Hacker News: scwoodal

New comment by scwoodal in "The worst job interview I ever had"

scwoodal — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:15:11 +0000

AI makes it trivial to narrow down who this company might have been despite the anonymized details. Mostly a heads up for future posters who want to truly avoid it.

New comment by scwoodal in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

scwoodal — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:30:37 +0000

Except after 4 gallons it might as well be pure oil, mucking everything up.

New comment by scwoodal in "White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward"

scwoodal — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:00:34 +0000

> NCAR’s climate research may not be the only thing driving the White House attack. It is widely believed to also be part of a campaign of political retribution waged against Colorado for its conviction and imprisonment of Tina Peters, a former county clerk who breached election security systems in a scheme to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The state has included the attack on NCAR in a lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Federal policy by wounded ego is still wounded ego.

New comment by scwoodal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

scwoodal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:45:40 +0000

My Claude sub isn’t unlimited.

I didn’t set the limits on the plan; change those if it’s a problem, not irritate your customer base.

New comment by scwoodal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

scwoodal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:21:14 +0000

So I’m not allowed to use the $20 plan and max out its limits?

New comment by scwoodal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

scwoodal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:08:54 +0000

I’m not subletting my sub to anyone. I’m the only one using the third party harness.

I’m using their own SDK in my own CLI tool.

New comment by scwoodal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

scwoodal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:00:44 +0000

Why does it matter to Anthropic if my $200 plan usage is coming from Claude Code or a third party?

Doesn’t both count towards my usage limits the same?

New comment by scwoodal in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

scwoodal — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:16:52 +0000

This is correct. It just takes one person to review it and you’re good to go.

There’s also a service that rates your grammar/clarity and you have to be above a certain score.

New comment by scwoodal in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

scwoodal — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:05:42 +0000

View the projects open pull requests, and compare usernames.

https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd/pulls

New comment by scwoodal in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

scwoodal — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:48:33 +0000

The jokes write themselves. Now you can have both, Openclaw comes preloaded on the R1.

https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-r1

New comment by scwoodal in "Claude Opus 4.6"

scwoodal — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:29:47 +0000

When I run into those situations I debug and try to understand why. Agent harnesses that allow you to rewind (/tree) are useful for this.

It’s often because the context is full, I gave a bad prompt or context has conflicting guidance either from direct or indirect (agents.md) prompts.

New comment by scwoodal in "Claude Opus 4.6"

scwoodal — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:18:15 +0000

Changes introduced outside the agent window create a new state that is different from the agents.

After commands or changes are made outside of the agents doing; the agent would notice its world view changed and eventually recover, but that fills up precious context for it to bring itself up to date.

New comment by scwoodal in "Claude Opus 4.6"

scwoodal — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:54:07 +0000

Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order for your desired outcome instead of “commit everything in the worktree”

This prompt will work better across any/all models.

New comment by scwoodal in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

scwoodal — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:25:15 +0000

Hi Josh!

Scott from the Gig City conference ;)

New comment by scwoodal in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

scwoodal — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:15:19 +0000

Ash will be your Django models. Once you have models (ash resources) built; you can use the Ash ecosystem to get things like a graphql or JSON endpoint (or both!) for those resources with just a few lines of code.

New comment by scwoodal in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

scwoodal — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:05:02 +0000

I’d consider Phoenix to be like Flask. Ash fills the gap that brings Phoenix up to feature parity with a batteries included framework like Django.

Ash Admin (Django admin), Ash Resource & Domain (Django models & ORM), Ash JSON (Django Rest Framework), Ash Auth (Django Allauth), Ash Phoenix (Django Forms), Ash policies (Django permissions)

But you aren’t required to use Phoenix with an Ash project. Ash will happily work as a standalone CLI, terminal app or some other Elixir web framework that comes out tomorrow.

New comment by scwoodal in "Fearing losses, banks are quietly dumping real estate loans"

scwoodal — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:22:02 +0000

Isn't what you describe using your own capital to use as an investment instead of paying down the mortgage?

How do you use the leverage (debt) from the mortgage to put in a 5% investment?

New comment by scwoodal in "Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML"

scwoodal — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:30:57 +0000

The use case is a fun one liner.

New comment by scwoodal in "Debugging tricks in the browser"

scwoodal — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:56:31 +0000

+1. It's easy to drop a 1/0 wherever I want Werkzeug to show up in the browser.

New comment by scwoodal in "Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners"

scwoodal — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:02:44 +0000

> Fan motor on compressor broken, company insist everything needs changed.

Ugh, this happened to me recently.

“It’s an old system and the replacement parts can’t be found. Have to replace the whole thing. $12k”

After they leave I found a replacement on Amazon and replaced it myself 2 days later in under an hour.