Hacker News: foreigner

New comment by foreigner in "'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone"

foreigner — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:07:58 +0000

I always thought Wallace was a self-portrait of Nick Park. If your find a video interview with him, the way his mouth moves when he speaks is totally Wallace. It's uncanny.

New comment by foreigner in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

foreigner — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:39:38 +0000

Are they working on the Voynich Manuscript? That seems like something an LLM would be good at.

New comment by foreigner in "Version Control Second Coming"

foreigner — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:47:21 +0000

The author mentions it briefly, but I'd like to see more exploration of what we can do differently now that we're all online all the time. I think that could potentially enable a Git-level revolution in the way we do things, similar to the way unlimited disk space did for Git.

New comment by foreigner in "EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles"

foreigner — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:43:38 +0000

They do.

New comment by foreigner in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

foreigner — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:17:09 +0000

Surprisingly to remove small numbers of rows in multiple tables (e.g. cleanup between automated tests), DELETE is often faster than TRUNCATE! It's counterintuitive but just measure it for yourself and see. Note you can DELETE from multiple tables in one statement using CTEs, and that way you don't need to think about foreign key dependency order.

New comment by foreigner in "Human Routers of Machine Words"

foreigner — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:16:44 +0000

"the machine can’t even write good yet"

New comment by foreigner in "The Last Technical Interview"

foreigner — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:30:58 +0000

How about instead of a contrived take-home project or doing unpaid "real work" for the company, we ask candidates to do n hours of work on an open source project?

That's real useful work, if we don't hire them they can show it off to a different hiring company, and it makes the world a better place.

New comment by foreigner in "Little Free Library"

foreigner — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:46:15 +0000

Public libraries are funded and supported by the public though. They need attention, and if you read the other comments on this post it's almost like most of these people don't even realise that public libraries exist.

New comment by foreigner in "The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power"

foreigner — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:34:26 +0000

That was a lovely video, thank you.

New comment by foreigner in "The Codex App"

foreigner — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:19:56 +0000

Can't build iOS apps on anything else sadly.

New comment by foreigner in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

foreigner — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:15:58 +0000

I caught Claude using docker (running as root) to access files on my machine it couldn't read using it's user.

New comment by foreigner in "Welcome to Gas Town"

foreigner — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:18:41 +0000

Naming this after a distopia may be unintentionally apt...

New comment by foreigner in "Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?"

foreigner — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:01:46 +0000

I'm using Catnip (https://github.com/wandb/catnip). It runs Claude Code in YOLO mode inside a Docker container, and also manages multiple Claude instances running in Git worktrees. I'm pretty happy with it but would be happier if it addressed limiting network access to guard against exfiltration.

New comment by foreigner in "GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over"

foreigner — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:13:15 +0000

Consider how authorization is going to work. You can't trust the client!

New comment by foreigner in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

foreigner — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:43:26 +0000

Tangential: a friend of mine growing up refused to read Ayn Rand, because he said that everyone he knew that had read her books turned into assholes, and he didn't want to become an asshole too.

New comment by foreigner in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

foreigner — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:06:17 +0000

Can these be used inside inline style attributes?

New comment by foreigner in "A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development"

foreigner — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:34:13 +0000

It's working, just a bit fiddly to setup.

New comment by foreigner in "A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development"

foreigner — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:43:20 +0000

I've been using Catnip for this: https://github.com/wandb/catnip

Very similar features, Catnip is Claude Code specific and does everything in a Docker container so you can more safely run in YOLO mode and the Git worktrees don't make a mess on your host filesystem or checkout. Also is mobile responsive which is cute.

New comment by foreigner in "A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development"

foreigner — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:39:55 +0000

Struggling with the same thing right now. I'm trying to make it work by generating unique ports for each instance so they don't conflict. Not quite 100% successful yet.

New comment by foreigner in "The Paranoid Guide to Running Copilot CLI in a Secure Docker Sandbox"

foreigner — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:16:32 +0000

I recently started using Catnip (https://github.com/wandb/catnip) for this. Catnip also automatically manages multiple Git worktrees, and has a responsive UI for mobile.