<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pbowyer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pbowyer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:54:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pbowyer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jira is the one product I feel needs to be AI native.<p>AI native in the sense that it papers over the pain points.<p>New JIRA admin? AI will set it up to do what you want (after all, Atlassian has a great training set as they can see which Cloud installs work well)<p>Need to set up a workflow? Bam, AI to do that.<p>Need to onboard a user or manage permissions? Again, have a chatbot to do it (as a time-to-time Jira standin Admin, changing permissions always needs doing in 2+ places and devolves into a "Can you see this yet?" round of questions)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 07:02:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264200</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in ""Dirty Frag" (CVE-2026-43284): The Second Linux Root Exploit in Eight Days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Previously covered at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:37:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078018</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's led to the higher prices than Germany? Usually substantially lower earnings would mean lower prices, even if not substantially lower (look at the UK, higher prices than much (all?) of Europe, average earnings slightly less).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:59:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063260</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Extremely debatable. They still have never fully implemented health checks and auto healing.<p>Agree.<p>Plus there's the monitoring of the host that is always overlooked in articles. I've ended up chucking Monit on there to monitor disk usage et al, and also used it for monitoring compose too and restarting containers.<p>And then there's Healthchecks.io, and external uptime monitoring... the list goes on. Properly monitoring systems, even single server systems, is not simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:31:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028096</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only at the "hmm that seems an interesting idea" level.<p>Thanks for the links, going to have a read and see if I can apply any to my work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:17:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019971</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you can type code fast and accurately, it sounds a great process to use. You're using LLMs for the bit where they bring great value, and yourself as a higher quality coding agent :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:15:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019959</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Developer of 20+ years here, can't give you an accurate multiplier but I am faster.<p>Because spotting holes in specs has never been one of my strengths. And working without technical colleagues much of the time, it's a boon to be able to "rubber-duck" my ideas with something that is at least more intelligent than plastic.<p>Grabbing multipliers from thin air, the coding bit may only be 2x faster with a poorer-quality outcome, but working out what's needed is a good 5x faster.<p>And yes, I'm using the same adversarial AI MO as @wood_spirit, combined with Matt Pocock's excellent /grill-me and /grill-with-docs skills [1] and Plannotator [2] to review the plans.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/mattpocock/skills" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mattpocock/skills</a><p>2. <a href="https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:11:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012581</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons from Debugging GLM-5 at Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://z.ai/blog/scaling-pain">https://z.ai/blog/scaling-pain</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990495">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990495</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://z.ai/blog/scaling-pain">https://z.ai/blog/scaling-pain</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964692">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964692</a></p>
<p>Points: 12</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:15:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://z.ai/blog/scaling-pain</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Hermes is one of these OpenClaw clones<p>So that's what it is. Reading its README I thought it was another harness like Pi [1], but with built-in memory so it remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.<p>Like Letta [2], Dirac [3][4] and the other "more experimental harnesses that look interesting but I haven't had time to try out".<p>1. <a href="https://pi.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://pi.dev/</a><p>2. <a href="https://www.letta.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.letta.com/</a><p>3. <a href="https://dirac.run/" rel="nofollow">https://dirac.run/</a><p>4. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920787">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920787</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:04:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959175</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the privacy/data security like? I can't find that on that page.<p>Edit: found it.<p>> We may use your Content to operate, maintain, improve, and develop the Services, to comply with legal obligations, to enforce our policies, and to ensure security. You may opt out of allowing your Content to be used for model improvement and research purposes by contacting us at membership@moonshot.ai. We will honor your choice in accordance with applicable law.<p>Section 3 of <a href="https://www.kimi.com/user/agreement/modelUse?version=v2" rel="nofollow">https://www.kimi.com/user/agreement/modelUse?version=v2</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:41:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836865</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Stripe APIs being simple and easy is a meme from the 2010s. It isn't anymore.<p>I'm working with Stripe subscriptions at the moment for a charity taking donations via their website. The subtle differences between subscriptions done through Stripe checkout and subscriptions set up yourself using Stripe elements are by turn infuriating and frustrating.<p>The documentation is geared towards people using checkout. Stripe's own AI help could find us a bit of information which going through the documentation didn't give us, and it even struggled to find the reference in the docs for it.<p>One product, two different ways to use it, and slightly diverging feature sets between the two. Argh!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:50:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831748</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Peter Principle: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:29:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742778</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let us know if it does, because we all want it to work :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:39:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672304</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "My Google Workspace account suspension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dealing with Google is a nightmare. I'm one of the volunteer sysadmins for <a href="https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/</a>, a DIY and self-build forum. For 10 years it ranked very well on Google, particularly in the UK, and then on 28 December 2025 it disappeared from Google's index.<p>Nothing has helped, the Google forums are tumbleweed and there's no one to reach out to for what could be an algorithm change or something gone wrong. I'm a paying Workspace customer and it's made me think I need a backup plan in case I'm ever suspended. Reports like this don't encourage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:56:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648938</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This nono? <a href="https://github.com/always-further/nono" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/always-further/nono</a><p>> Just remember to disable CC’s auto-updater if that’s what you’re using.<p>Why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:25:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552653</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can anyone enlighten me how having a coding harness when for most customers you say "we won't train on your code" helps you do RL? What's the data that they rely on? Is it the prompts and their responses?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452929</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you were creating a new programming language in 2026, which DateTime/Temporal library would you copy and why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347835</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Let's discuss sandbox isolation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there only a cloud-based mode for Islo, or can I run this entirely on my laptop?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:01:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193072</link><dc:creator>pbowyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbowyer in "Just-bash: Bash for Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I came across a coding harness using Lua as its control plane yesterday: <a href="https://github.com/hsaliak/std_slop/blob/main/docs/lua_integration.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hsaliak/std_slop/blob/main/docs/lua_integ...</a><p>> std::slop is a persistent, SQLite-driven C++ CLI agent. It remembers your work through per-session ledgers, providing long-term recall, structured state management. std::slop features built-in Git integration. It's goal is to be an agent for which the context and its use fully transparent and configurable.</p>
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