Hacker News: thesurlydev

New comment by thesurlydev in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

thesurlydev — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:56:40 +0000

I feel exactly the same. The CF services I do use are DNS and R2. I'd be curious if there's a guide somewhere that lists their services through the lens of lock-in. For example, R2 is somewhat S3 compatible so it's less risky to use because I can swap providers.

New comment by thesurlydev in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

thesurlydev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:26:26 +0000

nanu nanu

New comment by thesurlydev in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

thesurlydev — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:30:59 +0000

Did you mean 5 months? :)

New comment by thesurlydev in "Half-Baked Product"

thesurlydev — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:37:54 +0000

Best line: "Engineering has no time to stop and rethink their approach, because stopping isn’t in the backlog."

Run Any Dockerfile on Vercel

thesurlydev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:21:45 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/blog/dockerfile-on-vercel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734971

Points: 2

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New comment by thesurlydev in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

thesurlydev — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:21:20 +0000

Not really news until it's widely available.

Anyone know the latest around Fable being re-released after gov smackdown?

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"