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Re:Computers Cannot Make Decisions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:47AM (#50030969)
Sure, but then the manager is accountable for delegating that decision.
Re:Computers Cannot Make Decisions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:09AM (#50030795)
I would go farther and argue that companies don't make decisions either. They are also not people (legal nonsense notwithstanding). Individual actual humans make decisions and they're the ones who should be held accountable.
Re:'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:07PM (#50026562)
I always thought Wallace was a self-portrait of Nick Park. If your find a video interview with him, the way his mouth moves when he speaks is totally Wallace. It's uncanny.
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:39AM (#49693268)
Are they working on the Voynich Manuscript? That seems like something an LLM would be good at.
Re:Version Control Second Coming on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:47AM (#49639906)
The author mentions it briefly, but I'd like to see more exploration of what we can do differently now that we're all online all the time. I think that could potentially enable a Git-level revolution in the way we do things, similar to the way unlimited disk space did for Git.
Re:EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:43AM (#48792097)
They do.
Re:The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:17PM (#48528950)
Surprisingly to remove small numbers of rows in multiple tables (e.g. cleanup between automated tests), DELETE is often faster than TRUNCATE! It's counterintuitive but just measure it for yourself and see. Note you can DELETE from multiple tables in one statement using CTEs, and that way you don't need to think about foreign key dependency order.
Re:Human Routers of Machine Words on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:16AM (#48525530)
"the machine can’t even write good yet"
Re:The Last Technical Interview on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:30AM (#48334003)
How about instead of a contrived take-home project or doing unpaid "real work" for the company, we ask candidates to do n hours of work on an open source project?

That's real useful work, if we don't hire them they can show it off to a different hiring company, and it makes the world a better place.

Re:Little Free Library Books on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:46AM (#47214979)
Public libraries are funded and supported by the public though. They need attention, and if you read the other comments on this post it's almost like most of these people don't even realise that public libraries exist.
Re:The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:34AM (#47014418)
That was a lovely video, thank you.
Re:The Codex App on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:19PM (#46860014)
Can't build iOS apps on anything else sadly.
Re:Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:15PM (#46695626)
I caught Claude using docker (running as root) to access files on my machine it couldn't read using it's user.
Re:Welcome to Gas Town on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:18AM (#46509587)
Naming this after a distopia may be unintentionally apt...
Re:Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents? on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:01AM (#46401224)
I'm using Catnip (https://github.com/wandb/catnip). It runs Claude Code in YOLO mode inside a Docker container, and also manages multiple Claude instances running in Git worktrees. I'm pretty happy with it but would be happier if it addressed limiting network access to guard against exfiltration.
Re:GraphQL: The Enterprise Honeymoon Is Over on Sunday December 14, 2025 @05:13PM (#46267604)
Consider how authorization is going to work. You can't trust the client!
Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto on Monday December 08, 2025 @01:43PM (#46196031)
Tangential: a friend of mine growing up refused to read Ayn Rand, because he said that everyone he knew that had read her books turned into assholes, and he didn't want to become an asshole too.
Re:CSS now has an if() conditional function on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:06AM (#46157590)
Can these be used inside inline style attributes?
Re:A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development on Monday November 24, 2025 @12:34PM (#46036667)
It's working, just a bit fiddly to setup.
Re:A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development on Monday November 24, 2025 @03:43AM (#46031732)
I've been using Catnip for this: https://github.com/wandb/catnip

Very similar features, Catnip is Claude Code specific and does everything in a Docker container so you can more safely run in YOLO mode and the Git worktrees don't make a mess on your host filesystem or checkout. Also is mobile responsive which is cute.

Re:A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development on Monday November 24, 2025 @03:39AM (#46031714)
Struggling with the same thing right now. I'm trying to make it work by generating unique ports for each instance so they don't conflict. Not quite 100% successful yet.
I recently started using Catnip (https://github.com/wandb/catnip) for this. Catnip also automatically manages multiple Git worktrees, and has a responsive UI for mobile.
Re:Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:48AM (#45743867)
> You, too, have a limited context window.

Love this!

Re:Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files on Monday October 27, 2025 @04:06AM (#45718429)
Reminds me of this toy I made some years ago: https://www.npmjs.com/package/polyglot-tag
What are the pros and cons of this compared to CockroachDB?
Re:The Hardware Knowledge That Every Programmer Should Know on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @04:11AM (#45357620)
Also important to know that if you're accessing disk, database, or network those are so slow that this stuff probably doesn't matter.
Re:Leatherman (Vagabond) on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:29AM (#45298895)
Similar to Leslie Cochran in Austin.
This looks awesome but what is the end state (pun intended) going to be? Will this be an open source project? Commercial closed-source? Somewhere in between?
Re:Slow Social Media on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:20AM (#45273245)
Replacing the current social media giants is incredibly hard because of network effects and lock-in. Could we instead implement most of the OP's ideas with a client for an existing social media site that filters out all the crap?
Re:The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes on Sunday September 14, 2025 @01:30PM (#45241599)
I have literally never seen that happen in practice. The prototype code always evolves to become the product.

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