<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: smjburton</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=smjburton</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:56:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=smjburton" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In March 2026, I migrated to self-hosted object storage powered by Versity S3 Gateway.<p>Thanks for sharing this, I wasn't even aware of Versity S3 from my searches and discussions here. I recently migrated my projects from MinIO to Garage, but this seems like another viable option to consider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:55:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807306</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a great resource OP. Hopefully with more guides like this available, it will make it easier for people who want to explore Podman and increase adoption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:29:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946302</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool, I'll take a look.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:11:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45413291</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45413291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45413291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're very welcome! Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:35:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45387708</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45387708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45387708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ... is it primarily by inputting code snippets or abstract context into something like a Claude or ChatGPT?<p>I usually provide the initial context by describing the app that I'm working on (language, framework, etc) as well as the feature I want to build, and then add the files (either snippets or upload) that are relevant to build the feature (any includes or other files it will be integrating with).<p>This keeps the chat context focused, and the LLM still has access to the code it needs to build out the feature without having access to the full code base. If it needs more context (sometimes I'll ask the LLM if they want access to other files), I'll provide additional code until it feels like it has enough to work with to provide a solution.<p>It's a little tedious, but once I have the context set up, it works well to provide solutions that are (mostly) bug free and integrate well with the rest of my code.<p>I primarily work with Perplexity Pro so that I have access to and can switch between all pro level models (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, etc) plus Google search results for the most up-to-date information.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:31:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386935</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Since our landing page is isolated from core product code, the risk was minimal. That said, I was constantly sanity-checking what Claude was changing. If I ever “vibed” too hard and lost focus, Claude would sometimes change the wrong files.<p>> Still, I wouldn’t trust Claude, or any AI agent, to touch production code without close human oversight.<p>My experience has been similar, and it's why I prefer to keep LLMs separate from my code base. It may take longer than providing direct access, but I find it leads to less hidden/obscure bugs that can take hours (and result in a lot of frustration) to fix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:28:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386291</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great, thank you for sharing. I need something like this for my current project I'm working on... Much easier than trying to build a color palette manually.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372804</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Product Hunt is dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed OP. I could see ProductHunt being a place for product-oriented people and founders to form a community and collaborate (constructive feedback, partnerships, etc). Sadly, most of the activity there lately seems to be people quickly creating accounts, launching their vibe-coded app, and then moving on. I've stopped visiting regularly until the maintainers make improvements to foster more of a community and bring people back to the site.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:31:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366218</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm surprised, but you're right... Thanks for sharing this site, it'll be interesting to dig into the data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127798</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I generally agree with the sentiment of the article, but the OP should also be looking at product launch websites like ProductHunt, where there are tens to hundreds of vibe coded SaaS apps listed daily.<p>From my experience, it's much easier to get an LLM to generate code for a React/Tailwind CSS web app than a mobile app, and that's why we're seeing so many of these apps showing up in the SaaS space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:30:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121083</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been running trixie for a few weeks now and it's been solid, great release so far.<p>One of the features I'm most excited about is access to Podman 5.4.2, and the ability to use Podman Quadlets. It'll be nice to start transitioning my systemd service units over to the new format for my containers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:24:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064550</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good breakdown of the costs involved. Even if they're running at a loss, OpenAI and Anthropic receive considerable value from the free training data users are providing through their conversations. Looking at it another way, these companies are paying for the training data to make their models better for future profitability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:47:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052866</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "How to slow down a program and why it can be useful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting article OP. There was a similar post on Hacker News recently about using this approach on a Postgres database:<p>- Making Postgres slower (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704736">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704736</a>)<p>Taking this approach seems to be effective at surfacing issues that otherwise wouldn't show up in regular testing. I could see this being useful if it was standardized to help identify issues before they hit production.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041937</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an interesting find OP and could help people transition from Docker to Podman (especially if they're used to deploying with Docker-Compose).<p>I think the better long-term approach though is to use systemd user units for deployment, or the more modern approach of using Podman Quadlets. There's a bit of a learning curve, but these approaches are more native to the Podman platform, and learning how systemd services work is a great skill to have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:18:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973123</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The more data you give any of the AI services, the more that information can potentially be used against you.<p>It may seem obvious, but Sam Altman also recently emphasized that the information you share with ChatGPT is not confidential, and could potentially be used against you in court.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/altman-your-chatgpt-conversations-can-will-be-used-against-you-in-court" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcmag.com/news/altman-your-chatgpt-conversations...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no-legal-confidentiality-when-using-chatgpt-as-a-therapist/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940599</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "SystemD Service Hardening"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for sharing this. It looks like you can also use "systemd-analyze" with the "--user" flag to inspect systemd user units as well ("systemd-analyze --user security"). I've started using systemd more now that I've transitioned my containers to Podman, and this will be a helpful utility to improve the security of my systemd unit/container services.</p>
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<p>This is really exciting. I've used the Arch Wiki countless times for setting up or configuring something in Debian but wanting a resource more native to the platform. I hope they're able to produce a comparable wiki for Debian-based OSes.</p>
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<p>@levelsio was posting about this last week: <a href="https://x.com/levelsio/status/1953022273595506910" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/levelsio/status/1953022273595506910</a>. Haven't tested it out yet, but it seems like a cool way to continue hacking away at a project while on the go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:33:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900199</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Self-hosted Forgejo with Forgejo Actions for CI/CD. Forgejo Actions uses a syntax similar to GitHub Actions, so it's easy to transition. For my projects, I haven't had any issues. I'd suggest setting up an instance and testing it out to see if works with your projects/workflow as a replacement for GitHub/GitHub Actions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:36:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876768</link><dc:creator>smjburton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smjburton in "TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you not want people trusting their data with SaaS apps? Smaller developers building software benefits users assuming their data is protected with basic security implemented.</p>
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