Hacker News: santoriv

New comment by santoriv in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

santoriv — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:08:02 +0000

The important question in the age of PR metrics as a yardstick for keeping your job:

When you click merge, does a 3 stack PR show up as 1 PR in the Dx metrics or 3?

New comment by santoriv in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

santoriv — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:44:15 +0000

It is really good at grep and will make multiple grep calls in parallel.

And when I open it in the parent directory of a bunch of repos in our codebase, it can very quickly trace data flow through a bunch of different services. It will tell me all the files the data goes through.

It's context window is "only" 200k tokens. When it gets near 200k, it compresses the conversation and starts a new conversation..... which mostly works but sometimes it has a bit of amnesia if you have a really long running conversation on something.

New comment by santoriv in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

santoriv — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:23:57 +0000

> My bet is their model doesn't realistically compare to any of the frontier models.

I've been using composer-1 in Cursor for a few weeks and also switching back and forth between it, Gemini Flash 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.2.

And you're right it's not comparable. It's about the same quality of code output of the aforementioned models but about 4x as fast. Which enables a qualitatively different workflow for me where instead of me spending a bunch of time waiting on the model, the model is waiting on me to catch up with its outputs. After using composer-1, it feels painful to switch back to other models.

I work in a larg(ish) enterprise codebase. I spend a lot of time asking it questions about the codebase and then making small incremental changes. So it works very well for my particular workflow.

Other people use CLI and remote agents and that sort of thing and that's not really my workflow so other models might work better for other people.

New comment by santoriv in "Tides are weirder than you think"

santoriv — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:38:05 +0000

Reminds me of the time that Bill O'Reilly argued on national television that tides were inexplicable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUeybwTMeWo

New comment by santoriv in "After CrowdStrike, Programmers Deserve Consequences"

santoriv — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:48:35 +0000

“Be ruthless with systems and kind to people”

In my experience the software engineers that often get promoted crank out as many features as possible with almost no regard to the defect rate. If you do things at a more deliberate pace, you can be regarded by product or management as slow and unproductive. Real incentives exist in software development that push for quantity over quality.

This is not analogous to the failure of an anesthesiologist to properly sedate a patient. This is a process failure. Clearly the proper amount of QA was not in place for whatever reason and they need to re-examine their approach. Of course their process needs extra diligence given the cost of failure.

It would be a real shame if an individual is punished for this instead of examining the process and system of incentives that led to this failure.

New comment by santoriv in "Walmart to close three tech hubs, tells tech staff to return to offices"

santoriv — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:02:03 +0000

I can’t read the whole article but are they telling a bunch of people to move to Bentonville or Sunnyvale?

New comment by santoriv in "Effects on the lips of horn players seated too close to the timpani (2014)"

santoriv — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 09:24:57 +0000

Hmmm i never noticed this. It’s a lot worse to sit in front of the trumpets tbh. At least from a hearing loss perspective.

New comment by santoriv in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)"

santoriv — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:03:08 +0000

We're a small distributed team of 3 core developers, 2 support service configuration specialists / BAs, and a PM, looking for a 3rd core developer to help us build an insurance application, and improve our existing technical products and services.

Strong communication skills in English is a requirement.

Knowledge of Japanese is NOT in any way a requirement.

You must live within 3.5 timezones of Japan (JST - GMT +9). Countries within these constraints include India, China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, parts of Russia, Papua New Guinea

What you might do:

* Write code to create robust web application front-ends utilizing React, Redux, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS.

* Translate user stories into wireframes and then turn them into mockups before implementing them as code.

* Continuously optimize web designs to provide a smooth, beautiful user experience.

* Troubleshoot bugs and issues that may require investigating both the front-end and back-end.

* Closely collaborate with back-end and full stack developers.

Required experience/technologies: ES6+ features (Promises, Async/Await), Web UI design with HTML/CSS, Front-end JS libraries/frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc.), Single-page applications (SPA)

Preferred experience/technologies: Typescript, React/Redux, Docker-based development, General understanding of back-end web frameworks, familiarity with build tools like Gulp, Webpack, and Parcel

Bonus experience/technologies:

* Node.js

* Enough back-end experience to implement simple endpoints with queries

* AWS or other cloud services (for deploying web-applications to development environments)

Please contact evan.scholl@bmc-group.co.jp with your resume. Not required, but side projects and github contributions are helpful and appreciated .

New comment by santoriv in "Substantial undocumented infection facilitates rapid dissemination of SARS-CoV2"

santoriv — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:22:12 +0000

Complete extinction of humans is a high bar. Also I would expect that the reaction to such a disease would be extreme. It could certainly be much worse than the current crisis we are facing.

New comment by santoriv in "Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet"

santoriv — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:56:22 +0000

Very few active fund managers can consistently beat their indexes. Why do you believe you would be better over a long period of time?

Vanguard Study of Actively Managed Funds vs Index Performance: https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGIDX.pdf

New comment by santoriv in "Master of Orion"

santoriv — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:14:26 +0000

I would agree with you that there hasn't been a genuine hit since MOO 2. I would say, however, that one game, Distant Worlds: Universe, was a huge leap forward in redefining what's possible in the 4x genre (i.e. deep and immersive gameplay in a real-time context). Most of the other 4x games since 1996 have been a variation on the gameplay mechanics of MOO 2.

DW:U is the only 4x game that I would unequivocally say is as good as the original MOO2.

New comment by santoriv in "Master of Orion"

santoriv — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:03:50 +0000

It was a remake of MOO2, not MOO 1. And yes it was terrible.

Remakes (or games very similar to MOO 1) are Dominus Galaxia and Remnants of the Precursors.

New comment by santoriv in "State of Software Engineers 2019"

santoriv — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:16:51 +0000

Why are there so many interviews per Scala developer? I love Scala but I have a hard time finding very many companies who actually use it (I'm in Austin, TX). It seems like its usage is dwarfed by folks using Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Python, C#, Java etc.

New comment by santoriv in "Announcing the Second Edition of Infrastructure as Code"

santoriv — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:12:12 +0000

I really hope this book has some discussion regarding Pulumi in addition to the normal Terraform discussion. My team switched over to Pulumi recently after using Terraform for a couple of years and it's so much easier to work with. It would be a shame if it is not at least included in the discussion.

New comment by santoriv in "I was an astrologer"

santoriv — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:22:09 +0000

Sure, as long as you don't confusing praying with being proactive.

New comment by santoriv in "Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations"

santoriv — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:31:08 +0000

And yet, Snowden is out of the reach of the US govt (for now).

New comment by santoriv in "A nice app on Elm street"

santoriv — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:24:11 +0000

Just want to give props. This is the clearest explanation of the value of typed FP I've ever seen.

New comment by santoriv in "Man as a Rationalist Animal (2017)"

santoriv — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:45:42 +0000

Sure, but the author should have relied on those examples instead of creating some sort of bizarre hypothetical narrative to argue his point. I find it's always telling when an argument is based on hypotheticals or "thought experiments". It generally means that the author had to literally make stuff out of thin air to argue their point. It's antiscientific at best and disingenuous at worst.

New comment by santoriv in "In Defence of the Technical Interview"

santoriv — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:52:49 +0000

Also, take home assignments are often time intensive for the candidates but not for the company giving out the assignment. I’ve done remote coding assignments but then had my candidacy dismissed for such silly reasons as “you live in the wrong time zone” AFTER I had completed the assignment. I would have felt a lot better about that sort of nonsense (it’s unavoidable if you have done more than a few interviews) if I knew that the company had invested as many hours in my interview process as I had.

New comment by santoriv in "Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?"

santoriv — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:12:31 +0000

I have the Nokia 3310 and like it. Aside from not being great at receiving multimedia texts, it works pretty well. Also it has Snake, but sadly not the original version.