<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: tecoholic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tecoholic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:39:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tecoholic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Second this. Just add Starship.rs for prompt and offload tool chain version handling to mise. That covers about 100% of my needs.<p>If your org doesn’t use mise, just add mise.toml to your global gitignore. Mise tries to be a single tool covering multiple needs, but don’t have to use it that way. I just manage toolchain versions and envvars (replace direnv).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:44:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459819</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Why China got rich and India didn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In case of China, the extend to which the central government can set laws and policies far exceeds what’s possible in India. India’s powers are split into Federal, State and “Concurrent” lists. Health and education for example is a state and concurrent list subject respectively, to which the “Indian Government” has only very limited say. So it’s apples to oranges when it comes to comparing investments in those domains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:40:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378194</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Why China got rich and India didn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the author is reading - China is a single party nation state, India is a union of states. Dive into the metrics of states, you will find everything from Sub-sharan Africa levels of HDI to the ones that compete with European countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:34:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377682</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Don't Roll Your Own"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> WHY javascript code is even allowed to see all these actions of the user? We already loaded the page and rendered it<p>Nope we haven’t. At least not in a web application. At least not since the days Infinite Scrolling was invented. IIRC Twitter, for eg, only renders a partial list depending on the scroll position.<p>I once wrote a NER tagger, where implementing custom text selection allowed users to not stress about selecting the exact word boundaries when manually tagging 1000s of words per day.<p>I can probably find legitimate use cases for almost of these things in the list. While I agree with the broader theme of the article, this idea that the user agent should be a dumb display is not valid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253413</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you. This is a great tip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 04:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175450</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha! That’s a valid point. My trackpad is crap on Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 04:02:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175445</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have used an IdeaPad S540 for about 5-6 years. Upgrading RAM, WiFi modules along the way. Was bummed when Apple’s Mac Pro died on me 11months with no warning. And went back to IdeaPad again (this is where I gave up on Thinkpad). So I would swear by it. Not the current one, it’s got soldered RAM and I am less of a fan, but it just works - no issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175440</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have bought one if they weren’t so pricey for the spec they ship. Similar specs on a IdeaPad goes I think something like 40% cheaper or more.<p>I understand people loving heavy duty ones. But the ones I have run into in the past had poorer screens and were just clunky to carry around. What’s the trade off here? Why do people still want a Thinkpad.<p>Edit: I just thought of one reason, some specs are not available in Ideapads due the power consumption and cooling needs I think. So Thinkpads on the lower end aren’t worth it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:12:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174324</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How much does a SOUL.md cost?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164974</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. Just this fact is going to make a lot of people try it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:19:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164646</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool idea. I had something vaguely similar in my mind. It's nice one see go ahead and implement it. All the Claude code animations and not knowing what's happening, how long it will take and what will come out is really frustrating me. On top of that there is no way to actually limit the scope of things. Opencode's Plan mode and build mode helps a bit.<p>If a state machine can improve a local LLM to produce better results, it's welcome addition to tinkerers and solo devs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 11:56:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120742</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. The sentiment applies to most analytics. People who setup analytics are not the same as end users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:59:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119879</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was looking into this just yesterday. So the Loki + … comparison is a bit off in the Open Source space. The main ones are Signoz and ClickStack in this space. Both using ClickHouse as the database. Heavy compared to something like Loki, but they are OTEL native and not log monitoring. So not in the same category.</p>
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<p>I have written zero skills, so not sure how normal it is. I counted the words in couple of them and they seem to be around 2k range. So 5 skills would be around 10K. Even at a small LLM context of 128k, that's still around 10%. And for a 1M context window like the big ones, it barely registers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 01:07:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016879</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Agent Skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If there is anything we have learned in decades of Software engineering, it's "A clear outcome" is not easy to describe. In many cases, it's impossible unless people from 4 different domains collaborate. That's why process matters. It allows for software to be built is a "semi-standardized" way that can allow iterations to get us closed towards the expected outcome, that might emerge over time.<p>Yes, not everything I use LLMs for going to have the same level of ambiguity or complex requirements. Optimizing by choosing to skip over parts of the process is exactly Addy is talking in this article.</p>
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<p>Old article from Feb, 2025</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 01:20:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982348</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Grok 4.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seriously though, why is it a model "card", safety "card"? I had to lookup to learn that it comes from HuggingFace's vague definition of "README" in the model's repo. This is such a specific thing that I don't think anyone except a very small population would know - not the users, not the c-suites.<p>I don't like Musk or Grok. But not knowing what's a safety card is not a signal of anything IMO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:07:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973823</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kudos. I set on this exact journey a couple of days back and Pi is what I started reading for inspiration as well. I really can't stand the text boxes and the animations of the mainstream harnesses.</p>
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<p>I know. This was not a helpful comment. Sorry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:03:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956304</link><dc:creator>tecoholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tecoholic in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of those articles that has an interesting anecdote but written with a mundane lulz mentality. If it’s for teenagers, by teenagers. All is well.</p>
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