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Shorn

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About Shorn

You can reach me at hnabout@shorn.kopi.cloud

My current SaaS project is https://kopi.cloud, it lets you keep your email address private via email forwarding / mail-to-rss functionality.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48870781

    Holy shit, did you just try to spin serfdom?? Yeah, no corporate bias here whatsoever

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    Comment #48854386

    > You could make a similar point by saying something like "I don't like the message he's sending so I won't participate" Sooo.... "be more professional in your writing"? Why does t…

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    Comment #48854023

    Title is not my fault, content: The version of postgres you think you're specifying isn't exactly the community postgres, it's an AWS maintained fork and this is an example of wher…

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    Comment #48406751

    they will soon

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    Comment #47343189

    Seems like it might have more legs than the usual "postgres should get query hints" requests that the PG team generally don't entertain. > "I think we've become so negative about h…

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    Comment #47270662

    Come to BitBucket. Which is also down. Because they're in the process of failing to roll out an AI feature no one wants [1]. :/ [1] - I say this as a daily user of claude-code, pay…

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    Comment #46654823

    The worst kind

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    Comment #46084353

    This. If you're building a brand new, multi-language, multi-platform system that uses advanced open-api features - you will get bitten by lack of support in 3.1 versions of tooling…

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    Comment #45844582

    I see what you did there

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    Comment #45843598

    > 01852, 173 years ago That's some serious forward thinking you've got going on with your date format there. I like it, I will be formatting all my years to 5 digits from now on. O…

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    Comment #45768264

    This, with TypeScript strictness cranked all the way up. MUI for the component library, plus Playwright for integration-testing and hoverfly to stub/fake/mock the backend, and Open…

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    Comment #45080019

    Unsurprisingly, minimising the amount of cognitive complexity is how you get the most out of LLM coding agents. So now have a theoretically repeatable way to measure cognitive load…

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    Comment #44852638

    That is valuable, info dense comment. Thanks.

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    Comment #44808220

    "micro-management" is not a useful concept, it's just a though-terminating cliche - let's get specific. The problem with bad stand-ups is usually that they're just "personal status…

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    Comment #44793400

    Yes, no doubt. But a naive increase will punish the majority of customers who aren't yet using a similar efficiency mechanism. My guess, if this approach becomes popular - we'll se…

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    Comment #44792355

    So this tech has been out there for a while now and Vercel users are starting to see the benefits. If this IS working out well, it won't be long before non-Vercel solutions start p…

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    Comment #44665540

    > Am I the only one Far from it.

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    Comment #44631871

    Plus, they're getting real world training data from everyone who either hasn't or doesn't have the ability to opt out of their stuff being used. For my personal stuff, I don't opt …

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    Comment #44604086

    I thought it was understood all the large vendors were losing money bigly on inference and will have to pull the rug eventually.

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    Comment #44555240

    Yesterday, I was thinking "is it just me or did this get way dumber than it was yesterday?" Turns out: nope, Claude Sonnet regressed and got significantly dumber. The internet, obv…

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