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New comment by paddy_m in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

paddy_m — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:45:32 +0000

Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!

New comment by paddy_m in "Ted Turner has died"

paddy_m — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:25:06 +0000

Ted Turner won the America's cup there in 1977. His team named Courageous was legendary. Robbie Doyle was a team member, and got a degree from Harvard in applied physics. In the middle of the trials to see which team would defend the cup for the US, he remade the sails to be more competitive. Doyle went on to found a racing sailmaking company.

I used to live in Newport, RI. I love sailing and introducing people to the world of sailing. When I had guests I asked them to watch this NBC video about Ted's 77 campaign [1]. It really captures the history of Newport, sailing, and Ted

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr7-BwzceYI&list=PLXEMPXZ3PY...

New comment by paddy_m in "Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87"

paddy_m — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:52:18 +0000

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr7-BwzceYI&list=PLXEMPXZ3PY...

New comment by paddy_m in "Why TUIs Are Back"

paddy_m — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:22:48 +0000

I think another factor is that people are rejecting the rounded corners and excessive padding of modern web design, you can't do that in a TUI, so you don't have a designer or standard practice encouraging you to do it. As implemented TUIs have greater information density than GUIs. Make no mistake though, TUIs are a decided step backwards from GUIs. Everything that you can express via text, you can also do in a text area on a GUI app.

New comment by paddy_m in "Every GPU That Mattered"

paddy_m — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:04:13 +0000

I'd be really interested to see SGI on this chart. When did consumer hardware exceed what you could do on an SGI box?

I think Sun and HP had some 3d capabilities, but it was mostly aimed at engineering/CAD

New comment by paddy_m in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

paddy_m — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:43:54 +0000

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

https://www.vannattabros.com/dozer.html -- A detail page from the site, not well organized but so much great info about heavy equipment and logging.

Now Available: Depot CI

paddy_m — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://depot.dev/blog/now-available-depot-ci

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510154

Points: 3

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New comment by paddy_m in "VisiCalc Reconstructed"

paddy_m — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:15:18 +0000

I would think visidata could.

https://www.visidata.org/

New comment by paddy_m in "The Soul of a Pedicab Driver"

paddy_m — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:24:41 +0000

Slightly related to the article. I have a personal cargo bike. The most fun that I have with it is giving friends a ride home from a party. People instantly start giggling and laughing. It's goofy, you get stares and people curious

New comment by paddy_m in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

paddy_m — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:55:12 +0000

What do you want in your datagrip alternative. I'm working on some stuff, and interested to hear how people approach data with LLMs

New comment by paddy_m in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

paddy_m — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:12:45 +0000

I'm not concerned about making money from it, I just want to use it. I'd like to check to see if I'm re-inventing the wheel. I'm curious if others would like a similar experience.

New comment by paddy_m in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

paddy_m — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:31:02 +0000

Has anything like this been built?

I want a system that enforces planning, tests, and adversarial review (preferably by a different company's model). This is more for features, less for overall planning, but a similar workflow could be built for planning.

1. Prompt 2. Research 3. Plan (including the tests that will be written to verify the feature) 4. adversarial review of plan 5. implementation of tests, CI must fail on the tests 6. adversarial review verifying that the tests match with the plan 7. implementation to make the tests pass. 8. adversarial PR review of implementation

I want to be able to check on the status of PRs based on how far along they are, read the plans, suggest changes, read the tests, suggest changes. I want a web UI for that, I don't want to be doing all of this in multiple terminal windows.

A key feature that I want is that if a step fails, especially because of adversarial review, the whole PR branch is force pushed back to the previous state. so say #6 fails, #5 is re-invoked with the review information. Or if I come to the system and a PR is at #8, and I don't like the plan, then I make some edits to the plan (#3), the PR is reset to the git commit after the original plan, and the LLM is reinvoked with either my new plan or more likely my edits to the plan, then everything flows through again.

I want to be able to sit down, tend to a bunch of issues, then come back in a couple of hours and see progress.

I have a design for this of course. I haven't implemented it yet.

New comment by paddy_m in "Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure"

paddy_m — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:45:20 +0000

I’m not running fleets of gpus so I’m not your target market, but can you tell me more about who is doing this type of large scale training outside of companies like anthropic, OpenAI, xai…. The big teams. I’m just curious?

New comment by paddy_m in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

paddy_m — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:59:45 +0000

I am getting really tired of github. outages happen that's a given. but on so much stuff they don't even care or try. Github is becoming the bottleneck in my agentic coding workflows. unless I make Claude do it intelligently, I hit rate limits checking on CI jobs (5000 api requests in an hour). Depot makes their CI so much better, but it is still tied to github in a couple of annoying places.

PRs are a defacto communication and coordination bus between different code review tools, its all a mess.

LLMs make it worse because I'm pushing more code to github than ever before, and it just isn't setup to deal with this type of workload when it is working well.

New comment by paddy_m in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

paddy_m — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:36:08 +0000

It helps with latency too or schedule padding. Bus schedules are unreliable because of all the stops which slow them down and encourage bunching of busses on a route with a lot of service.

New comment by paddy_m in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

paddy_m — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:58:27 +0000

I'd love to read a writeup of the state of Rust GUI and the ecosystem if you could point me at one.

New comment by paddy_m in "Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust"

paddy_m — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:01:46 +0000

That's a great idea, and I was just thinking about how it would pair with self hosted CI of some type.

Basically what I would want is write a commit (because I want to commit early and often) then run the lint (and tests) in a sandboxed environment. if they pass, great. if they fail and HERAD has moved ahead of the failing commit, create a "FIXME" branch off the failure. back on main or whatever branch head was pointed at, if tests start passing, you probably never need to revisit the failure.

I want to know about local test failures before I push to remote with full CI.

automatic branching and workflow stuff is optional. the core idea is great.

New comment by paddy_m in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

paddy_m — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:11:32 +0000

I can't take this comment seriously unless you are buying snow tires. If you have snow tires, and you still can't get where you want in the winter, sure get 4wd.

I had a RWD pickup with snow tires and went anywhere I wanted to through two utah winters and many vermont ones too.

New comment by paddy_m in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

paddy_m — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:08:39 +0000

Same. Where are you, want to hit the trails sometime?

New comment by paddy_m in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

paddy_m — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:29:31 +0000

I wish more programmers would pay attention to how productive power users in different can be with their tools. Look at CAD competitions. I wonder if there are video editting competitions?