Hacker News: xena

New comment by xena in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

xena — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:09 +0000

If the bots respected robots.txt, I would not have a viable business plan.

New comment by xena in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

xena — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:40:44 +0000

The default is to allow non-Mozilla user agents so that existing (good) automation continues to work and so that people stopped threatening to burn my house down. Lovely people in the privacy community.

New comment by xena in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

xena — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:17:20 +0000

This month I'm recovering from major surgery. I'm okay, it's something I've been waiting to get done for a very long time. I'm just bored in recovery and running out of my science YouTube backlog.

Killing My Inner Necron

xena — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:52:34 +0000

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/killing-my-inner-necron/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208367

Points: 1

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New comment by xena in "AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going"

xena — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:20:43 +0000

An easy fix for GitHub is to clearly mark which PRs and comments are done via the web vs the API. This will let people at least have some idea.

New comment by xena in "Humanity's Last Programming Language"

xena — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:23:06 +0000

For writing it starts at $200 per hour with a minimum commitment of 10 hours of work.

New comment by xena in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

xena — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:30:32 +0000

This is honestly one of the most hilarious ways this could have turned out. I have no idea how to properly react to this. It feels like the kind of thing I'd make up as a bit for Techaro's cinematic universe. Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/

But for now wow I'm not a fan of OpenClaw in the slightest.

New comment by xena in "Humanity's Last Programming Language"

xena — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:06:19 +0000

Pay my hourly rate and I'll write whatever you want within reason :)

New comment by xena in "Humanity's Last Programming Language"

xena — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:54:13 +0000

Please actually attempt to read what I have actually written instead of seeing two words and making grand leaps of assumption.

New comment by xena in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"

xena — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:34:39 +0000

Another day, another downtime. Lovely.

New comment by xena in "OpenAI Frontier"

xena — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:31:14 +0000

Ah, right, GP meant Microsoft Copilot 365 Enterprise Edition (with Copilot).

New comment by xena in "Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now"

xena — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:03:27 +0000

I really wish that they supported social media other than Twitter for verification.

New comment by xena in "GLM-4.7-Flash"

xena — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:41:55 +0000

The model literally came out less than a couple hours ago, it's going to take people a while in order to tool it for their inference platforms.

New comment by xena in "Our approach to advertising"

xena — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:50:17 +0000

I work in marketing, this is already a thing but it's called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). Generally it's not _hard_ to write in such a way that models hook into the desired messages in text, but if you're not careful you look like a cult leader when you do it. I hate it but this is the Internet we got.

New comment by xena in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

xena — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:58:11 +0000

https://xeiaso.net

I made a simple agent for PR reviews. Don't use it

xena — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:21:57 +0000

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/reviewbot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582593

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by xena in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

xena — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:56:59 +0000

Did, past tense. I'm no longer using it.

New comment by xena in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

xena — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:53:49 +0000

Whenever you load my blog, it randomly sends back a name from my configuration's clackset: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/ff8627975e5f6718fff33051d11a.... I hate that the list is so long but over time it will only grow longer.

New comment by xena in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

xena — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:39:42 +0000

About half the reason I used windows so much is for vtubing software. It barely works on windows, getting it working on Linux used to be a process fraught with agony and torment.

New comment by xena in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

xena — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:36:52 +0000

I had to set up a machine owner key in my motherboard's UEFI to get my 4080 working, but it's fine enough. I haven't had any issues with nvidia drivers since.