Hacker News: nathants

New comment by nathants in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

nathants — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:58:22 +0000

coding agents, co-agents, and coco-agents.

New comment by nathants in "Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components"

nathants — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:49:35 +0000

Just exchange json.

Backend in python/ruby/go/rust.

Frontend in javascript/typescript.

Scripts in bash/zsh/nushell.

One upon a time there was a low amount of friction and boilerplate with this approach, but with Claude and Codex it’s changed from low to none.

New comment by nathants in "GPT-5.2"

nathants — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:05:53 +0000

400 - 128 = 272. Codex cli source.

New comment by nathants in "GPT-5.2"

nathants — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:14:45 +0000

Usable input limit has not changed, and remains 400 - 128 = 272. Confirmed by looking for any changes in codex cli source, nope.

New comment by nathants in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)"

nathants — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:57:21 +0000

Location: USA Remote

Remote: Yes

Relocate: For better remote timezone

Tech: All

Resume: https://nathants.com

Email: me@nathants.com

New comment by nathants in "Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON"

nathants — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:24:02 +0000

TTL=1day

New comment by nathants in "Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON"

nathants — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:13:04 +0000

Just have SES put the email in s3, then do stuff.

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:04:41 +0000

Interesting. I'm not trying to restore bootable systems, just data. Still, probably worthwhile to rebuild in Go soon.

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:31:26 +0000

Definitely similar.

Git LFS is 50k loc, this is 891 loc. There are other differences, but that is the main one.

I don't want a sophisticated backup system. I want one so simple that it disappears into the background.

I want to never fear data loss or my ability to restore with broken tools and a new computer while floating on a raft down a river during a thunder storm. This is what we train for.

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 23:13:39 +0000

This is cool. Do you always --link-dest to the last directory, and that traverses links all the way back as far as needed?

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 22:08:42 +0000

Perl still exists?

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:56:16 +0000

How do you version your rsync backups?

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:26:57 +0000

Depends how big they are. My high value backups go into S3, R2, and a local x3 disk mirror[1].

My low value backups go into a cheap usb hdd from Best Buy.

1. https://github.com/nathants/mirror

New comment by nathants in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nathants — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:36:02 +0000

Do something simpler. Backups shouldn’t be complex.

This should be simpler still:

https://github.com/nathants/backup

New comment by nathants in "Claude 4"

nathants — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:37:50 +0000

when i read threads like this, it seems no one had actually used o3-high. i’m excited to try 4-opus later.

New comment by nathants in "I'd rather read the prompt"

nathants — Sun, 04 May 2025 22:14:09 +0000

just as there are low value students, there are low value reviewers. same as it ever was.

not every review is important.

New comment by nathants in "I'd rather read the prompt"

nathants — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:53:41 +0000

are you trying to evaluate the author for some certification or test? this is contextual to evaluation.

books are great.

hundreds of hours of video of the author writing that book, is strictly more information.

New comment by nathants in "I'd rather read the prompt"

nathants — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:22:10 +0000

there are only two options: - have more information - have less information

more is better.

you can scrub video with your finger on an iphone. serious review is always high effort, video changes nothing.

New comment by nathants in "I'd rather read the prompt"

nathants — Sun, 04 May 2025 20:23:56 +0000

the solution is obvious. stop grading the result, and start grading the process.

if you can one-shot an answer to some problem, the problem is not interesting.

the result is necessary, but not sufficient. how did you get there? how did you iterate? what were the twists and turns? what was the pacing? what was the vibe?

no matter if with encyclopedia, google, or ai, the medium is the message. the medium is you interacting with the tools at your disposal.

record that as a video with obs, and submit it along with the result.

for high stakes environments, add facecam and other information sources.

reviewers are scrubbing through video in an editor. evaluating the journey, not the destination.

New comment by nathants in "Why did just have to update the AWS Go SDK to v2? Annoying"

nathants — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:10:50 +0000

username checks out.