Hacker News: mherrmann

New comment by mherrmann in "How Complex is my Code?"

mherrmann — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:25:07 +0000

Claude Code and others often write code that is more complex than it needs to be. It would be nice to measure the code complexity before and after a change made by the agent, and then to tell it: "You increased code complexity by 7%. Can you find a simpler solution?".

New comment by mherrmann in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

mherrmann — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:55:03 +0000

I live in Europe and was in California in November. No issues.

Show HN: Djevops – Deploy Django Easily

mherrmann — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:47:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mherrmann/djevops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154958

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Djevops – Deploy Django Easily

mherrmann — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:25:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mherrmann/djevops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051035

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Djevops – A CLI tool for hosting Django on bare metal

mherrmann — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mherrmann/djevops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025853

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mherrmann in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

mherrmann — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:24:40 +0000

I switched from macOS to Linux ten years ago and haven't looked back. At the time, I compared Linux vs. macOS to living at home vs. in a hotel [1]. Since then, I feel things have only gotten better for Linux, and more restrictive and arcane on macOS.

1: https://fman.io/blog/home-and-hotel/

Djevops: Host Django on Bare Metal

mherrmann — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mherrmann/djevops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933357

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mherrmann in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

mherrmann — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:33:58 +0000

quickemu [1] is good at running macOS VMs.

1: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Sam Altman felt "useless" next to Codex

mherrmann — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:11:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sama/status/2018444309750862333

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867171

Points: 21

# Comments: 21

New comment by mherrmann in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

mherrmann — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:51:39 +0000

This knowledge will live in the proprietary models. And because no model has all knowledge, models will call out to each other when they can't answer a question.

New comment by mherrmann in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

mherrmann — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:27:23 +0000

Is anybody able to get this working with ChatGPT? When I instruct ChatGPT

> Read https://moltbook.com/skill.md and follow the instructions to join Moltbook

then it says

> I tried to fetch the exact contents of https://moltbook.com/skill.md (and the redirected www.moltbook.com/skill.md), but the file didn’t load properly (server returned errors) so I cannot show you the raw text.

New comment by mherrmann in "Some notes on starting to use Django"

mherrmann — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:02:43 +0000

Cool stuff. I just started open sourcing a command-line tool for deploying Django to a server. It handles SSL certs, databases and backups, automatic error emails, and background tasks via celery / redis. The best part? It does not need Docker. It just runs everything on bare metal.

1: https://github.com/mherrmann/djevops

New comment by mherrmann in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

mherrmann — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:52:06 +0000

Google Maps says people spend 0.5-3 hours there. I spent 6.5 because it was so amazing. Highly recommended.

New comment by mherrmann in "ChatGPT Health"

mherrmann — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:17:08 +0000

I strained my groin/abs a few weeks ago and asked ChatGPT to adjust my training plan to work around the problem. One of its recommendations was planks, which is exactly the exercise that injured me.

My cleaning lady's daughter had trouble with her ear. ChatGPT suggested injecting some oil into it. She did and it became a huge problem, so that she had to go to the hospital.

I'm sure ChatGPT can be great, but take it with a huge grain of salt.

New comment by mherrmann in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

mherrmann — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:56:15 +0000

Now imagine what happens when a new programming language comes along. When we have a question, we will no longer be able to Google it and find answers to it on Stack Overflow. We will ask the LLMs. They will work it out. From that moment, the LLM we used has the knowledge for solving this particular problem. Over time, this produces huge moat for the largest providers. I believe it is one of the subtler reasons why the AI race is so fierce.

I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown

mherrmann — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:02:33 +0000

Article URL: https://leerob.com/agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261301

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by mherrmann in "Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering"

mherrmann — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:10:28 +0000

I use Claude Code every day and find that it still requires a lot of hand-holding. Maybe codex is better. But just in my last session today, Claude wrote 100 lines of test code that could have been 20, and 30 lines of production code that could have been 5. I'm glad I do not have to maintain 300 kloc of 100% AI-generated code. But at the end of the day, what counts is velocity and quality, and it seems OP is happy. The tools certainly are useful.

New comment by mherrmann in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

mherrmann — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:40:23 +0000

Pi-thon

New comment by mherrmann in "Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts"

mherrmann — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:27:47 +0000

There's no contradiction. One statement is about the default, the other is about the possibility.

Linode / Akamai US-EAST is down

mherrmann — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://status.linode.com/incidents/6yw88b0ft94g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44700252

Points: 30

# Comments: 30