Hacker News: thesurlydev

New comment by thesurlydev in "Software is made between commits"

thesurlydev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:47:58 +0000

I'm glad to see this feature and looking forward to see how it evolves.

Many of the product decisions that Zed's made caused me to switch to Zed for my daily driver IDE (previously JetBrains). The recent AI agent threads and improvements around diffs really solidified the move.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

thesurlydev — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:43:56 +0000

TPUs

New comment by thesurlydev in "GitHub Actions was down"

thesurlydev — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:38:30 +0000

"A little less conversation, a little more action please"

New comment by thesurlydev in "If I could make my own GitHub"

thesurlydev — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:41:00 +0000

I've been thinking about this a lot lately as well but from a different vantage point. I put together an "ast-crdt" project combining Abstract Syntax Tree and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) which allows multiple agents to effectively merge multiple code changes. The initial thought was to answer the question "what would it look like to allow modifications to the same code project by multiple agents in a safe way without relying on git semantics (and the inevitable merge conflicts)?" It also touches on the idea of "what if humans are removed entirely from the commit-PR-merge workflow?" All of this to say git-centric forges as we think about them today would start to look very different.

New comment by thesurlydev in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

thesurlydev — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:48:49 +0000

Since when has that stopped companies from mishandling of data? :)

A faster, cheaper Claude Code alternative with automatic provider failover

thesurlydev — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.surly.dev/articles/how-to-get-95-pct-claude-code-quality-at-half-the-cost-with-hermes-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793409

Points: 3

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New comment by thesurlydev in "Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025"

thesurlydev — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:32:23 +0000

Like any good company off-site. Strippers and steaks

New comment by thesurlydev in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

thesurlydev — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:23:00 +0000

Can you share how you're running it?

New comment by thesurlydev in "There is an AI code review bubble"

thesurlydev — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:26:46 +0000

For the signal to noise reason, I start with Claude Code reviewing a PR. Then I selectively choose what I want to bubble up to the actual review. Often times, there's additional context not available to the model or it's just nit picky.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

thesurlydev — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:56:36 +0000

Pretty cool and related to another path of work I'm following from Steve Yegge: https://medium.com/@steve-yegge/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16...

New comment by thesurlydev in "Databases in 2025: A Year in Review"

thesurlydev — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:52:03 +0000

Supabase seems to be killing it. I read somewhere they are used by ~70% of YCombinator startups. I wonder how many of those eventually move to self-hosted.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Welcome to Gas Town"

thesurlydev — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:49:56 +0000

I had a lot of fun reading the articles about Gas Town although I started to lose track of the odd naming. Only odd because they make sense to Steve and others who have seen the Mad Max, Water World movies.

I promptly gave Claude the text to the articles and had him rewrite using idiomatic distributed systems naming.

Fun times!

New comment by thesurlydev in "Web development is fun again"

thesurlydev — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:13:05 +0000

Before I clicked on this I was optimistic and thought this was going to be about how we've turned a corner and the web stack pendulum is now swinging back to the easier days before frontend frameworks.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Tell HN: HN was down"

thesurlydev — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:00:13 +0000

Same! Right there with "every day must begin with coffee"

New comment by thesurlydev in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

thesurlydev — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:49:34 +0000

A web app platform written in Rust with the primary focus on zero-dependency apps and using Pingora as a forward and reverse proxy. Targeting Hetzner for hosting and Cloudflare for DNS. I love Rust but don’t like the long compile times which led me down this rabbit hole (zero dependencies make for fast compiles).

New comment by thesurlydev in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

thesurlydev — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:43:14 +0000

For a while, the O'Reilly subscription was included in the $99/yr ACM membership. Then they stopped offering O'Reilly for a bit. Then they brought it back as part of the $75 skills add-on.

I feel like this is a little known secret (discount via ACM) that more folks should know about. Hopefully this post helps spread the word.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

thesurlydev — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:43:24 +0000

Immediately read this as "prostate" and proceeded to spit out my coffee. Carry on

New comment by thesurlydev in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

thesurlydev — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:43:34 +0000

Please provide a trivial example of the code and the generated sketch front and center on your front page.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Adventures in upgrading Proxmox"

thesurlydev — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:39:29 +0000

I recently gave up on Proxmox for my home lab needs after a failed upgrade from 8 to 9. I also never liked the feeling of not having an easy to use API.

New comment by thesurlydev in "iPod Socks"

thesurlydev — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:11:55 +0000

vom