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New comment by wakeless in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

wakeless — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:27:59 +0000

I did a similar set of evals myself utilising the baseline capabilities that Phoenix (elixir) ships with and then skillified them.

Regularly the skills were not being loaded and thus not utilised. The outputs themselves were fine. This suggested that at some stage through the improvements of the models that baseline AGENTS.md had become redundant.

New comment by wakeless in "Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager"

wakeless — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:42:44 +0000

So I built a thing that looks _very_ similar to this a while back: http://pipie.io/agent-tracker (it doesn't orchestrate)

And what's really fascinating isn't that multiple people have built the same thing is just how convergent all the ideas are. This makes a heap of sense given that they are all vibe-coded and using similar libraries. It's just very real when you see it right in front of your face like this.

I think there's a heap of really interesting stuff when you start linking into hooks which can also create tmux splits and really make the agent the center of an ide which seems like this is on the way to.

New comment by wakeless in "Petrichor"

wakeless — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 10:41:29 +0000

Don't forget the Paul Kelly song of the same name.

New comment by wakeless in "Phelia – React for Slack Apps"

wakeless — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:10:59 +0000

A very cool approach, well done.

New comment by wakeless in "Apple acquires Dark Sky"

wakeless — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 08:22:18 +0000

There is a great episode of 99 percent invisible about this.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/

Ask HN: Google Meet needs Brady Bunch mode

wakeless — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 07:10:32 +0000

I have never heard so many feature requests for something in such a short time. My team is fully remote, happy with Google Meet (or Hangouts) except for the Brady Bunch mode. People are advocating to change to Zoom for this 1 feature. I'm sure remote teams all around the world are having the same conversations.

So ask HN, can we make sure someone on that Google Videos team knows how much it would be loved. It feels like a feature that people would eat up even if it was rushed out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22645104

Points: 3

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New comment by wakeless in "Migrating to React’s New Context API"

wakeless — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:17:53 +0000

Fair enough, I suppose. I still think the additional complexity of having to bring in the context for the save of passing 1 variable through the whole tree is overkill though.

New comment by wakeless in "Migrating to React’s New Context API"

wakeless — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:20:57 +0000

This is actually a really weird example of using the Context API. I have no idea why you would want to use it to manage a single switch of state.

The far better examples are providing a "theme" across multiple disparate components, and each of them being able to access the colours, or styles. (You could also just use CSS)

The other good example is being able to set the logged in user into a context and then being able to consume the context if you need access to the logged in user.

New comment by wakeless in "Stripe Billing"

wakeless — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:26:40 +0000

How does this work in the case where the majority of your customers currently pay by direct-debit/cheque? This is certainly the case for us, but we have long been looking for a affordable solution to have them managed with some sort of managed subscription engine

New comment by wakeless in "Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape"

wakeless — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 22:20:27 +0000

Beer isn't in 'publicly' accessible vending machines any more as far as I can tell. It is however often available in the foyer of a place that normally sells beer (that might be currently shut.)

Ski resorts are my main source of vending-machine beer. Nothing better than cracking a can of Sapporo Classic in your first gondola ride of the day.

New comment by wakeless in "GitHub down"

wakeless — Fri, 20 May 2016 07:54:24 +0000

My favourite part of this is the "All systems operational" in green at the top. Yet, all systems are clearly not operational.

New comment by wakeless in "Y Combinator's Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]"

wakeless — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:48:56 +0000

No [video] ?

New comment by wakeless in "The MUD Connector"

wakeless — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:26:43 +0000

Gee I spent far too much time on Astaria in the late 90s. I'm sure there's a few people around here that are in the same boat.

New comment by wakeless in "Hammer.js: Add touch gestures to your page"

wakeless — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:48:53 +0000

We've been using this for a while, documentation isn't great, but it seems it's the best library for what it does.

We had particular trouble with double tap recognition early on but I believe V2 improved this substantially.

New comment by wakeless in "Paper Now: Create, edit and display a journal article entirely in GitHub"

wakeless — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:44:22 +0000

There is significant friction from changing to anything that isn't Word (PDF/Latex to a lesser extent) in this space. I wonder what it is going to take for that monopoly to be broken

New comment by wakeless in "In conversation with Marc Andreessen"

wakeless — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 06:26:42 +0000

You are right in a sense. I think people are demanding more flexible, realistic and more consumer favourable laws. Rather than the rigid structures that are in currently in place.

New comment by wakeless in "Announcing UberPool"

wakeless — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:51:29 +0000

Here in Queenstown, NZ there's spa (jacuzzi) as a service.

New comment by wakeless in "Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z"

wakeless — Wed, 14 May 2014 08:40:00 +0000

But my cat's name is quizzical.

New comment by wakeless in "Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up"

wakeless — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:36:21 +0000

Credit cards have little wire antenna in them. If you basically cut it in down near the chip, the chip still works when inserted into the machine but the NFC doesn't work.

I did this accidentally and have been using my phone with chip and pin for about a year.

Personally I'd prefer to swipe.

New comment by wakeless in "How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combinator"

wakeless — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:53:22 +0000

In a lot of ways it's tricky, but easy at the same time. We end up trying to build strong concepts that can be mapped onto a few different problems within the event. A lot like an online store product, but with a better grounding in events.

We then try and provide the right management/reporting/organising tools so that they can work with it better.