Hacker News: ryanhecht

New comment by ryanhecht in "StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator"

ryanhecht — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:19:23 +0000

I can't wait to run Stemdeck on my Steam Deck and trigger it with a button on my Stream Deck!

New comment by ryanhecht in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

ryanhecht — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:30:49 +0000

This just feels like good educational practice too? I remember really enjoying TA'ing as an undergrad for courses I took the previous year, because THAT'S when I felt I _really_ learned the material.

Likewise, when I was a lab consultant, I felt like advising others was when the concepts of Linux/systems administration _really_ sunk in.

I always crammed the bare minimum for any kind of assessment (by the end of college I was actively avoiding any classes with final exams), but when I need to be able to teach someone else or explain my understanding in a live environment? That's when I _actually_ learn.

New comment by ryanhecht in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

ryanhecht — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:05:39 +0000

I truly think you folks did the account transition in the most user-friendly, considerate way you possibly could. There was SO MUCH TIME to migrate and SO MANY WARNINGS about it needing to be done. I'm sorry you haven't been appreciated for it. Well done!

New comment by ryanhecht in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

ryanhecht — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:02:28 +0000

I knew if I scrolled through the comment section I'd find geerlingguy!

New comment by ryanhecht in "A General Goal-Conditioned Minecraft Model"

ryanhecht — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:56:26 +0000

Hi Alex! I'm Ryan, I run a Minecraft theme park recreation server. While our gamemode is very far from vanilla Minecraft (it plays more like a MMORPG), I've been interested in standing up a model like this to help automate agentic testing of new software features in my monolith Bungee/Paper codebase.

In its current state, do you think it can handle non-vanilla Minecraft tasks like interacting with custom UI's, running commands, or doing other unusual tasks in the world?

New comment by ryanhecht in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ryanhecht — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:13:55 +0000

That's what we've spent the last five months doing! Have you tried the Copilot CLI recently? We've onboarded loads of feedback from Microsoft devs who were switching from Claude Code -- I'm proud of how far the team has come! This announcement comes at a time where Copilot CLI usage has been greater than Claude Code usage at Microsoft for several weeks; we've been winning hearts and minds!

New comment by ryanhecht in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ryanhecht — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:11:42 +0000

> Microsoft internally is actively hostile to cross-org collaboration

The Copilot CLI has ushered in the beginning of a change in this dogma -- I've helped dozens of Microsoft engineers get access to GitHub source code so they can contribute to Copilot CLI! It's fun to subvert expectations when a Microsoft IC pitches an improvement and I can respond with "submit a PR!"

New comment by ryanhecht in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ryanhecht — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:37:12 +0000

> The developers voted with their feet and didn’t use Copilot.

This was true in January -- since then, the Copilot CLI team has spent countless hours with engineering leaders and the biggest Claude Code users at the company to understand Copilot's shortcomings, define evals to properly test them head-to-head, and close the gap between the products.

The result? Claude Code usage was organically decreasing and Copilot CLI usage was organically increasing -- when this announcement was made, internal Copilot CLI usage had been greater than Claude Code usage for weeks!

New comment by ryanhecht in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

ryanhecht — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:21:02 +0000

Something cool that I've always liked about working at GitHub is how much of the company _runs on GitHub_ -- A lot of teams, even non-technical teams, have their own repos just to organize docs/SOP's/designs/etc like a traditional knowledge work company might use a Sharepoint

New comment by ryanhecht in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

ryanhecht — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:57:59 +0000

In my case, it helps improve my ADHD-affected executive function. It lowers the barrier to entry to ingesting information into a system I know I can extract it from later. It gives me peace of mind to know I can ramble semi-coherently at the speed of conversation and know that the salient points are being captured.

Local models will continue to improve, if your concern is privacy -- already they do a decent enough job at interacting with a well-schema'd PKM

New comment by ryanhecht in "GitHub Copilot CLI is now generally available"

ryanhecht — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:14:17 +0000

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.

New comment by ryanhecht in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

ryanhecht — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:54:16 +0000

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

New comment by ryanhecht in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

ryanhecht — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:03:02 +0000

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?

New comment by ryanhecht in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

ryanhecht — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:00:30 +0000

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 :)

https://github.com/github/copilot-cli

New comment by ryanhecht in "KDE Linux"

ryanhecht — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:03:28 +0000

Apparently they "retired the expansion" of the initialism in 2009: https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand/

New comment by ryanhecht in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

ryanhecht — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:21:30 +0000

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!

New comment by ryanhecht in "Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source"

ryanhecht — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:16:47 +0000

New comment by ryanhecht in "Imagineers defend new Walt Disney robot"

ryanhecht — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:41:43 +0000

Great exploration of this in Defunctland's latest piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk (There's a "part 2" on Disney's "Living Characters" coming this year!)

New comment by ryanhecht in "Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram"

ryanhecht — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:36:01 +0000

Definitely makes sense!

> In fact, even if you ungzip them manually, as of today nerdlog doesn't support more than 2 files in a logstream

Ah, interesting! I read the limitation as "we don't support zipped files," not "we only support two files!"

Best of luck, this is neat!

New comment by ryanhecht in "Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram"

ryanhecht — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:24:30 +0000

I definitely intend on playing around with this later! I see that [gzipped log archives aren't supported](https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article#depends_on_...), 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?