Hacker News: paulmooreparks

New comment by paulmooreparks in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

paulmooreparks — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:26:06 +0000

I grew up in Florida, where you might come home and find a cockroach walking out of the bathroom with a towel around its head saying, "We need more toilet paper."

Okay, I kid, but it was almost that bad. We say there are no houses in Florida without cockroaches, just houses where they (mostly) aren't visible.

Now I live in Singapore, famous for being a clean city, and there are rats and cockroaches galore. Tropics, man....

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

paulmooreparks — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:46:36 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550693

Points: 500

# Comments: 171

Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)

paulmooreparks — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:35:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501012

Points: 117

# Comments: 82

The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

paulmooreparks — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:23:47 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260605-01/?p=112391

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421079

Points: 156

# Comments: 51

The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"

paulmooreparks — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:52:29 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260601-00/?p=112373

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366883

Points: 41

# Comments: 54

New comment by paulmooreparks in "We should be more tired than the model"

paulmooreparks — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:40:23 +0000

I think you missed the point. I don't abandon security to whatever the agent decides to write.

Show HN: Yavchn – Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News Wrapper

paulmooreparks — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:56:35 +0000

Whenever I browse Hacker News, I find myself opening the discussion in a new tab, then clicking through in that tab to view the article, then popping back to the discussion. It's all very annoying, when what I really want to do is get a quick overview of the article and see if there is any interesting discussion going on before I dive into either the article or the discussion.

YAVCHN lets me quickly browse an article in scaled-down reader mode in one pane and see the discussion in the pane below. If I find either one compelling, I can click "Open original" to see the original article or "Open on HN" to join the discussion on Hacker News.

- Left pane: The list of articles on Hacker News - Right-top: The linked article, reader-mode extracted - Right-bottom: The HN discussion thread

It also browses Lobste.rs in a similar fashion, if you ever peek over there.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323889

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulmooreparks in "We should be more tired than the model"

paulmooreparks — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:53:08 +0000

I don't abandon the code to the agent entirely. I have my own... I wouldn't call it a harness as such, but rather a shared Kanban board, and it'll be the subject of a "Show HN" soon. It suffices to say that I define Kanban cards for each feature or bug, and I have clearly defined review points for each card, post-spec and post-code, where I step in. On top of that, after my review, there is an agentic review, and agents can and do catch things that I missed. The quality of the software has improved quite a bit since I instituted that flow.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "We should be more tired than the model"

paulmooreparks — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:16:36 +0000

I don't know. I find that I'm moving up a level and improving my product-management skills while delegating most of the code to the agents. I'm still very much hands-on with the design and requirements, and I'm asking questions like, "What's our security story for XYZ?", "Are we accounting for colour-blindness?", etc. Not being down in the code allows me to prairie-dog a bit more and see the landscape better.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Show HN: Yavchn – Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News Wrapper"

paulmooreparks — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:49:02 +0000

- Left pane: The list of articles on Hacker News - Right-top: The linked article, reader-mode extracted - Right-bottom: The HN discussion thread

GitHub: https://github.com/paulmooreparks/yavchn

Show HN: Yavchn – Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News Wrapper

paulmooreparks — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://yavchn.parkscomputing.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283096

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by paulmooreparks in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

paulmooreparks — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:21:09 +0000

Two daughters, both born in the 90's. Yes, I encouraged the same kind of freedom, but they weren't quite as adventurous as their dad. I thought they were a bit more adventurous than most of their friends, though.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

paulmooreparks — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:18:50 +0000

I'm 55. Growing up in Florida in the 70's and 80's, I was outside for hours at a time. I would wander in the woods, following streams to their source and actually mapping the entire forest (I still have the map). I rode my bicycle all over town, by myself and with my equally adventurous friends, getting into all sorts of dangerous things. I went fishing by myself, literally dodging moccasins and alligators. I'd clean the fish with a very sharp knife when I got back. I still have scars all over my body reminding me of all the trouble I got into.

Damn, I'm glad I got to grow up then.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

paulmooreparks — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:37:27 +0000

Kudos to the author for making friends. I have to say, though, that I'm with the Redditors on this. I go to the gym to focus solely on my workout, and that's it. I'll nod and smile to the other regulars, but conversation is simply not on the menu.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

paulmooreparks — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:39:08 +0000

I'm thinking about buying a Neo for two reasons: my laptop is only ever used to RDP into my home Windows workstation, which is where I do all my serious work; and because I need to have a Mac to test some software I'm writing (Tela, find it on my GitHub) that has to be multi-platform. The battery life is also a plus for remote work, but that's about it. I don't want to spend four digits where three will do.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

paulmooreparks — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:13:32 +0000

That's good advice. I just added that to the new project site, https://telaproject.org/ .

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

paulmooreparks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:37:17 +0000

Just spell the month.

https://parkscomputing.com/page/just-spell-the-month

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

paulmooreparks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:59:16 +0000

Tela has ACLs per machine, but not per service. That's an interesting use case, and I'm shocked that I missed it. I've added it to the pre-1.0 roadmap. Thank you!

Another thing on the release roadmap is a TUN/root story, since there is value in having that layer as well. Tela will always support the user-space approach, however, so that unlike Tailscale it's always accessible.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

paulmooreparks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:26:11 +0000

Thank you! That means more than you know. :) I've thought about an Android client. It would have the same problem that exit-node support would have: Tela is currently engineered as a user-space alternative to Tailscale. However, as I mentioned in another reply here, I've gotten so fond of a lot of the other features of Tela that I might consider adding support for low-level features that require kernel support. It might not be 1.0, but I'm open to suggestions.

New comment by paulmooreparks in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

paulmooreparks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:15:15 +0000

If I understand you correctly, you SSH in via cloudflared and then use that tunnel to reach other services through that session. That would work, yes.

Tela takes a little different approach. The agent exposes services directly through the WireGuard tunnel without SSH as an intermediary, so you don't need sshd running on the target. Each machine gets its own loopback address on the client, so there is no port remapping.

The big difference is the relay, though. With cloudflared, Cloudflare terminates TLS at their edge. With Tela, you run the hub yourself and encryption is end-to-end. The hub only ever sees encrypted data (apart from a small header).