Hacker News: giladd

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves"

giladd — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:52:05 +0000

This is a pretty awesome little game, seems more rewarding than most something-le games I've seen. Will share with friends.

Will you / could you add access to past puzzles? That's the first thing I looked for but couldn't find.

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets"

giladd — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:18:16 +0000

This is pretty cool, nice project. Can you expand on what threat model this combats?

Also, does the replace op happen only for specific fields in HTTP, or for every matching string in the request? I can imagine the latter if you want to support non-standard authentications methods, though there's always the edge case where the secret string placeholder is not used as a secret and should not be replaced.

New comment by giladd in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

giladd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:19:09 +0000

> Perhaps there’s some kind of conservation law here: Any increases in programming speed will be offset by a corresponding increase in unnecessary features, rabbit holes, and diversions.

This resonates hard. LLMs enable true perfectionism, the ability to completely fulfil your vision for a project. This lets you add many features without burning out due to fatigue or boredom. However (as the author points out), most projects' original goal does not require these complementary features.

New comment by giladd in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"

giladd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:41:08 +0000

It's been a long time since a book has gripped my attention like the one this short film is based on. It has many interesting ideas and a plot with some truly unexpected twists.

The latest version of the book distances itself from the source material (a good decision imo): The SCP Foundation. It's an extremely interesting project, with some parallels to FOSS. I wonder if there are other joint literary projects of similar scale.