Hacker News: valicord

New comment by valicord in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

valicord — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:12:39 +0000

Ra is great, and so is Fine Structure but they are both significantly longer than Antimemetics. Most people wouldn't read a massive novel publishing on some guy's personal website.

New comment by valicord in "Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry"

valicord — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:58:55 +0000

rg/fd respect gitignore automatically which solves this problem

New comment by valicord in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

valicord — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:39:57 +0000

I hate ads as much as anyone, but the OP article would be more convincing if it didn't itself include 6MB worth of screenshots.

New comment by valicord in "Stop Sloppypasta"

valicord — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:03:32 +0000

> It shouldn't matter as long as it addresses your ask

But it doesn't? I'm more than capable of using Google and chatgpt myself. If I was looking for a machine generated answer to my question I would have already found it myself and never made the post in the first place. If I went to the effort of posting the question, it means that either the slop answer is not sufficient for some reason or that I want to hear from actual humans that have subjective experiences that an LLM cannot.

Posting an AI response verbatim basically says "I think you're too stupid to click a couple of buttons, so let me show you how it's done". I think it's very reasonable to get upset at the implication.

New comment by valicord in "Stop Sloppypasta"

valicord — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:52:08 +0000

> I do find it interesting that people don't mind AI content, as long it's "their AI." The moment someone thinks it's someone else's AI output, the reaction is visceral.

Isn't it obvious? If I'd wanted to see AI response to my question, I'd ask it myself (maybe I already did). If I'm asking humans, I want to see human responses. I eat fast-food sometimes, but if I was served a Big Mac at a sit down restaurant I'd be properly upset.

New comment by valicord in "Put the zip code first"

valicord — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:02:26 +0000

"You can determine any country as long as that county is USA"

New comment by valicord in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

valicord — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:57:36 +0000

> Those acceptance criteria are guardrails for the change that comes after, and getting those out of your head into English is more important over the long haul than your undocumented short-term solution to the criteria.

I have a lot of context about the system/codebase inside my head. 99.9% of it is not relevant to the specific task I need to do this week. The 0.1% that is relevant to this task is not relevant to other tasks that I or my teammates will need to do next week.

You're suggesting that I write down this particular 0.1% in some markdown file so that LLM can write the code for me, instead of writing the code myself (which would have been faster). Chances are, nobody is going to touch that particular piece of code again for a long time. By the time they do, whatever I have written down is likely out of date, so the long term benefit of writing everything down disappears.

> after the countless little iterations you made since your head-spec wasn't as concrete as you imagined before you started iterating.

That's exactly the point. If I need to iterate on the spec anyway, why would I use an intermediary (LLM) instead of just writing the code myself?

New comment by valicord in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

valicord — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:25:29 +0000

I agree with your first paragraph but not the second one. In many cases it's easier for me to directly write the code that satisfies the unwritten acceptance criteria I have in my head than to write those criteria down in English, have an LLM turn them into code, and then have to carefully review that code to see if I forgot some detail that changes everything.

New comment by valicord in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

valicord — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:35:43 +0000

Only some models

New comment by valicord in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

valicord — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:02:41 +0000

Roborock q revo

New comment by valicord in "MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China"

valicord — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:56:16 +0000

I'm sure you're being sincere here but this really reads like that famous HN comment about "who needs Dropbox when ftp exists". The reason vscode is popular is not because it does something impossible to do otherwise, but because it does those things out of the box with a friendly UI.

New comment by valicord in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

valicord — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:14:55 +0000

How much time did it take to write this rather than Google "join zoom in browser"?

New comment by valicord in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

valicord — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:50:34 +0000

It doesn't need to, it's just much more convenient when you can do everything in a single commit.

New comment by valicord in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

valicord — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:14:20 +0000

The point is atomic code changes, not atomic deployments. If I want to rename some common library function, it's just a single search and replace operation in a monorepo. How do you do this with multiple repos?

New comment by valicord in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

valicord — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:46:50 +0000

You can grant access to a few specific sites (in chrome at least), it's just hidden in settings and you need to configure it manually.

New comment by valicord in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

valicord — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:15:06 +0000

If you can sue shark fins, why not a website? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...

New comment by valicord in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

valicord — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:15:35 +0000

if it's an open source project, why is it using a cask anyway? it should be a formula that builds from source directly

New comment by valicord in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

valicord — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:58:04 +0000

The satellite feed removed from internet in 3, 2, ...

New comment by valicord in "You Don't Need Anubis"

valicord — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:13:12 +0000

The parent comment was "The author of that site assumes that scrapers will keep track of the access tokens for a week, but most internet-wide scrapers don't do so.". There's no technical reason why they wouldn't reuse those tokens, they don't do that today because they don't care. If anubis gets enough adoption to cause meaningful inconvenience, the scrapers would just start caching the tokens to amortize the cost.

The point of the article is that if the scraper is sufficiently motivated, Anubis is not going to do much anyway, and if the scraper doesn't care, same result can be achieved without annoying your actual users.

New comment by valicord in "You Don't Need Anubis"

valicord — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:32:00 +0000

The point is that the scrapers can easily bypass this if they cared to do so