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calebelacon A first-responder approach to code reviews

This "first responder" approach is a good idea. I could see it building confidence/camaraderie among teammates quickly. I'll try and implement this approach this week and see how it goes.

Also, that last comic strip cracked me :)

calebelacon AI makes it easy to build SaaS–but webhooks still break in production

I’ve been building a small SaaS around webhook monitoring and kept running into this problem.

It’s surprisingly easy now to scaffold a full app with AI and get Stripe working locally. Everything feels “done” really quickly.

But production behavior is different — retries, out-of-order events, schema changes, and especially webhook silence where events just stop arriving.

Curious how others here are handling this in practice. Are you just logging webhooks, or do you have any monitoring/alerting around them?

calebelacon Show HN: WhyThere.life – Compare cities side-by-side to decide where to move

This is a cool idea, great work.

calebelacon Is it a pint?

Thanks for sharing! Glad to see there's some momentum behind this libatious tragedy

calebelacon Is it a pint?

I'm going to start using this approach. Cheers!

calebelacon Chuck Norris has died

What a legend.

I enjoyed reading the comments here. RIP.

calebelacon Review: Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert Heinlein

I enjoyed your review. I tend to lean fantasy genre, but it may be time for me to read Starship Troopers.

calebelacon I built a free site that can tell you if your hardware can run a model

Really cool, practical idea. No feedback for you yet; I'll poke around more.

It's funny I come across this today. Was just telling a buddy of mine last week that I have a spare 3080 machine that he can have to play around with agents/llms, but I wasn't sure which ones it could play well with :)

calebelacon Show HN: A minimalist dungeon-crawler card game built with Deno

Played for a few minutes and really enjoyed it! Will probably pick it back up later this evening for another run. What are your thoughts on Deno? I haven't used it personally, yet.

calebelacon Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only

such a fun idea! I like your solution for detecting when agents are reading your page vs. humans.

calebelacon Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

This is such a fun project to browse.

A few things need ironing out as others have mentioned, but I'll be following the project. Cheers!

calebelacon Changing My Mind on UBI

I liked your snarky-ish/sarcastic take in the article. (Seems like other posts on your site are similar, and I'm now browsing them)

Breaking it down for myself: - I can get behind the idea/goal of UBI. - I don't think it's economically feasible.

UBI conversations are fun but seem to ruffle feathers :)

calebelacon How much of HN is AI?

Great question posed. Headed to read up on CAT now

calebelacon Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG

Thank you for sharing. This is really cool and way more than I accomplished as a sophomore in CS. Keep it up!