Hacker News: ray_v

New comment by ray_v in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ray_v — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:07:46 +0000

1-3) my free time (too busy using Claude Code)

New comment by ray_v in "Have a Coherent AI Policy"

ray_v — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:03:30 +0000

If your spaceship is broken, you'd still be able to fly back to the moon on your own just like our forefathers did! /s

It feels like the arguments here are very "status quo biased" - Ok, sure - I guess for some shops the code is the source of truth for the org and you really have to be prepared/equipped to deeply reason around the code and these so-called-patterns.

Really it seems to me that the era of "agentic coding" has uncovered some uncomfortable truths. This is purely speculative, but it seems like most shops maintain little-to-no specification documentation for defining the code behavior - the code IS the documentation and that feels dangerous from a software engineering / architectural statdpoint.

New comment by ray_v in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

ray_v — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:42:16 +0000

Did blender charge you thousands of dollars when you touched it wrong when you tried to learn to use it? /s

New comment by ray_v in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

ray_v — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:27:24 +0000

This is the way - lightweight build process - host it on your private tailnet to consume the document on whichever device you so choose - tablet, phone - also makes it easier to share with co-colaborstors etc. in a more secure way.

New comment by ray_v in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

ray_v — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:34:01 +0000

It's so funny, because I was JUST telling a colleague of mine - another librarian - this exact fact about sqlite!

New comment by ray_v in "[dead]"

ray_v — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:46:09 +0000

This seems wildly dangerous at best and malware at worst. This should not be as high as it is on HN right now.

New comment by ray_v in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

ray_v — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:48:38 +0000

I wonder if it's not so much the coding that people don't want to write, but it's more about the weight of all the orchestration, data engineering and research that has to be done (or, understood in the first place) to get anything off the ground these days. It feels off the charts complicated, and of course is now shifting rapidly.

New comment by ray_v in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

ray_v — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:39:45 +0000

Congrats and guard your sleep hygiene as much as possible (practically impossible advice to follow in most cases).

I went through a really rough period because of the lack of sleep. I noticed that hydration during that period was also challenging, so I wonder if this is related to the brain shrink effect.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323595

New comment by ray_v in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)"

ray_v — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:42:07 +0000

The trick is to be on one of the two extremes in terms of skill. Suck harder?

New comment by ray_v in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

ray_v — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:24:05 +0000

In this economy, it may be sage advice.

New comment by ray_v in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

ray_v — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:49:14 +0000

When I first started using Claude, one of my fist big projects was tightening up my backups and planning around recovery. It's more or less inevitable if you're opening up permissions wide enough to do this without your explicit OK

New comment by ray_v in "Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox"

ray_v — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:23:30 +0000

As my coworker succinctly put it, "nobody uses Firefox anymore."

I don't know if hundreds of millions of people is exactly, "nobody" but I personally agree that open source software is just going to crush closed source for exactly the reasons we're seeing unfold in front of us; you can audit and correct incorrect behavior for the benefits of all.

New comment by ray_v in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

ray_v — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:07:40 +0000

Not far ... just the other end of Ohio (SW Ohio from NE Ohio) ... But very much on our own

New comment by ray_v in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

ray_v — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:48:53 +0000

We're in the same boat. Feels like mostly our society doesn't value having children - it's by and large not a very well supported activity. Even more so if you don't have immediate family to help support you.

New comment by ray_v in "I just want simple S3"

ray_v — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:44:26 +0000

New comment by ray_v in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

ray_v — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:24:10 +0000

I set my dad up with a Linux box as a daily driver for him - he keeps the desktop on , and the roku jellyfin now has a clean proxy into jellyfin over the tailscale network. Giving him a desktop I can remote into was a great decision that paid dividends for him :)

New comment by ray_v in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

ray_v — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:12:19 +0000

It's funny, but I just encountered this for the first time the other day - feels like I had to do a lot of digging to find out how to do this so that I could add my LUKS key to my TPM... really felt like it took some doing on the HP all-in-one that I was trying to put debian on... maybe because it was debian being debian

New comment by ray_v in "Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network"

ray_v — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:33:07 +0000

I just started looking at the At Protocol for another side project - do you think the protocol will eventually support such privacy settings by default, or is heading in that direction?

New comment by ray_v in "How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)"

ray_v — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:44:20 +0000

Claude, FAIL all tests except for the one that produces a correct output _most_ of the time please."

New comment by ray_v in "How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)"

ray_v — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:40:44 +0000

I feel this in my bones. I had to wait for them to invent LLM agents that could reverse engineer an application to a specification before I could stat to unravel code I inherited.