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New comment by idk1 in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

idk1 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:26:18 +0000

This is the part that stands out for me.

> Earlier in the year, we had largely handwritten the first version of the git-to-Scion ingestion pipeline as a prototype. We thought it was good—until we got our hands on an early internal snapshot of Claude Mythos Preview. We asked it to rewrite the whole thing, and with no further instructions, it produced a version that consumed 20x less memory and was 4x faster, while preserving all of the implicit invariants around ingestion ordering and data structures.

We still need the human creativity and spark in the loop to come up with these fresh, new, bold, creative ideas. I think if you let the current version of Claude run forever, it still wouldn't have the creative spark to create its own new source control system.

This is the future of a human software engineer's job.

New comment by idk1 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

idk1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:59:57 +0000

What I overwhelmingly love about that Pelican grid is the two best ones, they've put a neck scarf on to show speed and wind.

New comment by idk1 in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

idk1 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:30:27 +0000

I agree with the rest, but that's a fantastic logo.

New comment by idk1 in "Delta"

idk1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:53:00 +0000

Yeah, I have a rule in my agents MD that essentially says the code doesn't need a comment because it should be readable. And ask me in the exceptionally rare instances where it needs a summary or a comment. I am a Ruby and JavaScript developer, so I suppose that is a lot more readable than some other languages, but broadly, I've found code summaries and code comments to not be necessary if the code is very elegantly written.

New comment by idk1 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

idk1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:25:54 +0000

I have witnessed this happen before. This was approximately ten years ago, but we had a similar thing, a new hire team building exercise. And during it, one of the new hires told a story about how they saved money by taking loads of reams of paper and stuff home from their old office in order to save money. And they were let go during the lunch break. I still feel a bit sorry for them, but I guess saying out loud you were happy to steal stationery didn't go down very well, so it makes sense, but still, it was such a tiny mistake for a 20-year-old. I wasn't in charge of management at the time, but I think I'd have just taken him aside and explained how bad it sounded.

New comment by idk1 in "Resetting Xbox"

idk1 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:35:30 +0000

Yeah, it feels like a terribly inappropriate moment for a pun.

New comment by idk1 in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

idk1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:37:17 +0000

This was so nauseating to read. It could just be stripped down so much, the problem is the content is quite good and then it's just full of this AI fluff. ...

"Read it again." - "Now the fun part." - "Short file, huge payoff. Keep it tight." - "The file isn't a knowledge base, it's a guardrail"

Also the Specific-day + specific-number + reveal format of sentences as well.

"Read it again." - This is the worst one, as if I didn't read it the first time. I do not think I have ever been told to read a code snippet again at the end of it.

"a different kind of force multiplier" - make it stop!!!

New comment by idk1 in "Cursor Camp"

idk1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:21:19 +0000

Well, that was absolutely delightful. What a tonic.

New comment by idk1 in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

idk1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:00:27 +0000

My friend was in a similar situation, and what he did was just went on Meetup and Facebook and searched for groups for things that he was into. Two of those groups were white collar boxing and open mic nights. I had no idea he was lonely before. He was my friend. If you filled one day of your week with a social group in the evening and then another day of the week with another social group. And eventually you feel like you're doing enough things. And you'll end up being your friend. I only meet mine once a month outside of those, but it's still really nice. Also, if you do join any social groups, you'll find yourself going to the pub afterwards.

New comment by idk1 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

idk1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:41:53 +0000

Dark mode please mate.

New comment by idk1 in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

idk1 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:33:41 +0000

As an aside, one of my very nice family members like tarot card reading, and I think you'd get an extremely different answer for - "What's moon plus sun?" - something like I would guess as they're opposites - "Mixed signals or insecurity get resolved by openness and real communication." - It's kind of fascinating, the range of answers to that question. As a couple of other people have mentioned, it could mean loads of things. I thought I'd add one in there.

I'll just add that if you think this advice applies to you, it's the - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

New comment by idk1 in "Show HN: Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base"

idk1 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:23:56 +0000

I'm not sure this quite qualifies as a transcribing app if you need to pay and subscribe to a third-party transcribing app to transcribe the videos.

New comment by idk1 in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

idk1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:10:22 +0000

This is going to sound very basic, but did you do it in a blank repo or did you use the cloned integration in Xcode, or a third thing I'm not thinking of?

New comment by idk1 in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

idk1 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:28:01 +0000

This is a great idea, however, for the voice dictation app. They're very hard to get right, and the quality varies across them massively. I've tried both Wisper Flow and Aqua (the one I'm typing this with, which is, in my opinion, the best at the moment) - they're so exceptionally sophisticated that I think it would be very difficult to get right in a short amount of time.

New comment by idk1 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

idk1 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:44:28 +0000

This is going to sound strange, but I simply must decorate a few rooms. I seem to be so obsessive about selecting exactly the right thing in there in case it's wrong. I can't seem to select anything at all. If I carry on like this, I'm going to go another 10 years living in essentially an empty room with a bed in it.

New comment by idk1 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

idk1 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:09:17 +0000

Hey there Boris from the Claude Code team! Thanks for these tips! Love Claude Code, absolutely one of the best pieces of software that has ever existed. What I would absolutely love is if the Claude documentation had examples of these because I see time and time again people saying what to do in the case you tell us to update the Claude MD with things that it gets wrong repeatedly but it's very rare to have examples just three or four examples of something gets got wrong, and then how you fixed it would be immensely helpful.

New comment by idk1 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

idk1 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:54:40 +0000

There really should be a law around being able to access and review locked accounts. I've seen so many cases of people just losing their digital lives because of an automated system.

New comment by idk1 in "Zed is our office"

idk1 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:20:29 +0000

Because I'm apparently a billion years old, I still use Sublime Text and just text editor. If I do switch, it will be to this. However, is it as responsive? Do file changes just appear if I change them elsewhere in like terminal?

New comment by idk1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

idk1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:21:57 +0000

I have to say, i love this. The name is fantastic and the whole concept. It's got a very Game of Life or Monopoly feel where you've just taken the fundamentals of something in society and turned it into a game instead of adding an additional story on top. I really like it.

My one comment would be, I think you need to change the branding a little bit. It's a bit too close to Magic the Gathering, and this feels like its own IP and can stand on its own legs. So I think you need to just adjust the cards enough so they don't instantly read as a Magic the Gathering card.

New comment by idk1 in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

idk1 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:53:04 +0000

If the author is reading this, then I feel like it would be great if you could potentially open source your skills and Claude MD in a redacted way so these are actually viewable. The problem with a lot of these tutorials is, if I can call it a tutorial, is that we never get to see the actual skills or the Claude MD themselves, just a description of it.