<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vinnymac</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vinnymac</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:25:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vinnymac" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your imagination for what can go wrong seems limited in my eyes. I've been in the trenches where a specification was not followed, or was wrong from the beginning. That can be the case here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:09:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358949</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this ends up working anything like the Gmail Dark Mode implementations on iOS and Android that have drove developers insane and users mad, then I expect both parties to become upset. It is easy to view this as a win for users, but the moment this doesn't work well in various scenarios, the vocal minority will punish the developers of the web as if they did something wrong here, and everyone loses.<p>Here is to hoping that is not the case, and they did a good job with the implementation in Safari, but I have my suspicions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:05:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358912</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "State of Devs 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree with the premise that you need to know what you’re doing to solve problems or create something new with LLMs (unfortunately).<p>I wouldn’t say that Dans recent work in maths was necessarily that of an expert. More of a fan of Lean than anything and he did a breakthrough in a relatively short time period.<p><a href="https://overreacted.io/how-i-vibed-a-proof-of-conways-conjecture/" rel="nofollow">https://overreacted.io/how-i-vibed-a-proof-of-conways-conjec...</a><p>It seems to me it’s about enough money, knowledge, and effort to want to achieve a thing. Which is good, but can and is being weaponized in terrible ways against us.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:42:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991954</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oddly not much to trip it. I once ran “touch AKAMAI.md” and then had Claude run git status and it fell back to Opus as if I had just broken into the pentagon itself.</p>
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<p>I tried to use this the other day and found out they still don’t support arm64 :(<p>Somehow ECS does though… tradeoffs everywhere I look have made me dizzy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489537</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find this recommendation funny, because I completely agree from a sysadmin perspective.<p>I used to use Gitlab at work, and small teams would run into so many footguns with CI that we had to throw up guardrails to prevent mistakes. Far too many links to gitlab issues that were not fixed even after >8+ years of being open ended up biting us.  With GHA I haven't had that experience, and same for all of my self hosted Forgejo instances. I used to hate using GHA from about ~2018 to 2021, but they've fixed a lot of things I disliked since then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:55:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456447</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're actively considering self hosting, I recommend giving forgejo a try. The experience is much more similar to what GitHub offers, actions API is nearly identical to name one similarity of which there are many. Moving essentially becomes one prompt and a coffee later for a small team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:15:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452590</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just to be clear, I am on Github Enterprise, and am also experiencing this disruption both privately and publicly on every org and project I have access to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:33:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451925</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me this started happening when I type "stat" too.<p>Which surprised me because of the many hundreds of services I rely on regularly that also have status pages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:31:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451877</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "The Amazon tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who notices a lot of things, I was talking recently with someone who notices almost nothing. When I spoke about my desire to seek out the truth, they simply replied, "I just want to live a happy life."<p>There’s a perception that those who seek knowledge and truth are somehow less happy. Ignorance, and the willingness to take the path of least resistance, can be seen as an advantage for those who would rather not look too closely. Fundamentally, perhaps the difference comes down to red pill versus blue pill, and the illusions we’re willing to accept.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348051</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks to you I’ve now upgraded to v16, and can confirm the logs API works beautifully!</p>
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<p>Nice! I was hoping they would add this in v16. Unfortunately I am still on v15 of all my instances of Forgejo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332722</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you know GitHub actions then you’ll immediately understand Forgejo actions. It was designed that way intentionally. There are some differences, but at least for me not enough to warrant any pitchforks.<p>If you have advanced use cases you might be more frustrated, but I’m not aware of any off the top of my head. I think my biggest complaint is that they haven’t exposed action logs over the API, so I can’t build tooling around them at the CLI level, feed them to an LLM, or more quickly diagnose problems that arise without using the website.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:53:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332052</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Incident with Github.com"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m hosting my own <a href="https://tangled.org" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org</a> knot and spindle, and also hosting and building my own Frontend browser for <a href="https://forgejo.org" rel="nofollow">https://forgejo.org</a> looking forward to open sourcing it in the future for others to enjoy.<p>For people who want a similar experience today, I’d recommend trying Codeberg (An official instance of Forgejo) though. However, keep in mind they voted in July to ban mostly AI generated repositories. You can read about that here: <a href="https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331789</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same, I have gotten good results out of Opus 4.6,4.7,4.8 for my security work though. So I continue to use them for this.<p>Curious if you’ve find yourself enjoying DS or Kimi more than Opus 4?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285422</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I once described Mythos and then Fable as escaping the box we put them in. This would certainly fit that narrative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:48:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053456</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Turn And Face The Strange"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For a long time they would have global outages where the status page would list everything as green and the only reason you'd know something was wrong was the forum threads. Their response was that they were too busy fixing the issues to update the status board. Right.<p>Are you talking about AWS or Fly here? I seriously cannot tell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:45:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053433</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Building on ATProto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I created a web-of-trust forum built on ATProto. <a href="https://caterpilla.rs" rel="nofollow">https://caterpilla.rs</a><p>Probably one of the most fun projects I’ve ever worked on, and I largely attribute that to the protocol.<p>I’m particularly interested in the permissioned data spec, but don’t want it to hold me back, so some functionality is on ice, and I went live without it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:25:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031208</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yesterday I gave Claude Fable a difficult task. It then proceeded to spawn 415 agents. It got it done, but damn was it expensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886718</link><dc:creator>vinnymac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinnymac in "My Homelab AI Dev Platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m working on an open source Forgejo Frontend that exposes additional features like this, and offers a better user experience, faster large diffs, and basically fixes every little thing I don’t like about Forgejo. Would be interested in hearing more of your complaints so I can continue to improve.</p>
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