Hacker News: thornewolf

New comment by thornewolf in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

thornewolf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:59:49 +0000

New comment by thornewolf in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

thornewolf — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:14:02 +0000

I noticed this article is written by AI. Have you considered adding a disclosure?

New comment by thornewolf in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

thornewolf — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:24:39 +0000

just disclose please. i churn on non-disclosed ai generated content as a matter of principle. i don't necessarily churn on other variants

New comment by thornewolf in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

thornewolf — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:11:56 +0000

this article comes back 100% ai (for the opening). i will not reveal the tell that made me churn

New comment by thornewolf in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

thornewolf — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:08:21 +0000

I have swapped to using gemini over chatgpt for casual conversation and question answering. there are some lacking features in the app but i get faster and more intelligent responses.

New comment by thornewolf in "The only moat left is money?"

thornewolf — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:40:18 +0000

For the comment from "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning", the article author editorializes

"One of the great benefits of AI tools, is they allow anyone to build stuff... even if they have no ideas or knowledge.

One of the great drawbacks of AI tools, is they allow anyone to build stuff... even if they have no ideas or knowledge."

into

"One of the great benefits of AI tools is they allow anyone to build stuff, even if they have no ideas or knowledge. One of the great drawbacks is they allow anyone to build stuff."

which removes the rhetorical effectiveness of the comment (and also breaks the promise of a quotation). I recommend that OP represents the source exactly.

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I now see that this article contains multiple GPT-isms

New comment by thornewolf in "Railway (PaaS) global outage"

thornewolf — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:30:46 +0000

dispell the hate from your heart

The monorepo: my personal software infrastructure

thornewolf — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:54:25 +0000

Article URL: https://iafisher.com/blog/2026/01/monorepo-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779349

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thornewolf in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

thornewolf — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:48:49 +0000

it's because this argument of "what is $0.01 more?" can be extended forever, implying you are willing to pay an infinite amount of money for anything. since we know this is silly, we try to understand what our "real" maximum is. this is difficult to do for exactly the reasons you mention in your comment! surely $0.01 is negligible! there is a tension here.

and so, absolute max price is not a fantasy - the world would be absurd if it were - but instead its a real and difficult to construct value

New comment by thornewolf in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

thornewolf — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:52:53 +0000

as someone who worked at the company, i understood the meaning behind the tweet without the additional clarification. i think she assumed too much shared context when making the tweet

New comment by thornewolf in "Our approach to advertising"

thornewolf — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:31:12 +0000

while we can't trust their word as absolute truth, they did specifically say they still not do this in the article

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

thornewolf — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:03:11 +0000

I estimated that i was 1.2x when we only had tab completion models. 1.5x would be too modest. I've done plenty of ~6-8 hour tasks in ~1-2 hours using llms.

New comment by thornewolf in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

thornewolf — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:01:14 +0000

some forms of meditation can be. it's a very general term

New comment by thornewolf in "I'm just having fun"

thornewolf — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:19:21 +0000

I started typing in no caps in most conversation around 2013-2016, when I first started playing League of Legends and using Discord. Other people from this same age bracket as me have similar experiences (if they were "chronically" online) and similar behavior patterns. It's not pretentious imo.

New comment by thornewolf in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

thornewolf — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:58:15 +0000

maybe so, though an inaccurate claim. the ai is the value add here (and quite a value add based on the other comments in the thread). we typically reserve the word "slop" for ai generated content that is of low quality or no value add. this website seems to be both of quality and value ad and it would be difficult to argue otherwise.

New comment by thornewolf in "API that auto-routes to the cheapest AI provider (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini)"

thornewolf — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:20:52 +0000

This comment is likely AI. Consider author post history as well.

(this comment)

> This idea sits in a really interesting space because on paper

(previous comments)

> I really like this class of work because it sits at a strange intersection:

> It’s wild how Voyager forces two truths to sit together:

The pattern is " "

> becomes workflow-aware, not just price-aware.

> human mental model instead of the mathematically convenient one.

> run for that mindset more than for the tech.

My meta comment is not breaking the HN guidelines by letter, but may be spiritually breaking guidelines. See:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like.

I think clarification on AI-accusations should be added to the guidelines if it falls under this class of comment.

New comment by thornewolf in "Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping"

thornewolf — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:46:56 +0000

> people love shopping

After going back and forth on this many times, I have concluded: some people love shopping and some people hate shopping. Members of one group generally have trouble understanding the other group also exists.

New comment by thornewolf in "Project Euler"

thornewolf — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:48:54 +0000

I have done Project Euler very sporadically since high school. To date I've only done problems 1-54. Despite this, I think the website was a big contributor to my love of programming. I found it before knowing about leetcode and I think it prepared me well. I think I owe Project Euler a decent %-age of my eventual entry into Software Engineering as a field.

New comment by thornewolf in "The Company Man"

thornewolf — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:43:55 +0000

This was well written. I'm glad that I powered through the initial hesitation I felt when I recognized the narrative style.

New comment by thornewolf in "DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC"

thornewolf — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:00:59 +0000

This doesn't matter. I don't intend to be rude, of course. I believe this doesn't matter at all.