Hacker News: telliott1984

New comment by telliott1984 in "Show HN: isometric.nyc/snow"

telliott1984 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:08:53 +0000

Spectacular! I'm morbidly fascinated by the variance in how well different streets have been plowed.

New comment by telliott1984 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

telliott1984 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:23:54 +0000

Does this remind anyone of pranking the new hire? "Go to the hardware store and fetch some rainbow paint"

New comment by telliott1984 in "Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door"

telliott1984 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:02:24 +0000

This is fascinating! Did the attempts start as soon as you started up the server, or did it take a little while to get going?

New comment by telliott1984 in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

telliott1984 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:08:07 +0000

There's no TLD for the latter.

New comment by telliott1984 in "Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users"

telliott1984 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:00:17 +0000

This is wild. Not sure if it's more of a reason not to use ClawdBot, or not to get into crypto.

New comment by telliott1984 in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

telliott1984 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:44:26 +0000

I went to install "moltbot" yesterday, and the binary was still "clawdbot" after installation. Wonder if they'll use Moltbot to manage the rename to OpenClaw.

Yes, you should still learn to code

telliott1984 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:33:12 +0000

Article URL: https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/p/yes-you-should-still-learn-to-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826440

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by telliott1984 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

telliott1984 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:54:15 +0000

Sad to see no mention of Manchester airport in this. Seems like they flag every third bag for manual screening.

New comment by telliott1984 in "How I estimate work"

telliott1984 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:13:14 +0000

A lot of this felt very familiar. Having multiple plans does seem like a good way to hedge against the unknown, but I can also see that you'd end up with the "secret 5th" plan when all of those unknowns eventually stack up.

Planning is inaccurate, frustrating, and sadly necessary.

New comment by telliott1984 in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

telliott1984 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:03:39 +0000

I got a classic and obvious 419 scam email today. Kind of felt like I'd gone back to a simpler time.

New comment by telliott1984 in "Are we all plagiarists now?"

telliott1984 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:49:07 +0000

I really don't know how I feel about that Ctrl/Control joke.

We won't need CI in 5 years

telliott1984 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:43:41 +0000

Article URL: https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/p/we-wont-need-ci-in-5-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745048

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by telliott1984 in "How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers"

telliott1984 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:26:50 +0000

I'd see this as coming down to incentive. If you can scrape naively and it's cheap, what's the benefit to you in doing something more efficient for git forge? How many other edge cases are there where you could potentially save a little compute/bandwidth, but need to implement a whole other set of logic?

Unfortunately, this kind of scraping seems to inconvenience the host way more than the scraper.

Another tangent: there probably are better behaved scrapers, we just don't notice them as much.

New comment by telliott1984 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

telliott1984 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:12:37 +0000

Given they've been essentially subsidizing self-hosted orgs for a while, I'm kinda surprised they didn't do this before now. Probably wanted to lead with the price cut for everyone else.

It'll be interesting to see how this affects third party companies providing GitHub runners.