Hacker News: servercobra

New comment by servercobra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

servercobra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:29:28 +0000

Amusing that it's on a Tuesday again. TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) Tuesday.

New comment by servercobra in "Don't Wait for Claude"

servercobra — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:25:22 +0000

Not sarcastic at all! This is a novel way to handle something that's been in the back of my mind (managing a lot of agents successfully).

New comment by servercobra in "Don't Wait for Claude"

servercobra — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:38:19 +0000

This looks absolutely wonderful. Is it possible to run against Claude remotely (e.g. on a VM?). Or should I ask Claude to add that?

New comment by servercobra in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

servercobra — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:01:03 +0000

A lot of us use software written by other people we have no reason to trust and we haven't reviewed - most of open source libraries.

New comment by servercobra in "Apple Just Lost Me"

servercobra — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:51:54 +0000

My non-techie friends either barely notice Liquid Glass or go "ooo this is nice!". It has annoyed me on occasion, but I barely notice it any more. Much ado about nothing.

New comment by servercobra in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

servercobra — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:35:11 +0000

While Wisconsin was debating this, they also closed a bunch of DMVs and limited hours for other ones.

The WI constitution enshrines the ability to vote. So you may think it's silly and for 99% of people it may be silly, but if anyone is prevented from voting because there's not a reasonable way for them to get a license, their rights are being infringed.

New comment by servercobra in "Show HN: Argus – VSCode debugger for Claude Code sessions"

servercobra — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:03:01 +0000

As a reader without a dog in this fight, I appreciate the comment and having the options. It's pretty common on HN.

New comment by servercobra in "Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs"

servercobra — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:48:54 +0000

This is a really cool design, pretty similar to what I've built for implementation planning. I like how iterative it is and that the whole system lives just in markdown. The verify step is a great idea I hadn't made a command yet, thank you!

This seems like it'd be great for solo projects but starts to fall apart for a team with a lot more PRs and distributed state. Heck, I run almost everything in a worktree, so even there the state is distributed. Maybe moving some of the state/plans/etc to Linear et al solves that though.

New comment by servercobra in "Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS"

servercobra — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:57:10 +0000

Same, I really want to use sprites (for me and my whole team) but every time I try to set up, I run into weird issues. Last time I got in some state where trying to launch Claude froze the whole VM every time.

New comment by servercobra in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

servercobra — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:29:42 +0000

I don't know why, but my ultra wide monitor absolutely hates that site. The whole screen is flickering trying to deal with the annoying background. Thank the gods for reader mode.

New comment by servercobra in "OpenAI should build Slack"

servercobra — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:25:33 +0000

"Remind me about this" creates a public task in the channel!?!? "Hey everyone! I'm choosing not to respond to this right now but don't want to forget!"

We're migrating off Slack because they jacked our prices by 40% this year. Our team used Google Chat for one week and revolted.

New comment by servercobra in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

servercobra — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:58:52 +0000

cloc says ours is ~350k LoC and agents are able to implement whole features from well designed requirement docs. But we've been investing in making our code more AI friendly, and things like Devin creating and using DeepWiki helps a lot too.

New comment by servercobra in "Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API"

servercobra — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:10:54 +0000

"fuck sex's"?

New comment by servercobra in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

servercobra — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:55:34 +0000

It's a good way to squeeze extra out of a bunch of people without actually raising prices.

New comment by servercobra in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

servercobra — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:45:34 +0000

Damn. I just got an email that they'll be discontinuing the palm payment June 3. I've barely used Fresh and Go, but I use this at self checkout at Whole Foods all the time. Beats finding the code to scan and using Apple Pay.

> We're reaching out because you have an active Amazon One account. Amazon One palm authentication services will be discontinued at retail businesses on June 3, 2026. You can continue using Amazon One at participating locations until that date.

> Amazon will automatically delete Amazon One user data, including palm data. No action is needed from you.

New comment by servercobra in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

servercobra — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:59:11 +0000

Or has biometric login turned on and didn't lock their phone behind a passcode before being arrested.

New comment by servercobra in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

servercobra — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:14:13 +0000

Same, it's so good for these little things. And once you start adding rules and context for the "how to add the change/feature flags", etc you get that 3 paragraphs down. Now our head of product is able to fire off small changes instead of asking a dev, making them context switch, etc. Devs still review but the loop is so much shorter.

New comment by servercobra in "Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop"

servercobra — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:49:37 +0000

Overall I've been really impressed with Devin. IMO it's the best tool for AI generating features if you know what you're looking for, have patterns to follow, etc. I suspect the context they build about your project helps a ton.

I was literally just working on a system, using Devin to do the review no less, to add a bunch of the rules we have that are outside of linting's capability to tackle the same kind of thing. Tools like Copilot and Qodo have very high noise ratios, but do occasionally catch legit bugs. Devin Review could be a great complement, and hopefully they'll make it so we can add our own rules soon.

New comment by servercobra in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

servercobra — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:37:20 +0000

I love this bracket. The first startup I worked (Triggr Health) at was in Chicago and we started a bracket for best wings. Sadly we never finished!

New comment by servercobra in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

servercobra — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:12:51 +0000

Did you ever find an answer? Other than copy/pasting my priv/pub keys into ~/.ssh/ I'm not sure.