Hacker News: sailorganymede

New comment by sailorganymede in "Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping"

sailorganymede — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:48:48 +0000

I get what they say but what I see or have seen is totally different. I come from an engineering culture where we got AI token leaderboards and mandates to use AI for every single step of the development process. We started running into bad bugs recently due to people just copy pasting the Jira into the prompt so I feel there is space to put some intentionality in the areas which matter.

New comment by sailorganymede in "Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping"

sailorganymede — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:46:03 +0000

Not yet. But you’re like the 5th person to mention it so I think I’ll add that feature. There are some AI prevention stuff like you can’t copy paste which means you gotta use the visualisation.

New comment by sailorganymede in "Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping"

sailorganymede — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:43:26 +0000

Honestly I love to see people working on this problem ! I actually built a similar project myself (https://github.com/bhurghundii/vibecheck.dev) except it prevents you from merging on the PR level. I’d love to get in touch to talk about it sometimes.

Edit: I see there are a lot of people questioning the value of this. The thing is that there are teams where people are just pumping tons of AI code without understanding their work (literally take the ticket and dump it) and shipping it. culture change is the right answer but v hard but this at least slows things down and is quick to implement

New comment by sailorganymede in "David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface"

sailorganymede — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:49:29 +0000

Never thought I'd see my team on HN but I really love the changes Arsenal has done. I remember only 10 years ago, we were super corporate and quite trend chasing (with our captain Aubameyang et al. doing reaction videos and sweg sweg) and you could really tell the messaging was supposed to be sanitised and generic. I noticed esp. when Arteta got in, we started to actually have an identity of our own with the typefaces and a brand new song and all the focus on our history etc.

Show HN: Vibecheck – merge gate that checks you understand your AI-written code

sailorganymede — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:13:44 +0000

Good evening folks, I built Github merge gate which that checks whether developers understand their own code when they create a PR.

I kept getting sent PRs to review where it was obvious the author had pasted the ticket into an LLM and called it a day.

It's self-hosted (so you can use it in your enterprise environments or privately)

It is BYOK (Anthropic) obviously.

I have two demos in the pull requests here: https://github.com/bhurghundii/vibecheck.dev/pulls - you can see what Vibecheck does (it blocks a PR for clearly showing no attempt vs a PR which gets it right)

I would love feedback, especially from anyone dealing with a similar problem. I do use it for my own projects a lot so expect improvements.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063154

Points: 1

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New comment by sailorganymede in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

sailorganymede — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:45:33 +0000

The core point here is that AI is a massive thing (at the moment) so it's probably a good idea to understand it deeply. Not sure why people are so worked up about it.

New comment by sailorganymede in "HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons"

sailorganymede — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:15:56 +0000

I did a hackathon this year. I used to do them 10 years ago when I was a student and the biggest difference is the intention of the hackathon. 10 years ago, it was all about having fun and learning some new and cool (it was where I learned NodeJS) but today, the sentiment is all about "what can GTM tomorrow?" or "what would VCs want to fund?"

I can't say I found the Hackathon I did particularly fun. Nothing thrilling about making Claude do things while drinking the free coke.

New comment by sailorganymede in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

sailorganymede — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:18:32 +0000

Not yet. It’s still pretty awful and I haven’t figured out the UX too great but if you are interested, I’d be happy to show you what I got together so far.

New comment by sailorganymede in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

sailorganymede — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:45 +0000

A PR quality gate which grills me to make sure I understand the code changes I am making before I merge. I have been working on an AI app which deals with vulnerable users lest I ruin the experience for my customers so I am a little bit hesitant to "go fast" but I find AI really helpful in my process.

I actually have been working on it for a little while but this is the first week where it's been quite helpful.

New comment by sailorganymede in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

sailorganymede — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:06:33 +0000

This is the thing that annoys me. They have the Fallout series hostage and moves like this sadden me because I can't expect the next game to particularly great when stuff like this happens.

New comment by sailorganymede in "Vite+ Beta"

sailorganymede — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:46:24 +0000

I am a big fan of Vite. But I have zero clue what those other tools are. I swear to God, I just put my head down to do some work and all the sudden, frontend tooling has evolved. I wonder if there is a push towards a "boring but works" stack.

Show HN: A "gym" for art value studies using images from your Pinterest boards

sailorganymede — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:09:36 +0000

This is my little app. I was sick of copying images from Pinterest and doing the posterising in photoshop when I was doing value studies as painting practice so I made a site which does the entire workflow in one bit. Happy painting!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349780

Points: 3

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New comment by sailorganymede in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

sailorganymede — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:07:44 +0000

Hey man - yeah I’m down to chat! My email is in my bio so just reach out there and we can chat

New comment by sailorganymede in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

sailorganymede — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:48:12 +0000

I’m working on a GitHub quality gate that checks your PRs, guesses if it’s a total vibe coded piece of shit, and then grills the dev to check if they actually understood what they wrote. This way, my time as a reviewer doesn’t get wasted.

Inspired by my experience at my day job.

Looking for testers if anyone wants to help out!

New comment by sailorganymede in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

sailorganymede — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:33:27 +0000

I run an art training app and one of the features I am working on is AI generated critique (it's an app for training realism.) And I noticed if I gave the AI the original image, the tonal breakdown of the image the app generates as well as the user's drawing, it delivered critique far better and more targeted.

The opportunity is in building ethical software that respects users needs

sailorganymede — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://bhurghundii.substack.com/p/the-opportunity-is-in-building-ethical

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869343

Points: 3

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New comment by sailorganymede in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"

sailorganymede — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:55:08 +0000

I believe I had the same one? I remember travelling Europe and going to the same place like 3 times while I was in Iceland!

New comment by sailorganymede in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

sailorganymede — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:01:38 +0000

Thank goodness. It was a pain to do this manually

New comment by sailorganymede in "Protect your shed"

sailorganymede — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:59:04 +0000

Can I get on this action too? This sounds like a good idea.

New comment by sailorganymede in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

sailorganymede — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:03:37 +0000

I donated - it's valuable software and I love it very much. My feeling is as long as it's not hounding me for future payments i.e. calling me up during the day, it's fine.