Hacker News: jdorfman

New comment by jdorfman in "The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

jdorfman — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:28:14 +0000

No one including my wife was interested in seeing it so I went by myself. It was long, but interesting. The author hits the nail on the head:

“You sit there believing you’re watching a documentary about a woman who deceived the world, only to discover that you’re also watching a demonstration of how easy it is to deceive you.”

I couldn’t agree more.

New comment by jdorfman in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

jdorfman — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:47:03 +0000

Congrats and thank you to you and your team for maintaining critical infrastructure we all take for granted.

New comment by jdorfman in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

jdorfman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:41:32 +0000

Congrats Can. Love your product, it has become the default way to orchestrate agents in my terminal.

New comment by jdorfman in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

jdorfman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:53:24 +0000

HN wouldn’t be HN without Dang. Thank you Dang.

New comment by jdorfman in "Oak: Git for Agents"

jdorfman — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:17:20 +0000

One has a wait list. The other doesn’t.

New comment by jdorfman in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

jdorfman — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:31:51 +0000

For those scratching their heads asking who is this guy and why should I care?

He has been tackling the open source sustainability issue since launching gittip circa 2012. Since then millions of dollars have been raised for open source because of him. Sure it’s a drop in the bucket but he did it.

Chad is a friend of mine. You can’t find a nicer person in tech than him. I hope this is temporary because he can still make a huge impact. Either way I respect his decision and hope he finds peace offline. TBH I’m a little jealous.

What 1,281 agent runs reveal about coding agent failure in large codebases

jdorfman — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:13:22 +0000

Article URL: https://tessl.io/blog/coding-agent-failure-patterns-large-codebases/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224161

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

It's Not the AI, It's the People

jdorfman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:05:06 +0000

Article URL: https://catalins.tech/ai-fatigue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964532

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdorfman in "Claude for Creative Work"

jdorfman — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:10:08 +0000

I hope that Claude will replace the firefly speech to text models that Adobe has in Premiere. They are so bad. If you know, you know.

New comment by jdorfman in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

jdorfman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:00:37 +0000

Correction: They deleted their prod db and then they had another agent write an em dash filled postmortem. No shame.

Sandboxes and Worktrees: My Secure Agentic AI Setup in 2026

jdorfman — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://mikemcquaid.com/sandboxed-agent-worktrees-my-coding-and-ai-setup-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820711

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdorfman in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

jdorfman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:06:15 +0000

I believe it has to do with

https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...

The Future of SCIP

jdorfman — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:46:50 +0000

Article URL: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-future-of-scip

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544238

Points: 97

# Comments: 23

New comment by jdorfman in "Addicted to Claude Code–Help"

jdorfman — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:54:55 +0000

I was on a company retreat last month. My coworker was on their phone the whole time on the bus ride over to dinner I finally looked over and it was a Claude Code session. The addiction is real.

Welcome to the Age of the Slop Fork

jdorfman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:15:00 +0000

Article URL: https://mbleigh.dev/posts/slop-forks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164534

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jdorfman in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

jdorfman — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:42:43 +0000

I haven’t tried the desktop but I use the CLI tool multiple times a day (sometimes hour) and I just want to thank the team for making my life easier.

New comment by jdorfman in "Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)"

jdorfman — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:12:38 +0000

I’ve been using nano as my default bash profile editor for over 15 years. It’s also great for quick updates for other config files.

Definitely going to enable mouse support. Didn’t know that was possible.

New comment by jdorfman in "Claudeskills.cc – Share, Discover, and Reuse Claude/OpenAI Agent Skills"

jdorfman — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:42:17 +0000

Anthropic legal will be reaching out tomorrow if not Monday.

New comment by jdorfman in "Libghostty is coming"

jdorfman — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:31:30 +0000

Great question. For me it feels faster (anecdotally) and certain TUI components don’t break. It also is probably my bias of loving his work as well as everyone at work using it. Hive mentality I suppose.

New comment by jdorfman in "Libghostty is coming"

jdorfman — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:40:33 +0000

The passion and attention to detail Mitchell has for developer experience is beyond me. I remember the first time I used Vagrant (2011, Santa Monica California) like it was yesterday it was that impactful.

I never thought in a million years I would even think of ditching iTerm2 but when Ghostty dropped I installed it and fell in love.