Hacker News: theowaway213456

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

theowaway213456 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:25:10 +0000

Every time you write a test that handles some data, you write an assertion about how much data is handled?

Come on, this is such an easy thing to forget to test. Don't act like there is some magical testing strategy that would have caught this

New comment by theowaway213456 in "You're probably using Agent Skills wrong"

theowaway213456 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:11:08 +0000

TL;DR don't have your agent write skills using only its latent knowledge, otherwise you may as well not use a skill in the first place and let it summon that latent knowledge on the fly.

Not sure if this take is correct though. I suspect self-generated skills help the agent avoid having to "decompress" its latent knowledge, which might save tokens? idk, I am not an expert

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

theowaway213456 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:57:04 +0000

Claiming that something is someone's "entire personality" is extremely reductive and definitely hostile

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

theowaway213456 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:06:01 +0000

Yep that's the first time I noticed it. The pocket was also numbered for me as well

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Context Sculpting"

theowaway213456 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:01:03 +0000

Not a single mention of prompt caching in this article, which is a massive benefit of append-only context.

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

theowaway213456 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:55:52 +0000

Certain entities seem to be displayed as numbers for me, like "You received a 6" etc when getting my first potion. Anyone else seeing this bug?

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Understanding Singleflight in Go"

theowaway213456 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:55:37 +0000

This implementation is better than stdlib's implementation in my opinion, since it respects context:

https://github.com/janos/singleflight

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Linux bitten by second vulnerability in as many weeks"

theowaway213456 — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:04:27 +0000

Old news - both of these vulnerabilities made top headlines on HN. This post isn't contributing much.

(Tangentially, the title of this article is egregiously difficult to parse.)

New comment by theowaway213456 in "I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph"

theowaway213456 — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:39:37 +0000

It's very hard to use on mobile. When clicking a graph node, something happens kind of far down in the viewport, which I didn't notice at first. Also clicking "Open post" doesn't seem to work

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Commenting and approving pull requests"

theowaway213456 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:15:43 +0000

This feels like a suboptimal solution to me because I personally like to keep comments in "unresolved" state so that they remain visible and other folks can weigh in on them if they want, but in a way that doesn't block the PR. Basically I wish that GitHub would either separate the "collapsed" and "resolved" concepts, or add this "approve without merging" button.

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Parallel agents in Zed"

theowaway213456 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:49:30 +0000

Yup. No matter how much you tell it to keep things simple, modular, crisp, whatever, it generates tons of garbage much too often.

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex"

theowaway213456 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:47:54 +0000

lol after reading your first sentence I literally thought to myself "this sounds like the type of person who never closes their browser tabs"

New comment by theowaway213456 in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

theowaway213456 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:21:41 +0000

In my experience, this mistake happens all the time for native English speakers born in the US.

New comment by theowaway213456 in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

theowaway213456 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:17:19 +0000

If we're allowed to make modifications here then it should really be lose => looze and loose => luce

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

theowaway213456 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:55:14 +0000

I 100% understand why you are using a subscription-based model. It makes sense, and I agree it's the most honest model given that you have to continually support it and you don't want to have to either over-promise on extended support, and offer refunds if you can't fulfill that promise.

I just hate managing subscriptions.

If you gave me the option to require manual subscription renewal, rather than auto-renewal, I would 100% buy this right now. Basically allow me to purchase for 1 year then click a button to confirm that I'm still getting value out of the product. If I don't click that button then you should assume I'm no longer interested and cancel my subscription.

(I don't like using my mac but sometimes I have to use it for work, and I wish I had this.)

New comment by theowaway213456 in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

theowaway213456 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:36:49 +0000

Sorry, my attention started drifting when you said "epistolary."

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

theowaway213456 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:24 +0000

In other words, it requires a tremendous amount of effort to fully communicate your tastes to the AI. Not everybody wants to expend the time or mental effort doing this! (Once we have more direct brain/computer interfaces, this effort will go down, but I expect it will not be eliminated fully)

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

theowaway213456 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:28:50 +0000

Feels like AI generated market research. There must be a single company/person putting out these posts because I see a ton of posts like this following a similar structure

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

theowaway213456 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:25:20 +0000

Anyone else feel like this post is AI generated? I've been seeing a lot of posts like this on reddit programming subs and now it's happening on HN too... The pattern is:

- some generic context, containing a bunch of em dashes of course, with a vague background that isn't tied to a specific incident

- a claim like "most ___ I've talked to about this" within the first few sentences.

- ends with a series of questions as though they're soliciting more input

I feel like these all must be coming from a single person who's trying to automate market research and sell the data or something

New comment by theowaway213456 in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

theowaway213456 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:46:11 +0000

Five years ago, I would've loved this. I love the simplicity and power of good old Make. And I obsess over my workstation's configuration. I used to have a massive bash script I would use to reprovision my workstation after every clean upgrade of Ubuntu.

But these days, I just tell codex to install things for me. I basically use it as a universal package manager. It's more reliable honestly than trying to keep up to date with "what's the current recommended way to install this package?"

I also have it keep a list of packages I have installed, which is synced to GitHub every time the list changes.