Hacker News: thesurlydev

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

New comment by thesurlydev in "AI coding"

thesurlydev — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:44:51 +0000

This resonates with me. I'm also around the same age and have the same amount of experience.

I love AI and use it for both personal and work tasks for two reasons:

1. It's a way to bounce around ideas without (as much) bias as a human. This is indispensable because it gives you a fast feedback mechanism and validates a path.

2. It saves me typing and time. I give it one-shot, "basic work" to do and it's able to do accomplish at least 80% of what I'd say is complete. Although it may not be 100% it's still a net positive given the amount of time it saves me.

It's not lost on me that I'm effectively being trained to always add guardrails, be very specific about the instructions, and always check the work of AI.

New comment by thesurlydev in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

thesurlydev — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:43:58 +0000

I like Podman with it's API for hosting (no k8s) but I reverted back to Docker for local because of docker-compose incompatibilities. This was a year or more ago so it may not still be an issue.

New comment by thesurlydev in "Darklang Goes Open Source"

thesurlydev — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:13:12 +0000

I've been following Dark since its inception and found the idea inspiring. I'm happy about today's announcements and look forward to seeing what comes next.

On a personal note, I'm curious around the move to F# as the implementing language and wonder if there will be ports to other languages now that it's open source.

Ask HN: How do you use AI for development in high security environments?

thesurlydev — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:37:46 +0000

I'm curious how this is done effectively assuming no source should be sent to a model hosted remotely. Are there foundational model toggles for using inference and embedding but not using data for training?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033922

Points: 6

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