Hacker News: lunarcave

MCP is the New GraphQL

lunarcave — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:32:33 +0000

Article URL: https://nadeeshacabral.com/posts/mcp-is-the-new-graphql/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748404

Points: 30

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New comment by lunarcave in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

lunarcave — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:44:00 +0000

I can't remember where I heard this, but the moment it flipped for me is when someone phrased this as - "be a heat shield".

A heat shield has some leakage of heat that the people inside know that there's heat, but enough cover that the team is shielded somewhat.

New comment by lunarcave in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

lunarcave — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:54:18 +0000

From the article:

> The Bay Area continues to lose jobs across high-income sectors (-0.4% YOY), driving modest overall employment declines. These job losses have slowed compared to a year ago but remain negative YOY. Despite generating substantial spending and wealth, the AI-driven tech boom hasn’t added meaningful employment to the region.

A Forty-Year Career

lunarcave — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:54:19 +0000

Article URL: https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46028182

Points: 2

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You Cannot Destroy the Elite

lunarcave — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/you-cannot-destroy-the-elite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012781

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

I Want to See the Claw

lunarcave — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/i-want-to-see-the-claw/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677420

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

How Do Arrays Work?

lunarcave — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nan-archive.vercel.app/how-arrays-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665050

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by lunarcave in "Pablo Picasso's poetry"

lunarcave — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:20:01 +0000

Some of his poetry makes sense if you know what his personal life was like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#Personal_life

New comment by lunarcave in "Helium Browser"

lunarcave — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:47:34 +0000

In the "choose a default search engine" page, it has a slightly amusing summary for each.

> Google

> Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices.

> Qwant

> Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft.

> DuckDuckGo

> Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you.

> Ecosia

> May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google.

> Microsoft Bing

> Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming UI.

> Kagi

> Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account.

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

lunarcave — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:36:15 +0000

> Our role is shifting from writing implementation details to defining and verifying behavior.

I could argue that our main job was always that - defining and verifying behavior. As in, it was a large part of the job. Time spent on writing implementation details have always been on a downward trend via higher level languages, compilers and other abstractions.

New comment by lunarcave in "I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode"

lunarcave — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:13:11 +0000

It's a nice write up.

> Build it and they will come is a fallacy.

This is true. But is this the alternative?

No trying to minimize the efforts of people who do this as real jobs or influencing - you do you. However, generating fake message screenshot, sending unsolicited messages etc? And the winner is the one who gets the biggest rise from the consumer, authentic or not.

Distribution is hard, I get it. But isn't this the equivalent of everyone just rocking up to the village square in the most outrageous costumes and screaming into the megaphone?

Taking the right kind of vibe-coding risk

lunarcave — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:12:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nadeeshacabral.com/posts/vibe-coding-risk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45307898

Points: 1

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Shared Ownership Is for Suckers

lunarcave — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://segfaulte.substack.com/p/shared-ownership-is-for-suckers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45113840

Points: 1

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Autonomy, Correctness and Complexity – pick two

lunarcave — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-171094467

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946400

Points: 3

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SEPTIN1

lunarcave — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 09:15:09 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPTIN1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930110

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lunarcave in "Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration"

lunarcave — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 09:09:05 +0000

I think this + node:test makes Node.js a pretty compelling sensible default for most things now. Running things with `tsx` was such a QoL improvement when it happened, but it didn't solve everything.

Runtime type assertion at the edges is mostly solved through `zod` and tools like `ts-rest` and `trpc` makes it so much easier to do full-stack Typescript these days.

New comment by lunarcave in "Vibechart"

lunarcave — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:46:35 +0000

We're fast approaching the point where vibeX is becoming derogatory.

New comment by lunarcave in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

lunarcave — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:05:34 +0000

I've had a notion that LLMs can read Typescript types much better, than JSON schema types.

So, I've been tinkering around with a library that can generate schemas for structured JSON outputs, according to a Typescript-like custom schema definition: https://github.com/nadeesha/structlm

So far, I've been seeing promising results with accuracy on-par or better, but using 20-40% less tokens than JSON schemas.

New comment by lunarcave in "Show HN: Token-efficient zod-like schema definition library for LLMs"

lunarcave — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 02:45:14 +0000

Zod doesn't give you the ability to serialize or de-serialize schemas, unless you convert to JSON schema, which is verbose. See: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/discussions/2030

Show HN: Token-efficient zod-like schema definition library for LLMs

lunarcave — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nadeesha/structlm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44706365

Points: 3

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