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New comment by ne8il in "Why TUIs Are Back"

ne8il — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:01:01 +0000

I would try switching to Auto Mode which is their own recommendation as a safer alternative to that but still avoids needing to confirm actions endlessly: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-auto-mode

New comment by ne8il in "Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding"

ne8il — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:36:56 +0000

Let's say I'm a manufacturer of widgets, and instead of buying an off-the-shelf CRM I decide to have the resident IT whiz on the team vibe-code a custom solution for our needs. Now I'm a manufacturer of widgets AND a CRM SaaS shop, responsible for software maintenance/deployment/reliability/feature roadmap/bug remediation. I guess the idea is that AI agents will take care of all of those things too - to which I guess my perspective is "good luck! I hope that works out."

New comment by ne8il in "Tech workers' fight for living wages and a 32-hour workweek is a battle for all"

ne8il — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:39:50 +0000

I'm a bit confused by this as a union demand because I've followed 4dayweek.io for some time now and Kickstarter shows up there as a 4x8 company as of 2022. (https://4dayweek.io/company/kickstarter/jobs). Anyone know if that's not still the case?

New comment by ne8il in "Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood"

ne8il — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:08:27 +0000

I just finished a green wood post-and-rung chairmaking class last week. The posts are split out and steam-bent, while the rungs are dried in a makeshift kiln (a box with a heat lamp). The posts are then above ambient humidity, while the rungs are dried below it. As the entire chair equals out, the posts will dry out and compress onto the tenons of the rungs, which will swell up a bit and lock in place. We did use glue but you don't really need to. Neat stuff.

New comment by ne8il in "Static as a Server"

ne8il — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:41:09 +0000

The article in question is specifically about using Next.js to do what you are saying (generate static HTML files from a set of React components). He also mentions using Astro for it.

New comment by ne8il in "Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope"

ne8il — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:29:06 +0000

I've been on Qulipta (a CGRP drug) daily for about a year now. It started working pretty much immediately, and I cannot think of a single side-effect in use, other than that you will have a withdrawal period pretty much immediately if you miss a dose.

Before that I've used Rizatriptan to treat rather than prevent (works well, but can cause brain fog, mood swings and GI issues). In order to get approval for the CGRP I had to try lower-cost drugs like Verapamil (a calcium channel blocker) which had no effects at all, positive or negative, and Topiramate, which is the single worst medication I've ever used. Compared to all of those, the CGRP is a miracle and has been life-changing.

New comment by ne8il in "Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research"

ne8il — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:58:34 +0000

"The Sediments of Time" by Meave Leakey is fascinating both from her life and her family history.

"Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art" by Rebecca Wragg-Sykes is great.

"Almost Human" by Lee Berger is about one particular discovery rather than human origins as a whole but is an entertaining read - there was an accompanying PBS special (NOVA?) that's worth watching as well to really understand the scale of some of the caves they were in.

New comment by ne8il in "Permira completes Squarespace acquisition after upping bid to $7.2B"

ne8il — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:24:52 +0000

I've been transferring mine to Cloudflare as they come closer to renewal. Unfortunately Cloudflare doesn't allow punycode domains right now and I have one domain with an æ that might get orphaned.

New comment by ne8il in "Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you"

ne8il — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:18:46 +0000

Indiana is like this but I'd guess a lot of the Midwest is similar.

New comment by ne8il in "Rulers of the Ancient World: period correct measuring tools"

ne8il — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:23:47 +0000

Brendan (the maker of these) is a fascinating, very smart guy. He's a very talented woodworker and wrote a great book on James Krenov. I was lucky to take a class he taught a few years ago, and I enjoy following his Instagram page to see the new projects he has going on.

New comment by ne8il in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"

ne8il — Fri, 03 May 2024 16:33:35 +0000

You can download a book called "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" by Christopher Schwarz free as a PDF here: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-tool-chest

You can also download his follow-up, "The Anarchist's Design Book", free here: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-design-book

Between those two, they will teach you what tools you need and how to build simple furniture by hand. Start small.

New comment by ne8il in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

ne8il — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:42:37 +0000

You hear a lot from long-time woodworkers that this is unnecessary, as they are perfectly capable of using a table saw safely with just the riving knife/splitter and proper technique. Which is anecdotally true, but hard to accept with the actual data of 30k injuries a year. So it's not a question of _if_ there's a cost to society here, it's a question of _where_ we put the cost: up-front on prevention, or in response to injury in the healthcare system. Is the trade-off worth it to force all consumers to spend a few hundred dollars more for a job-site table-saw, if it means the insurance market won't have to bear several thousand for an injury? I'd say yes.

New comment by ne8il in "Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever"

ne8il — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:33:25 +0000

It's worth watching "Jodorowsky's Dune" if you haven't to see the direct-line connection - Jodorowsky happened to see "Dark Star" playing at a film festival while out in California and wanted whoever did the special effects to come work on his doomed "Dune" adaptation. He hired O'Bannon, who came out and met future Alien collaborators HR Giger and Moebius. It's fair to say Alien would not have happened, (or would not be the Alien we know now), if not for Dark Star.

New comment by ne8il in "Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?"

ne8il — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:24:35 +0000

Clustertruck (https://www.clustertruck.com/) is a regional entity somewhere between a restaurant and a ghost-kitchen. Delivery-only and a wide variety of meals, but they own their own app and don't list elsewhere. They check off the bullet points you mentioned.

The food is good but expensive, especially with delivery fees and tips. They've had to close a few locations over the years, so it's not a slam dunk in every city and I assume the margins are still slim.

New comment by ne8il in "Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series"

ne8il — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:18:44 +0000

I enjoy the Sprawl books the most, but of his three completed trilogies, I think either the Bridge Trilogy or the Blue Ant trilogy would be 1) more easily put to film and 2) possibly more enjoyable as television series.

New comment by ne8il in "How we turned the tide in the roach wars"

ne8il — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:04:44 +0000

I had the same situation recently - a single German cockroach chilling on the front of our dishwasher. Being sufficiently terrified by reading r/whatisthisbug and the like, I had a pest control company out the next day to treat. They could find no signs of infestation and I haven't seen a single one since (and we did set out traps to monitor). The Orkin guy who came out said it's not uncommon for a lone individual to venture into a home.

New comment by ne8il in "Show HN: Nango – Open unified API for product integrations"

ne8il — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:09:03 +0000

If it's like https://www.merge.dev/ (another "Unified API") then the idea is they provide an abstraction layer to the other API. You build against one generic spec for a given entity ("Person", "Company", "Ticket", etc), hook up to the API, and whatever platform-specific model is squished into that generic model. You end up with only one integration to cover all instances of "CRM systems" or whatnot. Obviously you also have some vendor lock-in, but it is less work than building multiple integrations for each new $product on the market.

New comment by ne8il in "Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences"

ne8il — Tue, 02 May 2023 18:45:11 +0000

Or the ending of Brainstorm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)

New comment by ne8il in "Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered"

ne8il — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:40:54 +0000

I think you will find those two novels similar to his other work. Also, there is a book in the Border Trilogy between "All the Pretty Horses" and "Cities of the Plain" - "The Crossing".

"Suttree" doesn't come up as often as his other work but is my personal favorite. There are some darker moments but it's a very funny book - a lot of "Charles Portis"-esque conversations and encounters.

New comment by ne8il in "FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems"

ne8il — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:18:39 +0000

It's not like this stuff grows on trees, after all