Hacker News: transitorykris

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.

New comment by transitorykris in "Using an engineering notebook"

transitorykris — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:18:03 +0000

Surprised it’s not mentioned, but important for the sake of patents too

New comment by transitorykris in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

transitorykris — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:05:09 +0000

This isn't meant to be cynical. But, two of YC's success stories, Stripe and Coinbase, has a stable coin product.

New comment by transitorykris in "San Francisco Graffiti"

transitorykris — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:13:11 +0000

To be fair, not all graffiti on this site is non-consensual. For instance Jeremy Novy's koi fish. After living in Soma for time, everything else was a recurring pain mostly in terms of time I had to spend on it.

New comment by transitorykris in "Typography on Pencils (2023)"

transitorykris — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:43:50 +0000

I love the incorrect book quotes on the “Mitsu-Bisho” pencil!

New comment by transitorykris in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

transitorykris — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:15:42 +0000

Spreadsheets can work but get clumsy really fast. Bottle cost can vary as costs change (case discounts, price changes.. and holding inventory of an item across multiple purchases), audit logging (spelunking into the undo history), multiple staff interacting with the system.. All solved problems, just not at the price point or UX we need at this scale.

New comment by transitorykris in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

transitorykris — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:35:18 +0000

I own a small bar and inventory management is either spreadsheets or saas products meant for larger operations. With the exclusion of some very small changes (e.g., deleting dead code) it’s 100% written using Claude Code. Initial design was generated from markdown documentation I wrote, and each change has been careful and incremental. A few blind alleys lead in the wrong direction, but was always easy enough to back up and try a different approach.

Database migrations and anything related to calculations have had a fair bit of hand holding. Beyond tests it writes I do still test by hand for confidence.

It’s coming up to a year of use. Claude Code credits has still not exceeded the cost of a paid product. I don’t count my time here because this doubles as keeping my technical side busy, and it’s been enjoyable.

New comment by transitorykris in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

transitorykris — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:24:56 +0000

Watch the Zoox test vehicles please. They do absolutely terrifying things, _in every encounter_.

New comment by transitorykris in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

transitorykris — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:33:57 +0000

In my 25 year career in network engineering, I’ve encounter needing it as a user exactly once, and that was earlier this year. Supabase’s free tier allows direct connections the Postgres only over IPv6. It’s too bad the deploment has been a long drawn and expensive process for everyone.

New comment by transitorykris in "The QNX Operating System"

transitorykris — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:17:45 +0000

This Icon was a hunk of junk. The only value it provided were to the students with any sort of curiosity about how this frankensystem worked. It was only later that it was clear it took advantage of procurement processes in the most extreme sense. A pure embarrassment of technology, grifters, and government. We learned more from the PETs, Commodores, and after that the PS/2s.

New comment by transitorykris in "Drunk CSS"

transitorykris — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:07:58 +0000

It was, you just covered one eye!

New comment by transitorykris in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

transitorykris — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:41:29 +0000

From the article “ Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future.”

New comment by transitorykris in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

transitorykris — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:58:38 +0000

The original iPhone ringtone still causes anxiety when I hear it because of a horrific couple years on call. Changing the ringtone works.

New comment by transitorykris in "BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability"

transitorykris — Wed, 28 May 2025 02:11:32 +0000

There was certainly a period of time where folks like AT&T alongside Juniper and Cisco drove BGP into crazytown by way of MPLS and VPN related features. Terrifyingly complex (imo) but lucrative for some.

New comment by transitorykris in "Catalog of Novel Operating Systems"

transitorykris — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:46:17 +0000

MercuryOS jumped out at me too, digging around the site I really started to imagine using it. It does not appear to have gone beyond the design (which was where the creators intended to stop it seems). It's a re-imagining of HCI than an OS as a whole. It caught a fair bit of unfair flack previously imo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35777804