Hacker News: pedropaulovc

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

pedropaulovc — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:05:50 +0000

Higher odds of being banned for legitimate usage.

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

pedropaulovc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:10:40 +0000

Several, but take the list with a grain of salt since I am on sabbatical.

* Codjiflo: A code review tool inspired by Microsoft's CodeFlow: https://codjiflo.net

* A virtual replica of a digital readout (DRO) for operating a CNC machine like a manual mill: https://el400.vza.net

* Reverse engineered CNC pendant integration with CNCjs also for operating a CNC machine like a manual mill: https://github.com/pedropaulovc/cncjs-pendant-whb04b-6

* A 'docker compose' to provision email, chat and documents for human-AI hybrid teams where you can take over AI's agent's credentials temporarily: https://github.com/vezzadev/roster

* The CNC stuff will come handy for a bigger project I have to create a 1:1 replica of Albert Michelson's harmonic analyzer: https://github.com/pedropaulovc/harmonic-analyzer

* Reverse engineered Hik-Connect P2P CCTV protocol for integration with OSS like Home Assistant and Frida: https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/issues/2289

* Some patches for different OSS projects like improvements to MCP tools, Playwright, Claude Code, etc.

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

pedropaulovc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:51:06 +0000

Shameless plug, if you ever need to parse ~/.claude/projects use claude-code-types [1].

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/claude-code-types

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

pedropaulovc — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:49:20 +0000

1Password has this feature in beta. [1]

[1]: https://developer.1password.com/docs/environments/

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

pedropaulovc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:33:12 +0000

Well, you can burn your $50 bonus on it

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

pedropaulovc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:25:40 +0000

Where is this perf gain coming from? Running on TPUs?

New comment by pedropaulovc in "I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog"

pedropaulovc — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:49:48 +0000

If you are looking for proactive filtering, you could leverage the Bluesky moderation labeler, I'm not aware of one focused on EU requirements though. If you are looking for reactive filtering, you may create a small labeler just for you where you can flag just the troublesome posts and then you filter them before the comment page is rendered.

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Show HN: AI in SolidWorks"

pedropaulovc — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:26:15 +0000

This is amazing! I have no CAD experience and so I tried creating my own bespoke version of LAD a while ago by crawling the SolidWorks docs into a very LLM-optimized format [1] and then asking Claude Code to write C# code using the SolidWorks SDK. Even with docs, it still struggled: functions that fail quietly, extremely verbose code and with no easy way to run tests to ensure that the results are accurate. As an example, here's the 400 lines of code it produced for an eccentric cam [2]. Attempts to close the loop by feeding CC png renders in multiple views had absolutely horrible results. Claude could not differentiate up from down, features etc. I'll try LAD tomorrow, fingers crossed it work better.

[1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/offline-solidworks-api-docs

[2] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/harmonic-analyzer/blob/main/...

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

pedropaulovc — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:17:28 +0000

Thanks for checking it out. It should be possible in the future, I haven't explored what GitHub APIs are available for logged out users. It's not my main focus now because I want to nail the capabilities for repo contributors, who do code reviews most often and will need be authenticated to post comments.

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

pedropaulovc — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:07:46 +0000

CodjiFlo[1,2] - a code review tool inspired by Microsoft's CodeFlow, used by ~40,000 developers. It is especially tailored to power users of pull requests to improve contextual understanding and ease of code review and collaboration.

[1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/codjiflo/

[2] https://codjiflo.vza.net

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Anti-patterns while working with LLMs"

pedropaulovc — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:49:56 +0000

This post resonates a lot with me. I've been experimenting with Claude Code to write code that interacts with the SolidWorks SDK. It is both extremely complex (method calls with 15+ bools, doubles, strings; abbreviated parameters; etc) and obscure. It has been like pulling teeth. Claude would hallucinate methods, parameters etc.

I tried using Context7 MCP with the SolidWorks docs but the results were not satisfactory. I ended up crawling SW's documentation in HTML, painstakingly translating it to markdown and organizing it to optimize greppability [1]. I then created a Claude skill to instruct CC to consult the docs before writing code [2]. It is still stubborn and sometimes does not obey my instructions but it did improve the quality of the code. Claude would need 5 to 10 rounds of debugging before getting code to compile. Now it gets it in 1 to 2 rounds.

[1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/offline-solidworks-api-docs

[2] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/harmonic-analyzer/blob/main/...

New comment by pedropaulovc in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

pedropaulovc — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:15:39 +0000

Fascinating, thanks for sharing!

New comment by pedropaulovc in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

pedropaulovc — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:19:55 +0000

KCL can be exported to STEP and STL.

New comment by pedropaulovc in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

pedropaulovc — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:12:25 +0000

I've been using zoo and its KCL language with some success for boundary-representation CAD writing. If I understood correctly, µcad serves the same purpose. Comparing code samples between both of them, I personally enjoy KCL's pipelined approach more.

My main beef with zoo is the fact that they are promoting vendor lock-in by forcing users to use their cloud-hosted geometry kernel with absolutely no local alternative. It's not clear to me how µcad solves this problem.

[1] Lego brick in KCL: https://zoo.dev/docs/kcl-samples/lego

[2] Lego brick in µcad: https://microcad.xyz/index.php/2025/11/12/lego-bricks/

[3] Gear in KCL: https://zoo.dev/docs/kcl-samples/spur-gear

[4] Gear in µcad: https://microcad.xyz/index.php/2025/11/12/gears/

New comment by pedropaulovc in "Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys"

pedropaulovc — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:28:13 +0000

Ey, I'm JSON!

New comment by pedropaulovc in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

pedropaulovc — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:38:02 +0000

This is nothing new, Microsoft signed an agreement with the French government to build a sovereign cloud called Bleu [1] operated by Orange and Capgemini using Azure and Microsoft 365 technology. The German government did something similar and launched Delos Cloud, operated by SAP and Arvato Systems.

[1] https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/05/27/223...

[2] https://www.bertelsmann.com/news-and-media/news/first-sovere...

New comment by pedropaulovc in "RIP HTTP"

pedropaulovc — Wed, 03 May 2023 03:52:46 +0000

My go-to HTTP-only endpoint is http://example.com. It should be usable for as long as IANA and the Internet as we know it exists.

New comment by pedropaulovc in "SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows"

pedropaulovc — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:30:56 +0000

The bug lore came from Raymond Chen's blog post [1]

[1] Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58...