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New comment by fercircularbuf in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

fercircularbuf — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:15:03 +0000

Not surprising if you've worked with their automation flows in-depth before. What's surprising is how awful their automation flow tools are to work with. Feels like programming in assembly to accomplish what you want.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

fercircularbuf — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:40:29 +0000

Japan has a very low cost of living. Work/life balance, however, is not good. And neither is the increasingly hostile immigration policies.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data"

fercircularbuf — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:30:45 +0000

I don't believe the point is to construct a blank without them. Rather, the point is to capture what is already there (contaminants) so you can calibrate during the real sample.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

fercircularbuf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:04:09 +0000

I love the pedagogical approach here and the ability to easily hone in on your level before diving into content. Your approach would work really well for other subjects as well.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

fercircularbuf — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:57:58 +0000

This could be a great and easy way to add annotations to technical instruction videos in a way that is self-documenting and programmable.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal"

fercircularbuf — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:42:41 +0000

Lately it seems there are so many poor role models with so much power. It's really disheartening to say the least.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

fercircularbuf — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:36:03 +0000

This is really terrific!!!

New comment by fercircularbuf in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

fercircularbuf — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:06:30 +0000

I thought about this exact question yesterday. Curious to know why we couldn't, if it isn't feasible. Would allow one to upgrade to the next model without fabricating all new hardware.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Show HN: A word game a friend and I built. How did we do?"

fercircularbuf — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:11:51 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Show HN: A word game a friend and I built. How did we do?"

fercircularbuf — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:11:31 +0000

Thank you for your feedback! We started with just written rules, but those just kept growing, and nobody was reading them anyway. We figured those that need guidance will learn best by guided doing, hence the move to an interactive tutorial. And those that don't can dismiss it once.

Did you feel like it was too long as in wholly unnecessary, or that it would be nicer if it was just more concise?

My friend used to play this game in long car rides with his family, and he wanted to turn that memory into something others could enjoy as well.

Show HN: A word game a friend and I built. How did we do?

fercircularbuf — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:25:54 +0000

Looking for honest feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034678

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by fercircularbuf in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

fercircularbuf — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:05:04 +0000

My friend and I labored over the word lists for our word game subletters.fun. We wanted the word pairs and at least one optimal path for each word pair to be from words on one list, which were simpler words that we would expect everyone to be familiar with. But players could use their own more advanced vocabulary to solve the puzzles on their own without feeling restricted. Then we bundled literally 10 years of unique word pairs into the game and shipped it.

AI is the New Compiler

fercircularbuf — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:13:16 +0000

Article URL: http://abolinsky.io/blog/ai-compiler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI is the New Compiler

fercircularbuf — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://abolinsky.io/blog/ai-compiler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824230

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

fercircularbuf — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:39:19 +0000

This is the answer right here as for why I use claude code instead of an api key and someone else's tool.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "enclose.horse"

fercircularbuf — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:37:59 +0000

Great game. I've been having fun with it every day, but today there is no puzzle! Be careful about this. I intuit that not having a puzzle on a day is enough to lose some players, with the number only increasing the more days you don't have puzzles. Not sure how you're doing it now, but you should easily be able to generate thousands of levels and have them all ready in the page like wordle.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

fercircularbuf — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:01:48 +0000

Not required to eat any sugar at all. Your body will actually produce its own glucose if and when needed through gluconeogenesis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Always bet on text (2014)"

fercircularbuf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:00:23 +0000

Thank you so much for introducing me to this talk. Changed my way of thinking.

New comment by fercircularbuf in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

fercircularbuf — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:14:05 +0000

Thank you for this post and your suggested readings!

New comment by fercircularbuf in "The case against social media is stronger than you think"

fercircularbuf — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:25:59 +0000

I don't see the logic in this argument. What's the difference from your argument if I state that murder is a characteristic of our humanity? If people are to be allowed to be fully expressive as humans they need to be able to murder.