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New comment by gardnr in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7"

gardnr — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:43:15 +0000

Are you using Opus? Sonnet remains as useful as it was while Opus efficacy and token burn rate has soured over the last 4 months.

New comment by gardnr in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

gardnr — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:07:34 +0000

I have a suspicion most Libertarians are actually something else but who haven't realized it yet. When you really dig into it: idea of private property (as in owning land and charging people rent for using it) is akin to slavery (owning people and extracting labor from them). The pre-colonial indigenous structures of managing societies were much more aligned with my internal values but they are poorly defined in modern vernacular and we don't have a good "common vocabulary" to talk about how we might want to do things in a different way.

Show HN: Keep coding agents on track with shared Git hooks

gardnr — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:05:32 +0000

You need to keep them fast and reliable or your team will hate you. Shared git hooks can be a double-edged sword. They can also prevent your agents from producing abject trash. Use `pre-commit` or `husky` and enable max-lines-per-file @ 600 lines and McCabe-style complexity at 10. You can ask your agents to use `rope` or `ts-morph` where it fits to refactor and meet the new requirements.

Add a note to our AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md: "Make descriptive commits at reasonable intervals. Ensure the git hooks are installed. NEVER use `--no-verify` unless the user confirms first."

While you are in there add this magic too: `Use TDD "Red, green, refactor." where possible.`

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065889

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gardnr in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

gardnr — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:17:56 +0000

This is straight outta 2023:

Agents aren't reliable; use workflows instead.

New comment by gardnr in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

gardnr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:36:42 +0000

Here is one source that agrees: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/capabilities/coding

New comment by gardnr in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

gardnr — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:11:19 +0000

Same throughput with much less heat. Not sure what that extra 175w is going towards but it's diminishing returns.

New comment by gardnr in "GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup"

gardnr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:43:09 +0000

They keep adding “fancy” UI and hijacking standard browser behaviour that is infuriating on a daily basis.

Please consider a lofi version for people that want to select text without navigating to a different page.

New comment by gardnr in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"

gardnr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:29:05 +0000

Looks like it may not have a package manager like apt or dnf:

> Can you please add wget, nano, $my_fav_app_omg_i_love_it to the root filesystem?

> No, not likely.

I am guessing the way to use software not already in the image is to use `docker run`.

New comment by gardnr in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

gardnr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:20:09 +0000

It can be damn near impossible to break them out of some loops once they've committed. Gotta trim the context back to before the behaviour started.

New comment by gardnr in "DeepSeek v4"

gardnr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:39:29 +0000

865 GB: I am going to need a bigger GPU.

New comment by gardnr in "Apple Changes Prongs on MacBook Chargers; Breaks Compatibility"

gardnr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:12:31 +0000

If you buy a new MacBook Pro be prepared to ditch all of your duckhead adapters.

If you enjoy using a "Power Adapter Extension Cable" to extend your distance from the wall, then be prepared that you cannot buy one that fits the new prongs as Apple does not sell them.

I just got off the phone with their sales support and they recommended that I go to a hardware store and buy a regular extension cable.

Apple Changes Prongs on MacBook Chargers; Breaks Compatibility

gardnr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:12:31 +0000

Article URL: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256262949?sortBy=rank

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884686

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by gardnr in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

gardnr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:31:54 +0000

I wouldn't label that arrogance. In my experience outside the USA, my GP has been unaware of new research / advice / guidelines published by the MoH. They generally respond to new info from reputable sources when you print it out and bring it to them.

I would expect specialists to be subscribed to journals and reading the latest articles in their field. When I saw a specialist at UCSF this was definitely the case; while my GP still has gaps where their current knowledge on a specific subject is from their time at med school.

An equivalence would be a front-end engineer being naive to the happenings on the Linux kernel mailing list. They could likely understand what's going on if they took the time to read it, but that is not their focus.

New comment by gardnr in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

gardnr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:54:53 +0000

The GLM-4.7 model isn't that great. I was on their $200/month plan for a while. It was really hard to keep up with how fast it works. Going back to Claude seems like everything takes forever. GLM got much better in 5.1 but Cerebras still doesn't offer that yet (it's a bit heavier). I have a year of Z.ai that I got as a bargain and I use GLM-5.1 for some open source stuff but I am a bit nervous about sending data into their API.

New comment by gardnr in "Cloudflare Email Service"

gardnr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:23:56 +0000

It's like the author handed the copy to the editor who then added a new broken sentence after each original sentence that somehow jams "agents" in there.

New comment by gardnr in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

gardnr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:36:27 +0000

The llama weights were leaked. It open sourced itself.

You are right though. Meta could have been in lockstep releasing ChatGPT features into some chat bot on Facebook.com but instead it seemed like their FAIR arm was hell bent on commoditising this stuff by publishing their research models before the Chinese companies took the lead in that.

It’s hard for me to be mad at FAIR even though I general disagree with the outcomes that Meta produce for their users.

New comment by gardnr in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

gardnr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:27:16 +0000

It’s personal…

New comment by gardnr in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

gardnr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:26:19 +0000

I was really excited until I realised that “personal” meant “owned by meta“.

I’m trying to decide is I find the doublespeak a bit offensive or not.

New comment by gardnr in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

gardnr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:07 +0000

There is this 3rd party tracker: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/

New comment by gardnr in "iNaturalist"

gardnr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:56:21 +0000

A genuinely good-for-the-world project. The data is really useful for science and for machine learning. You can export all the research-grade identifications of fungi to train a classifier; if that’s what you’re into.