<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kxrm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kxrm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:03:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kxrm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CMD + V to paste an image is wrong.<p>On Mac it's the same as Windows, CTRL + V.<p>You use CMD + V to paste text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496494</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first job during and out of college back in 2003, we were entirely remote. We hired exclusively over the phone which resulted in a mix of people that were completely diverse in their backgrounds and at the same time truly qualified to do the work.<p>The company went on to grow quite successfully until it was acquired 6 years later. I feel that zoom and video conferencing allows some of that "appearance" factor back in. Based on my experience though, if I had my way, job interviews would be exclusively audio only.</p>
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<p>> who wouldn't want to witness and be a part of a new world?<p>Me?<p>This view is grounded in the assumption that the future will be better than today. There is no guarantee of that. This is, in my opinion, the same flaw in the thought process of wanting to live forever. The assumption being that, this "new world" is a better place than where you are now. That it is compatible with you as you are. That you will never grow tired of existing.<p>I know for a fact that I will grow tired of existence. Why would I want to continue it? The bar is very high for me to want to continue to exist in a "new world". I would need guarantees that the world will be a better place where I can thrive in ways I can not in this one. That I will be accepted in this "new world".<p>Can anyone guarantee those things?</p>
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<p>I have been on a MacBook Pro exclusively for the past 3 years and I do not ever see anything about iCloud. I also never signed up so may be that is why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:27:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460822</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you need a reason to try anything?<p>Just go out and prove how useless it is. If, during your testing, you find that it has no good use case, toss it.<p>Waiting for others to validate a tech for you is a mistake IMO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:11:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454811</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone further down the road in my career, I would argue that waiting is your prerogative but you do so at your own peril.<p>I made these kind of mistakes early in my career, stuck it out with PHP for far too long ignoring all the changes with frontend design trends, react, etc. I was using jQuery far too late in my career and it really hurt me during interviews. What I was doing was seen as dated and it made ageism far worse for me.<p>Showing a portfolio website that was using tables instead of divs.<p>I had to rapidly skill up and it takes longer than you think when you stick too long with what works for you.<p>If AI truly is a nothing-burger than guess what? Nothing lost and perhaps you learned some adjacent tech that will help you later. My advice is to NEVER stop learning in this field.<p>Learning is your true superpower. Without that skill, you are a cog that will be easily replaced. AI has revealed to me who among my colleagues is curious, and a continuous learner. Those virtues have proven over the course of my 25+ year career in technology to be what keeps you relevant and marketable.</p>
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<p>I'd also rethink these questions under the assumption that incomes rise over time as the dollar reduces in purchasing power. The original premise was that due to inflation the cost you paid for a home would reduce your economic burden for housing. The slow and steady rise of inflation along with income would guarantee your loan to income ratio would improve.<p>The last few years have distorted this promise and I think some people have taken a more extreme view of the time window in the name of increased short-term profits.<p>All said the price you pay today being less of a burden over time was never meant to be a short-term profit motive in the discussion of homes as a economic safe haven.</p>
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<p>This is amazing, thanks for sharing this.<p>I use clippy with rust and the only thing I had to add was:<p><pre><code>  (subpath "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools")</code></pre></p>
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<p>if the server supplies this as a header, it's not necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495556</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "A guide to local coding models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Try Opus and you will reach your limit in 10 minutes.<p>That hasn't been true with Opus 4.5. I usually hit my limit after an hour of intense sessions.</p>
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<p>Just a days worth of effort but it was fun learning with Claude how best to allow it to interact with a system.</p>
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<p>Yep, the cable industry used to do this. Add more ads but increase fees to viewers. Streaming is the new cable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:56:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309335</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something to keep in mind is if your CLAUDE.md file is getting large, consider alternative approaches especially for repeatable tasks. Using slash commands and skills for workflows that are repeatable is a really nice way to keep your rules file from exploding. I have slash commands for code review, and git commit management. I have skills for complex tool interactions. Our company has it's own deployment CLI tool so using skills to make Claude Code an expert at using this tool has done wonders to improve Claude Codes performance when working on CI/CD problems.<p>I am currently working on a new slash command /investigate <service> that runs triage for an active or past incident. I've had Claude write tools to interact with all of our partner services (AWS, JIRA, CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, Datadog) and now when an incident occurs it can quickly put together an early analysis of a incident finding the right people to involve (not just owners but people who last touched the service), potential root causes including service dependency investigations.<p>I am putting this through it's paces now but early results are VERY good!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257391</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are consistent with how you do your projects you shouldn't need to update CLAUDE.md nearly every day. Early on, I was adjusting it nearly every day for maybe a couple of projects but now I have very little need to make any adjustments.<p>Often the challenge is users aren't interacting with Claude Code about their rules file. If Claude Code doesn't seem to be working with you ask it why it ignore a rule. Often times it provides very useful feedback to adjust the rules and no longer violate them.<p>Another piece of advice I can give is to clear your context window often! Early in my start in this I was letting the context window auto compact but this is bad! Your model is it's freshest and "smartest" when it has a fresh context window.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257300</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm a bit of a control freak so I'll usually explicitly direct claude to "load the wireframe-skill" and then do X.<p>You shouldn't do this, it's generally considered bad practice.<p>You should be optimizing your skill description. Often times if I am working with Claude Code and it doesn't load I skill, I ask it why it missed the skill. It will guide me to improving the skill description so that it is picked up properly next time.<p>This iteration on skill description has allowed skills to stay out of context until they are needed rather predictably for me so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:22:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252239</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So there seems to be some confusion around fingerprinting related to identifying characteristics and tracking. These are two different things. Setting your timezone to UTC, masks that one characteristic of your "identity". But there are better signals for location than timezone, like GeoIP. Same with hiding capabilities. All this does is make the web harder for you but it doesn't make your untrackable. Trackability comes from a combination of factors both within and out of your browser's control. If you share your IP with a family of 4, and you go changing your request headers you are only making yourself MORE trackable. The fact that one request comes across with UTC as a timezone and others come back with EST or other timezones, means I now can track a single user on this single IP. This is made worse if you and your family are using different browsers or different devices.<p>So what do we care about? If you care about being untrackable, then you have a couple of options, rotate VPNs, or cycle your public facing IP often. Additionally, every request you make MUST change up the request headers. You could cycle between 50 different sets of headers. Combine these two and you will likely be very hard to fingerprint.<p>If you only care about being identified, use Tor + the Tor browser which makes A LOT of traffic look identical.</p>
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<p>I have a Bosch as well, i sprinkle a bit of powder on the door. It has a pre-wash run which goes quick.<p>The manual is likely referring to not hand rinsing dishes before loading them which was very common 30 or 40 years ago. I had to train my Mother to stop doing that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:15:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831380</link><dc:creator>kxrm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kxrm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>JWP Connatix | AI Software Engineer | REMOTE (EU) | Full-Time<p>JWP Connatix is the most comprehensive independent video technology and monetization platform, helping broadcasters, publishers, and advertisers deliver premium streaming and online video experiences while maximizing video revenue across all screens. The company offers an end-to-end platform that streamlines live and on-demand video with hybrid monetization models, unique data and insights, unmatched customer service, and the largest independent premium video marketplace, providing the entire media ecosystem with enhanced scale, transparency, and revenue.<p>We are looking for a skilled and adaptable AI Engineer to join our AI Proof of Concepts team at JWP Connatix. You'll be responsible for implementing AI-First development methodologies, integrating sophisticated AI tools into our software pipeline, and rapidly building MVP prototypes that demonstrate innovative solutions. This role offers the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI-integrated development while delivering high-impact prototypes in a fast-paced, iterative environment. The ideal candidate thrives in rapid prototyping environments, has hands-on experience with AI tool integration, and enjoys the challenge of quickly turning concepts into working demonstrations for stakeholder validation. Candidates should also know, and work with AI code generation tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc).<p>If this sounds like something you'd be interested in please apply!<p><a href="https://jwpconnatix.com/careers/job-posting/?gh_jid=7257043" rel="nofollow">https://jwpconnatix.com/careers/job-posting/?gh_jid=7257043</a></p>
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<p>Completely agree, but I think companies need to be aware of the AWS risks with third parties as well. Many services were unable to communicate with customers.<p>Hosting your services on AWS while having a status page on AWS during an AWS outage is an easily avoidable problem.</p>
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<p>I was a Mullvad user but needed forwarded ports so went back to AirVPN.<p>No issues so far.</p>
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