Hacker News: sinatra

New comment by sinatra in "Write some software, give it away for free"

sinatra — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:52:50 +0000

Easy to say that, isn’t it? I can almost guarantee that YOU also want and do consume much more than an average human on this planet. Never mind the fact that humans consume more than their share of the planets resources anyway. Whatever the definition of “their share” is.

New comment by sinatra in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"

sinatra — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:01:14 +0000

Will 1.5B people have a lot of very intelligent people too? Yes, some of the most intelligent! Will those intelligent people have the educational opportunities and research opportunities to be able to use that intelligence to deliver a SOTA model any time soon? Especially with so many resource limitations they face, I doubt it.

New comment by sinatra in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

sinatra — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:02:53 +0000

Oh. So when you say “May we please have terraform back?” You mean “May we please have terraform back at my employer?” Why are you posting such an employer specific request on a public forum?

New comment by sinatra in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

sinatra — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:47:06 +0000

My (admittedly one person's anecdotal) experience has been that when I ask Codex and Claude to make a plan/fix and then ask them both to review it, they both agree that Codex's version is better quality. This is on a 140K LOC codebase with an unreasonable amount of time spent on rules (lint, format, commit, etc), on specifying coding patterns, on documenting per workspace README.md, etc.

New comment by sinatra in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

sinatra — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:59:17 +0000

Piggybacking on this post. Codex is not only finding much higher quality issues, it’s also writing code that usually doesn’t leave quality issues behind. Claude is much faster but it definitely leaves serious quality issues behind.

So much so that now I rely completely on Codex for code reviews and actual coding. I will pick higher quality over speed every day. Please don’t change it, OpenAI team!

New comment by sinatra in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

sinatra — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:48:20 +0000

Let’s call it JoyScript so it still shortens to JS. And so at least the name as some joy in it even if the language doesn’t.

New comment by sinatra in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

sinatra — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:21:42 +0000

Hah. It can’t be “I need to spend more time to figure out how to use these tools better.” It is always “I’m just smarter than other people and have a higher standard.”

New comment by sinatra in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

sinatra — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:02:36 +0000

I currently use GPT‑5.1-Codex High and have a workflow that works well with the 5-hour/weekly limits, credits, et al. If I use GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max Medium or GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max High, how will that compare cost / credits / limits wise to GPT‑5.1-Codex High? I don't think that's clear. "Reduced tokens" makes me think it'll be priced similarly / lower. But, "Max" makes me think it'll be priced higher.

New comment by sinatra in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

sinatra — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:59:02 +0000

In my AGENTS.md (which CLAUDE.md et al soft link to), I instruct them to "On phase completion, explicitly write that you followed these guidelines." This text always shows up on Codex and very rarely on Claude Code (TBF, Claude Code is showing it more often lately).

New comment by sinatra in "How to Firefox"

sinatra — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:00:39 +0000

I stopped having the same issue of 100s of tabs of "math videos that I was going to watch one day" when I started saving them in my private playlists. Now I just have 100s of videos in playlists that I just look at longingly but never watch.

New comment by sinatra in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"

sinatra — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:09:35 +0000

Have you documented how you built this project using Kiro? Your learnings may help us get the best out of Kiro as we experiment with it for our medium+ size projects.

New comment by sinatra in "Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025"

sinatra — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:10:07 +0000

And the d20 rolled a 12 when you checked it for duration to hold? Man, lucky you! Give the dice a kiss!

New comment by sinatra in "GPT-4o"

sinatra — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:08:58 +0000

First, “Plaintiffs ACCUSE the generative AI company.” Let’s not assume OpenAI is guilty just yet. Second, assuming OpenAI didn’t access the books illegally, my point still remains. If you write a book, can you really complain about a human (or in my humble opinion, a machine) learning from it?

New comment by sinatra in "GPT-4o"

sinatra — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:22:30 +0000

Your comment seems unfair to me. We can say the exact same thing for the artist / IP creator:

Tough luck, then. You don’t have the right to shit on and harm everyone else just because you’re a greedy asshole who wants all the money and is unwilling to come up with solutions to problems caused by your business model.

Once the IP is on the internet, you can't complain about a human or a machine learning from it. You made your IP available on the internet. Now, you can't stop humanity benefiting from it.

New comment by sinatra in "Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired"

sinatra — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 01:15:49 +0000

Usually it’s much easier to be liberal when doing so doesn’t cost you meaningfully. I’d encourage you to evaluate for yourself if your stances are truly fair and if you’re truly liberal considering how painful it is for an H1B to lose their job vs you. It’s also easy to say “but H1Bs get exploited!” Considering how many H1Bs come here, maybe they’d rather face this exploitation vs staying in their own country?

New comment by sinatra in "CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft"

sinatra — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 23:27:56 +0000

Just to be fair, for 90% of the world, the kinds of compensation many hacker news readers have (a Silicon Valley engineer who gets a high base plus bonus plus equity) would also be considered “holy guacamole, whatever is the angle I look at it … does not make any f_ing sense”

New comment by sinatra in "The dark side of the Mac App Store"

sinatra — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:19:13 +0000

Sorry, I meant that the maximum they’re making is $2B. But in reality it’s surely a much smaller number. Which makes it even more unlikely that Apple is optimizing for developer fees.

New comment by sinatra in "The dark side of the Mac App Store"

sinatra — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:35:41 +0000

There are 20M developer accounts. And Apple charges $100 per account per year. That's $2B in revenue. Apps on the App Store make $100B in revenue. So, Apple makes equivalent of 2% of Apps revenue from developer accounts. I doubt they'll intentionally risk the $100B revenue by making their App Store full of crapware for a 2% equivalent.

New comment by sinatra in "An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email"

sinatra — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 21:07:18 +0000

If relay gets popular, won’t some services simply start to block relay subdomain for registration to make it ineffective? Just like 10minutesemail etc are blocked in many places.

New comment by sinatra in "Apple Watch Series 7"

sinatra — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:53:48 +0000

Have a series 6, used it in the pool (salted) the first time and the watch died. Had to get a replacement from them which took one week. I couldn’t do fitness tracking all that week. So, I am not planning to use the watch in water at all.