<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: ryanhecht</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanhecht</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:29:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ryanhecht" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanhecht in "GitHub Copilot CLI is now generally available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Copilot CLI PM here: I'm super proud of our team's velocity and vision as we took this from our admittedly bare-bones initial public preview back in September to what I believe is an industry-leading agentic harness.</p>
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<p>Hey! I'm a PM on the Copilot CLI team. This sounds like a bug, we should follow the same premium request scheme as the VSCode extension! If you still have the session logs kicking around, can you email them to me? It's my hn username @github.com</p>
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<p>The Copilot CLI team has been making great strides towards improving our agentic harness! I'm curious, what have you found are the biggest shortcomings with it these days?</p>
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<p>Give Copilot CLI a try if you haven't in a while! The team's been working really hard to improve the harness, and we're taking as much community feedback as we can get! Let me know if you run into any problems :)<p><a href="https://github.com/github/copilot-cli" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/copilot-cli</a></p>
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<p>Apparently they "retired the expansion" of the initialism in 2009: <a href="https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand/" rel="nofollow">https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand/</a></p>
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<p>Maybe someone will finally build my dream: a WSL distro that I can also dual-boot natively. I'd love to switch between bare-metal Windows with WSL and bare-metal Linux with virtualized Windows at my leisure!</p>
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<p>Maybe someone will finally build my dream: a WSL distro that I can also dual-boot natively. I'd love to switch between bare-metal Windows with WSL and bare-metal Linux with virtualized Windows at my leisure!</p>
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<p>Great exploration of this in Defunctland's latest piece: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk</a> (There's a "part 2" on Disney's "Living Characters" coming this year!)</p>
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<p>Definitely makes sense!<p>> In fact, even if you ungzip them manually, as of today nerdlog doesn't support more than 2 files in a logstream<p>Ah, interesting! I read the limitation as "we don't support zipped files," not "we only support two files!"<p>Best of luck, this is neat!</p>
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<p>I definitely intend on playing around with this later! I see that [gzipped log archives aren't supported](<a href="https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article#depends_on_the_log_file_rotation_policy" rel="nofollow">https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article#depends_on_...</a>), minimizing the use case for me personally. You've at least thought enough about that to bring it up as a limitation you think people will call attention to -- any plans to eventually support it?</p>
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<p>I feel ashamed to admit this in public, but...me too. The barrier to entry is so much lower than therapy, I feel less anxiety about explaining my situation correctly, and I can quickly start over with a "new therapist" whenever I want.<p>Is it a replacement? No, of course not. But boy if it isn't a big help.</p>
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<p>John Hench (widely considered the coiner of the "go away" colors as it relates to WDI) brings up the concept of "go away" colors in the color theory chapter of his book "Designing Disney" when discussing how colors establish the identity of a space (this is partially quoted in the Wikipedia article):<p>> One particular challenge in designing the interior of the [American Adventure pavilion at EPCOT Center] was the metal safety railing we had to include by law, which, being out of place in the middle of a Colonial staircase, undermined the identity of the main entrance room. We chose a neutral gray-brown for the railing, a 'go away' color that did not call attention to itself, even though it was entirely unrelated to the Colonial color scheme. In this way ,we got a functional safety railing that satisfies legal requirements without conflicting visually with the Colonial theme<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/designingdisneyi0000henc/page/110/mode/2up?q=%22go+away%22" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/designingdisneyi0000henc/page/11...</a><p>Given how he talks about color in the rest of the book, I think Hench and other early Imagineers were coming at it from film/scenic design perspectives rather than scientific "here's how camouflage and blocking patterns work" perspective. I agree though, I'd love to have someone connect this artist-minded explanation with a scientific one!</p>
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<p>> about 50% of its marketed capacity<p>> they will offer a 50% discount<p>I feel like I would need more than a 50% discount in order to go along with this...needing to charge/swap a battery more frequently is added cost! :p</p>
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<p>Reminds me of a joke in the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (written in 1961):<p>PETERSON
Oh say, Tackaberry, did you get my memo?<p>TACKABERRY
What memo?<p>PETERSON
My memo about memos. We're sending out too many memos and it's got to stop!<p>TACKABERRY
All right. I'll send out a memo.</p>
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<p>Ugh, and some of the rows of that table are "sets of models" while some are singular models...there's the "Flagship models" section at the top only for "GPT models" to be heralded as "Our fast, versatile, high intelligence flagship models" in the NEXT section...<p>...I like "DALL·E" and "Whisper" as names a lot, though, FWIW :p</p>
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<p>But what would we call that model?</p>
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<p>> While OpenAI o1 remains our broader general knowledge reasoning model, OpenAI o3-mini provides a specialized alternative for technical domains requiring precision and speed.<p>I feel like this naming scheme is growing a little tired. o1 is for general knowledge reasoning, o3-mini replaces o1-mini but might be more specialized than o1 for certain technical domains...the "o" in "4o" is for "omni" (referring to its multimodality) but the reasoning models start with "o" ...but they can't use "o2" for trademark reasons so they skip straight to "o3" ...the word salad is getting really hard to follow!</p>
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<p>100% agreed on small communities being more fun. One of the worst times to moderate the server was when a YouTuber known for troll-y content made a video with his friends. The video was really funny, but his fans kept logging on for MONTHS bringing a similar borderline-trolling energy. It was rough.<p>Our community EXPLODED after some viral TikToks in March 2020, and for the first time in almost a decade we had to start implementing new guards against bad behavior at scale (automatically muting new accounts that join with VPN's, for example). Luckily that's mostly died down, and only the good-faith folks have stuck around!</p>
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<p>As a theme park fan, VMK had a HUGE influence on me (as well as Club Penguin, which I started playing pre-Disney acquisition) -- I run an online community now (in the form of a Minecraft server) and we still take gameplay inspiration from the virtual worlds we grew up playing.<p>...that being said, I just blacklist words and don't do any smart detection at all, lest I succumb to the Scunthorpe problem. I back that up with a pretty sizable dedicated chat moderation team, of course. But since we max out at ~100 concurrent players, it isn't as huge of a deal for it to scale (miscreants find their way into Discord DM's, unfortunately).</p>
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<p>I'm a huge theme park nut that lives in Orlando - I'm trying to design a version that can work across Walt Disney World (or maybe even ALL of Orlando's theme park campuses).<p>Photos pose a huge challenge because my friends (fellow theme park nuts) can pick out the smallest details in every park -- even the color of pavement and themed lighting fixtures! I'm having fun thinking of what adaptations to make.<p>Agreed that this product would be better as a game design framework rather than a ready-to-play game in any geo (and tbh, would be a better fit for what Jet Lag is all about: people designing games for themselves to play!)</p>
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