Hacker News: jaredsohn

New comment by jaredsohn in "Be honest: When was the last time you cleaned up obsolete code from your repos?"

jaredsohn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:01:14 +0000

Right now.

AI makes it a lot easier; just say 'remove x feature'.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

jaredsohn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:55:43 +0000

Or even just let me make a thread in github without associating it with files / a line of code. I hate it when conversations span top-level messages.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Designing emoji for the way we communicate today"

jaredsohn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:18:07 +0000

In today's AI times, I find it a little amusing to think about emojis as an automation of the craft of making ascii art. Is a little different since people don't get paid for that, but there was a creative component to it.

New comment by jaredsohn in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

jaredsohn — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:17:48 +0000

I completely agree that unverified claims create a heavy burden for maintainers. My only point was about the language used: 'disparaging' to me implies a bad-faith attack or a dismissive attitude, whereas this was just an honest technical mix-up that the poster immediately corrected.

I think part of the confusion with that word comes from things like corporate non-disparagement clauses. In those contracts, lawyers write the terms so broad that "disparagement" means saying anything negative, regardless of malice or intent.

New comment by jaredsohn in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

jaredsohn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:41:05 +0000

FWIW, I don't think the GP post is disparaging (at least as I read it right now.)

I think it is fair to list limitations from using a library that provides an abstraction; it can suggest why a tool isn't right for a person's use cases.

But it also sounds like this API handles those pretty well.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad"

jaredsohn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:35:30 +0000

I learned about Tile via ads in its early days and then eventually bought it.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

jaredsohn — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:34:37 +0000

Maybe one of those trillionaires could help for a bit before leaving to make his own AI model, too.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

jaredsohn — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:44:27 +0000

I think a reason for this is suppose the next year you run into some difficulties so it requires 14.2M. Now you have to fight to request an extra 0.2M added to your budget that you wouldn't have to worry about if you had 15M.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

jaredsohn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:22:05 +0000

'Everyone over 30 knows this' is a prior assumption (it is not necessarily correct; and nothing is said about shame).

The comic strip is saying if above is true, then people still have to learn at some point so on average it would be around 10k people per day.

I think the math is this:

For people born in a given year: 4000000/365/30 = 365 people per day

but you have 30 sets of those people (those born this year, those born last year, those born two years ago, etc.) So 365 * 30 = 10950. 10k is easier to say for viral purposes.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026]"

jaredsohn — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:55:36 +0000

Reminds me of ZeptoLab (company that made Cut The Rope)'s Pudding Monsters but it adds a lot more variety. (And it combines them together within one square instead of multiple squares and they don't fall off the edge of the screen.)

New comment by jaredsohn in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

jaredsohn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:44:29 +0000

Models like Haiku are great if you just want to apply JSON structure to some free text.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list"

jaredsohn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:22:20 +0000

For SMS, you can block text messages that match keywords via apps like VeroSMS on the iPhone. There may be similar apps on Android.

I personally don't think it is possible to get yourself off all of the lists so I do that and mark as spam in gmail.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?"

jaredsohn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:06:34 +0000

Strangely I think it was TechCrunch. But I was reading pg's essays years earlier (maybe through Joel On Software) and already had known about yc.

Think it was related to the initial request for startups post: https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/16/y-combinator-starts-seedin...

New comment by jaredsohn in "Ask HN: Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now?"

jaredsohn — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:07:46 +0000

This posting made it 15 :)

Might be date-related; all are from past 3 days

New comment by jaredsohn in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

jaredsohn — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:18:24 +0000

The site has been updated now to use the current domain.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

jaredsohn — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:56:05 +0000

Weird thing is that domain is even available to buy.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?"

jaredsohn — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:00:19 +0000

If you do have AI write for you, I think it is useful to indicate what is going on by having a rule set up for it. That can at least prepare the reader for reading AI text.

I personally find it okay / convenient to have AI respond to PR review comments with respect to something being addressed or why it was not. That text is often pretty mechanical.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?"

jaredsohn — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:40:32 +0000

>day or 2 max

I've frequently seen tasks that it thinks will take weeks being done in under an hour. And it will often recommend doing X instead of Y because X requires so much extra work. Basically I just remind it that it is an LLM.

If it worries something is error prone, I ask it to write tools to verify it.

New comment by jaredsohn in "Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC"

jaredsohn — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:54:54 +0000

The line numbers were also used for GOTO and GOSUB (although later on languages supported strings instead of numbers).

New comment by jaredsohn in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

jaredsohn — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:53:09 +0000

There are tools that use LLMs to do this.

I've done this manually by building a big feature branch and asking an LLM to extract out functionality for a portion of it.

For the former, it would seem to split based on frontend/backend, etc. rather than what semantically makes the most sense and for the latter it would include changes I don't want and forget some I do want. But I haven't tried this a lot.