Hacker News: red_hare

New comment by red_hare in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

red_hare — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:02:25 +0000

I can't help but respect the dev's self-awareness

New comment by red_hare in "Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering"

red_hare — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:49:46 +0000

When you give those resources to your coding agent, do you give them URLs? Or work with local versions?

I've found a lot of success pointing claude at locally downloaded docs over llms.txt URLs but not sure how to scale the pattern for a bigger project.

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

red_hare — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:25:17 +0000

I'm in the process of planning an indoor-outdoor wedding in NYC so I made a little weather history explore tool

https://12seasons.nyc/explore/

New comment by red_hare in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

red_hare — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:16:21 +0000

15 years of mouse-free professional programming and never in my life have I touched these.

New comment by red_hare in "Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga"

red_hare — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:48:22 +0000

Anyone else catch that he wrote this on an 11-inch MacBook Air (2016 at latest)?

New comment by red_hare in "Marimo now runs in PyCharm"

red_hare — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:01:38 +0000

What I like about Marimo notebooks over Jupyter:

1. They're just a python file so they work with python editors

2. There's no hidden state

3. I can import from them

4. I'm not accidentally committing base64 encoded image output anymore

New comment by red_hare in "Marimo now runs in PyCharm"

red_hare — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:58:58 +0000

huh, I was doing this but without the feature. This is neat!

New comment by red_hare in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

red_hare — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:15:58 +0000

I think the trick to using libraries like this is to not go all in on them. Applying these effects to every element would be garish.

But for a single like button, an effect slider, or magic search bar? It would be be a lovely touch.

New comment by red_hare in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

red_hare — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:05:57 +0000

Just 25 years too late to be used to design Jelly World

https://neopets.fandom.com/wiki/Jelly_World

New comment by red_hare in "Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs"

red_hare — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:42:23 +0000

I agree. We're seeing more variants of "RAG" that aren't semantic at all (e.g. coding agents or simple memory systems that feed summary indexes directly into context).

I think, over time, it's going to become a SQL / NoSQL sort of divide. There will be the right kind of RAG for the job and lots of forcing the wrong kind because the developer doesn't understand the nuances.

New comment by red_hare in "Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font"

red_hare — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:44:46 +0000

Wow. This is so freaking cool.

New comment by red_hare in "Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API"

red_hare — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:31:48 +0000

I say this with a lot of love: The vibecoded applications in your demo reek of AI slop design.

This isn't a critique of your product. It's just that the a beige-orange theme, the pill components, and the left-border highlight give me that visceral reaction as reading a paragraph littered with em dashes and "not X but Y." It makes me take you less seriously.

Cool demo otherwise.

New comment by red_hare in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

red_hare — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:31:11 +0000

Apt for self-hosting

New comment by red_hare in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

red_hare — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:56:24 +0000

Oil changes aren't the best example. They're pretty easy to do at home for basically everything and filters are pretty standardized.

But car batteries, brake pads, tire pressure sensors are all becoming increasingly software-locked in. We're lacking open standards for this stuff.

New comment by red_hare in "The truth about being a manager"

red_hare — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:09:05 +0000

Why does AI want to stress me with that cup about to fall off the desk

New comment by red_hare in "Steam Machine launches today"

red_hare — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:37:06 +0000

Eh, it was the exact same system for the Switch 2 and no one I know waited more than a week for theirs.

Given it requires a Steam login of a certain age to register, I suspect this is just to limit the scalpers.

New comment by red_hare in "Ask HN: What is the job market like?"

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

> pause for 5 seconds between responses

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I've gotten so aggressive about monitoring for this. I do most interviews zoomed in on the candidate's eyes and I rubric on how they "thought" through the problem, not just the results.

Thankfully the interview tools are catching on as well and now tracking this like browser focus, number of monitors, window size, and sending notifications when any of those change.

New comment by red_hare in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

red_hare — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:30:42 +0000

This is an insane take.

Also wrong, gay marriage had 60% support before Obergefell v. Hodges.

New comment by red_hare in "Chuwi Minibook X"

red_hare — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:55 +0000

I have one of these. Basically dead with modern MacOS but runs Linux Mint XFCE really well.

New comment by red_hare in "MCP is dead?"

red_hare — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:59:37 +0000

OpenAI API also supports defer_loading https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-tool-sea...

And it's not actually necessary for it to exist at the API level. It's a pattern. Making it API-side is just an optimization.

To do it client-side: 1. Define a single tool, tool_search 2. List the names of your deferred tools in context (or tool_search's description) 3. When tool_search is called, match the query against the tool names (or names + descriptions) 4. Append the matched tool def to the context in a new -esque tag

Claude Code (as of the leak) does this client side. You can even see the custom matching function and A/B tests about whether to include the descriptions.

Whether or not that tool definition comes from MCP or a local definition is kind of beside the point.