Hacker News: mjrbrennan

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Neovim 0.12.0"

mjrbrennan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:32:53 +0000

This is why I switched to cursor over the last few months out of nvim. Just wasn't any smooth first class integrations with AI tooling. I still use vim bindings there, and I use nvim for quicker edits, but the AI editing and Cursor Tab is just way better than the AI stuff in nvim.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Agents that run while I sleep"

mjrbrennan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:23:53 +0000

Yes that's fair, but not the case for me. Everything can run locally and specs run quickly for covering things claude changes. For everything else, the GitHub CI run is 10-15m and catches any outlier failures, and I'm usually working on more than one thing at a time anyway so it doesn't really matter to wait for this.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Agents that run while I sleep"

mjrbrennan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:11:27 +0000

Yes I'm still not really understanding this "run agents overnight" thing. Most of the time if I use claude it's done in 5-20 minutes. I've never wanted to have work done for me overnight...tomorrow is already plenty of time for more work, it's not going anywhere, and my employer isn't paying me to produce overnight.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

mjrbrennan — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:16:36 +0000

I responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges.

If you're interested in trying Discourse, our lowest hosting plan is $20/month, or if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got...

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

mjrbrennan — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:10:17 +0000

I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".

It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.

As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

mjrbrennan — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:34:04 +0000

I've got a couple, one for my fiction writing and general worldbuilding (a digital garden if you will) at https://writing.martin-brennan.com and my tech blog at https://martin-brennan.com

New comment by mjrbrennan in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

mjrbrennan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:48:41 +0000

This is fair on shorter flights ~1-4 hours, but I am reasonably tall too and I am not suffering through a 14 hour overnight flight without reclining. I don't think there is anything wrong with it in this case, and flight attendants will force people to de-recline their chair in meal times etc.

AI Can Code (But It Doesn't Care About Quality)

mjrbrennan — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:43:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/ai-can-code-but-it-doesnt-care-about-quality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584921

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

My AI Appetites

mjrbrennan — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:53:26 +0000

Article URL: https://martin-brennan.com/my-ai-appetites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729060

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mjrbrennan in "What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?"

mjrbrennan — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:03:14 +0000

Brisbane now as well since the past ~1 year or so, much better than the old Go Card system. The only downside in most places with these systems though is that there is no easy way to pay for e.g. children, would be perfect if you could say 3x tickets on this card when you tap in + out.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Ask HN: Is AI 'context switching' exhausting?"

mjrbrennan — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:20:32 +0000

Yes, I’ve only just started trying out Claude Code and I do not mesh well with this method of asking AI to do something, then having to wait a few minutes and come back and check its work.

I find this leads so easily to distraction and I find this workflow very boring. If I’m going to use AI I want to use it in a more integrated way, or in a more limited way like just querying ChatGPT.

Will still try Claude more but I’m really not a fan so far.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Snorting the AGI with Claude Code"

mjrbrennan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:09:49 +0000

Yes that's what gets me too. I want to engage with my coworkers, you know other humans? And get their ideas and input and summaries. Not just sit in my office alone having the computer explain everything to me badly, or read through Powerpoints of all things...

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Snorting the AGI with Claude Code"

mjrbrennan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:18:46 +0000

Not trying to be rude here, but that `last_week.md` is horrible to me. I can't imagine having to read that let alone listen to the computer say it to me. It's so much blah blah and fluff that reads like a bad PR piece. I'd much rather scan through commits of the last week.

I've found this generally with AI summaries...usually their writing style is terrible, and I feel like I cannot really trust them to get the facts right, and reading the original text is often faster and better.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

mjrbrennan — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:41:50 +0000

I thought Waze was owned by Google though? I assumed they would use Waze’s traffic data.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

mjrbrennan — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:23:38 +0000

Yes I find this is the main benefit of Google Maps GPS now, predicting and avoiding traffic whenever possible.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

mjrbrennan — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 05:42:08 +0000

Same, I switched back to a single 27" screen last year. For me it's better to focus on one thing at a time especially since my eyes aren't the best, and I switch between virtual desktops with F1-F4 (or when I use my mac with the 3-finger swipe gesture).

New comment by mjrbrennan in "El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour"

mjrbrennan — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:40:57 +0000

I loved them both for different reasons, I went last year for the first time. As another commenter said Madrid felt very imperial, and as you say was beautiful, clean, and walkable. Barcelona felt more arty and had a great coastal vibe to it. I would go back to either in a heartbeat!

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Clojure is a product design tool (2015)"

mjrbrennan — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:16:22 +0000

Same, I really don’t like HAML or Jade or other such things as a HTML replacement. I just never saw the point, it doesn’t seem like less work than just using HTML?

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging"

mjrbrennan — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:47:43 +0000

Definitely try to power through Mad Men, I tried to watch it a few times when I was younger but never got past season 3, whereas season 4 is where the real heart and message of it shows through, and the character development reaches new peaks. Really does seem like a show that resonates more when you are older.

New comment by mjrbrennan in "Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows"

mjrbrennan — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 01:30:47 +0000

I feel the same way about the one here in Australia -- I always double check it's scanned the correct numbers. Haven't been cheated out of millions yet, unfortunately.