Hacker News: frabjoused

New comment by frabjoused in "We all dodged a bullet"

frabjoused — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:20:11 +0000

Good to hear from you man, you too :)

New comment by frabjoused in "We all dodged a bullet"

frabjoused — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:31:15 +0000

I wrote the first commit for slice-ansi in 2015 to solve a baby problem for a cli framework I was building, and worked with Qix a little on the chalk org after it. It's wild looking back and seeing how these things creep in influence over time.

New comment by frabjoused in "Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories?"

frabjoused — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:11:16 +0000

You're definitely a backend engineer aren't you?

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:30:01 +0000

Congrats on the bug bounties!

I’m not hyping or defending MCP at all: I’m just saying AI can’t figure out APIs well enough to be something you can promise as a product.

I founded an integration platform so definitely a developer and I’ve been living these problems every day.

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:19:49 +0000

Not all http based APIs have an SDK. It’s wildly inconsistent. And when you ask the llm to do something new, does it download the SDK on the fly?

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:59:39 +0000

This is very naive. How many different APIs have you authenticated with and connected to? Just the big ones? What happens when the docs are wrong or incomplete?

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:54:17 +0000

The success rate of this is impractically low. APIs are dirty, inconsistent things. Real-world connection to obscure APIs is a matter of hard sleuthing. Docs are wrong, endpoints are broken, auth is a nightmare. These APIs need to be massaged in advance and given a sanity-wrapper if you want any semblance of reliable success when a model calls them.

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:51:04 +0000

Ironic this post is written in repetitive SEO spam format.

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code"

frabjoused — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:28:28 +0000

I'm building an integration platform, would love to have a call with you and share ideas.

New comment by frabjoused in "My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%"

frabjoused — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:13:10 +0000

This reminds me of a time I lost an argument with John-David Dalton about cleaning up/minifying lodash as an npm dependency, because when including the readme and license for every sub-library, a lodash import came to ~2.5MB at the time. This also took a lot of seeking time for disks because there were so many individual files.

The conversation started and ended at the word cache.

New comment by frabjoused in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

frabjoused — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:02:21 +0000

You don't have to correct throwaway's opinion, you have to correct your online appearance. People reviewing your submission don't know these details you're giving and they won't ask. Unjust or not, that's the shallow first impression he got.

It's like if a user does something wrong in your app, you don't blame or explain to the user what they did wrong. You figure out how to improve your UX.

I came to similar conclusions from your public profile. The defensiveness of your response would be a 7th red flag.

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites"

frabjoused — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 13:50:27 +0000

This needs to be built in at browser level.

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize"

frabjoused — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:52:40 +0000

Very cool, seems like it updates on a delay though, which will probably kill usability.

This post is not even on it.

New comment by frabjoused in "First images from Euclid are in"

frabjoused — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:42:38 +0000

If light is hitting it, can you explain why not?

New comment by frabjoused in "First images from Euclid are in"

frabjoused — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:37:16 +0000

My money is on it just being a playing field for the game of life. A damn good one at that.

New comment by frabjoused in "US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash"

frabjoused — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:36:28 +0000

That's a good point. Are there no published numbers on FSD?

New comment by frabjoused in "US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash"

frabjoused — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:35:25 +0000

The thing that doesn't make sense is the numbers. If it is dangerous in your anecdotes, why don't the reported numbers show more accidents when FSD is on?

When I did the trial on my Tesla, I also noted these kinds of things and felt like I had to take control.

But at the end of the day, only the numbers matter.

New comment by frabjoused in "US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash"

frabjoused — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:22:42 +0000

I don't understand why this debate/probing is not just data driven. Driving is all big data.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

This report does not include fatalities, which seems to be the key point in question. Unless the above report has some bias or is false, Teslas in autopilot appear 10 times safer than the US average.

Is there public data on deaths reported by Tesla?

And otherwise, if the stats say it is safer, why is there any debate at all?

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream"

frabjoused — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:13:30 +0000

Your bot checker needs some UX help.

New comment by frabjoused in "Nothing: Simply Do Nothing"

frabjoused — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:02:44 +0000

It’s an excellent detail that the nothing timer resets if you scroll down to read the copy.