Hacker News: xendo

New comment by xendo in "Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]"

xendo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:23:55 +0000

This one is quite difficult, it sacrifices some readability for cleverness and conciseness. I find Algorithmic Thinking by Zingaro much more approachable but almost as dense.

Strands Decider Decision Model

xendo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:58:06 +0000

Article URL: https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925676

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

The ASCII Cheetah Interview

xendo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/cheetah/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900002

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Wait Equation

xendo — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:11:06 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/the-wait-equation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860585

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Primeagen Joining Omarchy Core

xendo — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:10:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/2103880596841783698

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860579

Points: 9

# Comments: 4

New comment by xendo in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

xendo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:15:12 +0000

There are certain parts of my job that can be mediocre and I'm happy to offload them to models. Those are, however, not the parts that count.

New comment by xendo in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

xendo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:10:56 +0000

I will take my chances. Software is part of my identity and I won't abandon it that quickly.

New comment by xendo in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

xendo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:59:50 +0000

I don't agree. I'm recently a huge believer in Programming as Theory Building. The software creation itself is the part that makes you understand what you are building. It's impossible to understand things before you start building them, initial prompt can help you explore, but the idea that after that you can lean back is ridiculous. Most or maybe even all successful software projects are still heavily relying on the best software engineers. That's why anthropic and others are still hiring SDEs.

The AI Wait Equation

xendo — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:48:05 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/the-wait-equation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728850

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by xendo in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

xendo — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:15:37 +0000

Both her as well as huggingface this should be investigated by law enforcement and people responsible should be punished.

Kiro's Frontier Engineering Manifesto

xendo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://kiro.dev/topics/frontier-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630830

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The AI Wait Equation

xendo — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:14:28 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/the-wait-equation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585375

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Wait Equation

xendo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:50:24 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/the-wait-equation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546069

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Intellectual AI Bubble

xendo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:22:58 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/intellectual-ai-bubble/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538598

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Stop Doing Easy Things

xendo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:06:28 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/stop-doing-easy-things/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538357

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The wAIt equation

xendo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://xendo.bearblog.dev/the-wait-equation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537969

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xendo in "No AI Fridays"

xendo — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:38:39 +0000

Just look at the keyboard and sort all characters by how probable you think they are next, type one and start from the beginning.

New comment by xendo in "No AI Fridays"

xendo — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:33:04 +0000

Have you read the page? I'm the COE of HTMX. I'm the boss.

New comment by xendo in "No AI Fridays"

xendo — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:24:58 +0000

100%. Making it a whole day makes it easier to sell and stick to, that's it. It's just brutal to have a whole day when you need to focus and not just mindlessly prompt.

New comment by xendo in "No AI Fridays"

xendo — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:34:53 +0000

I made the site to convince my boss to let me not use AI on Fridays. Hoping to get some noise around it to make him believe it's real.