Hacker News: peter_retief

New comment by peter_retief in "Claude Code sends your email address to websites"

peter_retief — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:26:57 +0000

Claude does what you ask it and if you say do not give any real email addresses out it will not, this has been my experience with Claude.

I generally use throw away emails/domains for development

New comment by peter_retief in "Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository"

peter_retief — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:18:10 +0000

I don't totally disagree with you and have been feeling a bit guilty of posting this work as my own when in fact it is generated by Claude, even though I try and make it clear that much of the code is generated.

I have never been able to produce this volume of work so it is very tempting to let it all hang out, so to say

The concepts are all mine and I am really happy to be able to give back to the open source community albeit a small gesture.

I never felt any malice in your comments btw.

New comment by peter_retief in "Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository"

peter_retief — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:37:33 +0000

I will add a link..

New comment by peter_retief in "Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository"

peter_retief — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:50:50 +0000

In my 20+ years of coding I have produced way worse slop that Claude wrote here.

Ironically this tiny utilty was produced to make keeping up with Ai code a little easier.

my advice to you is to write code that manages Ai, I dont think Ai is going away any time soon...

New comment by peter_retief in "Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository"

peter_retief — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:08:24 +0000

It is just the idea, for me to navigate my project code, free to use and change

New comment by peter_retief in "Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository"

peter_retief — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:59:30 +0000

What I am using

New comment by peter_retief in "Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository"

peter_retief — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:25:46 +0000

Just Go for now. .. useful across non-Go repositories too. yes

Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository

peter_retief — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:18:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/peterretief/codemap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366811

Points: 45

# Comments: 23

Yggstore Code Map

peter_retief — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:32:17 +0000

Article URL: https://get.withcare.co.za/code-map/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364691

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by peter_retief in "OccupySaaS"

peter_retief — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:31:27 +0000

You need to take it a step further and control the so called "cloud" by using this shared self reparing mesh.

https://github.com/peterretief/yggstore

I am using it for hosting at the moment, there needs to be a greater adoption and then the developent will be back in the hands of the developers

Localhosting with Yggdrasil

peter_retief — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:17:56 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@peterretief/localhosting-with-yggdrasil-or-how-the-internet-was-supposed-to-work-5441fdf44cc3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255618

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by peter_retief in "The Fall of Scientific American"

peter_retief — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:06:37 +0000

Good grief, the level of ignorence is astonishing but add that that was in a science journal...

New comment by peter_retief in "The Fall of Scientific American"

peter_retief — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:03:27 +0000

I used to buy a Scientific American as a treat and even subscribed for some time but wow, how bad it has become.

Why oh why destroy something so precious to so many people.

Spewing politcal hate is not the best way to win friends it seems.

New comment by peter_retief in "Tiny Little Office"

peter_retief — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:34:05 +0000

this is really great, just went through the categories and it is really useful to someone who work like me

New comment by peter_retief in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

peter_retief — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:03:48 +0000

Cloudflare do a great job, I noticed moving from another VM.

New comment by peter_retief in "A Modern Web App in C"

peter_retief — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:51:05 +0000

I never understood why we abandoned cgi apps rather than fixing them.

Not sure why but it probably had something to do with Microsoft and the browser wars.

Is it time to fix web development?

New comment by peter_retief in "AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment"

peter_retief — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:09:27 +0000

We really need to own our own data and allow it to be used for the common good, unfortunatly people just dont get the concept or the value. We are open source and need good open source laws to protect us.

New comment by peter_retief in "Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil"

peter_retief — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:11:37 +0000

yes and no

New comment by peter_retief in "Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil"

peter_retief — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:33:32 +0000

that is an issue, your anti challenge is a great idea.

New comment by peter_retief in "Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil"

peter_retief — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:59:15 +0000

It is an idea at the moment, more aligned to the internet in the early days when there was more trust.

As for your question there are ways to mitigate that type of problem, joining fee maybe?