Hacker News: ibash

New comment by ibash in "macOS needs its grid back"

ibash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:09:55 +0000

That’s one framing, here’s another:

The next CEO of Apple is someone that cares about quality. (As evidenced by how good the hardware is)

New comment by ibash in "Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)"

ibash — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:54:39 +0000

Feel free to keep trying shoe models until you find the right one. It took me 25 pairs of shoes from amazon to find one that fit right (mizuno wave rider in wide).

Running shoes are converging on two designs: maximalist shoes with a long foam and a narrow foot, or “barefoot” shoes. Which means it’s harder than ever to find something that fits if neither of those work well for you.

New comment by ibash in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

ibash — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:05:10 +0000

lol we told you plugins were insecure years ago. I distinctly remember getting flamed in your discord because I said that they had full disk access. Too little too late.

New comment by ibash in "Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?"

ibash — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:00:19 +0000

No, it’s more like “installing software installs files on the system”.

That’s not new by any means. It’s no different than zoom installing a native audio plugin for the os, or other software creating files on the system.

New comment by ibash in "Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?"

ibash — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:29:37 +0000

That’s not spyware, that’s just how native messaging is designed to work. You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later.

New comment by ibash in "Whats Up with Claude Lately?"

ibash — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:44:20 +0000

Aha! Same for me. A telling sign to me is it will take him 2-3 turns of “that’s not right” before he’ll say “let me do this properly…” and do what I original requested.

New comment by ibash in "Very Important People"

ibash — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:18:37 +0000

It’s not celebrity worship, it’s trying to show the absurdity of celebrity worship.

New comment by ibash in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

ibash — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:36:40 +0000

Better than rest is a low bar though. Ultimately agents should rarely be calling raw rest and graphql apis, which are meant for programmatic use.

Agents should be calling one level of abstraction higher.

Eg calling a function to “find me relevant events in this city according to this users preferences” instead of “list all events in this city”.

New comment by ibash in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

ibash — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:09:22 +0000

Kamal + cloudflare tunnel is a neat setup.

New comment by ibash in "Alchemy"

ibash — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:31:20 +0000

AI is having the same effect on art as the iPhone did on photography.

There’s a lot more photos now, most of them mediocre, but some exceptional.

It does become harder to filter great photography from noise.

New comment by ibash in "Collaboration sucks"

ibash — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:55:37 +0000

Except, they have one person in the ear. Not 4-5, not people giving opposite opinions, not drive by takes.

By the time a race engineer is communicating with a driver all of that has been shaken out. Specific concrete options are given to the driver, and usually only one.

New comment by ibash in "Most Americans say 'Arabic numerals' should not be taught in school (2019)"

ibash — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:38:28 +0000

This is one of those meaningless trivia questions.

Its not bigotry nor is it clever. It’s just word play.

New comment by ibash in "US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say"

ibash — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:52:04 +0000

This is very French!

New comment by ibash in "Ask HN: What's the best way to build agents in Oct 2025"

ibash — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:53:04 +0000

Pydantic ai is pretty good. There were some growing pains as it moved towards 1.0, but going forward the API should be mostly stable.

It does have slightly more complexity than I’d like, but most of the design decisions are sound and the code is easy to read.

New comment by ibash in "Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL"

ibash — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:17:13 +0000

Very cool, congrats!

New comment by ibash in "UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)"

ibash — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:09:37 +0000

Influencer marketing is a big part of the problem here.

The best practices engineering influencers shill are geared towards shipping a todo list quickly, and no thought is given towards maintainability.

New comment by ibash in "UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)"

ibash — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:56:55 +0000

But if you advocate for this now, newer engineers think you’re doing it wrong.

New comment by ibash in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

ibash — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:24:17 +0000

The thing is the prices are all made up anyway. The hospital hallucinates prices, so they don’t blink an eye when an llm does the same.

New comment by ibash in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

ibash — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:03:30 +0000

Because it's interesting. We don't need to censor everything.

New comment by ibash in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

ibash — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:45:57 +0000

I disagree. The ability of someone to read code doesn't grow exponentially, after a few years of experience everyone hits the same plateau. More years of experience does not mean you can understand more complex code.

That is to say, if you target "readable to the majority of engineers with 3-4 years of experience, without them getting confused" then you've hit the mark.