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New comment by nzjrs in "Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about"

nzjrs — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:14:12 +0000

Nice idea but it's a shame the website text is in claudish

New comment by nzjrs in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

nzjrs — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:30:59 +0000

So true.

New comment by nzjrs in "Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background"

nzjrs — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:33:01 +0000

Why bother depending on DeepAgents and LangChain etc. My professional impression is such Middleware no longer brings anything if you primarily maintain the codebase with coding tools.

New comment by nzjrs in "Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres"

nzjrs — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:22:12 +0000

Please at least write the announcement post by hand.

New comment by nzjrs in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

nzjrs — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:55:27 +0000

If you just need a python+venv sandbox with dev-first UX, no container build step needed, and no startup cost then I am using https://github.com/nzjrs/sandbubble in prod.

New comment by nzjrs in "Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents"

nzjrs — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:08:33 +0000

Your website text reads like Claude slop

New comment by nzjrs in "Show HN: I built a smart proxy so your coding agent can run loose"

nzjrs — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:35:52 +0000

Your entire website was written by Claude and reads like slop. If you can't write a readme by hand then I don't trust your code.

New comment by nzjrs in "Single File Virtualenv-Native Sandboxed Python Execution Environment"

nzjrs — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:01:13 +0000

I've been using this for a few months to provide a defensible sandboxed execution environment for internal software stacks.

It's basically a single file bwrap+AppArmor virtualenv wrapper with practically zero startup time and provides a easy way to provide your agent the ability to write code for, and run it against an internal virtualenv software stack.

No container build or equivalent overhead.

Single File Virtualenv-Native Sandboxed Python Execution Environment

nzjrs — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:01:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nzjrs/sandbubble

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492184

Points: 1

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New comment by nzjrs in "Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal"

nzjrs — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:10:27 +0000

There has been a generation of activists and NIMBYs campaigning and protesting to artificially inflate the cost of nuclear, while having this delicious benefit of now being also able to claim about the cost of nuclear.

The ballooning of costs is not even significantly due to changing safety requirements, but often due to compliance and environmental requirements. Those are political requirements that could be removed in one fell swoop.

New comment by nzjrs in "Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal"

nzjrs — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:06:42 +0000

'have to' is a contested point here.

New comment by nzjrs in "London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids"

nzjrs — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:33:29 +0000

I'm not british either, but I understand the culture here is to disparage and discriminate against poor people in a slightly more polite and indirect way.

New comment by nzjrs in "London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids"

nzjrs — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:03:51 +0000

Now do LTNs

New comment by nzjrs in "ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database"

nzjrs — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:50:30 +0000

Id be interested to hear how often you have your team use this to also store historical backtest results as people iterate on strategies.

New comment by nzjrs in "ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database"

nzjrs — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:48:19 +0000

I think you just fundamentally misvalue what he is optimising for. It's live or die by alpha generation, and his tradeoffs are not HFT. There is going to be a whole other infra and opsec for executing the strategy.

Versioned dataframe native database hits perfectly for attracting productive quant researchers.

(Disclaimer, I'm also CTO of a quant fund and understand what he was optimising for)

New comment by nzjrs in "'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers"

nzjrs — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:22:43 +0000

It's the replacement part that I was referring to. More like if the friend was previously drinking too much whisky, and thought they should stop drinking so much alcohol, so got massively into craft beer.

New comment by nzjrs in "'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers"

nzjrs — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:58:29 +0000

Not being a xxxx, but I wanted to honestly ask about how you square or feel about those that start vaping in order to quit smoking, and then just massively become into vaping, talk about it all the time and the gadgetry and accessories, the community, etc.

I've got a few friends that went this way and it's a bit... odd.

New comment by nzjrs in "YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords"

nzjrs — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:25:17 +0000

You aren't wrong, but some of us have been here for 10 years or more. I have a very different measure of the cost / benefit of the increase in churn of online discourse as that which I would presume to find on YouTube

New comment by nzjrs in "YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords"

nzjrs — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 11:56:52 +0000

I'm continually surprised this isn't a major international scandal.

Some Americans don't like google interfering with their discourse and they spend their time using constitutional arguments as to how ok that is or not. International people watching these arguments look on with boredom.

Meanwhile, and american company per default explicitly shapes the dialog of the entire world and people shrug.

The international angle on this is absolutely scandalous and no one cares. Every international government acknowledges the problems of the great firewall of China, but this doesn't matter?

New comment by nzjrs in "All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people"

nzjrs — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 05:53:42 +0000

Nice article, but every time someone mentions imposter syndrome it grinds my gears - it always strikes me as a thinly veiled humblebrag.