Hacker News: sprobertson

New comment by sprobertson in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"

sprobertson — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:37:53 +0000

Much better than your current demo image! The default vignette is too obviously digital

New comment by sprobertson in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

sprobertson — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:14:43 +0000

or easier, open ~/.claude/projects/[project]/[session].jsonl (excluding the system prompt)

New comment by sprobertson in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

sprobertson — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:56:41 +0000

The official one doesn't work for me on mobile but this does: https://artemistracker.com/

New comment by sprobertson in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

sprobertson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:33:16 +0000

it likes mentioning itself in commit messages, though you can just tell it not to.

New comment by sprobertson in "Ask HN: Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel?"

sprobertson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:24:07 +0000

Pretty much everyone saying worktrees but I lean heavily on hot-reloading of both backend and frontend (to actually see what I'm doing) so it's too annoying to deal with dependencies and ports when things are isolated. Instead I keep everything on the main branch and just make sure to keep tasks pretty separate in scope, e.g. add this API route vs. fix this layout issue, so they don't step on each other. When I consider something done I have the agent commit what it worked on and start a new one.

New comment by sprobertson in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

sprobertson — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:38:56 +0000

yes:

> skip all the gratuitous affirmation and tell me when I'm wrong

New comment by sprobertson in "Show HN: Slop or not – can you tell AI writing from human in everyday contexts?"

sprobertson — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:57:47 +0000

Yeah the UX itself is clearly slop

New comment by sprobertson in "Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?"

sprobertson — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:11:54 +0000

You're certainly not alone, though it's not that much worse than usual over the last 5 years https://telliott.me/posts/is-github-getting-less-reliable/

New comment by sprobertson in "Microgpt"

sprobertson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:49:50 +0000

Sure, but use the tool for the job IMO. GPTs are much more complex so should demonstrate a much more complex task.

New comment by sprobertson in "Microgpt"

sprobertson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:05:02 +0000

This kind of thing is pretty easy to do with a much leaner model https://docs.pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_gen...

New comment by sprobertson in "Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?"

sprobertson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:54:07 +0000

No - it costs $0 already

New comment by sprobertson in "Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)"

sprobertson — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:41:34 +0000

It seems like everyone commenting here is already part of the hivemind. So maybe someone can answer an important question that I'm not getting at all from the docs: what does this actually do?

New comment by sprobertson in "Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck"

sprobertson — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:07:46 +0000

I printed the casing just to see - it actually does fit in my levi pockets (front and back), but looks and feels a bit ridiculous to actually walk around with

New comment by sprobertson in "You should write an agent"

sprobertson — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:47:31 +0000

> software dev is a job for me that needs to generate income

sir, this is a hackernews

New comment by sprobertson in "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK"

sprobertson — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:03:33 +0000

Who's the designer? I assume the same as agents.cloudflare.com, finally something that looks creative and not based on purple gradients

New comment by sprobertson in "JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in"

sprobertson — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:59:02 +0000

not for the standard hosted APIs using structured output or function calling, best you can get is an array

New comment by sprobertson in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

sprobertson — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:18:46 +0000

And #1 on the jobs chart

New comment by sprobertson in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

sprobertson — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:58:47 +0000

Here's the screen recording version of a long exposure (thanks for the nerd snipe) - https://gist.github.com/spro/7599415b0e47de65311557b3454771a...

New comment by sprobertson in "Purposeful animations"

sprobertson — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:08:40 +0000

my first instinct was "the slow one is struggling so it must be doing some heavy work"

New comment by sprobertson in "Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)"

sprobertson — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:15:21 +0000

Yeah good call, I missed that. I don't think there's a correct answer here, but it could be another step of the read or write. Either it would do another lookup of "my daughter" -> Name on read, or do a lookup on write if you already have a "my daughter is Name" memory. Whatever's less expensive in the long run. The graph memory someone else mentioned also seems like a good option there.