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New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Tornado VPS services and website are down"

pramodbiligiri — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:57:12 +0000

It's still flaky: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tornadovps.com.html. They have a blog post regarding the outage (may not load if it's also been affected): https://tornadovps.com/blog/2026/07/distributed-denial-of-se....

New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Tornado VPS services and website are down"

pramodbiligiri — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:05:10 +0000

As the linked page describes, “Tornado VPS is a focused, old-school VPS provider that has been active since 2005, originally under the Prgmr.com name. They do one thing only – Linux and BSD virtual private servers on Xen – and they clearly target people who already know how to manage a server.”

Their main site (https://tornadovps.com) has been down for hours, and probably all sites hosted on it: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tornadovps.com.html

Tornado VPS services and website are down

pramodbiligiri — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:05:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whtop.com/review/tornadovps.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976125

Points: 3

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The Frink is good, the unit is evil (2020)

pramodbiligiri — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:42:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/frink/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956263

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

pramodbiligiri — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:19:41 +0000

How would this be different from Apple's recently launched "container" utility? https://github.com/apple/container

Harbor: Evaluate agents in sandboxed environments

pramodbiligiri — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:56:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.harborframework.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856607

Points: 1

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New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

pramodbiligiri — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:10:18 +0000

I feel that flow state[1] is possible as long as you don't feel distracted into doing other things and you're needed to guide the LLM along every few seconds/minutes (someone mentioned a pair-programming type tool in this thread). For me that works if you have a good spec + workflow tool (assuming you're doing interactive coding and not kicking off long running coding jobs). I feel that a good test of a workflow tool is that it should offload all bookkeeping from you, leaving you to just read the generated code and think about design/architecture.

I built one such tool for myself: https://www.shipsmooth.net. You can use it to spec/plan out a piece of work, and then easily keep updating the spec/plan as you churn through its implementation. The tool assumes that you will pretty much end up changing the spec/plan during implementation, based on how it's going. In general, I don't see how it's possible to one-shot high quality code for custom use cases.

[1] Going by the definition of flow state here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology): "fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time."

Out of the loop

pramodbiligiri — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://saturnino.substack.com/p/out-of-the-loop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732245

Points: 2

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New comment by pramodbiligiri in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

pramodbiligiri — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:01:36 +0000

It's possible they are running at a loss at present. But in a recent podcast their founder said he believes inference is profitable, based on their experience serving models: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/opencode (search for "profitable")

The principle of least power (2007)

pramodbiligiri — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675242

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

pramodbiligiri — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:40:19 +0000

https://archive.is/T1FJG

Zen of AI Coding

pramodbiligiri — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:31:12 +0000

Article URL: https://nonstructured.com/zen-of-ai-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658715

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

pramodbiligiri — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:52:26 +0000

It would be interesting to see if LLM's can scan and surface such issues. Might have been probable with parsing tools pre-LLM also? Not sure.

New comment by pramodbiligiri in "Alice is impatient"

pramodbiligiri — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:28:43 +0000

I believe “sessionization” is a common term used for this: https://dev3lop.com/blog/sessionization-in-clickstream-event...

TOML Schema

pramodbiligiri — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:15:58 +0000

Article URL: https://toml-schema.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607078

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How we built Cedar with automated reasoning and differential testing (2023)

pramodbiligiri — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:10:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-we-built-cedar-with-automated-reasoning-and-differential-testing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589208

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Shipsmooth: coding workflow plugin for iterative, solo-dev work

pramodbiligiri — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:19:37 +0000

Hi, I've created a coding workflow plugin for my personal use. Might be of use to others. More info at: https://www.shipsmooth.net.

The workflow assumes that you'll want to start with a coding plan which in turn is broken down into tasks. But both the plan and its tasks will evolve as you start generating the code (which is what I find usually happens with me).

So the plugin takes on the chore of managing all your plan/task updates and versioning, freeing you up to focus on just getting to your outcome in an iterative, interactive way.

There's a couple of opinionated bits in it: It tries to break down the plan implementation into "vertical slices" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_slice). Also, it believes in implementing the riskiest parts first, validating them, and only then finishing up the rest of the work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model.

- Github repo: https://github.com/bitkentech/shipsmooth

- SKILL file containing the full workflow: https://github.com/bitkentech/shipsmooth/blob/releases/dist/...

The plugin does not have any specific support for one-shotting or for long-running coding tasks - although nothing in it should preclude such use cases.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582397

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Against essential and accidental complexity (2020)

pramodbiligiri — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:36:58 +0000

Article URL: https://danluu.com/essential-complexity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568368

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

pramodbiligiri — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:52:56 +0000

Fairly predictable given the times: a plugin for coding assistants that supports a development workflow that I like :) It's at https://www.shipsmooth.net/.

Perhaps the more interesting bit is that it's in Java (not Typescript or Rust)! Java 25 is pretty neat. Bonus: getting to know how to distribute a self-contained Java program using jlink and the likes: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/man/jli...

Harness engineering for coding agent users

pramodbiligiri — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:52:29 +0000

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513770

Points: 4

# Comments: 1