Hacker News: ricardo_lien

New comment by ricardo_lien in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

ricardo_lien — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:44:41 +0000

pnpm

New comment by ricardo_lien in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

ricardo_lien — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:11:01 +0000

This surprised me, but I can understand it - Python sucks in many ways lol.

New comment by ricardo_lien in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

ricardo_lien — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:13 +0000

Did they find the vibecoding secret sauce?

New comment by ricardo_lien in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ricardo_lien — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:10:30 +0000

Totally agree, if someone have other intentions for the request, it will make the other person feel like it's dishonest so the conversation usually doesn't go far.

New comment by ricardo_lien in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ricardo_lien — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:31:44 +0000

I guess I should reach out to somebody in my badminton class this afternoon!

New comment by ricardo_lien in "I am building a cloud"

ricardo_lien — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:46:59 +0000

Yes, I've had similar experiences. My life has been much easier since I migrated to ECS Fargate - the service just works great. No more 2AM calls (at least not because of infra incidents), no more cost concerns from my boss.

New comment by ricardo_lien in "Technical, cognitive, and intent debt"

ricardo_lien — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:25:34 +0000

> you didn't think through how to manipulate the bits on the hardware, you just allowed the interpreter to do it

The interpreter is deterministic but LLMs aren't.

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

ricardo_lien — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:48:19 +0000

Your verification email is pointing to http://localhost:3000/ lol

New comment by ricardo_lien in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

ricardo_lien — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:07:58 +0000

I'm tinkering with some electronic gadgets like esp32 to build my own things, such as auto feeder for my aquarium or an auto wattering system for my balcony garden. It's kinda hard and takes time because I'm not an electrican, but I'm really enjoy it and taking it slowly.

New comment by ricardo_lien in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

ricardo_lien — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:14:16 +0000

I tried it after watching the video demo from the repo creator, and it looked quite impressive at first. And I decided to rebuild my side project with this, but after a few days I realized that it was not for me. It's way too much of a black box for me as an engineer, not a prompter.