Hacker News: ssalka

New comment by ssalka in "Only 2 of 128 YC-backed dev tools companies block unchecked merges"

ssalka — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:34:15 +0000

This seems crazy to me. At bare minimum, checking that simple install, lint/format, test, and build commands work without error should always be required in any code repository. That is, if you care to maintain the repo whatsoever.

New comment by ssalka in "New Shai-Hulud malware wave compromises 600 NPM packages"

ssalka — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:11:05 +0000

Affected packages & versions here:

https://airtable.com/appQsN6RIDefm93kd/shrMwE9m9GqU7pjU5/tbl...

Edit: this is not a follow-on attack from the one last week, OP's linked article was published on May 19.

New comment by ssalka in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

ssalka — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:01:10 +0000

How do you guys plan to sustain the business, given that your product here is open source & already has many competitors doing similar things?

New comment by ssalka in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

ssalka — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:18:07 +0000

You can make literally any position sound awful by saying that orphans will be killed as a result. Let's try to think posts through.

New comment by ssalka in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

ssalka — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:03:04 +0000

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New comment by ssalka in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

ssalka — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:31:58 +0000

Sometimes I get random inspiration for an idea while out on a walk or otherwise away from the computer. It's really nice to be able to throw a couple instructions out there, let your agent run with it, and see what it came up with later. Sometimes I do this 3-5 times before returning to my computer. IMO it's really nice to be able to start from X% done rather than 0% when I finally do sit down to review/iterate on the code.

New comment by ssalka in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"

ssalka — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:07:48 +0000

honestly any indicator would help <3 love the game! I keep coming back to it haha

New comment by ssalka in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"

ssalka — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:09:45 +0000

Not sure how you feel about including sound, but I feel like there needs to be a warning sound that plays when you're low HP, like in Pokemon. I keep dying because I don't realize I'm at low health

New comment by ssalka in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

ssalka — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:51:15 +0000

I feel like this is a symptom of AI psychosis

New comment by ssalka in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

ssalka — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:38:36 +0000

At one of my previous jobs, there was a function `createEntityWithRandomUUID` which would basically do the same thing as a light wrapper around database inserts. If a conflict occurred, it would generate a new ID and try again, up to 5 times I think. No logging to indicate whether any conflict actually ever happened.

New comment by ssalka in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

ssalka — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:03:01 +0000

Things I would use AI for in music production:

1. Generating track layouts (add tracks + empty audio/midi clips throughout)

2. Generating MIDI sequences

3. Generating Serum patches

4. Extracting stems from existing audio

5. Automating common workflows (eg sidechaining)

6. Semantic search of sample library

That being said, I don't think I want a full agentic workflow for vibe-producing. Point solutions seems like a better fit for me, personally.

New comment by ssalka in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

ssalka — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:07:01 +0000

I immediately thought "oh, the email client? It's AI now?" Then I realized this is Thunderbolt, not Thunderbird. Kind of an odd choice by Mozilla to have two products with such similar names.

New comment by ssalka in "Nucleus Nouns"

ssalka — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:45:27 +0000

This makes me think of domain models in domain-driven design. Very useful to think about what these models are and how it makes sense to set them up & relate them in your area of work.

New comment by ssalka in "LM Studio 0.4"

ssalka — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:05:57 +0000

Personally, I would not run LM Studio anywhere outside of my local network as it still doesn't support adding an SSL cert. I guess you can just layer a proxy server on top of it, but if it's meant to be easy to set up, it seems like a quick win that I don't see any reason not to build support for.

https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/1...

New comment by ssalka in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

ssalka — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:03:42 +0000

For those interested, National Geographic has the "Out of Eden Walk" [1], a journey along the path of historical human migration, led by Paul Salopek. He started in Ethiopia in January 2013 – nearly 13 years ago – and just recently made it to Alaska. The planned end of the trip is at the southern tip of South America.

[1] https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/

New comment by ssalka in "I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs"

ssalka — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:49:46 +0000

I'm just gonna say that some aspect of the data collection here seems flawed: among the SF clubs listed are DNA Lounge and Public Works – which are great clubs, don't get me wrong – but they are very much on the smaller side. And, Phonobar? That is a bar/restaurant, not a nightclub at all. Meanwhile, The Warfield and 1015 Folsom are left out – how does that make any sense?

New comment by ssalka in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

ssalka — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:42:30 +0000

Eric Weinstein refers to this as an Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO), whereby organizations and economies at large assume perpetual growth, and that things really start to unravel when that growth inevitably slows. It is pretty mindblowing how we have basically accepted growth as the default state, it is not at all a given that things always grow and get better.

New comment by ssalka in "Open music foundation models for full-song generation"

ssalka — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:40:24 +0000

Something interesting... the first 10 seconds or so of the "Death Growl" example[1] is basically copied verbatim from "Ov Fire And The Void" by Behemoth.

More specifically, I think the part that seems copied is at 2:13 of the original[2], as it leads into a solo-ish bit which in the AI version sounds similar still, but goes on to do its own thing:

[1] https://map-yue.github.io/music/moon.death_metal.mp3

[2] https://youtu.be/vAmnsKKrt9w?t=133

New comment by ssalka in "Gemini CLI GitHub Actions"

ssalka — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:39:15 +0000

Maybe a skill issue, but I've tried using Gemini 2.5 Pro in Cursor several times, and each time it is an abundance of thinking and very little (often incorrect) actions. Claude Sonnet is cheaper and much more effective for me.

Having a hard time imagining the GHA integration will be much different.

New comment by ssalka in "The era of ghosting job candidates is slowly ending"

ssalka — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:11:31 +0000

https://archive.ph/uiPhA