Hacker News: rileymichael

New comment by rileymichael in "Turn And Face The Strange"

rileymichael — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:57:46 +0000

they lost a lot of aura among folks i know with the 'ai skeptics are nuts' article[1]. haven't read a blog post since.

New comment by rileymichael in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

rileymichael — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:50:07 +0000

> I don't select my engineering tools because they give me a bad feeling - I select them because they do the thing I want them to. If Bun starts having more bugs and feeling like worse software, I'll stop using it. But I will base that on data -- not a feeling I have.

being reactive is fine if you can tolerate issues. otherwise, you need to be proactive -- don't wait for the train to hit you before you move off the tracks

New comment by rileymichael in "Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight"

rileymichael — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:30:01 +0000

both options have their pros and cons. if you utilize some form of ratcheting[1], you can sneak it in without your team knowing.. but all of your PRs for the foreseeable future will have a ton of reformatting screwing with your git blame. if you do it all at once, someone will have to sort out conflicts, but you can utilize `blame.ignoreRevsFile`[2] so that your history remains useful

[1] https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/tree/main/plugin-gradle...

[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.t...

New comment by rileymichael in "We need a federation of forges"

rileymichael — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:40:59 +0000

i can't speak to gitea, but github and gitlab are explicitly mentioned as having a license in their policy:

> Please be aware that GitHub and GitLab are exceptions to this Policy because they are subject to explicit licensing arrangements that pre-date, and thus take precedence, over this Policy.

New comment by rileymichael in "We need a federation of forges"

rileymichael — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:32:51 +0000

not that mature — its name violates git’s trademark policy

https://git-scm.com/about/trademark

New comment by rileymichael in "GitHub Actions is the weakest link"

rileymichael — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:35:03 +0000

just noting that pinning within your own actions is not enough, you also need to ensure any composite actions do not use mutable references (for actions, docker images, etc.)

New comment by rileymichael in "GitHub is having issues now"

rileymichael — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:21:28 +0000

while external merge queues offer a ton more features, i wouldn't describe any of them as 'perfect' based on the simple fact the UX is bolted on. github continues to display their native UI components for merging, and users are forced to interact via arcane commands in comments or external CLIs/webpages. not ideal!

OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI

rileymichael — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:29:53 +0000

Article URL: https://mail.openjdk.org/archives/list/announce@openjdk.org/thread/NPTV4NGSIN2IOMVESWUVN7Y3ERMUBKH2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708590

Points: 5

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New comment by rileymichael in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

rileymichael — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:59:23 +0000

you should limit your output (manual or assisted) to a level that is well under your understanding ceiling.

Kernighan’s Law states that debugging is twice as hard as writing. how do you ever intend on debugging something you can’t even write?

New comment by rileymichael in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

rileymichael — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:05:31 +0000

> This report was produced by me — Claude Opus 4.6 — analyzing my own session logs [...] Please give me back my ability to think.

a bit ironic to utilize the tool that can't think to write up your report on said tool. that and this issue[1] demonstrate the extent folks become over reliant on LLMs. their review process let so many defects through that they now have to stop work and comb over everything they've shipped in the past 1.5 months! this is the future

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796#issue...

New comment by rileymichael in "Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching"

rileymichael — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:13:12 +0000

pretty hard to find this on their blog, looks like incidents are tucked away at the bottom. an issue of this size deserve a higher spot.

(also looks like two versions of the 'postmortem' are published at https://blog.railway.com/engineering)

New comment by rileymichael in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

rileymichael — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:24:11 +0000

by far. at this point there are very few tech companies without exposure to AI

New comment by rileymichael in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

rileymichael — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:54:43 +0000

> there is a large force on HN that want to deny the value of tokens

there is an even larger force on HN that financially _needs_ the value of tokens to be inflated (so much so that bots have overwhelmed the site)

New comment by rileymichael in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

rileymichael — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:50:42 +0000

> Engineering salaries are significantly higher than nearly every other industry on average and on median

now compare the profit per employee at tech (software engineering) companies and those industries..

Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed

rileymichael — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:34:02 +0000

Article URL: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/24-171/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518785

Points: 147

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New comment by rileymichael in "GitHub is once again down"

rileymichael — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:08:15 +0000

looking forward to the `addressing-githubs-recent-availability-issues-3` news post

New comment by rileymichael in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

rileymichael — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:21:59 +0000

> they require manually writing templates for the frameworks

the ones i've used come with defaults that you can then customize. here are some of the better ones:

- https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#generating-...

- https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Mix.Tasks.Phx.Gen.html

- https://laravel.com/docs/13.x/artisan#stub-customization

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/t...

> my experience has been these get left behind as the service implementations change

yeah i've definitely seen this, ultimately it comes down to your culture / ensuring time is invested in devex. an approach that helps avoid drift is generating directly from an _actual_ project instead of using something like yeoman, but that's quite involved

New comment by rileymichael in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

rileymichael — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:12:15 +0000

structural search and replace in intellij is a superpower (within a single repo). for polyrepo setups, openrewrite is great. add in an orchestrator (simple enough to build one like sourcegraph's batch changes) and you can manage hundreds of repositories in a deterministic, testable way.

New comment by rileymichael in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

rileymichael — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:03:51 +0000

most frameworks have CLIs / IDE plugins that do the same (plus models, database integration, etc.) deterministically. i've built many in house versions for internal frameworks over the years. if you were writing a ton of boilerplate prior to LLMs, that was on you

New comment by rileymichael in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

rileymichael — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:41:15 +0000

couldn't have said it better. all of the people clamoring on about eliminating the boilerplate they've been writing + enabling refactoring have had their heads in the sand for the past two decades. so yeah, i'm sure it does seem revolutionary to them!