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New comment by meander_water in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

meander_water — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:44:18 +0000

Really curious to understand why I'm being downvoted. I don't think it's a particularly spicy take - Just choose the right tool for the job.

New comment by meander_water in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

meander_water — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:10:01 +0000

As someone who has built both react based frontends and html based ones (with htmx), there is a law of diminishing returns at play.

To start off, writing a basic crud website with forms is much easier with htmx.

But when you start building more complex components, and integrate with other systems (OAuth for e.g.) there are tons of libraries and SDKs for the react ecosystem, but not many for pure html components.

At this point, it's much easier to use off the shelf components than it is to manually write html to handle all the bizarre UI edge cases.

New comment by meander_water in "Claude Fable 5"

meander_water — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:08:09 +0000

All the model releases we've seen this year have only made incremental improvements in benchmarks.

This feels like the first release that feels like a significant step up in terms of benchmark results.

Can anyone make an educated guess what the secret sauce in the model architecture is between 4.8 and Fable?

What a Joke: GitHub Copilots Token Based Billing Spurs Consternation

meander_water — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:25:41 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/30/what-a-joke-github-copilots-new-token-based-billing-spurs-consternation-among-devs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355911

Points: 3

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New comment by meander_water in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

meander_water — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:10:29 +0000

Not the first study, and they all largely report the same results:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02259-6

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/feb/19/four-day-week-...

https://www.4dayweek.com/research

New comment by meander_water in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

meander_water — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:07:39 +0000

Lovely sentiment in the article, which was unfortunately AI generated.

Can we start tagging titles in HN with [AI-generated] or something?

I know some people have no problem with it, but it might help others (like me) to steer clear

New comment by meander_water in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

meander_water — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:00:54 +0000

Other gems in a similar vein

https://github.com/narze/awesome-websites-as-answers

New comment by meander_water in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

meander_water — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:16:30 +0000

That part of the article almost read like clickbait, because at the end he admits there is an upper bound arg:

> uv add pydantic --bounds major

So not really sure what he's complaining about

NPM invalidates use of fine-grained tokens that bypass 2FA

meander_water — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:45:35 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217968

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by meander_water in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

meander_water — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:25:31 +0000

> the model has its own emergent guardrails that sometimes cause it to push back on legitimate security research requests. But as we found, these organic refusals aren’t consistent - the same task, framed differently or presented in a different context, could produce completely different outcomes as illustrated in the examples below.

This was new. I'm surprised that a model specifically designed for security research and gated to professionals is refusing legitimate requests

New comment by meander_water in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

meander_water — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:38:50 +0000

I'm so excited for this, nice work!

Gemma4 edge models were promised to be great for agentic use, but have been really disappointing in all my tests. They fail at the most basic tool use scenarios.

Have you run any tool-use benchmarks for Needle, or do you plan to? Would be great if you could add results to the repo if so.

New comment by meander_water in "Supply chain compromise in mistralai Python package"

meander_water — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:10:36 +0000

This appears to be part of the same Mini Shai-Hulud campaign affecting Tanstack Router https://www.securityweek.com/tanstack-mistral-ai-uipath-hit-...

New comment by meander_water in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

meander_water — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:07:15 +0000

Sure, but will they download the right version? And will they be inspecting the right files on disk? There's a whole lot more that can go wrong

New comment by meander_water in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

meander_water — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:52:47 +0000

One underrated advantage of using Python or Typescript is that AI agents can inspect the code of installed dependencies.

This means you don't have to muck around with supplying the right documentation for each version of each dependency, or worry about hallucinated interfaces (at least with the latest models).

In the past you'd have to dig through a foreign codebase manually to figure out why a documented interface for a dependency is not working as expected, but frontier models automate that quite well.

Supply chain compromise in mistralai Python package

meander_water — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:05:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mistralai/client-python/issues/523

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104081

Points: 6

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New comment by meander_water in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

meander_water — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:37:54 +0000

I don't understand why people were voting this comment down in the issue page

Pitfalls of Try/Finally in Python

meander_water — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:30:06 +0000

Article URL: https://pythonkoans.substack.com/p/koan-20-the-unreliable-messenger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090060

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by meander_water in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

meander_water — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:36:39 +0000

> We find that models are not failing due to “death by a thousand cuts” (i.e., many small errors). Instead, they main- tain near-perfect reconstruction in some rounds, and experience critical failures in a few rounds, typically losing 10-30+ points in a single round trip

> We find that weaker models’ degradation originates primarily from content deletion, while frontier models’ degradation is attributable to corruption of content.

I think we largely already knew this. This is why we fudge around with harnesses and temperature etc.

New comment by meander_water in "People Hate AI Art"

meander_water — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:59:52 +0000

Agree. All of the major AI model labs have designed their user interfaces in entirely the wrong way.

Prompting via text alone is a really bad way to generate images. Ideally you want Canny Control to draw an outline of the image with elements in the exact locations where you want them. It's why comfyui is so great.

The ability to edit images and specify regions in the image for the prompt is a step in the right directions though. ChatGPT and Gemini have this.

New comment by meander_water in "People Hate AI Art"

meander_water — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:37:45 +0000

I think one of the reasons for sloppy images is that non-artistic people don't have the vocabulary to describe images to be produced in interesting styles.

Yes, you can do image-> text on existing styles, but something always gets lost in translation.

Midjourney probably has the best baseline, and --sref is a really easy way to differentiate