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New comment by horticulturist in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

horticulturist — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:56:57 +0000

Oddly fun, though could use a little more variety, maybe with knots, etc.

Can AI Automate End-to-End, Long-Horizon, Policy-Rich Healthcare Workflows?

horticulturist — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:08:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16679

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526434

Points: 2

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New comment by horticulturist in "Reuse Less Software"

horticulturist — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:48:07 +0000

We vendored all dependencies. Improved build reliability, reduced build times, allowed the rare in place modification (usually a security patch that only existed in an incompatible newer version), easy software bill of materials, reduced vulnerability to supply chain attacks, all of these were benefits. The other compelling point is giving up on semver and treating everything as distinct is how we approached things, because semver is not widely adopted nor accurate enough in practice to be worth the trouble of trusting and using it.

New comment by horticulturist in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

horticulturist — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:08:43 +0000

There’s no evidence it’s temporary or that AI is getting better. There was a big boost using LLMs to improve the quality of translation (after an often comical degradation using LLMs in the early days) but it’s completely plateaued. Coding is no different: LLMs aren’t any better, more tokens are being paid for, and the results are mediocre. People aren’t asking AI because it is better, they are asking AI because it’s fast and sycophant.

New comment by horticulturist in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time"

horticulturist — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:58:05 +0000

I always found it very difficult to explain to nearly anyone bitemporal data, despite it being critical and used by nearly every critical data domain in our system. As one senior developer (who actually understood the concept) it gives people “melty brain”.

New comment by horticulturist in "Trying to fix complicated problems"

horticulturist — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:36:05 +0000

The healthcare one is odd to point out in relation to the other two. The incentives in healthcare are misaligned, so that higher prices mean more profits. It’s a simple but not easy fix to close that loophole.

New comment by horticulturist in "Claude Corps"

horticulturist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:44:42 +0000

Anthropic’s marketing team is on a roll

New comment by horticulturist in "The optimal number of unreviewed PRs is not zero"

horticulturist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:42:47 +0000

smells like AI, but does highlight an important blind spot most development teams have

New comment by horticulturist in "Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers"

horticulturist — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:57:56 +0000

AI seems to have been engineered to have this effect. If the product offers endless affirmation, surely users will prefer it

New comment by horticulturist in "databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver"

horticulturist — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:35:58 +0000

similar idea, but in python using sqlalchemy and trying very hard to be psql: https://github.com/f0rk/xsql

definitely a beta product, but used to use every day with redshift and snowflake