Hacker News: edverma2

New comment by edverma2 in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

edverma2 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:23:46 +0000

This is a hilarious personal website! Love it. Even better that it's paired with quality content.

New comment by edverma2 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

edverma2 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:51:51 +0000

It seems that extra-usage is required to use the 1M context window for Sonnet 4.6. This differs from Sonnet 4.5, which allows usage of the 1M context window with a Max plan.

```

/model claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]

⎿ API error: 429 {"type":"error","error": {"type":"rate_limit_error","message":"Extra usage is required for long context requests."},"request_id":"[redacted]"}

```

New comment by edverma2 in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

edverma2 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:09:00 +0000

I was just looking into this today but it seems pricey. $29/user/month for basic features like codeowners and defining pr approval requirements. Going with Forgejo.

New comment by edverma2 in "GitHub is down again"

edverma2 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:39:41 +0000

Anyone have alternatives to recommend? We will be switching after this. Already moved to self-hosted action runners and we are early-stage so switching cost is fairly low.

The Integration Race: America's Advantage Will Be Decided on the Factory Floor

edverma2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://metistech.io/blog/the-integration-race

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890087

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by edverma2 in "Elevated errors across many models"

edverma2 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:20:04 +0000

time to go outside

Animals could easily be talking to us if we tried

edverma2 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://evanverma.com/animals-could-easily-be-talking-to-us-if-we-tried

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766920

Points: 13

# Comments: 15

New comment by edverma2 in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

edverma2 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:59:48 +0000

Does America need to produce the talent or can they import it?

New comment by edverma2 in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

edverma2 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:42:15 +0000

From GPT-5-Pro with Deep Research selected:

> FWIW Deep Research doesn’t run on whatever you pick in the model selector. It’s a separate agent that uses dedicated o‑series research models: full mode runs on o3; after you hit the full‑mode cap it auto‑switches to a lightweight o4‑mini version. The picker governs normal chat (and the pre‑research clarifying Qs), not the research engine itself.

New comment by edverma2 in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

edverma2 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:36:31 +0000

I built a tool to split up a single PR into multiple nice commits: https://github.com/edverma/git-smart-squash

RSS is awesome

edverma2 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:04:01 +0000

Article URL: https://evanverma.com/rss-is-awesome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058024

Points: 316

# Comments: 117

Claude Runs Claude

edverma2 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:43:04 +0000

Article URL: https://evanverma.com/claude-runs-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021722

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by edverma2 in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

edverma2 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 02:27:36 +0000

This is so cool. Congrats on ten years!

New comment by edverma2 in "I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets"

edverma2 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:48:25 +0000

All devs should run open-source trufflehog as a precommit hook for all repositories on their local system. It’s not a foolproof solution, but it’s a small time investment to get set up and gives me reasonable assurance that I will not accidentally commit a secret. I’m unsure why this is not more widely considered standard practice.

New comment by edverma2 in "Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs"

edverma2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:59:21 +0000

Interesting! I’ve faced the same problem where I have a mega PR and spend a lot of time breaking that up into separate PRs. I agree that what you are suggesting is a different but related problem to what this tool currently solves. I’ll start thinking through how this would look, and I’ll go ahead and make a GitHub issue if you or anyone else wants to start a discussion there.

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

edverma2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:22:59 +0000

I've found it helps PR reviewers when they can look through a set of commits with clear messages and logically organized changes. Typically reviewers prefer a larger quantity of smaller changes versus a smaller quantity of larger changes. Sometimes it gets really messy to break up a change into sufficiently small PRs, so thoughtful commits are a great way of further subdividing changes in PRs. It can be pretty time consuming to do this though, so this tool automates the process with the help of AI.

The tool sends the diff of your git branch against a base branch to an LLM provider. The LLM provider responds with a set of suggested commits with sensible commit messages, change groupings, and descriptions. When you explicitly accept the proposed changes, the tool re-writes the commit history on your branch to match the LLM's suggestion. Then you can force push your branch to your remote to make it match.

The default AI provider is your locally running Ollama server. Cloud providers can be explicitly configured via CLI argument or in a config file, but keeping local models as the default helps to protect against unintentional data sharing. The tool always creates a backup branch in case you need to easily revert in case of changing your mind or an error in commit re-writing. Note that re-writing commit history to a remote branch requires a force push, which is something your team/org will need to be ok with. As long as you are working on a feature branch this is usually fine, but it's always worth checking if you are not sure.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44324457

Points: 76

# Comments: 51

Show HN: Vibe Coding Security Hook

edverma2 — Sun, 11 May 2025 01:44:25 +0000

This is a simple git pre-commit hook that uses your locally running Ollama instance to scan your commit for secrets, blocking the commit and suggesting a fix if any secrets are found.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43950563

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by edverma2 in "Librarians are dangerous"

edverma2 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 18:03:47 +0000

Why do people speak online as if the library is a place anyone goes to? I understand some people still go to libraries, but this cannot be considered a commonplace activity like it once was. Librarians do not hold any meaningful position in society because so few people come in contact with them.

Show HN: LLM Writing Feedback Tool

edverma2 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:20:05 +0000

I wrote this simple rust program to watch a file and give me feedback as I work on it. It’s been really nice and helpful for me so far, so hopefully others can get value from it also.

I also posted a brief writeup about it here: https://evanverma.com/writing-with-claude-watching-my-every-...

Hacker News: edverma2

New comment by edverma2 in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

New comment by edverma2 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

New comment by edverma2 in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

New comment by edverma2 in "GitHub is down again"

The Integration Race: America's Advantage Will Be Decided on the Factory Floor

New comment by edverma2 in "Elevated errors across many models"

Animals could easily be talking to us if we tried

New comment by edverma2 in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

New comment by edverma2 in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

New comment by edverma2 in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

RSS is awesome

Claude Runs Claude

New comment by edverma2 in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

New comment by edverma2 in "I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets"

New comment by edverma2 in "Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs"

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

Show HN: Vibe Coding Security Hook

New comment by edverma2 in "Librarians are dangerous"

Show HN: LLM Writing Feedback Tool

Writing with Claude Watching My Every Move