Hacker News: jrecyclebin

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

jrecyclebin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:41:30 +0000

Well, except that, in this case, Copilot really is for entertainment purposes only.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Deterministic Programming with LLMs"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:55:07 +0000

> There is no need for determinism to guarantee the job will be done identically every time if we only plan to do it once.

So can't you just save the conversation transcript and replay it with the tools? Seems a lot more efficient that regenerating the whole thing. And, also, no risk of branching when a tool reply is slightly different. (Of course, errors can occur on subsequent runs.)

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Don't trust AI agents"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:36:19 +0000

Agent can still "forgot password" on many accounts. Or magic link.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:43:10 +0000

Digitize and burn.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:01:00 +0000

Another approach to journal writing is basically the opposite: rather than treating it like a task to fill with very rigid requirements - find a notebook and pen that you'll enjoy spending time with. An easy start is a Midori Ruled A5 (very simple, lay flat notebook) and a Uniball Zento Signature (the most hyped pen in the world right now) and treat them basically like little friends you spend time with. Writing only two sentences is denying yourself quality time writing and reflecting at a leisurely pace if you really come to enjoy it.

I'd also think you're more likely to read back if writing time is a fond memory.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "The only moat left is money?"

jrecyclebin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:03:21 +0000

Kind of ironic - the moat is money...

At the same time, I see the appeal. I feel like 10% of the comments I read lately are "is this an AI response?" - would be nice to be free of that. Probably not possible tho.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "A website to destroy all websites"

jrecyclebin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:59:11 +0000

The weakest part is the last one - and it's a big one. Personalsit.es is just a flat single-page directory (of thumbnails, even, not content - so the emphasis is design.) To be part of the conversation, you'd list there and hope someone comes along. Compare with Reddit where you start commenting and you're close-to-an-equal with every other comment.

Webmentions do get you there - because it's a commenting system. But for finding the center of a community, it seems like you're still reliant on Bluesky or Mastodon or something. (Which doesn't "destroy all websites.") Love the sentiment ofc.

The Emoji Layer

jrecyclebin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://poggers.institute/@j/the-emoji-layer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398070

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jrecyclebin in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

jrecyclebin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:05:57 +0000

Great advertising for vidalias. I simply have to try one now.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:48:37 +0000

Skill descriptions get dumped in your system prompt - just like MCP tool definitions and agent descriptions before them. The more you have, the more the LLM will be unable to focus on any one piece of it. You don't want a bunch of irrelevant junk in there every time you prompt it.

Skills are nice because they offload all the detailed prompts to files that the LLM can ask for. It's getting even better with Anthropic's recent switchboard operator (tool search tool) that doesn't clutter the system prompt but tries to cut the tool list down to those the LLM will need.

The Emoji Layer

jrecyclebin — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jrecyclebin/emojilayer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066538

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context"

jrecyclebin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:00:03 +0000

While I totally agree with you, I also can see a world where we just throw a ton of calls in the MCP and then wrap it in a subagent that has a short description listing every verb it has access to.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:20:20 +0000

Yep, those are the companies that would go away.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 23:56:18 +0000

Something of a logical leap here: if LLMs aren't capable of replacing workers and it's all lies, then what company is going to engage in mass layoffs without seeing results first? Sounds like companies that deserve to go away.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

jrecyclebin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:37:02 +0000

Lots of gold in this article. It's like discovering a basket of cheat codes. This will age well.

Great links, BAML is a crazy rabbithole and just found myself nodding along to frequent /compact. These tips are hard-earned and very generously given. Anyone here can take it or leave it. I have theft on my mind, personally. (ʃƪ¬‿¬)

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

jrecyclebin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:01:00 +0000

Ok well - appreciate the further details.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

jrecyclebin — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:36:44 +0000

Idk the punishment just doesn't match the crime. Can't they just confiscate the computer? Or pressure the ISP to cancel his account? Tbh I get that the Feds are going route around and through anything that stands in their way.

Instead we're left up to state thuggery.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Programming Deflation"

jrecyclebin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:31:57 +0000

I'm already not going back to the way things were before LLMs. This is fortunately not a technology where you have to go all-in. Having it generate tests and classes, solve painful typing errors and help me brainstorm interfaces is already life-changing.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:03:09 +0000

One of the main things I put in my instructions is "hey I'm a solo dev and it's just you and me working on this stuff, so I'm looking for all responses to be concise." I think it helps to give your situation so that the output can be in the proximity of "solo dev" content - which is going to be more concise and practical by nature.

Kind of like telling it to generate Ghibli pics. These things are best at imitation.