Hacker News: indrex

New comment by indrex in "The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)"

indrex — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:05:22 +0000

You mean the English to code layer is stochastic while code to assembly is not?

This stochastic nature existed before AI. Humans are stochastic too. Two engineers convert specs to code in two different ways. I would argue the distribution is wider among humans than among agents.

New comment by indrex in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"

indrex — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:18:06 +0000

I had to google “clanker”.

New comment by indrex in "A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet"

indrex — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:39:10 +0000

Looks cool but on iPhone can’t zoom with touchscreen, and can’t tap either to select a lighthouse.

New comment by indrex in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

indrex — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:59:13 +0000

Coming from Obsidian, I see such repos and I’m like, is this a new thing for the world?

New comment by indrex in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

indrex — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:21:40 +0000

Yes that solve the knowledge part but there are also steps I need to repeat. Example: how to run a code based on risk level. That requires a tool, not just text.

New comment by indrex in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

indrex — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:41:56 +0000

Are your projects standalone? Because why I need tooling is to carry over the learning and knowledge from one project to next.

New comment by indrex in "Anthropic Claude and API service outages"

indrex — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:33:41 +0000

How they go down globally? All regions use the same infra?

New comment by indrex in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

indrex — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:54:48 +0000

I had to setup hooks just to catch the and ban them in the CLIs. Most of what Claude writes is simply un-readable.

New comment by indrex in "NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year"

indrex — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:58:40 +0000

Topical - that’s the problem to solve for orbital data centers

New comment by indrex in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

indrex — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:53:23 +0000

Had similar experience with GCP. Terminated VMs six times, and responded zero times.

New comment by indrex in "I quit drinking for a year"

indrex — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:39:13 +0000

I stopped mostly after Claude Code. 1. Too many interesting things to do 2. I asked it to rate my diet and maintain a streak - which now I don’t want to lose

New comment by indrex in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

indrex — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:53:57 +0000

…and the first paragraph has an em dash

New comment by indrex in "As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook"

indrex — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:34:26 +0000

I thought so too. But I would rather use docstrings and comments because: - Readable by LLMs/others in the context of the code - Searchable - Version controlled

New comment by indrex in "Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?"

indrex — Sat, 24 May 2025 10:02:08 +0000

I develop AI for a living and I don’t understand the internals of it either, just as I don’t understand the internals of Intel architecture. My job is to build, not to fit information into my mind.

New comment by indrex in "A single line of code cost $8000"

indrex — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:35:29 +0000

Plenty of (valid) criticism in the comments, but I appreciate the developer for publishing it.

New comment by indrex in "Segmenting Credit Card Customers with K-Means"

indrex — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:28:54 +0000

At first glance this seems to be a run of the mill clustering project. Why is it on the HN front page? Am I missing something?

New comment by indrex in "Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS"

indrex — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:26:14 +0000

When I first started coding, I wished there was an “app” for it where I just start writing code. Now there is.

New comment by indrex in "Your Phone, Minus the Distractions"

indrex — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 07:06:44 +0000

Or just use a cellular watch like Apple Watch Ultra instead of carrying a phone with you all the time.

New comment by indrex in "OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity"

indrex — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Perplexity is big enough to be named in Bloomberg?

New comment by indrex in "Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable"

indrex — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:39:01 +0000

This proves it won’t take much to simulate reality.