Hacker News: recroad

New comment by recroad in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

recroad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:29:07 +0000

Why is she unpleasant?

The System Around the Code

recroad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:01:34 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/the-system-around-the-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935039

Points: 2

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New comment by recroad in "Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API"

recroad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:50:50 +0000

This is cool, but I've never had an issue with agents working on Cloudflare by just making REST calls. With the rest docs, it knows pretty much everything about what kind of operations it can do. Is the CLI a subset of that or does in encompass everything?

New comment by recroad in "Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things"

recroad — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:38:56 +0000

This is just for me, but I don't think I want to get into the business of specifying placement in that much detail. It would too cumbersome and I'd rather focus on what I want the diagram to convey, rather than how.

New comment by recroad in "Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things"

recroad — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:06:48 +0000

Seems a little buggy, I added this line:

edge parser -> renderer "test edge" from: left to: right

and it wasn't smart enough to make a curved arrow

New comment by recroad in "Plan mode is dead"

recroad — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:54:35 +0000

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential” - Churchill

New comment by recroad in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

recroad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:50:03 +0000

Yup. Brown Muslims from another country are barely considered human. It's like killing an ant.

New comment by recroad in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

recroad — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:11:00 +0000

This is awesome OP - very impressive. I'm definitely going to be using it to classify customer support tickets and log error classification. Thank you!

New comment by recroad in "OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework"

recroad — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:55:23 +0000

I use this to produce the task list which I then feed into a Ralph loop using a bash script. I save a lot of tokens since each tasks context is so small.

New comment by recroad in "Who Aligns the Aligners?"

recroad — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:40:12 +0000

American presidents/power structures come from a small credentialed network of people. The congress is entirely bought and paid for since the early 70s, and the will of the people isn't represented in the policy. For sure the US (and China, and India) have a "checkered past", that's why I group them together and don't really differentiate the quality of their democracy. I'd argue India is probably the most democratic country with good results, simply based on the amount of people they have lifted out of poverty in the last two decades (Kishore Mahbubani's lectures are quite informative).

Back to US presidents/power structures: HW Bush was the son of Sen. Prescott Bush, and became president 8yrs after he left office. His other son Jeb was the 2016 establishment favorite and Florida governor. Al Gore was the son of Senator Albert Gore Sr. Mitt Romney was the son of George Romney (Michigan governor and 1968 presidential candidate). Dan Quayle's family owned the Indiana newspaper chain that helped make him. Hillary was Bill's wife before she was a senator, Secretary of State, and nominee. John McCain was the son and grandson of four-star admirals.

Biden and Obama were 2008 primary rivals, Biden became his VP. Harris went from attacking Biden over school busing and became his VP. Hillary Clinton had many racist attacks against Obama through 2008 and became his Secretary of State. John Kerry, who lost in 2004 then took the same job.

If this is a healthy democracy, then we definitely have different definitions of that word.

New comment by recroad in "Who Aligns the Aligners?"

recroad — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:03:19 +0000

What's up with this split or democratic vs non-democratic countries? It doesn't even add-up because you can easily make a case that China is a democratic country with a far better system of governance and ability to control this problem than "Western" governments. Highly suggest this quick read on the different types of democracy in our glorious world[1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2193933.The_Real_Worl...

Replacing Prompts with Loops: An Example

recroad — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:12:44 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/replacing-prompts-with-loops-an-example

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570299

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by recroad in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

recroad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:27:38 +0000

That’s what one must resort to when defending genocide. No shame in these people.

New comment by recroad in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

recroad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:24:08 +0000

Still waiting

New comment by recroad in "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?"

recroad — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:52:28 +0000

I use the Ecto connection pool when using Elixir/Phoenix.

New comment by recroad in "Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal"

recroad — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:21:09 +0000

That is a LOT of code for a pretty basic feature.

New comment by recroad in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

recroad — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:07:54 +0000

RFC 2119 style requirements have proven to be quite effective for me.

New comment by recroad in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

recroad — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:21:56 +0000

That may be true but it’s still capable of nuanced discussions.

Enforcing Invariants in AI-Generated Code with ADRs and Contracts

recroad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:22:17 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/enforcing-invariants-in-ai-generated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736025

Points: 1

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New comment by recroad in "Working With AI: A concrete example"

recroad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:30:06 +0000

Have to disagree with this as it's excellent at helping you wide and broad before converging. I suggest trying OpenSpec and use /ospx:explore to state your problem and go from there.