Hacker News: venturin

Skipper: The closed-loop coding agent

venturin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:08:42 +0000

Article URL: https://skipperai.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358753

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The Apparatus, Not the Artifact

venturin — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:16:47 +0000

Article URL: https://skiplabs.io/blog/notes_from_the_comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107851

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by venturin in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

venturin — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:34 +0000

Strong agreement on the thesis. The piece is most useful for naming what's bankrupt about prompt chains. Where it stops short is what the verification checkpoints should actually verify.

One way to slice it: there are three kinds of underspecification an agent has to close.

Intent: what the user wanted (JWT vs cookies, should free users see this feature). Verification can't close this and probably shouldn't try.

Structural e.g. null, types, exhaustiveness, ownership. Sound static analysis closes this by construction.

Domain e.g. auth on every route, error propagation, contract stability. A domain-shaped apparatus closes this because it knows what kind of program is being built.

Babysitter, auditor, prayer is the right taxonomy of bad options. The fourth option is making the LLM a component inside an apparatus that handles structural and domain statically, and leaving the human on intent.

New comment by venturin in "Dynamically Scaling Reactive Services with Skip (Now with Kubernetes Support)"

venturin — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:46:22 +0000

We just released new capabilities in Skip to make reactive services scale easily and efficiently across machines. Skip’s core is a native reactive computation graph that minimizes unnecessary recomputation—great for real-time apps—but now you can also scale horizontally using a leader/follower architecture.

We’ve open-sourced an example service (yes, it's called hackernews) you can try locally or on Kubernetes. It supports seamless scaling via kubectl scale, with zero downtime and no changes to your backend logic.

Blog post with diagrams and code here: https://skip.dev/blog/dynamic-scaling

GitHub repo: https://github.com/skiplang/skip To try it:

   npx create-skip-service hackernews --example hackernews --verbose  
   docker compose -f hackernews/compose.distributed.yml up --build

Curious to hear your thoughts or feedback!

Dynamically Scaling Reactive Services with Skip (Now with Kubernetes Support)

venturin — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:46:22 +0000

Article URL: https://skiplabs.io/blog/horizontal-scaling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210400

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by venturin in "Ask HN: How to create a service similar to Patreon?"

venturin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:05:25 +0000

Let's not forget about Tipeee, which might be the only platform actually not in debt (they merely raised 150 000€ 3 years ago, and officially declared benefits last year).

New comment by venturin in "Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform"

venturin — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:51:06 +0000

Recurring payment, so many platforms now...

https://maecen.com/ https://www.tipeee.com/ https://patreon.com/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ https://flattr.com/ https://d.rip/

What other platform to host a profile and raise money monthly do you know ?

New comment by venturin in "Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond"

venturin — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:18:28 +0000

Engineering VPs very much know about it.