<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: efields</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=efields</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:09:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=efields" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Superlogical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This but software: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergroup_(music)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergroup_(music)</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:06:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100145</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Substack writers, you need a website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did Wordpress write this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:49:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088981</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Self-host your mail server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:39:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041303</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup. This is a policy problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:04:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935579</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Cloudflare Drop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trying to solve this here: <a href="https://jlnk.us" rel="nofollow">https://jlnk.us</a><p>Here's the instructions my agents have:<p>> Shareable Deliverables → jlnk.us (default)
The jlnk MCP server is configured machine-wide for all team agents. It publishes disposable public links: create_link(content, ttl) returns an unguessable URL anyone can open without logging in; it self-destructs after its TTL (4h/24h/72h, default 4h, max 5 MB). Also list_my_links() and delete_link(id).<p>> When handing a human (Founder, CEO reviewer) something to look at — QC screenshots, prototypes, reports, before/after comparisons — default to a jlnk.us link instead of a repo file path or local path. Use 72h for Founder review, shorter when the review window is same-day.<p>> Content must be ONE self-contained HTML file: inline CSS/JS, embed screenshots as base64 data URIs (![image](data:image/png;base64,...)).<p>> Downscale images to stay under the 5 MB cap.<p>> Links are public to anyone holding the URL. NEVER publish secrets, API keys, credentials, or private client data.<p>> Links expire — they are a viewing convenience, not the system of record. Durable artifacts still go to the repo and issue attachments as usual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:59:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837337</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Cloudflare Drop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I built a tool _just the other day_ for this exact purpose. Now my agents proactively make disposable links for me: <a href="https://jlnk.us" rel="nofollow">https://jlnk.us</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:57:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837307</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So their outlook is not rosy. Instead, I think we’ll see new newsrooms emerge that reinvent what journalism is, are unafraid to build real, lasting, two-way relationships with the people they’re trying to serve, and eat everybody else’s lunch.<p>I think this is right. I'd like to see more public media funding, but at least right now there is an explosion of independent media business models being explored recruiting some very good journalists and smart people.<p>I'd like to hear about anyone else's updated media habits. In my last… 20ish years of "gathering information about my community and interests," I've gone from paper NYT subscriber to RSS feed reader to social aggregators to social media to podcasts to newsletters to doomscroller... I've tried it all.<p>But to stay sane I've settled on simply following the voices I trust and find interesting across different media, and the best ones are navigating their own publishing and distribution journey. I pay some of them real money. Some are being acquired by bigger media outlets, too. I have hope in journalism's survival.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:33:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663933</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For the American market and the October 2001 release, the cover art of Is This It was changed to a psychedelic photograph of subatomic particle tracks in a bubble chamber.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_It" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_It</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447791</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please test your websites in Safari. Almost all of your iOS users use it by default, and the desktop experience is pretty close to the mobile experience, so testing is easy.<p>That scroll effect is jank city for me (yeah yeah works fine in Chrome/Edge).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375225</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The… hands of fate?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926229</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Evals and vibes" can I put that on a t shirt?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:50:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666025</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I literally don't know how compilers work. I've written code for apps that are still in production 10 years later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:05:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648515</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks like standalone Doppler (not a bad thing).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138516</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow: the Sinclair ZX81 launched in the UK in 1981 for around £49.95 as a kit (£50) and £69.95 assembled, making it incredibly cheap, and later in the US as the Timex Sinclair 1000 for $99.95 (kit) or $149.95 (assembled)<p>Cheap for a 1980s computer, now pennies. Wild.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:29:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618100</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SolidQueue is great. Rails 8 is great. Monoliths are great. Most of the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617075</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "This is not the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Humans making the most of the situation they're in is inevitable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:22:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289627</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I maintain a few rails apps and Claude Code has written 95% of the code for the last 4 months. I deploy regularly.<p>I make my own PRs then have Copilot review them. Sometimes it finds criticisms, and I copy and paste that chunk of critique into Claude Code, and it fixes it.<p>Treat the LLMs like junior devs that can lookup answers supernaturally fast. You still need to be mindful of their work. Doubtful even. Test, test, test.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:16:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205135</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Programming peaked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Postgres and Sublime user here. Life is pretty good!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148416</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Google Antigravity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks. Actually did use my personal account and got the issue nonetheless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:29:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970095</link><dc:creator>efields</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efields in "Google Antigravity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug</p>
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