Hacker News: nialse

New comment by nialse in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

nialse — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:31:54 +0000

In terms of communication: The only clearly communicated message is that TDF is not fit for fulfilling its purpose and likely never have been. As an outsider I would suggest ceding the project and IP to a third party not involved in the historic squabbles and infighting. It would be a service to the community and enable the project flourish!

New comment by nialse in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

nialse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:51:42 +0000

Paranoia. And also ironic considering their base LLM is a distillation of the web and books etc etc.

New comment by nialse in "Everything Claude Saw: A Transparent Account of the Chardet v7 Rewrite"

nialse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:30:57 +0000

Going forward this may become somewhat the norm. The main thing that has stopped major rewrites or reimplementations under other licenses is the amount of cognitive resources that is needed. Many companies have made similar efforts just to steer clear of obstacles in terms of licenses or licensors that were viewed as problematic. The difference is that we now have cognitive resources on tap and we need to get used to it. What do you want to reimplement today?

New comment by nialse in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

nialse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:57:59 +0000

Microsoft injecting permanent ads in PRs? Has this been independently confirmed?

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Did the Agile Manifesto, Scrum and open source kill the programmer?

nialse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:58:22 +0000

Article URL: https://nial.se/blog/agile-manifesto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485634

Points: 2

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Kanban TODO: a textfile based Kanban board in a single HTML file

nialse — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:09:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyBZceJG-Ls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453003

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by nialse in "Morgan Stanley lays off 2,500 employees across all divisions"

nialse — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:53:37 +0000

That is 3% of their work force according to the article.

New comment by nialse in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

nialse — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:27:58 +0000

”I don't care deeply about this code. It's not a masterpiece. It's functional code that is very useful to me.” - AI software engineering in a nutshell. Leaving the human artisan era of code behind. Function over form. Substance over style. Getting stuff done.

New comment by nialse in "Ask HN: Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"?"

nialse — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:07:17 +0000

The trade off between utilization and latency is rarely understood in organizations. Little’s law should be mandatory (management) reading. Unused capacity is not waste, but buffers that absorb variability, and thus keeps latency down.

New comment by nialse in "ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss"

nialse — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:12:17 +0000

Who is responsible for the terrible decision? In the pro vs con analysis, saving 20% size occasionally vs updating ALL pdf libraries/apps/viewers ever built SHOULD be a no-brainer.

New comment by nialse in "Apple Creator Studio"

nialse — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:07:39 +0000

The one-time purchase version of Microsoft Office is not available worldwide. Where offered, it is reduced to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, with Outlook as a Business edition extra. Individual apps can sometimes be bought separately, but pricing usually makes this impractical. This is to push buyers to Microsoft 365 subscriptions which is the primary product.

New comment by nialse in "Ask HN: How to automate aesthetic photo cropping? (CV/AI)"

nialse — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:19:38 +0000

Use commercial tools and services for automating cropping. Google is your friend.

New comment by nialse in "Ask HN: Has macOS Tahoe been fixed enough to update to?"

nialse — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:43:30 +0000

Upgrade regret here. What used to be solid performance is now random hangs and unresponsiveness. Most things work but it’s Apples least polished OS in many years.

New comment by nialse in "Show HN: Human or AI-made song detector and 100% Private Audio Mastering"

nialse — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:49:23 +0000

Very nice! AI detection checks out, even with heavy editing and processing.

New comment by nialse in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

nialse — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:26:58 +0000

After recently applying Codex to a gigantic old and hairy project that is as far from greenfield it can be, I can assure you this assertion is false. It’s bonkers seeing 5.2 churn though the complexity and understanding dependencies that would take me days or weeks to wrap my head around.

New comment by nialse in "Agentic Patterns"

nialse — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:02:54 +0000

Note: At the point of writing this, the comments are largely skeptical.

Reading this as an avid Codex CLI user, some things make sense and reflect lessons learned along the way. However, the patterns also get stale fast as agents improve and may be counterproductive. One such pattern is context anxiety, which probably reflects a particular model more than a general problem, and is likely an issue that will go away over time.

There are certainly patterns that need to be learned, and relearned over time. Learning the patterns is sort of an anti-pattern, since it is the model that should be trained to alleviate its shortcomings rather than the human. Then again, a successful mindset over the last three years has been to treat models as another form of intelligence, not as human intelligence, by getting to know them and being mindful of their strengths and weaknesses. This is quite a demanding task in terms of communication, reflection, and perspective-taking, and it is understandable that this knowledge is being documented.

But models change over time. The strengths and weaknesses of yesterday’s models are not the same as today’s, and reasoning models have actually removed some capabilities. A simple example is giving a reasoning model with tools the task of inspecting logs. It will most likely grep and parse out smaller sections, and may also refuse an instruction to load the file into context to inspect it. The model then relies on its reasoning (system 2) rather than its intuitive (system 1) thinking.

This means that many of these patterns are temporary, and optimizing for them risks locking human behavior to quirks that may disappear or even reverse as models evolve. YMMV.

Peer-reviewed by human experts: AI failed in key steps

nialse — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:57:50 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-025-06100-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464770

Points: 2

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New comment by nialse in "Focus apps claim to improve your productivity. Do they work?"

nialse — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:18:35 +0000

If there is no scientific evidence for the method then it’s up to if you believe. Placebo is a hell of a drug.

New comment by nialse in "Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis"

nialse — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:06:56 +0000

That is the logical conclusion. The era of personal computers is coming to an end. It had a good run though.

Runprompt runs LLM prompts in your shell [video]

nialse — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:47:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVuxZv2ezHM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411060

Points: 1

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