me now.

I am always feeling like I'm doing something wrong running bare metal based on modern advice, but it's low latency, simple, and reliable.

Probably because I've been using linux since Slackware in the 90s so it's second nature. And now with the CLI-based coding tools, I have a co-sysadmin to help me keep things tidy and secure. It's great and I highly recommend more people try it.

New comment by drewnick in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

drewnick — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:13:21 +0000

The problem is a lot of this glue is proprietary by design at the various cloud services. I realize there are open source and alternative abstractions for a lot of of the same services, but there’s still quite a bit of glue if you’re on AWS, for example, and looking to move to bare metal.

But maybe I’m just thinking of the current capabilities of agents, and if we fast forward a couple years, even removing these abstractions or migrating will be very low friction.

New comment by drewnick in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

drewnick — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:10:31 +0000

I too, am bravely using Claude for more DevOps. I run all of my virtual machines on proxmox atop bare metal servers I own and I’m just blown away at how quickly Claude can optimize and set up entire new networks across all of these machines. Truly feels like a coworker or well paid sysadmin.

New comment by drewnick in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

drewnick — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:22:21 +0000

Agree. If you've ever spent serious time in the country with farmers, the level of ingenuity is impressive among many, and they benefit from it greatly. As the grandson of depression farmers, I noticed intelligence mattered a lot, even if just for survival.

New comment by drewnick in "Claude Opus 4.7"

drewnick — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:40:54 +0000

Hasn't Opus 4.5 been famously consistent while 4.6 was floating all over the place?

New comment by drewnick in "Claude Opus 4.7"

drewnick — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:32:35 +0000

I think this is more about which model you steer your coding harness to. You can also self-host a UI in front of multiple models, then you own the chat history.

New comment by drewnick in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

drewnick — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:40:51 +0000

Same, mostly. However today in particular Claude can't do front-end development with any competence. Never seen this before. I think the rumor is they are rolling out a new model and have to divide their infra across the new model vs the current model.

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

drewnick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:48:32 +0000

You can use Claude Code with API mode (not a sub)

New comment by drewnick in "Google's insecure-by-default API keys and 30h billing lag cost my startup $15k"

drewnick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:01:02 +0000

You should definitely log in to Google Cloud Console and roll all the keys you see in there if you're unsure. I just did the same thing after I realized I had a lot of surface area with these keys.

New comment by drewnick in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

drewnick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:11:12 +0000

My bloody stool started slow and took some time off but came back and I had a large polyp. Watch this very closely, but don't panic.

New comment by drewnick in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

drewnick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Blood in the stool, at age 41. Benign but a VERY large polyp so I have a followup soon. If you have an instinct to get tested, especially if you have any evidence, do it. My doc fought me to NOT get tested but I persisted. The embarrassment factor is a thing, but we have to get over it!

New comment by drewnick in "History of AT&T Long Lines"

drewnick — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:10:51 +0000

I've gotten sucked into 1950s/60s/70s Pan Am (the defacto U.S. flag carrier of the era) advertising videos and the concept is similar to AT&T: premium service, basically a monopoly.

Problem is: prices were REALLY high.

Competition worked out in Part 121 airlines and telco, in the long run.

New comment by drewnick in "History of AT&T Long Lines"

drewnick — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:30:35 +0000

Somehow I was recommended the /r/longlines subreddit, so I subscribed. I now get pretty much a daily picture of a Long Lines abandoned tower somewhere in the country with upvotes and discussion. It is fascinating the hobbies people have.

This was a great article and put some context around it. It's interesting that many of these stations are basically apocalypse bunkers to keep equipment shielded for military use. There are many sites with the equipment still just sitting there untouched, slowly aging away.

New comment by drewnick in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"

drewnick — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:06:41 +0000

Same here - 12y. I've learned so much and one day hope to contribute back something significant to the community but haven't found a footing just yet.

New comment by drewnick in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

drewnick — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:58:15 +0000

Upstate South Carolina as well

New comment by drewnick in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

drewnick — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:03:14 +0000

I've been doing it since 1998 in my bedroom with a dual T1 (and on to real DCs later). While I've had some outages for sure it makes me feel better I am not that divergent in uptime in the long run vs big clouds.

New comment by drewnick in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

drewnick — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:44:38 +0000

Not OP, but I use Codex for back-end, scripting, and SQL. Claude Code for most front-end. I have found that when one faces a challenge, the other often can punch through and solve the problem. I even have them work together (moving thoughts and markdown plans back and fourth) and that works wonders.

My progression: Cursor in '24, Roo code mid '25, Claude Code in Q2 '25, Codex CLI in Q3 `25.

New comment by drewnick in "Use One Big Server (2022)"

drewnick — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:41:45 +0000

For bare metal I’ve been using tier.net to get 192 GB RAM, 4TB NVME and 32 cores for $219/mo.

Data centers all over the country and I get to locate under 10ms from my regional audience.

Just a data point if you want some bigger iron than a VM.