Hacker News: jchanimal

New comment by jchanimal in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

jchanimal — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:38:18 +0000

One of the thing is we’ve seen at vibes.diy is that if you have a list of jobs and you have agents with specialized profiles and ask them to pick the best job for themselves that can change some of the behavior you described at the end of your post for the better.

New comment by jchanimal in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"

jchanimal — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:00:59 +0000

Certain workflows prefer non-queueing, for instance the throng empowers the bartender to load balance different groups, delay drinks to over consumers, etc etc. So other cultures can have those workflows in places we might not expect, that is not necessarily a matter of respect. In pub culture, queueing disrespects the bartender.

New comment by jchanimal in "Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop"

jchanimal — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:42:16 +0000

It makes a great code reading tool if you use it mindfully. For instance, you can check the integrity of your tests by having it fuzz the implementation and ensure the tests fail and then git checkout to get clean again.

New comment by jchanimal in "AI sycophancy panic"

jchanimal — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:39:11 +0000

I got mine to bundle all that bs into a one word suffix "DISCLAIMER." which it puts at the end of responses now but basically doesn't bother me with that stuff.

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect

jchanimal — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:18:40 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029225

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

Border Patrol is monitoring drivers, detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns

jchanimal — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:43:52 +0000

Article URL: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/border-patrol-monitoring-us-drivers-detaining-suspicious-travel-127699704

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991257

Points: 45

# Comments: 12

New comment by jchanimal in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

jchanimal — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:58:13 +0000

The marginal cost of a hob is likely not the price driver.

New comment by jchanimal in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

jchanimal — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:40:25 +0000

I was staying at a Maasai owned ecolodge in Kenya on the day they switched over from generator to solar. It was so much quieter, and with their new electric Range Rover they don’t ever have to go into town except for parts.

New comment by jchanimal in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

jchanimal — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:37:19 +0000

If that’s your first thought, then you’ll hate this influential perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

New comment by jchanimal in " Htmx – The Fetch()ening"

jchanimal — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:19:18 +0000

htmx forever

New comment by jchanimal in "CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization"

jchanimal — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:47:40 +0000

We handle this in Fireproof with a deterministic default algorithm, in addition to having a hash-based tamperproof ledger of changes. Fireproof is not SQL based, it is more like CouchDB or MongoDB, but with cryptographic integrity. Apache 2.0 https://use-fireproof.com

In practice during CouchDB's heyday, with lots of heavy users, the conflict management API almost never mattered, as most people can make do with deterministic merges.

New comment by jchanimal in "Macro Splats 2025"

jchanimal — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:45:10 +0000

It’d be amazing to see a collab with the Exquisite Creatures Revealed artist. He preserves all kinds of insects and presents them in a way that highlights the color and iridescent effects nature offers. I was so blown away by the exhibit I went back. Artist: https://christophermarley.com/

New comment by jchanimal in "Vibe engineering"

jchanimal — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:45:59 +0000

Yes, that exactly. If you have to read the code or the manual, you’re not vibe coding. I think vibe coding is super good for the industry and people in general.

New comment by jchanimal in "Vibe engineering"

jchanimal — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:44:54 +0000

If you can’t do it while you’re also singing a karaoke song, then you’re not vibing.

I have fairly decent engineering credentials, but when the task fits, I prefer to vibe code.

New comment by jchanimal in "Litestream v0.5.0"

jchanimal — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:18:19 +0000

SQLite is probably more mature than Postgres in terms of service hours.

New comment by jchanimal in "Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database"

jchanimal — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:33:59 +0000

This is a reason to prefer embedded databases that only contain data scoped to a single user or group.

Then MCP and other agents can run wild within a safer container. The issue here comes from intermingling data.

New comment by jchanimal in "The Rise of Whatever"

jchanimal — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:28:01 +0000

I’m one of those statistics. But I still play. It’s fun to imagine myself with a full time studio career but instead I’m a database startup founder. (I got into databases by building a web crawler to recommend how musicians could promote themselves on mp3 blogs.)

How many musicians or artists are finding their need to explore similarly met by opportunities that simply didn’t exist in 2002? If art is expression than we should expect the people who might have wielded a brush or guitar to be building software instead.

If this is you, I recommend Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act. It’s as pure an expression of the way I like to work in music, as it is aligned with how I think about code and product design.

New comment by jchanimal in "The Rise of Whatever"

jchanimal — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:18:07 +0000

The opposite. We are all learning to hone our slop detectors now, real art is more valuable and necessary.

New comment by jchanimal in "Mikeal Rogers Obituary"

jchanimal — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:24:56 +0000

There is a fundraiser for his family here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/honor-mikeal-rogers-by-supporting...

Mikeal Rogers Obituary

jchanimal — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:23:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/mikeal-rogers-obituary?id=58676316

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332240

Points: 5

# Comments: 1