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New comment by michaelmior in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

michaelmior — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:08:26 +0000

> an advantage of agents in huge codebases is that they can find where to make the change and draft it, which wouldn't work with this system.

I think you could go meta here and ask the agent in English to modify your pseudocode for larger changes.

New comment by michaelmior in "Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents"

michaelmior — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:11:41 +0000

While excessive screen time can certainly be a problem and the specific content matters there is nothing inherently wrong with a small amount of age-appropriate YouTube content consumption.

New comment by michaelmior in "Bugtraq is back"

michaelmior — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:15:42 +0000

The announcement didn't read as AI-generated to me at all. Of course this is far from foolproof, but ZeroGPT says 0% AI.

New comment by michaelmior in "Show HN: Somebodyhire.me"

michaelmior — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:25:02 +0000

I'm curious what you think makes this better than the dozens of sites out there that have the same goal?

New comment by michaelmior in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

michaelmior — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:45:42 +0000

Some changes certainly can be. If the model produces the exact same output for a fixed seed across a variety of inputs after a code change, I think it's reasonable to expect that the change is correct. There are also mathematical transformations that can be applied in some cases that are provably correct. (Not suggesting there's necessarily anything of this nature that will lead to 1,000x improvement though.)

New comment by michaelmior in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

michaelmior — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:25:25 +0000

This depends on what your workflow is. There are use cases for tokenization that don't always involve immediately feeding the text into a model.

New comment by michaelmior in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

michaelmior — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:40:48 +0000

Cloudflare did not develop QuePaxa, although I'm sure they did a lot of work to operationalize it. The original protocol is from a SOSP 2023 paper.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600006.3613150

New comment by michaelmior in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

michaelmior — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:39:54 +0000

Worth noting if it wasn't obvious from the article that Cloudflare did not develop QuePaxa. It's from an SOSP paper back in 2023[0]. The article is discussing what is the first known large-scale public deployment of the protocol.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600006.3613150

New comment by michaelmior in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

michaelmior — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:16:23 +0000

I don't see a problem with the tool either really, it's just a pet peeve of mine to call what it produces an ER diagram when it's really a diagram of the relational model defined by the SQL.

New comment by michaelmior in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

michaelmior — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:15:38 +0000

I think most successful ORMs have an additional layer of semantics beyond what can be directly expressed in SQL. For example, Active Record has multiple types of associations (belongs_to, has_one, has_many, etc.) that I would argue align more closely to the ER model than the relational model. Of course you can come up with a set of conventions to go from ER to relational when everything is fed through the ORM, but you are losing some semantic information in the process. (That is, if you just look at the SQL table definitions, you don't have the same information about relationships).

New comment by michaelmior in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

michaelmior — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:10:41 +0000

Inheritance is one case. In an ER diagram, you may have Employee and Client entities which both inherit from a Person entity. You could choose to have these represented as a single table (with nullable fields where not relevant). They could be three completely separate tables with common fields duplicated across the tables. Or there could be three tables where one table has the common fields from Person with Employee and Client having foreign keys to this table along with whatever unique fields they have.

New comment by michaelmior in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

michaelmior — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:07:52 +0000

Aside from what else is mentioned in the sibling comment, inheritance is another big one. Inheritance is not explicit in SQL and in fact, when going from ER to SQL, there are multiple choices you can make about how to materialize the inheritance hierarchy.

Another is that in ER diagrams, relationships themselves can have attributes. Personally I think it tends to make more sense to convert relationships to entities in this case most of the time, but it can be useful.

Finally, relationships in ER diagrams can be N-ary and connect more than two entities while foreign keys in SQL always reference one other table. Of course you can have multiple foreign keys on a table to represent this, but not without some loss of semantics.

New comment by michaelmior in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

michaelmior — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:42:03 +0000

The tool looks very cool! But IMO you can't get an ER diagram from SQL since entities are fundamentally different from tables. They are certainly very similar, but SQL alone doesn't give you enough information to create an ER diagram.

That's not to say that the tool is useless or that diagrams of this sort are unhelpful. I'll admit I'm being pedantic and others will probably disagree.

New comment by michaelmior in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"

michaelmior — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:36:50 +0000

MacOS, Ghostty, Neovim, Pi (with a fair bit of customization to each). I'm relatively new to Pi after using Codex pretty heavily, but it's nice to be able to customize things to how I want.

New comment by michaelmior in "Bun.Image"

michaelmior — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:37:49 +0000

I think that's a fair take. I think we definitely still need specs that describe the desired behavior as an artifact. But documentation describing the implementation definitely feels less important.

New comment by michaelmior in "Bun.Image"

michaelmior — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:02:22 +0000

Humans also tend to forget to update documentation and the same confusion happens. I don't think it's really a new problem.

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

michaelmior — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:57:57 +0000

That depends on what the software is. If you want to run a service that bonds to a privileged port for example, you need sudo.

New comment by michaelmior in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

michaelmior — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:22:42 +0000

I don't think it's that simple, but I do think a lot of the problems mentioned are not inherent to the use of AI.

New comment by michaelmior in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

michaelmior — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:44:32 +0000

We have some very heavy users of Codex in my org and we're very happy with the quality (politics aside).

New comment by michaelmior in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

michaelmior — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:10:49 +0000

The problem in most of those cases is not specifically AI. Many of the issues you cited are related to Anthropic specifically and many could have been avoided with better testing.