Hacker News: jspdown

Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go

jspdown — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:57:19 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646843

Points: 252

# Comments: 130

New comment by jspdown in "Agents that run while I sleep"

jspdown — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:36:11 +0000

At this stage, AI is no longer a tool that enhances your ability to ship code, it has replaced you entirely in that role. You don't control what is shipped, and you can't verify if it's correct. That's a serious problem! As software engineers, we remain accountable for code we no longer fully understand.

Then, what comes next feels less like a new software practice and more like a new religion, where trust has to replaces understanding, and the code is no longer ours to question.

New comment by jspdown in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

jspdown — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:04:07 +0000

Don't you need to obtain consent before filming random people in the street? I already feel uncomfortable when someone takes a photo in public and I happen to be in it, but this type of device takes things to an entirely different level. With smart glasses, there's no visible cue that you're being recorded. No phone held up, no camera in sight. I'm questioning the legality of this in Europe, where privacy laws tend to be stricter. In the meantime, should I just assume that anyone wearing these glasses is always filming? And would I be within my rights to ask them to stop the moment I notice them?

New comment by jspdown in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

jspdown — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:38:02 +0000

I've been using Claude for a little over a year, but the recent events with DoW are making me want to explore European alternatives. I'm willing to give Devstral 2 a try, but I'm not sure what to expect. In terms of tool calling and coding abilities, should I expect something closer to Sonnet 3.5 or to Sonnet 4.5?

New comment by jspdown in "We Will Not Be Divided"

jspdown — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:28:38 +0000

Domestic mass surveillance might feel tolerable when you live in the country conducting it. But how would you feel about other countries adopting similar policies, and thereby mass-surveilling the American people? Because that's exactly what these policies authorize when applied to the rest of the world.

New comment by jspdown in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

jspdown — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:07:39 +0000

On my personal coding agent I've introduced a setup phase inside skills.

I distribute my skills with flake.nix and a lock file. This flake installs the required dependencies and set them up. A frontmatter field defines the name of secrets that need to be passed to the flake.

As it is, it works for me because I trust my skill flakes and skills are static in my system: -I build an agent docker image for the agent in which I inject the skills directory. -Each skill is setup when building the image -Secret are copied before the setup phase and removed right after

All in all, Nix is quite nice for Skills :)

IBM stock tumbles 10% after Anthropic launches COBOL AI tool

jspdown — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:44:49 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-stock-tumbles-10-anthropic-194042677.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137797

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jspdown in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

jspdown — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:55:44 +0000

I pay a Max subscription since a long time, I like their model but I hate their tools:

- Claude Desktop looks like a demo app. It's slow to use and so far behind the Codex app that it's embarassing.

- Claude Code is buggy has hell and I think I've never used a CLI tool that consume so much memory and CPU. Let's not talk about the feature parity with other agents.

- Claude Agent SDK is poorly documented, half finished, and is just thin wrapper around a CLI tool…

Oh and none of this is open source, so I can do nothing about it.

My only option to stay with their model is to build my own tool. And now I discover that using my subscription with the Agent SDK is against the term of use?

I'm not going to pay 500 USD of API credits every months, no way. I have to move to a different provider.

New comment by jspdown in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

jspdown — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:53:39 +0000

It's not HTML purism. It's simply recognizing that HTML and CSS have evolved a lot and many things don't need (or are close to not need) JS anymore. This shouldn't be taken as an anti-JS article, everyone benefits from these gradial improvements. Especially our users who can now get a uniform experience.

New comment by jspdown in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

jspdown — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:55:25 +0000

My bad, in the context of the article you are definitely right.

I think I was biased by the fact that this argument was used in an HN comment where people tend to be heavy users of LLM based agents.

New comment by jspdown in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

jspdown — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:05:55 +0000

This article compares a single ChatGPT query against 1h of video streaming. Not apple to apple comparison if you ask me.

Using Claude Code during an hour would be more realistic if they really wanted to compare with video streaming. The reality is far less appealing.

New comment by jspdown in "Claude Code 2.0"

jspdown — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:06:57 +0000

You can type Option+Enter. A more standard Shift+Enter would have been better but until then that's the best we have

New comment by jspdown in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

jspdown — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:53:24 +0000

I suppose yes. That's actually what happened with distributed rate-limit.

New comment by jspdown in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

jspdown — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:50:34 +0000

Looks like it's OpenAI response to Google's Agent Payment Protocol (AP2) but without the micro transaction part.

New comment by jspdown in "Claude Code 2.0"

jspdown — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:48:34 +0000

Do you mind telling us a bit more? I never used OpenCode, what makes it better in your opinion?

New comment by jspdown in "Claude Code 2.0"

jspdown — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:46:11 +0000

There's a bit of UI around it where you can accept the plan. I personally stopped using it and instead moved to a workflow where I simply ask it to write the plan in a file. It's much easier to edit and improve this way.

New comment by jspdown in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

jspdown — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:35:17 +0000

I'm wondering if it's not just: spawn multiple time the same prompt and take the best

New comment by jspdown in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

jspdown — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:54:01 +0000

Thanks for the detailed feedback. This is exactly the kind of input we need.

We're going to work through these points with the team. Appreciate you sticking with Traefik despite the documentation friction.

New comment by jspdown in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

jspdown — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:38:41 +0000

Traefik maintainer here.

A significant portion of TraefikLabs' engineering team and maintainers are French. Before each new release, the team holds polls and spirited debates to determine which cheese would be the perfect fit for the version name.

Staying true to French culinary tradition, the enterprise versions are given wine codenames, with each wine carefully selected to pair perfectly with its corresponding cheese release.

New comment by jspdown in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

jspdown — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:30:55 +0000

Traefik maintainer here.

You are right, Traefik is fundamentally built around the concept of "providers," which are external systems from which Traefik obtains routing configuration and service/server definitions.

These providers can range from dynamic service discovery systems (like Docker, Kubernetes, Consul) to static configuration sources (file-based configs, HTTP APIs, etc.). The provider architecture is what makes Traefik particularly well-suited for containerized and cloud-native environments where services are ephemeral and discovery is crucial.