<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rockostrich</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rockostrich</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:40:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rockostrich" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here. I do well in existing codebases because I can follow patterns and adapt to existing limitations but starting a new project is always so daunting to me. Writing a spec and iterating on it is so much more natural than writing code in a new project for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208361</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't prove anything. It provides context for why someone would make that statement. Can you prove that things that do not need to eat and drink to survive can suffer?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145860</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is essentially just setting up an MCP connection to your kanban provider and instructing the agent to plan out an epic. I did this this morning for some data modeling our team needed to do. For the most part it generated a good set of tickets, but there were some hallucinations due to ambiguity. Reviewing the already written out tickets was much better than writing them out myself.<p>But the standard that will hopefully take over in most mature shops is spec driven development where instead of a team reviewing code, they review a spec which is used to generate tasks and subsequently code to satisfy the spec. Then 2 kanban boards exist. One for writing and submitting specs and another for the agents themselves to implement the approved specs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145622</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These chips are large by fab standards and even with state of the art processes we likely won't see any kind of integration on consumer tech any time soon, but I imagine they will absolutely see instant demand if they can deliver on what they laid out in the post.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:26:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142437</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> From my own experience, models are at the tipping point for being useful at prototypes in software<p>You must not have much experience using the new frontier models then. A lot of large tech companies are replacing their SDLC with agentic workflows. The tooling and frameworks are still ramping up, but the models have no problem producing production ready software given proper specifications.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:23:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142392</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But at one point the model is sufficiently large enough to accomplish any task a human could specify. For software development, I think we're pretty much at that point with the latest Anthropic/Google/OpenAI models. We have no idea where the direction of token pricing is going to go in the future, but the consensus seems to be that it will only get more expensive. If Taalas can offer the same functionality that we have with frontier models today at a 1/10 of the cost and 10x the speed then they're going to take over a large part of the market.</p>
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<p>Except they're still not accepting any feedback around AGENTS.md as a standard. You need to explicitly symlink CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md in a workspace in order to Claude to work like every other agent when it comes to loading context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:33:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141612</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the entire span of human history, the concept of suffering required sentience and the only things with sentience eat and drink.</p>
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<p>The intent is good, but it will end up just pricing out everyone but Google, Amazon, and Microsoft (and the start-ups those companies bankroll).</p>
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<p>Seems like SLUM is down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502387</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would guess that they use their own domain for email and the dev manages the domain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502318</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you look at <a href="https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/</a>, Python's growth really started in 2018 which was before langchain, streamlit, and fastapi.</p>
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<p>You don't even need to do that. You can just put each set of repos in a directory on a per-account basis and set up git-configs for each. The top of my `.gitconfig` looks like<p><pre><code>    [includeIf "gitdir:~/Work/"]
      path = .gitconfig_work
    [includeIf "gitdir:~/OpenSource/"]
      path = .gitconfig_opensource
</code></pre>
where `Work` is where all of our repos associated with our GitHub EMU go and `OpenSource` is where I clone all of the open source repos I need to contribute to for work. Our EMU policy doesn't allow us to use our EMU accounts on other repos (or maybe this is just a general restriction of EMU) so I have that set-up to use my personal GitHub.</p>
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<p>McMaster-Carr's website is actually pretty impressive given how unassuming it is. It does a ton of pre-loading on hover and caching to make it feel like you're just navigating a static site. I didn't even realize that the page had a loading state until I enabled throttling from my network tab and immediately clicked on a link as soon as I hovered over it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:54:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248825</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "Steam Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If Valve pivoted into making a well-supported laptop with good hardware that ran Linux and played games...<p>The Steam Deck is kind of close to this although the screen isn't the best. I think the closest you can get to this right now is adding a graphics card module on a Framework laptop.</p>
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<p>During undergrad/grad school it was always whatever free stickers were available at hackathons. Now I usually just put 1 or 2 unique stickers to distinguish my MBP from others. Currently rocking one that's an illustration that my friend made of their dog with its tongue out.</p>
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<p>Thanks! I've been looking for a while but couldn't find one that was in decent shape for less than $10k. Thankfully for some reason people shy away from RHD cars and I snagged a 1990 Eunos Roadster for $7700 on C&B. I'm in NJ and sadly it seems like that week was the last week that would've been a decent week to drive with the top down. I may still try and take it out but I'm definitely going to be bundled up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:19:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881078</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> did this do you any better than if you had searched a youtube video or some other source?<p>Yes, because when I searched youtube for "miata wink mod" almost all of the results were for kits for microcontrollers which I wanted to avoid because I just want to control the motors with switches. Now I know to include "SPDT" in my search and I can find more targeted videos that add an override using switches.<p>The video you linked is relevant but doesn't really match what I want to do. The NA Miata has a motor for each pop-up headlight. There's a dedicated button that controls the headlights popping up and down but the light switch on the turn signal overrides this if the lights are on i.e. the relay is DPDT that's an OR of the 2 signals.<p>I want to add rocker switch for each light where the signal from the rocker switch overrides the behavior from the existing relay. If a given DPDT rocker switch is in neutral then the signal from the relay is used but if the rocker switch is engaged in either direction then the motor moves in that direction. ChatGPT did explain a lot about the default behavior and included a lot of the terminology that helped me confirm that. Of course, if I already knew about relays then I wouldn't have needed any of this, but I didn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881022</link><dc:creator>rockostrich</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rockostrich in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At the moment, I find them to be the perfect tool to get started with learning about something. I don't expect it to tell me everything I need to know or to even be right, but if I ask ChatGPT or another LLM a question about a subject I'm not familiar with then it will at least use a bunch of terminology that I didn't have in my vocabulary before starting.<p>For example, I just bought a 1990 Miata and I want to install a couple of rocker switches in the dash to individually control the pop-up headlights. I have enough circuits knowledge to safely change outlets and light switches, but I didn't know about relays. I asked ChatGPT how to add these switches and it immediately mentioned buying DPDT switches and tying in the OEM relay into a SPDT relay. It may have gotten the actual circuit diagram completely wrong, but now I know exactly what to read up on.</p>
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<p>Weight is not the only thing that matters though. You also need to consider center of gravity and wheel base. A YJ Jeep Wrangler and a Honda Fit both weigh around 2700 lbs and they even have similar wheel bases but the driving experience between those 2 is night and day. A Honda Fit can take a turn at speed without feeling like you're going to go flying. You'll feel like you're able to flip making a turn going 20 mph in a YJ.<p>This is why the first performance mod that most people put on their cars is an adjustable coil over suspension. Dropping the car down by an inch or 2 changes has just as much of an impact as shedding some weight.<p>Ironically, most people put lift kits on Jeeps but that also usually comes with widening the wheel base and putting on larger wheels/tires.</p>
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