Hacker News: transitorykris

New comment by transitorykris in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

transitorykris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:38:40 +0000

I came to this realization after seeing developers churn out 30 minute long reads of slop documentation. It's for the agent, and the human interface to it is through the agent. Over the last week the plans that Claude has been writing for issues have been largely a single massive unreadable paragraph of awkward sentences, but it's working, the implementations from it have been solid.

New comment by transitorykris in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

transitorykris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:06:42 +0000

Is anyone doing story point estimation in terms of tokens? If you have a token budget, does this change how you prioritize?

New comment by transitorykris in "The real cost of owning a home"

transitorykris — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:15:48 +0000

PSA: it’s probably time to change your furnace’s filter

New comment by transitorykris in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

transitorykris — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:23:33 +0000

“Completely acceptable” is not accurate. I’d wager that for any success story there are many stories of heartbreak due to timing and travel for TN renewal. A risk I wouldn’t advise a friend to take. But, yes, doesn’t matter anymore after last week.

New comment by transitorykris in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

transitorykris — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:11:40 +0000

Immigrant intent on a TN is a big no-no

New comment by transitorykris in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

transitorykris — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:09:05 +0000

I deeply believe this but have no strong evidence. Revenue has always been a cure all remedy. This will keep model providers alive along with the very wide range of companies that are experiencing growth with them (from chips to backhoes), for a time anyway. If/when that house of cards starts going in the other direction there’s going to be widespread pain. By analogy the nonsense of the dotcoms and that crash had a very direct impact on their suppliers (e.g. telecoms). My only advice is to let the Microsoft’s and Meta’s do the tokenmaxxing, and don’t get suckered into the idea you (startup, individual, etc) should be playing that game.

New comment by transitorykris in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

transitorykris — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:19:31 +0000

It’s really a solipsistic philosophy. The awkwardness of it was the fact he had a king and the church to appease in his arguments. Willfully forgetting Descartes is one way of dealing with it! (..or plotting a path out of it by reading him as a proto-existentialist)

New comment by transitorykris in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

transitorykris — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:40:33 +0000

For reference on that: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv...

New comment by transitorykris in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"

transitorykris — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:19:57 +0000

Parents reads as a comment on the usefulness of applying mathematics to problems in the world (applied mathematics) and discovering mathematical problems that push mathematics forward (pure mathematics) in the process. Pure mathematics is incredibly important, but I’d hardly count it as useful if we need to wait centuries.

New comment by transitorykris in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

transitorykris — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:11:42 +0000

Love inkscape and wish it could get some engineering love around MacOS. For quick work I'll use it on MacOS, but anything deep I switch to Windows.

New comment by transitorykris in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

transitorykris — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:49:08 +0000

Social logins, email logins, password resets, multi-tenant, organizations, many to many users to organizations, etc etc. Not necessary for MVP, but can definitely be painful hacking in later if the MVP hits.

New comment by transitorykris in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

transitorykris — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:58:46 +0000

Share price can and does go up because layoffs usually means opex goes down

New comment by transitorykris in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

transitorykris — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:20:35 +0000

This is the first time I've encountered this. I want all footnotes to work this way! Otherwise I'm off into a rathole and never return. Love it.

New comment by transitorykris in "I am building a cloud"

transitorykris — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:41:03 +0000

FTA “Hence the Series A: we have some computers to buy.”

New comment by transitorykris in "Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code"

transitorykris — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:49:45 +0000

Admittedly I might be missing a flag or two with claude, but how are multiple loops and comparisons of solutions done with just headless mode?

New comment by transitorykris in "Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code"

transitorykris — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:19:10 +0000

Maybe not adds in, but wraps around. You could accomplish much of this with fairly simply bash scripts.

New comment by transitorykris in "Glaze by Raycast"

transitorykris — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:30:11 +0000

xcode's new AI using claude is not performing as well as claude code for me. I've tried a couple times and quickly fall back to using vscode with xcode sitting in a window beside. I don't mind the copypaste of warnings and errors since my workflow is less vibe and more directed/iterative.

New comment by transitorykris in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

transitorykris — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:17:57 +0000

It’s been done before. Send the glassholes to Molotov’s in SF. https://sf.eater.com/2014/2/26/6272945/heres-the-video-of-th...

New comment by transitorykris in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

transitorykris — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:02:53 +0000

There was also something subtle that happened, and it seemed to happen quite rapidly, a little over a decade ago. "Maker" started being used to mean more than just 3D printing hackers and started to refer to engineers, and then others "making" things.. but the watering down wasn't the end of it, it became a way to praise a certain class of employee. The resentment that generated (say, sales, marketing, etc) and the bizarre uses of "Maker", I believe contributed to it's demise.

New comment by transitorykris in "Using an engineering notebook"

transitorykris — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:33:25 +0000

It can still be important as a record of who was involved in the invention. Every inventor, no more or less, needs to be credited.