Hacker News: plandis

New comment by plandis in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

plandis — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:51:07 +0000

GCP has had outages. From a quick search it looks like they had a global outage less than a year ago:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

New comment by plandis in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

plandis — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:57:50 +0000

Who is forcing you to exclusively buy into Apple’s ecosystem?

Are other competitors banned where you live?

New comment by plandis in "Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised"

plandis — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:15:13 +0000

A US based non-profit news organization isn’t going to spend money to pay lawyers to ensure they meet a regulatory burden that doesn’t affect their core demographic.

New comment by plandis in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

plandis — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:58:46 +0000

I could not agree any less with the author. I don’t want APIs, I want agents to use the same CLI tooling I already use that is locally available. If my agents are using CLI tooling anyways there is no need to add an extra layer via MCP.

I don’t want remote MCP calls, I don’t even want remote models but that’s cost prohibitive.

If I need to call an API, a skill with existing CLI tooling is more than capable.

New comment by plandis in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

plandis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:03:05 +0000

It doesn't seem any more egregious than something like:

`git log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --`

Which is something I see a lot of people alias in Git for viewing logs.

New comment by plandis in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

plandis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:57:55 +0000

Claude Opus can use a 1M context window but I’ve found it to degrade significantly past 250k in practice.

New comment by plandis in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

plandis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:19:13 +0000

At first glance this seems like a crypto miner.

Maybe I’m a bot, I gave up waiting before the progress bar was even 1% done.

New comment by plandis in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

plandis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:14:16 +0000

MacOS has a built in 4x4 window tiling which works for this purpose for me. I don’t find ever wanting more than 4 windows open on an ultrawide. Definitely not as powerful as something like xmonad but useful for the majority of my use cases.

New comment by plandis in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

plandis — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:57:04 +0000

Meta is one of the worst offenders here. They are actively lobbying at least the US Congress for laws that require age verification at the hardware/os level.

New comment by plandis in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

plandis — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:01:08 +0000

I’ve found this to be critical for having any chance of getting agents to generate code that is actually usable.

The more frequently you can verify correctness in some automated way the more likely the overall solution will be correct.

I’ve found that with good enough acceptance criteria (both positive and negative) it’s usually sufficient for agents to complete one off tasks without a human making a lot of changes. Essentially, if you’re willing to give up maintainability and other related properties, this works fairly well.

I’ve yet to find agents good enough to generate code that needs to be maintained long term without a ton of human feedback or manual code changes.

New comment by plandis in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

plandis — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:38:04 +0000

Yeah it’s extremely helpful to clarify your thoughts before starting work with LLM agents.

I find Claude Code style plan mode to be a bit restrictive for me personally, but I’ve found that creating a plan doc and then collaboratively iterating on it with an LLM to be helpful here.

I don’t really find it much different than the scoping I’d need to do before handing off some work to a more junior engineer.

New comment by plandis in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

plandis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:08:50 +0000

That’s not evidence. You’re effectively saying “trust me bro” without a shred of proof to backup your claims.

New comment by plandis in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

plandis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:28:21 +0000

I think the current government of California would significantly regulate firearms if they could. It’s prevented from passing more restrictive laws due to the US constitution and a Supreme Court which takes an extremely broad interpretation of the rights derived from the second amendment.

New comment by plandis in "Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory"

plandis — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:15:06 +0000

Right? I’d instantly reject any review sent to me if there were no tests.

New comment by plandis in "Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config"

plandis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:23:39 +0000

Do you have a public repo showing your setup? I’d be curious to see it in practice.

New comment by plandis in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

plandis — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:04:05 +0000

I agree. Error or higher should result in an alarm and indicates that some corrective action needs to be taken.

New comment by plandis in "alpr.watch"

plandis — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:37:20 +0000

This only works if society was okay with surveillance on private property. The wealthy can afford large tracts of private land and can afford to send people on their behalf to interact in public for many things. They can pay services to come to them as well.

New comment by plandis in "Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1"

plandis — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:27:09 +0000

I love that resource and reference it fairly frequently.

There is also this [1] which Aphyr collabed on which you might find interesting if you haven’t seen it yet.

[1] https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/

New comment by plandis in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

plandis — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:29:16 +0000

I can reproduce this by covering one of the exterior mics used for ANC when there is a decent amount of background noise in the environment. It results in feedback that causes a high pitch ringing.

The AirPods Pro 2 don’t have this same issue. I can’t reproduce the same behavior regardless of how I cover the exterior on the pro 2s.

New comment by plandis in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

plandis — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:49:27 +0000

Dynamo is AFAIK, not used by core AWS services.