Hacker News: nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickstinematesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:36:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser"]]>Brings me back to learning guitar using a version of TabIt[1] that I hacked and then ultimately paid for. They had an incredible community where people uploaded tabs of your favorite songs. Then you could use TabIt to learn how to play.

1: https://www.tabit.net/

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:41:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901652nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901652https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901652<![CDATA[I Put My Son in a Swamp]]>Article URL: https://thepotato.tech/posts/i-put-my-son-in-a-swamp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882993

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]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:52:18 +0000https://thepotato.tech/posts/i-put-my-son-in-a-swamp/nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882993https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882993<![CDATA[The WiFi Certificate That Didn't Exist an Hour Ago]]>Article URL: https://thepotato.tech/posts/the-wifi-cert-that-didnt-exist-an-hour-ago/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882989

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]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:51:58 +0000https://thepotato.tech/posts/the-wifi-cert-that-didnt-exist-an-hour-ago/nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882989<![CDATA[Are we still writing software?]]>Article URL: https://ernestscribbler.xyz/are-we-still-writing-software.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786445

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]]>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:09:38 +0000https://ernestscribbler.xyz/are-we-still-writing-software.htmlnickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786445https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786445<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Factories are just rooms"]]>What a great teacher. We should all be so lucky to have a quality educator that teaches kids to build and create, instead of consume.

]]>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:50:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782714nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782714https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782714<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"]]>This is my 20th Father's Day. I feel truly blessed to have 3 wonderful kids.

We sometimes flirt with the idea of having more, but we are sadly done. The years fly by. It is truly a wonderful experience.

Happy Father's Day to all of you out there!

]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:10:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624379nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624379https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624379<![CDATA[Infrastructure Is the Source of Truth]]>Article URL: https://engineeringforteams.substack.com/p/infrastructure-is-the-source-of-truth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588168

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]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:52:25 +0000https://engineeringforteams.substack.com/p/infrastructure-is-the-source-of-truthnickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588168https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588168<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"]]>Taking a few minutes out of the day to to split some logs to hear your house for your family feels incredibly rewarding and satisfying.

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:15:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527409nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527409<![CDATA[Swamp Is Interesting Because It Doesn't Trust AI]]>Article URL: https://ravegraph.beehiiv.com/p/swamp-is-interesting-because-it-doesn-t-trust-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505277

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]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:18:29 +0000https://ravegraph.beehiiv.com/p/swamp-is-interesting-because-it-doesn-t-trust-ainickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505277https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505277<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Claude Fable 5"]]>This has been a much better rollout. The tool calling is not broken out of the gate like 4.8 was, and the tokens generation is fast.

Feels good so far.

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:08:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470920nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470920<![CDATA[What Four Hours of Focused Human-AI Engineering Ships]]>Article URL: https://canonical.agency/essays/what-four-hours-of-human-ai-engineering-actually-ships

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359256

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]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:43:31 +0000https://canonical.agency/essays/what-four-hours-of-human-ai-engineering-actually-shipsnickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359256https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359256<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"]]>I had the same thing happen a few months ago; posted about it on LinkedIn[1]. It's hilarious and clever.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nickstinemates_my-favorite-th...

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:05:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351131nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351131https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351131<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]>Rollout has been a little suspect. Hope it gets better.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 05:05:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319266nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319266https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319266<![CDATA[An Offline Meeting Transcriber]]>Article URL: https://matgreten.dev/posts/offline-meeting-transcriber/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318677

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]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 03:32:12 +0000https://matgreten.dev/posts/offline-meeting-transcriber/nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318677https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318677<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "WP23"]]>That's a pretty different tone from just a mere few months ago when everyone on this website was telling him to shut up.

Downplaying his vendetta into let bygones be bygones is pretty insane.

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 21:45:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301188nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301188https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301188<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "XLIDE: VBA without excel"]]>Also known as: downside without the upside.

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:09:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298989nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298989<![CDATA[Visibility into the Black Box]]>Article URL: https://matgreten.dev/posts/visibility-into-the-black-box/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284676

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]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:23:26 +0000https://matgreten.dev/posts/visibility-into-the-black-box/nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284676<![CDATA[New comment by nickstinemates in "Incident with Actions and Pages"]]>The main operating model with git is going to go back to decentralized. Setting up and managing something like https://forgejo.org/ is a way better experience than constant interruptions by a faulty service that can't meet demand.

The open source contribution model as we once knew it is dead; you're not going to accept patches from random agents. The risk is way too high. And you can see that increasingly "AI Slop" makes it difficult to be a maintainer of any semblance of a popular repo.

So what's the value? A durable place to store work? hah.

Discovery? That part of Github has always been shitty.

So that leaves.. Github Actions? The thing that is down every other day and has been the subject of a few ~rug pulls~/attempted price hikes that are almost surely coming back?

]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:04:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280832nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280832https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280832<![CDATA[Deterministic Automation for a Probabilistic System]]>Article URL: https://stack72.dev/deterministic-automation-for-a-probabilistic-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280374

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:30:56 +0000https://stack72.dev/deterministic-automation-for-a-probabilistic-system/nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280374<![CDATA[Hands in the Swamp]]>Article URL: https://example42.com/blog/2026/05/20/hands-in-the-swamp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272365

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]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 21:47:04 +0000https://example42.com/blog/2026/05/20/hands-in-the-swamp/nickstinemateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272365https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272365