Hacker News: rethab

New comment by rethab in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

rethab — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:12:08 +0000

I only use opus 4.7 and am on the 100$/mo plan. I usually make sure the context does not grow beyond 30-40% of the 1m tokens. On heavy coding days where I do something pretty similar to this, I would occasionally run into the five hour limit, but that happens like once per week and then it wouldn't take too long to reset. Note that I use caveman, but I'm not sure to what extent that really helps.

New comment by rethab in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

rethab — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:41:57 +0000

Before the cloud, people were trying to reduce the mean time between failure (MTBF) essentially trying to prevent a thing from failing. With cloud, people are trying to recover as quickly as possible (mean time to recovery) accepting that things will fail —- it’s about how fast you can react to it.

John Allspaw (previously CTO at Etsy) has written about this: https://www.kitchensoap.com/2010/11/07/mttr-mtbf-for-most-ty...

New comment by rethab in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

rethab — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:37:04 +0000

v2.91.0 is the one that's going to introduce it: https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.91.0

Also note that even though you get a warning about an unknown config key, the value is actually set so you're future-proof. Check `grep telemetry ~/.config/gh/config.yml`

New comment by rethab in "Stripe is down"

rethab — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:14:13 +0000

> As of 07:55 UTC, we are experiencing issues with the Dashboard, Express Dashboard on all platforms and Mobile surfaces. We’re continuing to investigate and will post further updates. API requests and payment processing are unaffected by this issue.

https://status.stripe.com/

New comment by rethab in "Ask HN: Is Claude down again?"

rethab — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:42:56 +0000

Same issue here. What was the name of that question and answer site again where you had to manually copy and paste code from? ;-)

Official status is still green: https://status.claude.com/

But downdetector is clear: https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

/edit: there's an official incident now: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt

New comment by rethab in "In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information"

rethab — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:02:57 +0000

Shout out to Blogtrottr[1], which allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and have the posts sent to you via email. Great service I've been using for years.

[1] https://blogtrottr.com

New comment by rethab in "Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub"

rethab — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:42:18 +0000

what's his next thing, is that known?

New comment by rethab in "Don't use Redis as a rate limiter"

rethab — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 03:42:00 +0000

This article should have started with a disclosure that the author offers a commercial alternative?

New comment by rethab in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

rethab — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:34:21 +0000

Fancy! Why are the first twenty commits or so created in the same minute though? Surely you can’t be that fast if you need to prompt for each commit

New comment by rethab in "The best programmers I know"

rethab — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:04:28 +0000

This is great advice. Unfortunately, all these AI tools make it far too easy for beginners to not follow it. I'm not sure if all this advice will become irrelevant or if those programmers trained in the 2020ies will not become those "best"..

Exploring Identities in the AT Protocol via Bluesky

rethab — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:51:27 +0000

Article URL: https://fusectore.dev/2025/01/04/atproto-identity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594999

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rethab in "No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda"

rethab — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:40:10 +0000

We cannot forget that we also loose something with working remotely (say more than 75% of the time) and that is the occasional bumping into each other at the water cooler or in the morning when coming in. These are situations you can artificially create by scheduling calls to socialize etc, but that is still not comparable with being in an actual office.

By categorically saying no to quick calls, you're isolating yourself even more. While it can be distracting to jump on a call while you actually meant to focus on some coding, it can also be great to have a quick chat and brainstorm about an idea rather than let the other person work out the solution in isolation only for me to then suggest a totally different approach in the PR review (yay! asynchronous!).

New comment by rethab in "Ask HN: Which programming podcasts do you listen to?"

rethab — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:38:37 +0000

- Software Architektur im Stream (mostly German, but sometimes English)

- 2.5 Admins (sysadmins Talking)

- A Bootiful Podcast (Java / Spring)

- Risky Biz (IT Security News)

- Software Engineering Radio

- The Engineering Room with Dave Farley

- Ship It (What happens after git push)

- ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast

- Big Ideas in App Architecture (Cockroach DB Makers)

- OpenSource Security Podcast (Two guys talking about OS)

- InfoQ Podcast

- Engineering Enablement

New comment by rethab in "JetBrains releases RustRover IDE for Rust development"

rethab — Sat, 25 May 2024 03:57:12 +0000

I like the jetbrains products a lot and have been using IntelliJ as my main IDE for years.

What I don’t like is their pricing with regards to multiple products. I use IntelliJ 95% of the time and pay for it. Sometimes, I’m writing some Python or C and would like to have a decent IDE as well, but then I immediately need to purchase the „all products pack“. I wish there was a cheaper option for occasional use of other IDEs. Right now I use the PyCharm community edition, but this feels a bit silly :)

Hopefully Fleet will solve this.

New comment by rethab in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

rethab — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 06:29:28 +0000

Gradle Plugin for native semantic releasing: https://github.com/rethab/semantic-release-gradle-plugin Very much a proof of concept, but please feel free to try & ask for features

New comment by rethab in "Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails"

rethab — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:14:04 +0000

dependabot can also be used for regular version updates

New comment by rethab in "Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails"

rethab — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:14:33 +0000

> scheduled GitHub Action workflow

..sounds like they're not dogfooding dependabot? curious if anybody knows more/why

GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

rethab — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/z3c6q056q332

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357851

Points: 97

# Comments: 53

New comment by rethab in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

rethab — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:55:10 +0000

how do you make sure your scripts are SH compatible?

New comment by rethab in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

rethab — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:53:01 +0000

AWK is just fine for data manipulation. And unlike python, you don't need to worry about whether it's installed and in what version.