Hacker News: pacoWebConsult

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Claude Platform on AWS"

pacoWebConsult — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:43:43 +0000

Yeah, as someone with strict export compliance concerns which forces us to use Bedrock because its exclusively us-based inference in our AWS account, this does nothing for me. Frankly, nothing Anthropic has shipped over the past 6 months besides the models themselves has been useful to our company, despite running into the same problems they're trying to solve with all of those features (managed, remote agents). There's not really a good solution, as AgentCore runtime sucks and is expensive. You basically have to build this yourself because nobody is solving for self-hosted managed infra for agents, and we don't really have the time to build this sort of system on top of building our actual product. It's very frustrating for them to put this out as a win, when it doesn't help the people who are using AWS Bedrock to begin with.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

pacoWebConsult — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:23:50 +0000

Claude Code uses Bun. Anthropic acquired Bun in December. Bun is an alternative node runtime.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

pacoWebConsult — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:56:25 +0000

We're inventing stumbleupon from first principles.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

pacoWebConsult — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:38:31 +0000

You can only ctrl+o the most recent response, and its a lot worse than knowing the # of lines read or the pattern grepped, which are useful because it can tell you what the agent is thrashing on trying to find, or what context would be useful to give it upfront in the future.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

pacoWebConsult — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:41:00 +0000

WPF was full of footguns and rigid organization to alleviate said footguns. MVVM (Model, View, Viewmodel) architecture was so much boilerplate and toil to work with. It feels like the advent of Electron-based desktop apps caused MS to simply give up on the space.

I don't have too much experience with MAUI so I can't comment on that.

Blazor's initial bundle sizes made it quite difficult to consider as an option for web applications, despite the ability to share code between frontend and backend.

I still feel like the ASP.NET + Frontend SPA story has a long way to go compared to what is available in the fullstack typescript ecosystem right now. Shared typings between the frontend and backend via tools like tRPC/ oRPC, or full RSC/SSR frameworks like Next and TanStack start are just so much more ergonomic, but the backend TS story, especially in data access and ORMs is so much worse compared to Entity Framework. Prisma is abysmally slow, and Drizzle is getting there but IMO nothing right now compares to the power and DX of EF Core + Linq methods.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

pacoWebConsult — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:58:17 +0000

Models each have their own, often competing, quirks on how they utilize AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md. It's very likely a CLAUDE.md written for use with Claude Code utilizes prompting techniques that results in worse output if taken directly and used with Codex. For example, Anthropic recommends putting info that an agent must adhere to in statements like "MUST run tests after writing code" and other all-caps directives, whereas people have found using the same language with GPT-5.2 results in less instruction following, more timid responses than if the AGENTS.md were written without them.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "The Legacy of Undersea Cables"

pacoWebConsult — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:39:49 +0000

I recently watched the Jon Bois documentary "Fool Time" which relates the story of the men involved in the development of telegraph lines to the 90s sitcom Home Improvement. It's an excellent watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyBSrQodnI

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

pacoWebConsult — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:47:08 +0000

The schemas for Amazon and Walmart's product information are absolutely bonkers and constantly missing features that they demand be provided.

Here's the XML Schema Definition for "Product" on Amazon [1]

This is joined on each of the linked category schemas included at the type, of which each has unique properties that ultimately drive the metadata on a particular listing for the SKU. Its wrought with inconsistency, duplicated fields, and oftentimes not up-to-date with required information.

Ultimately, this product catalog information gets provided to Amazon, Walmart, Target, and any other large 3rd party marketplace site as a feed file from a vendor to drive what product they can then list pricing and inventory against (through similar feeds).

You are right that the control McMaster-Carr has on their catalog is the strategic and technological advantage.

[1]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/rainier/...

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

pacoWebConsult — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:15:53 +0000

DO-178c is not a coding standard, it's a process standard. Projects following DO-178c processes would adopt a coding standard as a part of the process, reviewing software deliverables adhere to those standards.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

pacoWebConsult — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:38:10 +0000

The federal government has grown immensely since the early 20th century due to the interpretations of the commerce clause allowing more and more federal legislation and rules to broadly be applied to essentially override state legislation.

The 10th amendment exists for a reason. The system wasn't intended for congress to even control something like this in the first place.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

pacoWebConsult — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:09:41 +0000

This particular aircraft was acquired by UPS in 2006 and converted for cargo missions. It was originally delivered as a passenger aircraft to Thai Airways International in 1991. [1] I actually saw this exact aircraft at RDU International in August of this year and took a photo, since tri-engine aircraft in general are not very common these days.

[1]: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tracking-news/majo...

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today"

pacoWebConsult — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:41:58 +0000

It's not a fraction of what it would cost to actually employ those humans, since there were humans who clearly chose to do that work when presented with the opportunity.

I think this is a very first-world oriented take. It efficiently distributed low-value workloads to people who were willing to do it for the pay provided. The market was efficient, and the wages were clearly on par with those who were doing the work found economical to do, considering they did (and still do) the work for the wages provided.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP"

pacoWebConsult — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:54:09 +0000

If you're going to use claude to help you respond to feedback the least you can do is restate this in your own words. Parent commenter deserves the respect of corresponding with a real human being.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

pacoWebConsult — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:20:20 +0000

One big use-case is that claude code with sonnet 4.5 will delegate into the cheaper model (configurable) more specific, contextful tasks, and spin up 1-3 sub-agents to do so. This process saves a ton of available context window for your primary session while also increasing token throughput by fanning-out.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Show HN: Modeling the human body in Rust so I can cmd+click through it"

pacoWebConsult — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:30:27 +0000

Any grounding in medical truth/ is anything sourced to legitimate references or is this entirely pulled from the model's general training of human anatomy?

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context"

pacoWebConsult — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:16:15 +0000

Why would you bloat the (already crowded) context window with 27 tools instead of the 2 simplest ones: Save Memory & Search Memory? Or even just search, handling the save process through a listener on a directory of markdown memory files that Claude Code can natively edit?

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please"

pacoWebConsult — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:16:33 +0000

Sure, easy to read, but quite difficult to /reason/ about in your head, let alone have proper language server/compiler support given the abstraction over provider events and runner state. I have never written a CI pipeline correctly without multiple iterations of pushing updates to the pipeline definition, and I don't think I'm alone on that.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please"

pacoWebConsult — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:05:33 +0000

Can YAML go away entirely and instead allow pipelines to be defined with an actual language? What benefits does the runner-interpreted yaml-defined pipeline paradigm actually achieve? Especially with runners that can't be executed and tested locally, working with them is a nightmare.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs"

pacoWebConsult — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:25:26 +0000

> Ghost job postings negatively impact interstate commerce.

Sure, people wasting time applying to ghost jobs has a societal and economic cost, but what is the impact of government regulation of freely advertising job postings?

How does that stack up against the compliance cost of ensuring all of these regulations are being met so the company aren't fined, and the loss of legitimate postings to all of the places they would normally be posted to due to those regulatory cost?

The government has no business to be restricting speech in this manner.

New comment by pacoWebConsult in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

pacoWebConsult — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:36:18 +0000

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html