Hacker News: elischleifer

What Happens If a Merge Queue Builds on the Wrong Commit

elischleifer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:41:49 +0000

Article URL: https://trunk.io/blog/what-happens-if-a-merge-queue-builds-on-the-wrong-commit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950872

Points: 1

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New comment by elischleifer in "GitHub is having issues now"

elischleifer — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:17:11 +0000

We happen to build the perfect solution to avoiding GitHubs Merge Queue - ours :)

It’s also massively more performant

https://trunk.io/merge-queue

New comment by elischleifer in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

elischleifer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:25:02 +0000

Of all the things Amazon brings to the marketplace - global surveillance is not one I would advertise on the superbowl.

New comment by elischleifer in "ai;dr"

elischleifer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:23:16 +0000

"The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it." - maybe a bit of an overstatement ;)

Don't build agents, build context enrinchment

elischleifer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:21:58 +0000

Article URL: https://trunk.io/blog/don-t-build-agents-build-context-enrichment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991719

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by elischleifer in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"

elischleifer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:19:16 +0000

100% - targeted advertising lives and breathes on data - this is par for the course

New comment by elischleifer in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"

elischleifer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:18:33 +0000

This headline could be written about every major social network on our planet. Tracking pixels are not something TikTok invented.

New comment by elischleifer in "Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)"

elischleifer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:17:25 +0000

Detection of copy-pasta is interesting - what it's calling out is not a deficiency in LLM's to code but in agentic rules in place that should just remind the agent to refactor into a common function when appropriate.

New comment by elischleifer in "It’s Time to Engineer the Sky"

elischleifer — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:01:12 +0000

We already are performing our own unintentional form of geo-engineering with our relentless pumping of CO2 into the air. That said, not sure blocking the sun is our best plan right now for avoiding the worst of climate change. Instead of trying to have our cake and eat it too, we need to accelerate our focus on reducing carbon output, decarbonize electricity and transportation, and invest in massive amounts of energy production to the point where energy is so cheap we can use it to pull carbon from the air.

New comment by elischleifer in "Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords"

elischleifer — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:09:46 +0000

fair point. I think I've just been burned too many times by dependabot looking to update single ts packages with single line changes. it's default configuration is overly aggresive

New comment by elischleifer in "Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints"

elischleifer — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:50:24 +0000

Working at Microsoft back in the early 00s I spent a lot of unfriendly hours with windbg. On one particular project we hunted for a terrible crash for months until it was uncovered that we were compiling against the single thread CRT when using threads extensively...whoops

New comment by elischleifer in "Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords"

elischleifer — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:33:50 +0000

Just another reason not to use dependabot - it's default configuration appears to be created to burn money on GH Actions / Azure.

New comment by elischleifer in "LastPass auto renewal of deleted account"

elischleifer — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:48:10 +0000

The security breaches be damned - the UI was terrible / constantly prompted me to store credit card info in LastPass and I was just not interested...but couldn't get it to stop this. deleted and moved to Dashlane.

New comment by elischleifer in "Virtual Reality – Future Trends"

elischleifer — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:42:54 +0000

better and better visuals....still looking for a killer app.

New comment by elischleifer in "Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024"

elischleifer — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:40:56 +0000

This is amazing. Not interested in growing vampire teeth - but the ability to regrow teeth when lost - or get a new set of chompers without coffee stains sounds super cool :)

New comment by elischleifer in "GitHub Actions could be so much better"

elischleifer — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:59:24 +0000

Another tool that tackles GitHub Action debugging head on: https://www.ci-debugger.io/

Wrap your GH Actions in a debugger breakpoint and connect into the live broken GH Action to inspect the machine, re-run commands etc..

At it's heart - realtime debugging for GitHub actions.

New comment by elischleifer in "There’s an exact replica of San Francisco in Japan"

elischleifer — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:48:21 +0000

Fisherman's Wharf is the most not-San Francisco part of SF. You know if there is a Hard Rock Cafe that you are not really where the locals dine.

New comment by elischleifer in "Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but easily removed"

elischleifer — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:46:40 +0000

Time to short the makers of Goo Gone?

New comment by elischleifer in "Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?"

elischleifer — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:41:53 +0000

Devil's advocate...how much do we really care about these different distros at this point. The world lives out of the browser. As long as I have chrome and VS Code I'm pretty good to go.

New comment by elischleifer in "How to set breakpoints in CI jobs"

elischleifer — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:46:46 +0000

Founder here. Debugging CI pipelines is a pain and it often feels like a slow, unproductive printf() debugging process. All of us who have gone through the tedious cycle of run->fail->log->fix->run->fail-> can attest to the massive waste of time it creates.

To change this, we built Trunk's CI Debugger. We initially built this for Trunk because we found that CI jobs were not stable and took multiple hours to track down the root cause of failure. The debugger gave our team a way to add conditional breakpoints, receive alerts on and debug our CI like you do your code.

You can see how this works for GitHub Action in our repo: https://github.com/trunk-io/breakpoint, but it works with any CI system you use - Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Circle CI.

To get started, check out our CI Debugger in the link above. We learned a ton building this tool, and I would love to hear your feedback and answer any questions you might have. Here's to making the debugging process in CI systems as seamless as it should be.