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New comment by pea in "Docker Agent"

pea — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:27:55 +0000

I think we'll see it more and more... open-ended Q&A / novel work is everyone's first experience of LLMs, but I don't think it's actually representative of most of the work people do. Coding kind of sits in the middle as it's novel but semi-structured.

Chat is great for novel open-ended work, but is terrible at concurrency - i.e. managing > 1 agent runs. As agents get cheaper, I suspect we'll see more more bounded processes where you want to run lots of items through them at once, and thus Jira-like things... (we ended up having this problem and building something like this, albeit more medieval themed [0])

We also found the other piece that Jira-style solves (and that chat makes super hard) is multi-player. I've yet to see a good implementation of a multi-player chat solution to agents working concurrently; and we found that an async model is the only sane solution to this.

[0] https://pumpup.com

Stop asking AI what you should build

pea — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://leoanthias.com/stop-asking-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994010

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pea in "What's in a PowerPoint File?"

pea — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:53:18 +0000

I had to build a diffing engine for PowerPoint files in my first start-up. I initially tried to do this at the OOXML level, and one the weirdest things I found about the format is that the GUIDs are mutated by PowerPoint even if there have been no changes. The serialized OOXML is not really canonical and constantly changes as clients open and save it.

The simplest solution ended up being rendering images of the slides (not easy) and doing it with a slider.

New comment by pea in "I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air"

pea — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:18:44 +0000

That's a great idea with the e-reader.

I would love for someone to design a great case with a built in e-reader on the back. Most of the existing ones seem geared for displaying colour photos; I'd like one built for reading, powered by NFC. It should easily sync up with the phone itself to send over articles, books, etc. Bonus if I can write on it.

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

pea — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:56:03 +0000

I'm exactly the same. This one really give me the ick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

pea — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:33:05 +0000

I was wondering the same for vega-lite, which is relatively high level, declarative, and looks similar to their syntax.

New comment by pea in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

pea — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:14:56 +0000

The shift may come when your blessed cloud platform provides competitive enterprise-ready hosting of the oss models

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"

pea — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:37:29 +0000

Looks cool but your home page heavily lags on my mbp m3 pro - you should maybe be lazy loading vs loading all your components upfront

New comment by pea in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

pea — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:27:21 +0000

I agree with mostly everything you’re saying; but it’s not uncommon to be processed via your local consulate, even if you are already living in the US.

This is usually just for the final issuing of the GC, and where USCIS approval has already happened (for instance, on an EB1A).

People frequently do this so they don’t have the travel restriction. Source: I just did it.

New comment by pea in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

pea — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:14:13 +0000

Good fun! Spacebar should launch, r should reset, maybe I'm imagining it, but it's a lot slower and thus easier on my phone than my MBP.

New comment by pea in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

pea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:04:52 +0000

Oracle hire some extremely good people and pay very well

New comment by pea in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

pea — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:00:22 +0000

The darkest UX pattern I have ever hit is trying to cancel Google Workspace; whereby they disable the scrollbar on the page so you cannot actually get to the cancel button.

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams"

pea — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:55:44 +0000

Decapod

New comment by pea in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:50:55 +0000

What sort of things do you notice?

New comment by pea in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:40:27 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by pea in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:36:40 +0000

maybe productive isn’t the right word - more like satisfying and constructive. Right now I might play blitz chess or end up checking the news or X. But when I’m in the middle of a good book or some long form content, I’ll use that time to read and it’s much more fulfilling.

And I think breathing meditation is an excellent idea! I didn’t only mean phone-specific activities at all! Thank you

Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:14:42 +0000

I often have 5-10m gaps. It’s too easy to waste this time.

What things do you like to do in these increments?

For instance, learning a new skill, getting slightly better at something, reading high quality content.

Edited to clarify that I don’t mean phone-specific activities!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492873

Points: 46

# Comments: 57

New comment by pea in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

pea — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:36:40 +0000

I think it makes sense given the following:

- Your brain has been trained extensively to recognize faces / people. Even very small babies can do this.

- Your brain processes a large amount of mostly noise, and sometimes mislabels noise as objects, which trends towards face-like things (see: seeing faces in clouds, people in shadows etc.) Various classes of substances make this effect more noticeable (even stimulants, including caffeine)

- The jump from that to 'elves' is largely just cultures have some form of small magical person.

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs)"

pea — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:51:58 +0000

This is really cool, I enjoyed going through them in this form. Thanks

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

pea — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:17:23 +0000

Didn't they also just shut down Vertex and Gemini APIs to launch a new unified API this week?