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Fascinating! I am glad you’re getting good results with that. Maintaining abstractions is critical and it’s very frustrating when the LLM ignores them.

The emdash allergy is shortcut sheep mindset. Emdashes are commonly accepted and orthographically correct punctuation in many languages. Also it looks like English might not be the…

I disagree with the naysayers. The README was scannable and sectioned so I could read what I wanted. But some things I wish were clearer, and I’m not sure they would be if you wrot…

If you’re using the pi.dev harness, I found this tool to be quite good as a compaction alternative: https://pi.dev/packages/pi-blackhole — it keeps a memory so every prior conversa…

Try running your rule files through an LLM for optimization. 60k-80k tokens is massive. Funnily enough, most anti-slop skills I found are both way too verbose and miss some common …

I think that the gallup poll is flawed because it does not explain what daylight saving versus standard time is. I just spoke to an educated grad student, who thought that we were …

That’s a bold claim to make about HNers. Au contraire, security companies have absolutely missed supply chain attacks. Example: https://snyk.io/blog/node-gyp-supply-chain-compromis…

It’s rational to feel much safer in the Java packages ecosystem, where pinned versions are the default and the norm, and packages cannot run any install-time scripts.

And that’s exactly why semantic versioning provides only an illusion of stability. This is also why ecosystems that don’t pin their versions such as floating versions that are the …

Delaying non-security updates has the benefit of not wasting a team’s time when something regresses and is fixed in a quick follow up patch. Having to report issues upstream is not…

Don't store any secrets in your repo. Don't store them in env vars. Strong long passphrase on your SSH keys, stop using unencrypted SSH keys. Everything in a keychain. The practice…

Was it Codex or the desktop ChatGPT agent?

Pi.dev requires some plugins to work well. Using Qwen3.6-27B/35B locally at Q8, I was quite frustrated with failed tool calls and tried many things. Ultimately this combo worked: 1…

#2, name matching valid government ID excludes trans people who have not yet legally changed their name. Same reason they can’t get a Meta Verified status, even if paying. Thanks t…

Lock files were begrudgingly introduced after people who aren’t playing around with move fast and break things cried foul about dependencies being updated unexpectedly. The “semant…

I asked Claude to set up a new NPM project and it configured the install task as “npm ci || npm install”, which is stupid. That was on Opus4.7 xhigh. When I pointed out that doing …

Never use “npm install”, only “npm ci”. Using “npm install” is a willing act to run fresh exploits.

Merge queues are not as frequently used… ~2000 PRs affected over 4 hours. I reckon that’s on the order of 10 commits per tenant. It’s a feature with low traction, probably because …

Kotlin’s closed-by-default design choice makes it worse than Java, and thus not strictly better than Java. It’s premature optimization, and a design-up-front-influenced paranoia/fe…

A startup might have trouble with, and might not have enough automation for: - proving churned customer data was deleted completely and within the agreed-on period of time - - not …

Tree shade means bird poop danger.

It’s impossible to install XCode without an Apple account. It’s only distributed through the Mac App Store, and downloads from Mac App Store require an Apple ID. And even XCode bet…

It’s because when placed inside the engine bay, the large wiring harness is shorter, which is not only cheaper, but also shorter wiring helps with the consistency of electrical tim…