Hacker News: locusofself

Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?

locusofself — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:22:15 +0000

I am specifically interested in hearing from anyone who is working on actual production services, legacy services, etc.

I have done quite a bit of LLM-assisted coding but starting to work towards (and educate others in my org) about more structured approaches to this, to be able to deliver more complicated features with stronger guardrails than prompt-based coding.

Spec-Driven/Anchored development is an emerging practice but I'm not clear on how battle-tested it is. What is your experience with it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618556

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by locusofself in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

locusofself — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:48:00 +0000

I don't understand the meaning of the last sentence of this comment

New comment by locusofself in "Kusama Yayoi has died"

locusofself — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:56:57 +0000

Sad! I really enjoyed going to the Kusama exhibit with my (now) wife years ago, and my daughter had a Kusama phase when she was about 5 years old and dressed up like her with a hot pink wig and polka dot outbit.

New comment by locusofself in "Kobo can run apps now"

locusofself — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:37:44 +0000

It would be very cool to have an Obsidian viewer or something.

On many occasions I have compiled notes, sometimes manually created sometimes LLM curated, and put them into a .epub file to send to my kindle so I can read as I am out walking.

It would be cool to skip a few steps there, and have "live" documents at the ready, particularly in markdown if possible, without having to sync/publish etc

New comment by locusofself in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

locusofself — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:02:42 +0000

I'm absoltutely not defending the environmental decision, but these datacenter projects seem to be funded mostly by free cash flow (not borrowed money), from the hyperscaler profit margins.

New comment by locusofself in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

locusofself — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:43:17 +0000

I've had both. I'd rather have battery operated, especially if you have a big yard. Having an extra backup battery is a good idea as well.

New comment by locusofself in "The Patreon Problem"

locusofself — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:04:44 +0000

I don't know if this is a hard or soft paywall or signup experience but I was mildly interested in reading and gave up.

New comment by locusofself in "Seedance 2.5"

locusofself — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:38:27 +0000

The video is silly but the quality is very impressive. We are very close to climbing out the other side of the uncanny valley.

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: A local memory of all you have seen, said or heard while you work"

locusofself — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:23:00 +0000

I definitely wish I could use something like this. I am not a great note-taker, and am often distracted during meetings with actual work items, or side pings.

Many of us can't just arbitrarily record things though. I work in a highly regulated part of the industry with major data compliance standards.

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: MegaDSP an effects plugin for DAWs with 50 effects"

locusofself — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:26:36 +0000

Thanks for that, I agree. Will address

Ask HN: How are you leveraging AI/LLMs as software dev TEAM

locusofself — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:54:57 +0000

SWE manager at $BIGTECH company here.

I am curious to know if your software team is finding any real gains outside of individual developers leveraging LLMs and coding harnesses etc.

Are you successfully sharing data/context between team members, creating shared workflows, reducing toil, bugs or production incidents as a result of your AI adoption?

Thanks for sharing any ideas.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116891

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: MegaDSP an effects plugin for DAWs with 50 effects"

locusofself — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:37:45 +0000

Totally, Airwindows is a very cool project and his videos are fun to watch. I wanted to bring a nicer UI along with it, using JUCE, and more focus on live usability.

Show HN: MegaDSP an effects plugin for DAWs with 50 effects

locusofself — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:08:38 +0000

Hey HN,

I am creating megaDSP, a huge DAW plugin for all platforms, with the goal of it being a free, open-source, and semi or fully autonomous github project that evolves around community feedback.

It currently has more than 50 audio effects that can be combined together in effects chains, and also supports "snapshots" where you can seamlessly switch between different effects chains (for live use, like a fancy guitar pedalboard for example).

I would really love if you have a moment to test it out, give thoughts, etc.

There are many, many plugins out there in the world, but many of them are either DAW-specific or have annoying copy protections etc.

Having one huge plugin with great DSP algorithms seems like it could be a benefit to the music/audio world.

Thanks, -Kevin

first pre-release:

https://github.com/kevinlong206/megaDSP/releases/tag/v0.30.0...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092648

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

locusofself — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:47:47 +0000

Is it lame that (especially for super long discussions), I often open a gemini tab and summarize the comments? I like reading HN comment threads, but I often only have a few minutes and just want to get the gist of the reactions from the community for some topic.

New comment by locusofself in "Our position on open-weights models"

locusofself — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:58:53 +0000

The gap between China's chip manufacturing capabilities and the USA's is only going to shrink, right? ASML obeys some export controls for their most sophisticated machines, but those machines are in China's backyard (Taiwan).

Taiwan manufactures the world's most advanced chips. CCP wants "re-unification" with Taiwan. AI may be THE key to world dominance. These are scary times.

New comment by locusofself in "Why care about programming languages"

locusofself — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:10:02 +0000

Something that I think we will see soon (if it doesn't exist already), are programming languages that are specifically designed to be used with LLMs doing the coding, with natural language as the primary input. Maybe LLMs will get so good that it's just not necessary, but it's hard to imagine a world in which this new paradigm of most users using coding harness (or event totally autonomous agents) doesn't end up having serious influence on language design itself.

One outcome I would love to see is average programmers (or even vibecoders) being able to create performant applications. Imagine if the issue of making an attractive cross-platform application didn't mean using a chromium-based Electron type framework.

Or, perhaps things we used to code in Java or C# can be more easily brought into existence in a lower-level language akin to Rust, but far more easy to create and maintain due to LLM assistance.

New comment by locusofself in "Claude Is Painful"

locusofself — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:00:15 +0000

I'm using copilot cli because I work at microsoft and it's free for me. It has all the models. I have not loyalty to any of them. Even the copilot harness can be swapped out for claude, codex or whatever.

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

locusofself — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:46:19 +0000

I tried to press space, arrow keys, enter, tab, etc to get to next quote. None of those worked

New comment by locusofself in "Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii"

locusofself — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:43:29 +0000

Found the grok bot

New comment by locusofself in "On cigarettes"

locusofself — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:09:14 +0000

I haven't smoked in about 13 years, but I did from the time I was 13 until 29 or so.

It's disgusting and I couldn't be more glad that I quit, but it does sound good sometimes. I also quit drinking and had to give up caffeine, so I have like zero vices now besides napping and ice cream.