Hacker News: hayd

New comment by hayd in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

hayd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:51:58 +0000

had been using claude max/opus with pi and the results have been incredible. Having pi write an AGENTS.md and dip your feet into creating your own skills specific to the project.

With the anthropic billing change (not being able to use the max credits for pi) I think I have to cancel - as I'm whirring through credits now.

Going to move to the $250/mo OpenAI codex plan for now.

New comment by hayd in "xAI joins SpaceX"

hayd — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:01:02 +0000

I think people are more concerned about SpaceX getting the raw deal here.

New comment by hayd in "Vibe coding kills open source"

hayd — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:15:16 +0000

I think one of the things that will need to be embraced is carefully curating .md context files to give the prompts better/shared direction to contributors. Things like any new feature or fix should include a test case (in the right place), functions should re-use existing library code wherever possible, function signatures should never change in a backwards-incompatible way, any code changes should pass the linter, etc etc. And ideally ensure the agent writes code that's going to be to the maintainer's "taste".

I haven't worked out how to do this for my own projects.

Once you've set it up it's not too hard to imagine an AI giving an initial PR assessment... to discard the worst AI slop, offer some stylistic feedback, or suggest performance concerns.

New comment by hayd in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

hayd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:25:42 +0000

> the European Union was seen to be a good thing in the eyes of the archetypal Brit

It wasn't, hence Brexit. We were dragged in via a Customs Union against the will of the British electorate at every turn.

New comment by hayd in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

hayd — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:48:08 +0000

The £100k threshold is such an economically illiterate policy for society. The GPs and lawyers I know are working ~3 days a week to avoid it, so much economic output and taxes missed out on.

New comment by hayd in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

hayd — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:41:16 +0000

and most don't live in the neighbourhood, city or even state (in tech anyways).

New comment by hayd in "Find a pub that needs you"

hayd — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:01:36 +0000

> This is great for HMRC because it collects 10 times more than what the publican does

WTF.

New comment by hayd in "High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it"

hayd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:26:05 +0000

Is this something likely to ever change?

New comment by hayd in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

hayd — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:28:36 +0000

I'm reminded of a graduate course in Elliptical Curves where, late in the semester, we took a lecture to speedrun all the prerequisites and ideas of Perelman's [then new] proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It was wild but a lot of fun.

New comment by hayd in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

hayd — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:30:21 +0000

the process is the punishment

New comment by hayd in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

hayd — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:25:53 +0000

Or outcompete because it's state-funded, and can inject things like remote access (that the state might like the option to use one day).

It's really confusing that the EU don't consider this "dumping". I thought that was this big thing that they cared about.

New comment by hayd in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

hayd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:56:29 +0000

The being table open for the entire time with 100bb minimum and no maximum.. is going to lead to some wild swings at the top.

New comment by hayd in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

hayd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:52:06 +0000

and the board isn't dry (there are straight and flush draws).

New comment by hayd in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

hayd — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:03:28 +0000

"make money in the UK"

an oxymoron.

New comment by hayd in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

hayd — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:27:20 +0000

> I would vote against it given the chance.

Unfortunately the British people are rarely given a chance to vote and even more rarely listened to.

New comment by hayd in "GPT-5-Codex"

hayd — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:21:05 +0000

The question is which version of node, not npm.

New comment by hayd in "UK Technology Secretary: Online Safety Act opponents are on the predators's side"

hayd — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:59:40 +0000

A General Election cannot come soon enough.

New comment by hayd in "H1-B visas hurt one type of worker and exploit another"

hayd — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:55:17 +0000

L1 is another option.

New comment by hayd in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

hayd — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:03:45 +0000

I just wish they had a smaller offering than the SE. (But seemingly this is the case for everyone nowadays.)

New comment by hayd in "Net vs. Gross Salaries in Europe"

hayd — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:34:27 +0000

So why not have the employer pay the entirety of the tax burden? Make it seem, to the employee, like they are paying 0 tax.